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Removing spaces can damage meaning or code and may not reduce the count predictably. Measure the result with the matching tokenizer before making formatting changes.
Why does one word not always equal one token?
Should I remove spaces to reduce token usage?
More FAQs in Why does one word not always equal one token?
Not always. A long but common vocabulary item may be one token, while a short unusual string can require several pieces under the same tokenizer.
Yes. Emoji can contain multiple Unicode code points or byte sequences, and tokenizers may divide them into several units rather than one visible symbol.
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