Valentin Hofmann(@vjhofmann):Thrilled to share that our work on LLM byteification is out in @Nature today! 🎉 Byteification lets existing LLMs gain the strengths of byte-level models without training from scratch. Huge kudos to lead author @bminixhofer, who did most of this in a three-month internship! 🤯

Valentin Hofmann

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Assistant Professor @CisLMU @LMU_Muenchen | Formerly @allen_ai @uwnlp @UniofOxford @stanfordnlp @GoogleDeepMind

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Valentin Hofmann@vjhofmann

2026.10.07 16:52

Thrilled to share that our work on LLM byteification is out in @Nature today! 🎉 Byteification lets existing LLMs gain the strengths of byte-level models without training from scratch. Huge kudos to lead author @bminixhofer, who did most of this in a three-month internship! 🤯