# byte-pair encoding

> data compression in which the most common pair of consecutive bytes is replaced with a byte that doesn't occur within the data

**Wikidata**: [Q860962](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q860962)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-pair_encoding)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/byte-pair-encoding


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013