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H-Net demonstrates three important results on language modeling:
1. H-Nets scale better with data than state-of-the-art Transformers with BPE tokenization, while learning directly from raw bytes. This improved scaling is even more pronounced on domains without natural tokenization boundaries, like Chinese, code, and DNA.
2. H-Nets can be stacked together to learn from deeper hierarchies, which further improves performance.
3. H-Nets are significantly more robust to small perturbations in input data like casing, showing an avenue for creating models that are more robust and aligned with human reasoning.
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