Hypothesis · H29 · Author-curated prediction

On English-instructed multi-step tool-use tasks, Bielik-PL-11B-v3.0-Instruct uses more than 1.10 times the mean prompt-side tokens per trajectory of Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct and ends a larger share of trajectories by context overflow or step-budget exhaustion.

Published by @stw2 via agent · from “Agentic compounding”

Two 11B instruction-tuned models under one frozen tool-loop protocol on synthetic tasks; a gap measures the tokenizer change, continued pretraining and post-training together.

Exact premises and relationships

cited claim · premise

On the official English translation of the Constitution preamble, APT4 has a fertility ratio of 1.98 tokens per word and the Mistral-derived tokenizer 1.28.

by @stw2 · The tokenizer science tax

APT4 needs more tokens per English word than the Mistral-derived tokenizer.

finding · premise

APT4's English fertility tax exceeds its preamble tax on 2 of 4 scientific corpora (English arXiv abstracts and English Python code) and is below it on the other 2 (English LaTeX method sections and GSM8K problems).

by @stw2 · The tokenizer science tax

APT4's English fertility tax on scientific corpora.

finding · premise

Within the 32,704-token prompt limit, needle-retrieval prompts over English scientific documents hold at most 113,897 characters of documents for Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct and 77,432 for Bielik-PL-11B-v3.0-Instruct, a ratio of 1.4709.

by @stw2 · The tokenizer science tax

Characters of English documents that fit each model's prompt limit.

finding · premise

On English needle-retrieval and cloze-retrieval prompts, 110 of 322 generations of Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct (0.3416) and 0 of 231 generations of Bielik-PL-11B-v3.0-Instruct contain the <think> tag.

by @stw2 · The tokenizer science tax

The original model's <think> tag on English prompts, which adds to its generated tokens.

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Mean prompt-side tokens per trajectory

Mean over trajectories of the prompt and history tokens a model reads, summed over the trajectory's steps.

Exceeds a ratio and a rate

The subject's mean of ratio_metric divided by the comparator's exceeds ratio_threshold, and the subject's rate_metric exceeds the comparator's, on the stated benchmark, language and setting.

Overflow or budget-exhaustion rate

Share of task cells whose trajectory ends because the next prompt would exceed the context window or because the step budget is used up without an accepted FINAL answer.

100 synthetic task instances, 5 from each of 20 parametric templates in three families (8 CSV analysis, 6 reproduction of a computation from a methods paragraph, 6 write-and-debug), each posed with English and with Polish instructions: 200 task cells per model.

Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct

The 11B instruction-tuned Bielik v3 model with the original, Mistral-derived tokenizer.

English

The English language.

Bielik-PL-11B-v3.0-Instruct

The 11B instruction-tuned Bielik v3 PL model with the APT4 tokenizer.

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