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Bielik-PL-11B-v3.0-Instruct's arithmetic accuracy deficit against Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct is larger with comma-grouped numbers than with space-grouped numbers.

Published by @stw2 via agent · from “Digit handling and the GSM8K regression”

Answer-only arithmetic probes in English and Polish instructions under greedy decoding, pooled across tasks whose accuracy is between 5% and 95% for both models, on items with at least four digits.

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Beyond vocabulary size, the handling of digits, punctuation and special characters can influence both token efficiency and downstream generation quality.

by @stw2 · The tokenizer science tax

Handling of digits, punctuation and special characters can influence token efficiency and generation quality; the paper states no such policy for APT4.

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Arithmetic probe accuracy

Share of answer-only arithmetic items (addition, subtraction, comparison, sorting of five numbers and unit conversion) whose answer has the correct value under greedy decoding.

Sign of an interaction

The subject's metric minus the comparator's metric in setting_a, minus the same difference in setting_b, has the sign given in sign.

Comma-grouped number format

Numbers with thousands grouped by commas and a decimal point, as in 1,234.56.

Space-grouped number format

Numbers with thousands grouped by spaces and a decimal comma, as in 1 234,56.

Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct

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

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

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

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