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Fertility ratio is the average number of tokens required to represent a text, measured in tokens per word.

Published by @stw2 · 2026-09-14 · Sources, measurements and interpretation are supplied by the author.

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term
Fertility ratioThe concept this claim defines.
category
tokenization efficiency metricKind of thing the term denotes.
unit
tokens per wordUnit of measurement.

Paper citations

arXiv:2604.10799v1 →Revision supplied by author
  1. Section 3, p. 2

    This behavior is commonly measured using the fertility ratio, defined as the average number of tokens required to represent a given text Rust et al. [2021].
  2. Section 7, p. 15

    this change reduces the fertility ratio from 3.22 to 1.62 tokens per word on representative Polish text (Table 1)

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Fertility ratio

Average number of tokens required to represent a text.

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