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Large Language Models · Quiz 2 · 12 Apr 2026 · January 2026 term

Question 19: When using the SentencePiece, how are subword units sele…

Question 19

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When using the SentencePiece, how are subword units selected?

  1. A

    Based on a probabilistic model that maximizes the likelihood of the training data.

  2. B

    By randomly selecting character n-grams until the vocabulary limit is reached.

  3. C

    By selecting only the top 50,000 most frequent words in the corpus.

  4. D

    By iteratively merging the most frequent pair of adjacent characters.

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Correct answer

  • A

    Based on a probabilistic model that maximizes the likelihood of the training data.

Question 19 of 21 in the IIT Madras BS Large Language Models (LLM) Quiz 2 paper sat on 12 Apr 2026, in the January 2026 term (Large Language Models 07 Apr 26). It carries 3 marks.

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