#no-tokenizer

Byte-Level SSM Scales to 100M Params — 0.776 BPB on FineWeb with Zero Attention

Can a diagonal state-space model processing raw bytes (no tokenizer, no attention) scale from 2M to 100M parameters on English web text?

• BPB 0.776 on FineWeb English with zero attention. A 101M-param diagonal SSM processing raw bytes compresses diverse web …
• Zero architectural changes from 2M to 100M. Same P=2 mean pooling, same broadcast upsample with byte residual, same log-…