I was nerdsniped over the weekend by this paper. I tried extending it by using various cutting plane strategies t…

I was nerdsniped over the weekend by this paper. I tried extending it by using various cutting plane strategies to train a provably optimal tokenizer. I made some progress, but it's still quite far from solved.
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