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Can you save on LLM tokens using images instead of text?
https://pagewatch.ai/blog/post/llm-text-as-image-tokens/
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lpellis
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6d ago
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bikeshaving
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2h ago
Does this mean we’ll finally get empirical proof for the aphorism “a picture is worth a thousand words”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_picture_is_worth_a_thousand_...
heltale
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1h ago
I suppose it’s only worth 256 words at a time right now. ;)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929
estebarb
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1h ago
The CALM paper
https://shaochenze.github.io/blog/2025/CALM/
says it is possible to compress 4 tokens in a single embedding, so... image = 4×256=1024 words > 1000 words. QED
floodfx
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2h ago
Why are completion tokens more with image prompts yet the text output was about the same?
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Can you save on LLM tokens using images instead of text?
https://pagewatch.ai/blog/post/llm-text-as-image-tokens/
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bikeshaving•2h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_picture_is_worth_a_thousand_...
heltale•1h ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929
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