In this episode, we discuss MambaByte: Token-free Selective State Space Model by Junxiong Wang, Tushaar Gangavarapu, Jing Nathan Yan, Alexander M Rush. "MambaByte, a token-free language model, removes the bias associated with subword tokenization by learning from raw bytes. It capitalizes on the Mamba state space model's adaptability to byte sequences, offering computational efficiency and often outperforming traditional subword Transformers despite the increased sequence length. With linear scaling, MambaByte also achieves faster inference, demonstrating its potential for efficient token-free language modeling."