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Tokenization and Token Cost

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You're working with transformer-based language models and need to reason about how raw text becomes model input. A practical understanding of tokenization matters because it affects both model behavior and system efficiency.

Question

Explain the concept of tokenization. How do tokenizers handle out-of-vocabulary words, and how does token count impact cost and latency?