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Trade-offs in Language Model Vocabulary Design

A research team is pre-training a bidirectional encoder model for a new, highly specialized domain, such as 18th-century literature. They are debating whether to use a small, domain-specific vocabulary or a large, general-purpose vocabulary. Analyze the trade-offs of each approach. In your analysis, discuss the potential impact on the model's performance on in-domain tasks, its memory footprint, and its ability to handle words not seen during training.

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