Yitong Yang
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2026
Can Released LLM Vocabularies Support Token-Level Estimation of Hidden Corpora?
Qingjie Zhang | Xingzhang Ren | Zixuan Chen | Jinfeng Li | YueFeng Chen | Yitong Yang | Hui Xue | Dayiheng Liu | Han Qiu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Qingjie Zhang | Xingzhang Ren | Zixuan Chen | Jinfeng Li | YueFeng Chen | Yitong Yang | Hui Xue | Dayiheng Liu | Han Qiu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Pretraining corpus composition shapes LLM capabilities, but it often remains hidden even when model weights are released. Prior work has inferred corpus mixtures or traced specific token groups from released tokenizer vocabularies; in contrast, we estimate corpus ratios for arbitrary target tokens. We first show that BPE tokenizers trained on different corpora share stable token ID–ratio distributions, motivating distribution transfer from known corpora to a target tokenizer trained on hidden corpora. We then propose Quantile-Guided Density Estimation (QGDE), which approximates this distribution with multiple quantile trends and uses local density weighting to produce token-level estimates. In controlled settings and a realistic setting using the released SmolLM tokenizer, QGDE achieves mean relative errors as low as 3.00% for token-level estimation and 3.08% after aggregation into category-level mixtures. These results suggest that released tokenizer vocabularies provide a useful signal for fine-grained corpus estimation beyond coarse composition inference.
Auditing Chinese Web-scale Corpora via Sampled BPE Token Statistics
Qingjie Zhang | Ziqi Tang | Jie Zhang | Gelei Deng | Jinfeng Li | YueFeng Chen | Yitong Yang | Hui Xue | Tianwei Zhang | Han Qiu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Qingjie Zhang | Ziqi Tang | Jie Zhang | Gelei Deng | Jinfeng Li | YueFeng Chen | Yitong Yang | Hui Xue | Tianwei Zhang | Han Qiu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Chinese web pollution has surfaced in LLMs, motivating audits of upstream Chinese corpora. However, auditing such corpora faces three challenges: (1) their web-scale size makes full scan costly; (2) prior analyses are often too coarse to expose token-level pollution; (3) Chinese web pollution is implicit and rapidly changing. We propose Sampled-BPE, a lightweight token-level auditing pipeline that sample a small subset and train BPE tokenizer to surface polluted tokens. Experiments show that Sampled-BPE preserves usable estimates while substantially reducing runtime and memory: a 148.4 × speedup and a 35.8 × memory reduction induce only 4.25% relative error for pollution categories. We apply the pipeline to 11 open Chinese corpora and 6 Chinese Common Crawl snapshots from 2021 to 2026. The audit reveals widespread but uneven pollution across open corpora, as well as highly polluted and temporally shifting Chinese web content. We further release a hierarchical Chinese web token dataset with 660k+ token records, each with web context, category, and explanation fields, organized as trees to support review and tracing of pollution.