Byte pair encoding is a data encoding technique. The encoding algorithm looks for pairs of characters that appear in the string
more than once and replaces each instance of that pair with a corresponding character that does not appear in the string. The algorithm saves a list containing the mapping of character pairs to their corresponding replacement characters. For example, the string "THIS_IS_THE_BEST_WISH" can be encoded as "%#_#_%E_BEST_W#H" by replacing all instances of "TH" with "%" and replacing all instances of "IS" with "#".
For which of the following strings is it NOT possible to use byte pair encoding to shorten the string’s length?
a) "BANANA"
b) "LEVEL_UP"
c) "MEET_ME_LATER"
d) "NEITHER_HERE_NOR_THERE"
The encoding algorithm looks for pairs of characters that appear in the string more than once and replaces each instance of that pair with a corresponding character that does not appear in the string. ... Byte pair encoding is an example of a lossy transformation because it discards some of the data in the original string.
