A cobbler bench places a care sentence next to a sole photo. Before the language stack can run on that sentence, what must happen to the text?
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Short Explanation
The language stack does not sip a whole sentence like a smoothie; it chops it into bite-size tokens and turns each bite into a vector. Tokenization plus embedding is the interface. Raw strings and raw pixels are not what that stack consumes for the text path.
Full Explanation
Transformers consume sequences of embeddings, not raw character strings. Text is tokenized and each token is mapped into a vector embedding before the stack runs. That interface sits between human text and the transformer, separate from the image pixels beside it.