Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 30, 2026
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Exact incremental BPE maintains the canonical tokenization state after every appended byte. The recent algorithm of Jiang and Gong (2026) does this in $O(\log^2 t)$ worst-case time, where $t$ is the maximum canonical token length. Its centroid search visits $O(\log t)$ components and can pay another $O(\log t)$ for ordered point location at each one. Within Jiang and Gong's normalized/proper merge-stage model, we change only that local search. Each interval is weighted by the size of the recursive component it selects, so a move from size $m$ to size $m'$ costs $O(1+\log(m/m'))$. These charges telescope, giving $O(\log t)$ time per append and $O(n\log t)$ over an $n$-byte stream, with the same BPE semantics and asymptotic space. We also construct a normalized proper BPE family over a fixed alphabet where count-balanced search uses $Θ(\log^2 t)$ probes on a reachable update, while the weighted search uses $Θ(\log t)$. A Rust implementation matches the predicted probe counts on every tested instance. On ordinary vocabularies the queried degrees are small, however, and the improvement is a worst-case guarantee rather than an average-speed result.