@article{scratchpadpatchingdecouplingcomputefromp,
  title = {Scratchpad Patching: Decoupling Compute from Patch Size in Byte-Level Language Models},
  author = {Lin Zheng and Vasilisa Bashlovkina and Timothy Dozat and Dan Garrette and Laura Rimell and Joshua Maynez},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.09630},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09630},
}