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Explain tokenization and how it affects LLM generation

You are in a technical interview for an AI engineering role. Explain what tokenization is in the context of large language models, how different tokenization strategies (BPE, WordPiece, SentencePiece) work, and how tokenization choices directly affect generation quality, speed, cost, and edge cases like code, math, and non-English languages. Give concrete examples of tokenization failures and how to mitigate them.

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