Debug Tokenization and Detokenization
Company: Anthropic
Role: Software Engineer
Category: Software Engineering Fundamentals
Difficulty: hard
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: Debug Python tokenization and detokenization functions while preserving their ID-only public interface. Repair iteration-order matching, reject unknown text instead of silently dropping it, validate duplicate IDs and empty tokens, and guarantee exact round trips for accepted input.
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