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+from setuptools import find_packages, setup
+
+setup(
+    name="bytelatent",
+    version="0.1.0",
+    description="Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens",
+    author="Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.",
+    url="https://github.com/facebookresearch/blt",
+    packages=find_packages(),
+    install_requires=["sentencepiece", "tiktoken", "xformers"],
+)