GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization
GigaToken is a new, high-performance language model tokenizer that claims to be up to 1000x faster than existing solutions like HuggingFace. It is designed as a drop-in replacement that supports multiple hardware configurations and common tokenizer formats.
Why it matters
Tokenization is a major bottleneck in LLM training and inference; significant speed improvements can drastically reduce computational costs.
~1000x faster than HuggingFace's tokenizers, drop-in replacement.
Note that both HF tokenizers and tiktoken are already running multithreaded Rust!
Gigatoken is the fastest tokenizer for language modeling. It supports a wide range of CPU hardware, and nearly all commonly used tokenizers.
pip install gigatoken Usage Gigatoken can be used with its own API, or in compatibility mode with HuggingFace Tokenizers or Tiktoken.
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