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GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

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1000x faster tokenization, directly relevant to AI/ML infrastructure and performance.

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Language model tokenization at GB/s. Contribute to marcelroed/gigatoken development by creating an account on GitHub.
Summary

GigaToken is a Rust-based, open-source tokenizer achieving up to 1000x speedup over HuggingFace tokenizers, with throughput exceeding 20 GB/s on multi-core CPUs. It supports nearly all common tokenizers (GPT-2, Llama, Qwen, etc.) and offers both a drop-in compatibility mode and a high-performance native API. Benchmarks on an AMD EPYC 144-core system show GPT-2 tokenization at 24.53 GB/s versus 24.8 MB/s for HuggingFace.

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marcelroed