Hugging Face Tokenizers

A library from Hugging Face providing fast and customizable tokenization, a fundamental step for preparing text data for embedding models used with vector databases.

About this tool

Hugging Face Tokenizers Hugging Face Tokenizers is a library providing fast, state-of-the-art, and versatile tokenizers, optimized for both research and production environments. It implements today's most used tokenizers and is also utilized within the Hugging Face Transformers library.

Features

  • Vocabulary Training and Tokenization: Enables training new vocabularies and performing tokenization using current state-of-the-art tokenizers.
  • Exceptional Speed: Achieves extremely fast training and tokenization speeds, powered by its Rust implementation. It can tokenize a gigabyte of text on a server's CPU in less than 20 seconds.
  • Usability and Versatility: Designed to be both easy to use and highly versatile for various applications.
  • Research and Production Ready: Built to serve both academic research and production deployment needs.
  • Full Alignment Tracking: Offers complete alignment tracking, allowing users to retrieve the part of the original sentence corresponding to any token, even after destructive normalization.
  • Comprehensive Pre-processing: Handles all necessary pre-processing steps, including truncation, padding, and the addition of special tokens required by models.

Information

PublisherFox
PublishedJul 1, 2025

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