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Hugging Face releases Tokenizers v1 library

Hugging Face announced the release of Tokenizers v1, a new version of their tokenization library. The company states that the library, written in Rust, focuses on improved performance for encoding, decoding, and scaling operations, with measurements provided in their blog post.

2 articles from 2 outlets covered this story. The underlying claim is sourced from a benchmark.

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2 outlets covered “Hugging Face releases Tokenizers v1 library”. All of them report the following:

  • Hugging Face released Tokenizers v1
  • The library is written in Rust
  • It focuses on performance and scaling

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tokenizers v1 (rust)originalr/LocalLLaMA · independent
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tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measuredoriginalHugging Face Blog · company statement

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