Percy Liang
@percyliang
professor of computer science @Stanford @stanfordnlp, co-founder of @togethercompute, @simile_ai, pianist
Joined October 2009
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⚡! Tokenization is the first thing you do in CS336 (language models from scratch). If Marcel can work his magic for the rest of the LM pipeline, the world will be a better place.
Introducing the world's fastest tokenizer implementation, Gigatoken!
Gigatoken is ~500-1000x faster than HuggingFace, and ~100x faster than OpenAI's tiktoken for most tokenizer definitions on most machines.
These baselines are already multithreaded Rust implementations! 🧵
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