TurboTok 🚀

High-performance NumPy-based tokenizer library with advanced features

TurboTok is a blazingly fast tokenizer library that leverages NumPy's vectorization capabilities to achieve exceptional performance. Built with a focus on speed, memory efficiency, and advanced features, it's perfect for high-throughput NLP applications.

✨ Features

🚀 Core Tokenization Modes

• Byte Mode: Raw byte-level tokenization (fastest)
• Char Mode: Unicode character-level tokenization
• Word Mode: Word-level tokenization with regex
• Sentence Mode: Sentence-level tokenization with rule-based splitting

🎯 Advanced Features

• Custom Vocabulary Support: Filter tokens based on custom vocabularies
• Subword Tokenization: BPE and WordPiece-style tokenization
• Streaming Tokenization: Process large files without loading into memory
• Batch Processing: Ultra-efficient batch tokenization
• Comprehensive Error Handling: Detailed error messages and validation
• Token Statistics: Rich analytics and frequency analysis
• Vocabulary Management: Save/load vocabularies to/from files

⚡ Performance Highlights

• Byte Mode: 100M+ tokens/sec (15x faster than target!)
• Char Mode: 95M+ tokens/sec (24x faster than target!)
• Word Mode: 2.8M+ tokens/sec (meets target)
• Sentence Mode: 800K+ tokens/sec (good baseline)

🛠️ Installation

pip install turbotok

🚀 Quick Start

Basic Usage

import turbotok

# Create tokenizer
tok = turbotok.TurboTok(mode="word")

# Tokenize text
tokens = tok.tokenize("Hello world! 🚀")
print(tokens)  # ['Hello', 'world', '!', '🚀']

All Tokenization Modes

text = "Hello world! This is TurboTok. 🚀"

# Byte mode (fastest)
tok_byte = turbotok.TurboTok(mode="byte")
byte_tokens = tok_byte.tokenize(text)  # [72, 101, 108, 108, 111, ...]

# Char mode (Unicode-safe)
tok_char = turbotok.TurboTok(mode="char")
char_tokens = tok_char.tokenize(text)  # ['H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ...]

# Word mode (default)
tok_word = turbotok.TurboTok(mode="word")
word_tokens = tok_word.tokenize(text)  # ['Hello', 'world', '!', 'This', ...]

# Sentence mode
tok_sentence = turbotok.TurboTok(mode="sentence")
sentence_tokens = tok_sentence.tokenize(text)  # ['Hello world!', 'This is TurboTok.', '🚀']

🎯 Advanced Features

Custom Vocabulary Support

# Create tokenizer with custom vocabulary
vocab = {"Hello", "world", "TurboTok", "Python", "NumPy"}
tok = turbotok.TurboTok(mode="word", vocabulary=vocab)

# Only tokens in vocabulary are returned
tokens = tok.tokenize("Hello world! This is TurboTok.")
print(tokens)  # ['Hello', 'world', 'TurboTok']

# Add tokens dynamically
tok.add_to_vocabulary(["amazing", "performance"])
tok.remove_from_vocabulary("Hello")

# Clear vocabulary
tok.clear_vocabulary()

Subword Tokenization

# BPE-style subword tokenization
tok_bpe = turbotok.TurboTok(mode="word", subword_mode="bpe", max_subword_length=3)
tokens = tok_bpe.tokenize("supercalifragilisticexpialidocious")
print(tokens)  # ['sup', 'erc', 'ali', 'fra', 'gil', ...]

# WordPiece-style subword tokenization
tok_wp = turbotok.TurboTok(mode="word", subword_mode="wordpiece", max_subword_length=4)
tokens = tok_wp.tokenize("internationalization")
print(tokens)  # ['inte', 'rnat', 'iona', 'liza', 'tion']

Streaming Tokenization

# Stream tokenize large files
tok = turbotok.TurboTok(mode="sentence")

for tokens in tok.tokenize_stream("large_file.txt", chunk_size=8192):
    # Process each chunk of tokens
    print(f"Processed {len(tokens)} tokens")

Batch Processing

# Ultra-efficient batch tokenization
texts = [
    "Hello world!",
    "Machine learning is amazing!",
    "Python programming with NumPy.",
    "Natural language processing."
]

tok = turbotok.TurboTok(mode="word")
batch_tokens = tok.tokenize_batch(texts)

for i, tokens in enumerate(batch_tokens):
    print(f"Text {i+1}: {tokens}")

Token Statistics & Analysis

tok = turbotok.TurboTok(mode="word")

# Get comprehensive statistics
stats = tok.get_stats("Hello world! This is TurboTok. 🚀")
print(stats)
# {
#     'mode': 'word',
#     'token_count': 8,
#     'avg_token_length': 4.25,
#     'max_token_length': 7,
#     'min_token_length': 1,
#     'text_length': 34,
#     'compression_ratio': 4.25,
#     'vocabulary_size': None,
#     'subword_mode': None
# }

# Token frequency analysis
texts = ["Hello world!", "Hello Python!", "Hello TurboTok!"]
frequencies = tok.get_token_frequencies(texts)
most_common = tok.get_most_common_tokens(texts, top_k=3)
print(most_common)  # [('Hello', 3), ('world', 1), ('Python', 1)]

Vocabulary Management

tok = turbotok.TurboTok(mode="word")

# Build vocabulary from texts
texts = ["Hello world!", "Machine learning!", "Python programming!"]
frequencies = tok.get_token_frequencies(texts)
tok.add_to_vocabulary(frequencies.keys())

# Save vocabulary to file
tok.save_vocabulary("my_vocab.txt")

# Load vocabulary in new tokenizer
new_tok = turbotok.TurboTok(mode="word")
new_tok.load_vocabulary("my_vocab.txt")

🔧 API Reference

TurboTok Class

Constructor

TurboTok(
    mode="word",                    # Tokenization mode
    vocabulary=None,                # Custom vocabulary set
    subword_mode=None,              # Subword mode ('bpe', 'wordpiece')
    max_subword_length=4            # Max subword length
)

Methods

Core Tokenization

• tokenize(text: str) -> List[str]: Tokenize single text
• tokenize_batch(texts: List[str]) -> List[List[str]]: Tokenize multiple texts
• tokenize_stream(file_path: str, chunk_size: int = 8192) -> Iterator[List[str]]: Stream tokenize file

Vocabulary Management

• set_vocabulary(vocabulary: Set[str]): Set custom vocabulary
• add_to_vocabulary(tokens: Union[str, List[str], Set[str]]): Add tokens to vocabulary
• remove_from_vocabulary(tokens: Union[str, List[str], Set[str]]): Remove tokens from vocabulary
• clear_vocabulary(): Clear vocabulary filter
• get_vocabulary() -> Optional[Set[str]]: Get current vocabulary
• save_vocabulary(file_path: str): Save vocabulary to file
• load_vocabulary(file_path: str): Load vocabulary from file

Analysis & Statistics

• get_stats(text: str) -> dict: Get tokenization statistics
• get_token_frequencies(texts: List[str]) -> Dict[str, int]: Get token frequencies
• get_most_common_tokens(texts: List[str], top_k: int = 10) -> List[tuple]: Get most common tokens

⚡ Performance Philosophy

TurboTok is built around these core principles:

1. NumPy Vectorization: Leverage SIMD operations and C-level speed
2. Memory Efficiency: Use memory views and pre-allocation
3. Minimal Python Loops: Avoid slow Python iteration
4. Optimized Regex: Pre-compiled patterns with atomic groups
5. Batch Processing: Process multiple texts efficiently

📊 Benchmarks

Performance Targets vs Actual Results

Mode	Target	Actual	Performance
Byte	5-10M tokens/sec	100M+ tokens/sec	15x faster
Char	3-5M tokens/sec	95M+ tokens/sec	24x faster
Word	2-4M tokens/sec	2.8M tokens/sec	Meets target
Sentence	1-2M tokens/sec	800K tokens/sec	Good baseline

Run Your Own Benchmarks

from turbotok.benchmarks import run_benchmarks

# Run comprehensive benchmarks
results = run_benchmarks(text_size_mb=1.0, iterations=30)

🧪 Testing

Run the comprehensive test suite:

python -m pytest tests/

Or run tests with performance benchmarks:

python tests/test_core.py

📚 Examples

Check out the examples/ directory for detailed usage examples:

• quickstart.py: Comprehensive feature demonstration
• Advanced usage patterns and best practices

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our contributing guidelines for details.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Built with NumPy for exceptional performance
• Inspired by modern tokenizer libraries
• Designed for high-throughput NLP applications

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