huang-sh/deepscience/sentencepiece
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Language-independent tokenizer treating text as raw Unicode. Supports BPE and Unigram algorithms. Fast (50k sentences/sec), lightweight (6MB memory), deterministic vocabulary. Used by T5, ALBERT, XLNet, mBART. Train on raw text without pre-tokenization. Use when you need multilingual support, CJK languages, or reproducible tokenization.
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SentencePiece - Language-Independent Tokenization
Unsupervised tokenizer that works on raw text without language-specific preprocessing.
When to use SentencePiece
Use SentencePiece when:
- Building multilingual models (no language-specific rules)
- Working with CJK languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
- Need reproducible tokenization (deterministic vocabulary)
- Want to train on raw text (no pre-tokenization needed)
- Require lightweight deployment (6MB memory, 50k sentences/sec)
Performance:
- Speed: 50,000 sentences/sec
- Memory: ~6MB for loaded model
- Languages: All (language-independent)
Use alternatives instead:
- HuggingFace Tokenizers: Faster training, more flexibility
- tiktoken: OpenAI models (GPT-3.5/4)
- BERT WordPiece: English-centric tasks
Quick start
Installation
Train model
Training time: ~1-2 minutes for 100MB corpus
Encode and decode
Language-independent design
Whitespace as symbol (▁)
Key principle: Treat text as raw Unicode, whitespace = ▁ (meta symbol)
Tokenization algorithms
BPE (Byte-Pair Encoding)
Used by: mBART
Unigram (default)
Used by: T5, ALBERT, XLNet
Training configuration
Essential parameters
Character coverage
| Language Type | Coverage | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 0.9995 | Most common chars | |
| CJK (Chinese) | 1.0 | All characters needed | |
| Multilingual | 0.9995 | Balance |
Encoding options
Subword regularization
Use case: Data augmentation for robustness.
Common patterns
T5-style training
Integration with transformers
Performance benchmarks
Training speed
| Corpus | BPE (16k) | Unigram (8k) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 MB | 1-2 min | 3-4 min | |
| 1 GB | 10-15 min | 30-40 min |
Tokenization speed
- SentencePiece: 50,000 sentences/sec
- HF Tokenizers: 200,000 sentences/sec (4× faster)
Supported models
T5 family: t5-base, t5-large (32k vocab, Unigram) ALBERT: albert-base-v2 (30k vocab, Unigram) XLNet: xlnet-base-cased (32k vocab, Unigram) mBART: facebook/mbart-large-50 (250k vocab, BPE)
References
- [Training Guide](references/training.md) - Detailed options, corpus preparation
- [Algorithms](references/algorithms.md) - BPE vs Unigram, subword regularization
Resources
- GitHub: https://github.com/google/sentencepiece ⭐ 10,000+
- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06226 (EMNLP 2018)
- Version: 0.2.0+
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