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 # tokenizers
 C++ implementations for various tokenizers (sentencepiece, tiktoken etc). Useful for other PyTorch repos such as torchchat, ExecuTorch to build LLM runners using ExecuTorch stack or AOT Inductor stack.
 
+## Installation (from source)
+```
+git clone git@github.com:meta-pytorch/tokenizers.git
+cd ~/tokenizers
+git submodule update --init --recursive
+pip install -e .
+```
 
 ## SentencePiece tokenizer
 Depend on https://github.com/google/sentencepiece from Google.