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Every generated token went through tokenizers' step_decode_stream: decode
the retained window, compare with the cached prefix string, emit the
difference, drain the window and decode it again to refresh the prefix.
Two full decodes, a Vec<String> of cloned token strings for each, and
about eight allocations per token, on every streamed chat, messages and
completion response, and on non-streaming output too, since the
processor replays complete outputs through the same stop decoder.
For a plain ByteLevel decoder (Qwen, Llama 3, GPT-2 style vocabularies)
decoding is compositional: each id maps to fixed bytes, the bytes are
concatenated and converted with from_utf8_lossy. So precompute the bytes
per id once per tokenizer (about 1.5 MB for a 151k vocabulary) and keep,
per stream, only the bytes of a character that is still incomplete. Text
is emitted as soon as it is settled, which for valid UTF-8 is exactly
when tokenizers' algorithm emits it; over a whole stream both produce
decode(all_ids).
Decoder gains incremental_decoder(), returning a per-stream
IncrementalDecoder when the backend has one (None by default). Sequence
uses it when present and otherwise keeps the generic path, so the mock,
tiktoken and Metaspace tokenizers are unchanged. CachedTokenizer now
forwards decode_step and the new method instead of silently falling back
to the generic algorithm.
Qwen2.5 tokenizer, 111-token stream (benches/incremental_decode.rs):
generic decode_step byte-level per token
release profile (opt-level z) 86.5 us 4.13 us 779 -> 37 ns
bench profile (opt-level 3) 47.9 us 1.85 us 431 -> 17 ns
StopSequenceDecoder::process_token over the same stream: 11.6 us total
at the release profile, about 100 ns per token including the jail.
Tests: the alphabet matches tokenizers' byte-level table; text streams
match step_decode_stream step for step; 400 random id streams (split
characters, special tokens, out-of-vocabulary ids) match decode(all_ids);
a Metaspace decoder gets no fast path.
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…s only L0Cache::len() summed two DashMap::len() calls, each read-locking every shard, and maybe_evict() called it on every insert, then compared the two maps' len() again to pick a victim map. Keep per-map entry counters instead; the shard sweeps are gone from the insert path. A hit returned (*cached).clone(). For a HuggingFace encoding that clones seven per-token vectors, one of them a String per token, only for the caller to take token_ids() and drop the rest. Store Encoding::Plain(ids), so a hit copies 4 bytes per token and an entry costs 4 bytes per token instead of roughly 70. Nothing in the workspace reads anything but the ids from a cached encoding. Signed-off-by: Simo Lin <25425177+slin1237@users.noreply.github.com>
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WalkthroughThe tokenizer crate adds an incremental decoding interface and a byte-level implementation. Hugging Face tokenizers, sequences, and cached tokenizers use the interface when available. The changes also update L0 cache accounting and add a Criterion benchmark. ChangesIncremental token decoding
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Moved len_for under map_for in 1dde1b0; next_timestamp has its doc comment back.
…the Sequence docs Review follow-ups: len_for had slipped between next_timestamp and its doc comment; the eviction decrement is now a saturating fetch_update and len() adds saturating, so a clear() racing with an eviction can neither wrap a counter nor overflow the sum (an insert racing with clear() can still leave the count a few entries high, which only moves the point where eviction starts; clear() is used by benches and tests). The append_token, token_ids and text docs now describe the dedicated-decoder path, on which no decode window is kept. Signed-off-by: Simo Lin <25425177+slin1237@users.noreply.github.com>
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…ith clear() An insert that completes its map update after clear() has emptied the map but before the counters are reset would leave an entry in the map with a zero count, and len()/is_empty()/stats() would then disagree with the maps (with max_entries = 1 the next insert would skip eviction). Inserts and evictions now hold a shared RwLock guard around the map mutation and its counter update and clear() takes it exclusively, so the two cannot interleave; the saturating workarounds are gone and len() is a plain sum again. The lock is uncontended on the insert path (two atomic operations next to a full encode) and clear() stays a test and bench helper. Also drops the stale duplicate doc line on len(). Signed-off-by: Simo Lin <25425177+slin1237@users.noreply.github.com>
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Review at 369b0d1: request changes. The byte-level incremental decoder emits streamed pieces that differ from the reference's in 4,224 cases. The joined text is right in every one of them. But it fails main's bellwether tokenizer test (#2817) on a fixture bellwether already commits.
What I ran
- Build: main's bellwether tokenizer test (
crates/tokenizer/tests/bellwether_fixtures.rs, as #2834 extends it), on 92c1e1c, and on the same commit with this PR merged in. The merge had no conflicts. - Fixtures: a local recording of 80 checkpoint groups (71 load).
- Encode: identical to main in every case.
- Incremental decode: main matches the reference in all 2,891,399 cases. With this PR, 4,224 cases change from match to differ, in 54 groups, and none changes the other way.
What differs
In each of the 4,224 cases the joined text is identical, and exactly one piece differs. This PR emits text where the reference emits "":
- The reference is transformers'
DecodeStream, the same hold-back vLLM's detokenizer applies. It holds back a token's whole text while the decoded window ends in U+FFFD. - This PR emits the complete characters and holds back only an incomplete UTF-8 tail.
The cases fall into two kinds:
- 4,088 cases: the token is complete characters plus a UTF-8 lead byte. For example,
apertus-8b-instruct-2509/parse/glaive-v2-12028-1at index 75, id 1492 =b' \xc3': this PR gives" ", the reference"". - 136 cases: the token is a literal U+FFFD in the text. For example,
deepseek-v3-0324/parse/swebench-test-content-pytest-dev-pytest-5281at index 227.
Smallest repro
bellwether main's own committed fixtures: main passes all 63, and this PR fails qwen3-8b/parse/call-unicode-arguments ("晴れ 🌤️") at index 26, id 11162, where it decodes " " and the fixture records "".
With Qwen3-8B, ids [1683, 115] (" ÷") give ["", " ÷"] in the reference and [" ", "÷"] here.
So once #2822's workflow runs the fixtures in CI, this PR fails there.
The choice
Emitting complete characters earlier is arguably the better stream. But it is not what either reference does: transformers' DecodeStream and vLLM's detokenizer both hold the token back. Two ways forward:
- Keep the hold-back, so a piece is
""while the window ends in U+FFFD, and the speed-up stays. - Decide that early emission is the contract. Then the fixtures' piece-by-piece comparison changes to compare joined text, or pieces up to a hold-back rule, and that is a decision for the bellwether design. Any client test that compares chunk boundaries with vLLM's would also see the change.
All 4,224 ids, the two-token repro and the logs are on the reviewer's side, on request.
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Problem
Every generated token on the gRPC streaming path goes through
StopSequenceDecoder::process_token→Sequence::append_token→tokenizers'step_decode_stream: decode the retained id window, compare the string with the cached prefix, emit the difference, drain the window and decode it again to refresh the prefix. That is two full decodes per token, each building aVec<String>of cloned token strings, and about eight allocations per token. Non-streaming responses pay it too: the processor replays complete outputs through the same stop decoder.Two smaller things on the same path:
CachedTokenizerdid not forwarddecode_step, so enabling the tokenizer cache silently switched every stream to the trait-default double decode; and the L0 cache's hit path deep-cloned the whole HuggingFace encoding (seven per-token vectors, oneStringper token) for a caller that only reads the ids, while every insert read-locked every DashMap shard twice to computelen().Solution
crates/tokenizer/src/byte_level.rs). For a plainByteLeveldecoder (Qwen, Llama 3, GPT-2 style vocabularies) decoding is compositional: each id maps to fixed bytes, the bytes are concatenated, andfrom_utf8_lossyruns over the result. So the bytes per id are precomputed once per tokenizer (about 1.5 MB for a 151k vocabulary) and a stream keeps only the bytes of a character that is still incomplete. Text is emitted as soon as it is settled, which for valid UTF-8 is exactly whentokenizers' algorithm emits it; over a whole stream both producedecode(all_ids).Decoder::incremental_decoder()returns such a per-stream decoder when the backend has one (Noneby default).Sequenceuses it when present and otherwise keeps the generic path, so the mock, tiktoken and Metaspace/SentencePiece tokenizers are unchanged.CachedTokenizerforwardsdecode_stepand the new method.DashMap::len()on every insert, and entries storeEncoding::Plain(ids)(4 bytes per token instead of roughly 70; a hit copies the ids only). Nothing in the workspace reads anything but the ids from a cached encoding.Not changed:
tokenizers::encode_fast(no byte offsets) measured 8–12% slower thanencodeon 0.23.1 for a 450-token prompt, so the encode call stays as it is.Changes
crates/tokenizer/src/byte_level.rs(new):ByteLevelTable(bytes per id, special-token flags, built only for a plainByteLeveldecoder),ByteLevelIncremental(IncrementalDecoder), and tests.crates/tokenizer/src/traits.rs:IncrementalDecodertrait;Decoder::incremental_decoder()with aNonedefault.crates/tokenizer/src/huggingface.rs: build the table at load; implementincremental_decoder.crates/tokenizer/src/sequence.rs: use the backend decoder when present (append_token,clear, seeding inwith_tokens*).crates/tokenizer/src/cache/mod.rs: forwarddecode_stepandincremental_decoder; insertEncoding::Plain(ids)into L0.crates/tokenizer/src/cache/l0.rs: atomic per-map counters.crates/tokenizer/benches/incremental_decode.rs(new):Sequence::append_tokenvs the genericdecode_stepvsStopSequenceDecoder::process_token, on a synthetic byte-level BPE or, withSMG_BENCH_TOKENIZER_JSON, a real vocabulary.Test Plan
Correctness (
cargo test -p llm-tokenizer, 238 unit + integration tests, all pass):tokenizers' byte-level alphabet;step_decode_streamstep for step anddecode(all_ids)as a whole, withskip_special_tokensboth ways;decode(all_ids)byte for byte;tokenizers' emitted text is always a prefix of ours (it withholds a settled invalid byte while the window ends in U+FFFD, we settle it at once);resetclears the pending bytes;cargo test -p smg --lib -- tokenizer streaming stop_decoder detokenize sequence(70 tests) pass.Micro-benchmark (Qwen2.5 tokenizer, 111-token stream,
benches/incremental_decode.rs, this host):decode_stepopt-level = "z")opt-level = 3)StopSequenceDecoder::process_tokenover the same stream: 11.6 µs at the release profile, about 100 ns per token including the jail.Gateway harness (IGW gateway, gRPC streaming to 8 canned mock workers with the Qwen2.5 tokenizer, 64 concurrent streams, CPU per request from
/proc/<pid>/stat, same method as #2752):main(bd83e8e)mainatopt-level = 3opt-level = 3Two runs per cell (three for the HTTP row), 20k requests each (4k for the 512-token runs), run-to-run spread about ±0.02 ms, no hung streams. The 512-token row is the per-token effect: output tokens dominate that request's CPU.
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cargo +nightly fmtpassescargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warningspasses (see the note on--all-features)