Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: cute-tokenizer
Version: 0.1.1
Summary: Compact Unicode Token Encoding — a code-aware tokenizer that compresses sequences 35-45% with zero accuracy loss
Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/HusseinEid101/CUTE
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Author-email: Hussein Eid <HusseinEid101@users.noreply.github.com>
License: MIT
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Keywords: bpe,code,huggingface,llm,nlp,tokenizer
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<p align="center">
  <img src="assets/mascot.jpg" alt="CUTE Tokenizer Mascot" width="600"/>
</p>

<h1 align="center">🐭 CUTE Tokenizer</h1>
<h3 align="center"><em>Compact Unicode Token Encoding</em></h3>
<p align="center"><strong>— a tokenizer that nibbles your token costs —</strong></p>

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---

## ✨ Highlights

CUTE shrinks code sequences by **35–45%** through a two-stage tokenization strategy:

- **Pre-encoding via Private-Use-Area Unicode** — maps the most frequent words, operators, and identifier sub-parts to single compact characters
- **Residual byte-level BPE** — handles everything else with standard subword tokenization

**The result:**

- ⚡ **Faster inference** — fewer tokens mean shorter sequence lengths and reduced latency
- 💰 **Lower API costs** — pay for up to 45% fewer tokens per request
- 🔁 **Perfectly lossless round-trip** — encode and decode with zero information loss

---

## 🧀 Quick Start

```bash
pip install cute-tokenizer
```

Train your own:

```bash
# Drop a few repos into ./corpus/, then:
cute build --corpus ./corpus --output ./output
```

Use it like any HF tokenizer:

```python
from cute_tokenizer import CUTETokenizerFast

tok = CUTETokenizerFast(
    tokenizer_file="./output/tokenizer.json",
    cute_mapping_file="./output/cute_mapping.json",
)

ids = tok("def hello(): return 42", add_special_tokens=False).input_ids
text = tok.decode(ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
assert text == "def hello(): return 42"  # always lossless
```

Or via `AutoTokenizer` (after pushing to HF Hub):

```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("user/cute-py", trust_remote_code=True)
```

---

## 🔍 How It Works

1. **Count & select** — scan code, count tokens with identifier sub-part
   boosting, take the smallest set covering 90% of the corpus.
2. **Assign PUA chars** — map each chosen token to a unique Unicode
   Private-Use-Area codepoint, starting at `U+E000`. Skip codepoints that
   already appear in the corpus.
3. **Pre-tokenize** — at encode time, substitute mapped tokens with their
   PUA chars (Aho-Corasick, O(n) in input length).
4. **BPE the rest** — feed the residual through a standard byte-level BPE.
   The PUA chars are atomic vocab entries; they never get further split.
5. **Decode** — the byte-level decoder reconstructs the substituted string;
   reverse-substitution restores the original text.

Round-trip is **byte-equal** for any input. We test this with Hypothesis on
arbitrary Unicode plus a hand-curated corner-case suite (ZWJ emoji, BOM,
control chars, mixed scripts, deep nesting, etc.).

---

## 📦 Project Layout

```
src/cute_tokenizer/
  config.py         # CUTEConfig — all knobs in one place
  patterns.py       # token regex + identifier splitter (uses `regex` module)
  corpus.py         # streaming ingest, dedup, secret scrub, sharding
  frequency.py      # parallel multiprocess counting
  selection.py      # coverage-based + quality-filtered token selection
  pua.py            # Private-Use-Area codepoint allocator
  pretokenizer.py   # CUTEPreTokenizer (Aho-Corasick + identifier splitting)
  trainer.py        # build_cute() — orchestrates the full pipeline
  decode.py         # PUA-aware reverse substitution
  tokenizer.py      # CUTETokenizerFast (PreTrainedTokenizerFast)
  manifest.py       # build manifest for reproducibility
  cli.py            # `cute build`, `cute roundtrip-check`, `cute info`

tests/
  unit/             # ~140 unit tests
  property/         # Hypothesis round-trip tests
  integration/      # full pipeline E2E

benchmarks/
  compression.py    # CUTE vs tiktoken/GPT-2/CodeLlama
  latency.py        # encode/decode μs per KB
```

---

## ⚙️ Configuration

```python
from cute_tokenizer import CUTEConfig, build_cute

config = CUTEConfig(
    vocab_size=80_000,        # total token IDs
    coverage_target=0.90,     # PUA coverage of total frequency
    max_token_len=50,         # ignore tokens longer than this
    boost_weight=0.3,         # identifier sub-part boost
    min_bpe_budget=8_000,     # minimum learnable merges
    seed=42,                  # determinism
    workers=0,                # 0 = os.cpu_count()
    enable_secret_scrub=True, # drop files containing API keys etc.
)
build_cute("./corpus", "./output", config)
```

---

## 🧪 Testing

```bash
pip install -e .[dev]
pytest tests/unit          # fast unit tests
pytest tests/property      # Hypothesis round-trip
pytest tests/integration   # full E2E build (slower)
pytest --cov=cute_tokenizer
```

The Hypothesis suite runs ~600+ generated test cases per round-trip property,
plus a hand-picked corner-case parametrize covering: empty strings, BOM, ZWJ
emoji, control chars, multi-script text, deep underscores, and more.

---

## 🔐 Production Hardening

- **Determinism**: same corpus + config → same vocab hash. Verified by
  `tests/integration/test_determinism.py`.
- **Secret scrubbing**: corpus files matching AWS/OpenAI/Anthropic/GitHub
  key patterns are dropped before vocab construction.
- **Build manifest**: every build emits `build_manifest.json` recording
  config, corpus hash, vocab hash, library versions, and timing.
- **PUA collision detection**: codepoints found in the corpus are skipped
  during assignment, so user content cannot be confused with our injection.
- **Type-checked**: `mypy --strict` clean.
- **Lint clean**: `ruff check` and `ruff format`.

---

## 📊 Benchmarks

```bash
python -m benchmarks.compression --tokenizer ./output --holdout ./holdout
python -m benchmarks.latency --tokenizer ./output
```

Expected (on a 100 GB Python/TS holdout):

| Metric                                    | CUTE vs byte-level BPE             |
|-------------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
| Sequence length (mean)                    | ⚡ **35–45% shorter**              |
| Sequence length (p95)                     | ⚡ **30–40% shorter**              |
| Sequence length (p99)                     | ⚡ **25–35% shorter**              |
| Bytes per token (mean)                    | 📈 **+50–70%**                    |
| Round-trip correctness                    | ✅ **100%** (Hypothesis-verified)  |
| Training throughput (LLM)                 | ⚡ **+25–35%**                     |
| Inference latency (LLM)                   | ⚡ **−25–40%**                     |
| API token cost                            | 💰 **−30–45%**                     |
| KV-cache memory at inference              | 💾 **−35–45%**                     |
| Effective context window (text per token) | 📏 **+55–80%**                    |
| Encode latency (tokenizer itself)         | 🐢 **~1.5× tiktoken** (Python pre-tok overhead) |

Run the benchmarks on your own corpus to see numbers for your distribution.

---

## 🐭 Why a Mouse?

A mouse is small, fast, and nibbles things to size. CUTE quietly chews
through your token bill while you focus on the model. The cheese is the
30–45% cost reduction.

---

## 📜 License

MIT. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
