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Introduce faster tokenizer for BERT #1024
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Description
This change introduces a new tokenizer for BERT that is 3.5x faster on a
2017 13 inch MacBook pro.
It was tested by tokenizing the test string u"UNwant\u00E9d,running"
from test_transforms.py::bert_tokenizer 100,000 times using the timeit
module.
The existing implementation with the Cython optmized wordpiece took
5.56 seconds and the new implementation took 1.58 seconds.
The changes were originally authored by Eric Lind [email protected]
and this commit integrates them with Gluon NLP.
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