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hf.rs

1// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2024-2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
2// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
3
4use std::{collections::HashSet, path::Path};
5
6use tokenizers::tokenizer::{AddedToken, PostProcessor as _, Tokenizer as HfTokenizer};
7
8use super::{
9    Encoding, Error, Result, TokenIdType, TokenizerOptions,
10    traits::{DecodeResult, Decoder, Encoder, Tokenizer},
11};
12
13pub struct HuggingFaceTokenizer {
14    tokenizer: HfTokenizer,
15    byte_fallback_ids: HashSet<u32>,
16    special_ids: HashSet<u32>,
17    /// Construction-time options; see [`TokenizerOptions`]. Defaults preserve
18    /// the historical behavior (e.g. `add_special_tokens: false`). Set via
19    /// [`Tokenizer::with_options`].
20    options: TokenizerOptions,
21}
22
23impl HuggingFaceTokenizer {
24    /// Load from `tokenizer.json`, merging in special tokens declared only in
25    /// a sibling `tokenizer_config.json`'s `added_tokens_decoder`. Without
26    /// this, some releases (Qwen2-VL-2B's `<|image_pad|>`) BPE-shatter and
27    /// silently break MM-aware routing. The merge is idempotent.
28    pub fn from_file(model_name: &str) -> Result<Self> {
29        let mut tokenizer = HfTokenizer::from_file(model_name)
30            .map_err(|err| Error::msg(format!("Error loading tokenizer: {}", err)))?;
31
32        if let Some(parent) = Path::new(model_name).parent() {
33            merge_special_tokens_from_config(&mut tokenizer, parent);
34        }
35
36        Ok(Self::from_tokenizer(tokenizer))
37    }
38
39    pub fn from_tokenizer(tokenizer: HfTokenizer) -> Self {
40        // ByteFallback decodes a contiguous run atomically: one invalid byte
41        // replaces the entire run, including previously valid ASCII/UTF-8.
42        // Discover the at-most-256 byte IDs once, not on the request hot path.
43        let has_byte_fallback = tokenizer.get_decoder().is_some_and(|decoder| {
44            fn contains(value: &serde_json::Value) -> bool {
45                value["type"] == "ByteFallback"
46                    || value["decoders"]
47                        .as_array()
48                        .is_some_and(|items| items.iter().any(contains))
49            }
50            serde_json::to_value(decoder).is_ok_and(|value| contains(&value))
51        });
52        let byte_fallback_ids = if has_byte_fallback {
53            tokenizer
54                .get_vocab(true)
55                .into_iter()
56                .filter_map(|(token, id)| {
57                    (token.len() == 6
58                        && token.starts_with("<0x")
59                        && token.ends_with('>')
60                        && u8::from_str_radix(&token[3..5], 16).is_ok())
61                    .then_some(id)
62                })
63                .collect()
64        } else {
65            HashSet::new()
66        };
67        let special_ids = tokenizer
68            .get_added_tokens_decoder()
69            .into_iter()
70            .filter_map(|(id, token)| token.special.then_some(id))
71            .collect();
72        HuggingFaceTokenizer {
73            tokenizer,
74            byte_fallback_ids,
75            special_ids,
76            options: TokenizerOptions::default(),
77        }
78    }
79
80    /// Wrap an already-loaded `HfTokenizer` and merge in the sibling
81    /// `tokenizer_config.json` special tokens; see [`Self::from_file`].
82    pub fn from_tokenizer_with_model_dir(tokenizer: HfTokenizer, model_dir: &Path) -> Self {
83        let mut tokenizer = tokenizer;
84        merge_special_tokens_from_config(&mut tokenizer, model_dir);
85        Self::from_tokenizer(tokenizer)
86    }
87}
88
89/// Promote `tokenizer_config.json`'s `special: true` `added_tokens_decoder`
90/// entries onto `tokenizer`. Missing-file / parse errors are swallowed since
91/// the file is optional. See [`HuggingFaceTokenizer::from_file`].
92///
93/// `pub` so downstream crates (e.g. `dynamo-llm`'s model_card) can apply
94/// the same promotion before extracting the special-token boundary list
95/// for the L1 prefix cache — otherwise the cache and the wrapped
96/// tokenizer would disagree on which strings are atomic specials.
97pub fn merge_special_tokens_from_config(tokenizer: &mut HfTokenizer, model_dir: &Path) {
98    let cfg_path = model_dir.join("tokenizer_config.json");
99    let Ok(raw) = std::fs::read_to_string(&cfg_path) else {
100        return;
101    };
102    let cfg: serde_json::Value = match serde_json::from_str(&raw) {
103        Ok(v) => v,
104        Err(e) => {
105            tracing::debug!(
106                target: "tokenizer",
107                path = %cfg_path.display(),
108                error = %e,
109                "tokenizer_config.json parse failed; skipping special-token merge"
110            );
111            return;
112        }
113    };
114    let Some(decoder) = cfg.get("added_tokens_decoder").and_then(|v| v.as_object()) else {
115        return;
116    };
117
118    let mut to_add: Vec<AddedToken> = Vec::new();
119    for (_id, spec) in decoder {
120        let obj = match spec.as_object() {
121            Some(o) => o,
122            None => continue,
123        };
124        // The id is informational — `add_special_tokens` reuses the existing
125        // vocab id via `Model::token_to_id` on the content string.
126        if obj.get("special").and_then(|v| v.as_bool()) != Some(true) {
127            continue;
128        }
129        let Some(content) = obj.get("content").and_then(|v| v.as_str()) else {
130            continue;
131        };
132        if content.is_empty() {
133            continue;
134        }
135        let single_word = obj
136            .get("single_word")
137            .and_then(|v| v.as_bool())
138            .unwrap_or(false);
139        let lstrip = obj.get("lstrip").and_then(|v| v.as_bool()).unwrap_or(false);
140        let rstrip = obj.get("rstrip").and_then(|v| v.as_bool()).unwrap_or(false);
141        let normalized = obj
142            .get("normalized")
143            .and_then(|v| v.as_bool())
144            .unwrap_or(false);
145        let token = AddedToken::from(content.to_string(), true)
146            .single_word(single_word)
147            .lstrip(lstrip)
148            .rstrip(rstrip)
149            .normalized(normalized);
150        to_add.push(token);
151    }
152
153    if to_add.is_empty() {
154        return;
155    }
156    // Dedups against existing added-tokens, so this is a no-op when
157    // tokenizer.json already had them. Return value = net-new count.
158    let added = tokenizer.add_special_tokens(&to_add);
159    if added > 0 {
160        // Warn (not debug) when the merge actually promotes anything —
161        // intentionally loud so accidental promotion of a previously-
162        // non-special token shows up immediately in worker logs. Lists
163        // the literal token strings so debugging doesn't require a
164        // second pass through `added_tokens_decoder`.
165        let promoted: Vec<&str> = to_add.iter().map(|t| t.content.as_str()).collect();
166        tracing::warn!(
167            target: "tokenizer",
168            path = %cfg_path.display(),
169            added,
170            candidates = to_add.len(),
171            promoted = ?promoted,
172            "merged additional special tokens from tokenizer_config.json"
173        );
174    }
175}
176
177impl Encoder for HuggingFaceTokenizer {
178    fn encode(&self, input: &str) -> Result<Encoding> {
179        // This self.tokenizer is the library
180        let encoding = self
181            .tokenizer
182            .encode(input, self.options.add_special_tokens)
183            .map_err(|err| Error::msg(format!("Error tokenizing input: {err}")))?;
184
185        Ok(Encoding::Hf(Box::new(encoding)))
186    }
187
188    fn encode_batch(&self, inputs: &[&str]) -> Result<Vec<Encoding>> {
189        let hf_encodings = self
190            .tokenizer
191            .encode_batch(inputs.to_vec(), self.options.add_special_tokens)
192            .map_err(|err| Error::msg(format!("Error batch tokenizing input: {err}")))?;
193
194        let encodings = hf_encodings
195            .into_iter()
196            .map(|enc| Encoding::Hf(Box::new(enc)))
197            .collect();
198
199        Ok(encodings)
200    }
201}
202
203impl Decoder for HuggingFaceTokenizer {
204    fn has_unstable_suffix(&self, token_ids: &[TokenIdType], skip_special_tokens: bool) -> bool {
205        token_ids
206            .iter()
207            .rev()
208            .find(|id| !skip_special_tokens || !self.special_ids.contains(id))
209            .is_some_and(|id| self.byte_fallback_ids.contains(id))
210    }
211
212    fn decode(&self, token_ids: &[TokenIdType], skip_special_tokens: bool) -> Result<DecodeResult> {
213        // This calls into the library
214        let text = self
215            .tokenizer
216            .decode(token_ids, skip_special_tokens)
217            .map_err(|err| Error::msg(format!("Error de-tokenizing input: {err}")))?;
218
219        Ok(text.into())
220    }
221}
222
223impl Tokenizer for HuggingFaceTokenizer {
224    fn validate_prefix_cache(&self) -> Result<()> {
225        if self.options.add_special_tokens {
226            return Err(Error::msg(
227                "HuggingFace tokenizers configured with add_special_tokens=true must remain uncached",
228            ));
229        }
230        Ok(())
231    }
232
233    /// HF honors [`TokenizerOptions::add_special_tokens`] (BOS/EOS per the
234    /// tokenizer's post-processor template).
235    fn with_options(mut self, options: TokenizerOptions) -> Self {
236        self.options = options;
237        self
238    }
239
240    fn vocab_size(&self) -> Option<usize> {
241        Some(self.tokenizer.get_vocab_size(true))
242    }
243
244    fn token_to_id(&self, token: &str) -> Result<Option<TokenIdType>> {
245        Ok(self.tokenizer.token_to_id(token))
246    }
247
248    fn special_token_ids(&self) -> Result<Vec<TokenIdType>> {
249        let mut ids: Vec<TokenIdType> = self
250            .tokenizer
251            .get_added_tokens_decoder()
252            .into_iter()
253            .filter_map(|(id, token)| token.special.then_some(id))
254            .collect();
255        ids.sort_unstable();
256        Ok(ids)
257    }
258
259    fn num_special_tokens_added(&self) -> Result<usize> {
260        Ok(self
261            .tokenizer
262            .get_post_processor()
263            .map_or(0, |processor| processor.added_tokens(false)))
264    }
265}
266
267impl From<HfTokenizer> for HuggingFaceTokenizer {
268    fn from(tokenizer: HfTokenizer) -> Self {
269        Self::from_tokenizer(tokenizer)
270    }
271}
272
273#[cfg(test)]
274mod byte_fallback_stream_tests {
275    use super::*;
276
277    fn tokenizer() -> super::super::Tokenizer {
278        let hf: HfTokenizer = serde_json::from_value(serde_json::json!({
279            "version": "1.0", "truncation": null, "padding": null,
280            "added_tokens": [{"id": 6, "content": "<eos>", "special": true,
281                "single_word": false, "lstrip": false, "rstrip": false, "normalized": false}],
282            "normalizer": null, "pre_tokenizer": null, "post_processor": null,
283            "decoder": {"type": "Sequence", "decoders": [
284                {"type": "ByteFallback"}, {"type": "Fuse"}]},
285            "model": {"type": "BPE", "vocab": {
286                "<0x61>": 0, "<0xF5>": 1, "<0xC3>": 2, "<0xA9>": 3,
287                " hello": 4, "!": 5, "<eos>": 6}, "merges": [], "byte_fallback": true}
288        }))
289        .unwrap();
290        std::sync::Arc::new(HuggingFaceTokenizer::from_tokenizer(hf)).into()
291    }
292
293    #[test]
294    fn byte_runs_match_full_decode() {
295        let tokenizer = tokenizer();
296        // Invalid tails rewrite the whole byte run, even previously valid ASCII
297        // or a complete multibyte character. Valid, incomplete and literal
298        // replacement output must all survive a terminal flush unchanged.
299        for (ids, skip) in [
300            (vec![0, 1, 4], false),
301            (vec![2, 3, 1, 4], false),
302            (vec![2, 3, 5], false),
303            (vec![0], false),
304            (vec![2, 3], false),
305            (vec![2], false),
306            (vec![0, 1], false),
307            (vec![0, 6, 1, 4], false),
308            (vec![0, 6, 1, 4], true),
309        ] {
310            let expected: String = tokenizer.decode(&ids, skip).unwrap().into();
311            let mut stream = tokenizer.decode_stream(&[], skip);
312            let mut actual = String::new();
313            for id in &ids {
314                actual.push_str(&stream.step(*id).unwrap().unwrap_or_default());
315            }
316            actual.push_str(&stream.finish().unwrap().unwrap_or_default());
317            assert_eq!(actual, expected, "ids={ids:?}, skip={skip}");
318            assert_eq!(stream.finish().unwrap(), None);
319        }
320    }
321
322    #[test]
323    fn only_byte_suffix_is_delayed_and_prompt_is_not_emitted() {
324        let tokenizer = tokenizer();
325        let mut stream = tokenizer.decode_stream(&[4], true);
326        assert_eq!(stream.step(5).unwrap().as_deref(), Some("!"));
327        assert_eq!(stream.step(0).unwrap(), None);
328        assert_eq!(stream.step(1).unwrap(), None);
329        assert_eq!(stream.step(4).unwrap().as_deref(), Some("�� hello"));
330        assert_eq!(stream.finish().unwrap(), None);
331    }
332}
333
334#[cfg(test)]
335mod tests {
336    //! The existing tool-calling / reasoning parser tests inject already-
337    //! decoded text and never run `tokenizer.decode`, so they cannot
338    //! catch the class of bug where a non-special marker gets accidentally
339    //! promoted to "special" and silently disappears under
340    //! `skip_special_tokens=True`. One unit test pins both halves of the
341    //! gate (promote special:true / skip special:false) end-to-end through
342    //! the actual encode -> decode round trip — the layer above which the
343    //! parser tests cannot reach.
344    use super::*;
345    use std::fs;
346    use tempfile::TempDir;
347
348    #[test]
349    fn merge_gate_round_trips_through_decode() {
350        // Minimal WordLevel `tokenizer.json`. `<|special_kept|>` and
351        // `<|special_dropped|>` are deliberately NOT pre-declared as
352        // special in `added_tokens` here — that's exactly the shape
353        // `merge_special_tokens_from_config` is supposed to fix from
354        // tokenizer_config.json.
355        const TOKENIZER_JSON: &str = r#"{
356            "version": "1.0",
357            "truncation": null,
358            "padding": null,
359            "added_tokens": [
360                {"id": 0, "content": "<unk>", "special": true, "single_word": false, "lstrip": false, "rstrip": false, "normalized": false}
361            ],
362            "normalizer": null,
363            "pre_tokenizer": null,
364            "post_processor": null,
365            "decoder": null,
366            "model": {
367                "type": "WordLevel",
368                "vocab": {"<unk>": 0, "hello": 1, "world": 2, "<|special_kept|>": 3, "<|special_dropped|>": 4},
369                "unk_token": "<unk>"
370            }
371        }"#;
372
373        // `<|special_kept|>` is `special: true` → must be promoted, and
374        // therefore stripped under skip_special_tokens=true.
375        // `<|special_dropped|>` is `special: false` → must be skipped,
376        // and therefore survive skip_special_tokens=true. The latter is
377        // the Ryan/Keiven concern: tool-call / reasoning markers are
378        // universally declared `special: false` precisely so the parser
379        // still sees them; a regression here would silently break
380        // parsing without any of the parser unit tests turning red.
381        const TOKENIZER_CONFIG_JSON: &str = r#"{
382            "added_tokens_decoder": {
383                "3": {"content": "<|special_kept|>",    "special": true,  "single_word": false, "lstrip": false, "rstrip": false, "normalized": false},
384                "4": {"content": "<|special_dropped|>", "special": false, "single_word": false, "lstrip": false, "rstrip": false, "normalized": false}
385            }
386        }"#;
387
388        let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
389        fs::write(dir.path().join("tokenizer.json"), TOKENIZER_JSON).unwrap();
390        fs::write(
391            dir.path().join("tokenizer_config.json"),
392            TOKENIZER_CONFIG_JSON,
393        )
394        .unwrap();
395
396        let mut tokenizer = HfTokenizer::from_file(dir.path().join("tokenizer.json")).unwrap();
397        merge_special_tokens_from_config(&mut tokenizer, dir.path());
398
399        // Registry assertion: only the special:true entry was promoted.
400        let specials: Vec<String> = {
401            let mut v: Vec<String> = tokenizer
402                .get_added_tokens_decoder()
403                .values()
404                .filter(|t| t.special)
405                .map(|t| t.content.clone())
406                .collect();
407            v.sort();
408            v
409        };
410        assert_eq!(
411            specials,
412            vec!["<unk>".to_string(), "<|special_kept|>".to_string()],
413            "<|special_kept|> promoted; <|special_dropped|> stayed non-special"
414        );
415
416        // Decode round-trip assertion (the layer parser tests cannot
417        // reach): the registry mutation actually changes downstream
418        // decode behavior in the expected direction.
419        let enc_kept = tokenizer.encode("<|special_kept|>", false).unwrap();
420        let decoded_strip = tokenizer.decode(enc_kept.get_ids(), true).unwrap();
421        assert!(
422            !decoded_strip.contains("<|special_kept|>"),
423            "promoted special:true token must be stripped under skip_special_tokens=true; got {decoded_strip:?}"
424        );
425
426        let enc_drop = tokenizer.encode("<|special_dropped|>", false).unwrap();
427        let decoded_keep = tokenizer.decode(enc_drop.get_ids(), true).unwrap();
428        assert!(
429            decoded_keep.contains("<|special_dropped|>"),
430            "non-promoted special:false token must survive skip_special_tokens=true; got {decoded_keep:?}"
431        );
432    }
433
434    #[test]
435    fn add_special_tokens_flag_controls_encode() {
436        // WordLevel tokenizer with a TemplateProcessing post-processor that
437        // prepends <bos>. The post-processor only fires when encode is
438        // called with add_special_tokens=true, which is exactly the knob
439        // `TokenizerOptions`/`with_options` exposes.
440        const TOKENIZER_JSON: &str = r#"{
441            "version": "1.0",
442            "truncation": null,
443            "padding": null,
444            "added_tokens": [
445                {"id": 0, "content": "<unk>", "special": true, "single_word": false, "lstrip": false, "rstrip": false, "normalized": false},
446                {"id": 3, "content": "<bos>", "special": true, "single_word": false, "lstrip": false, "rstrip": false, "normalized": false}
447            ],
448            "normalizer": null,
449            "pre_tokenizer": null,
450            "post_processor": {
451                "type": "TemplateProcessing",
452                "single": [
453                    {"SpecialToken": {"id": "<bos>", "type_id": 0}},
454                    {"Sequence": {"id": "A", "type_id": 0}}
455                ],
456                "pair": [
457                    {"SpecialToken": {"id": "<bos>", "type_id": 0}},
458                    {"Sequence": {"id": "A", "type_id": 0}},
459                    {"Sequence": {"id": "B", "type_id": 0}}
460                ],
461                "special_tokens": {
462                    "<bos>": {"id": "<bos>", "ids": [3], "tokens": ["<bos>"]}
463                }
464            },
465            "decoder": null,
466            "model": {
467                "type": "WordLevel",
468                "vocab": {"<unk>": 0, "hello": 1, "world": 2, "<bos>": 3},
469                "unk_token": "<unk>"
470            }
471        }"#;
472
473        let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
474        fs::write(dir.path().join("tokenizer.json"), TOKENIZER_JSON).unwrap();
475        let path = dir.path().join("tokenizer.json");
476        let path = path.to_str().unwrap();
477
478        let ids = |enc: &Encoding| match enc {
479            Encoding::Hf(e) => e.get_ids().to_vec(),
480            _ => panic!("expected Hf encoding"),
481        };
482
483        // Default: unchanged historical behavior — no BOS.
484        let plain = HuggingFaceTokenizer::from_file(path).unwrap();
485        assert_eq!(ids(&plain.encode("hello").unwrap()), vec![1]);
486
487        let with_bos =
488            HuggingFaceTokenizer::from_file(path)
489                .unwrap()
490                .with_options(TokenizerOptions {
491                    add_special_tokens: true,
492                });
493        assert_eq!(ids(&with_bos.encode("hello").unwrap()), vec![3, 1]);
494        let batch = with_bos.encode_batch(&["hello", "world"]).unwrap();
495        assert_eq!(ids(&batch[0]), vec![3, 1]);
496        assert_eq!(ids(&batch[1]), vec![3, 2]);
497
498        // Same knob through the top-level wrapper: from_file keeps the
499        // historical default, from_file_with_options threads the flag to
500        // construction before the tokenizer goes behind the shared Arc.
501        use crate::Tokenizer as TokenizerWrapper;
502        let wrapper_plain = TokenizerWrapper::from_file(path).unwrap();
503        assert_eq!(ids(&wrapper_plain.encode("hello").unwrap()), vec![1]);
504
505        let wrapper_bos = TokenizerWrapper::from_file_with_options(
506            path,
507            TokenizerOptions {
508                add_special_tokens: true,
509            },
510        )
511        .unwrap();
512        assert_eq!(ids(&wrapper_bos.encode("hello").unwrap()), vec![3, 1]);
513    }
514
515    #[test]
516    fn vocab_introspection_accessors() {
517        const TOKENIZER_JSON: &str = r#"{
518            "version": "1.0",
519            "truncation": null,
520            "padding": null,
521            "added_tokens": [
522                {"id": 0, "content": "<unk>", "special": true, "single_word": false, "lstrip": false, "rstrip": false, "normalized": false}
523            ],
524            "normalizer": null,
525            "pre_tokenizer": null,
526            "post_processor": null,
527            "decoder": null,
528            "model": {
529                "type": "WordLevel",
530                "vocab": {"<unk>": 0, "hello": 1, "world": 2},
531                "unk_token": "<unk>"
532            }
533        }"#;
534
535        let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
536        fs::write(dir.path().join("tokenizer.json"), TOKENIZER_JSON).unwrap();
537        let path = dir.path().join("tokenizer.json");
538
539        let tokenizer = HuggingFaceTokenizer::from_file(path.to_str().unwrap()).unwrap();
540        assert_eq!(tokenizer.vocab_size(), Some(3));
541        assert_eq!(tokenizer.token_to_id("hello").unwrap(), Some(1));
542        assert_eq!(tokenizer.special_token_ids().unwrap(), vec![0]);
543        assert_eq!(tokenizer.num_special_tokens_added().unwrap(), 0);
544    }
545
546    #[test]
547    fn num_special_tokens_added_reflects_post_processor_additions() {
548        const TOKENIZER_JSON: &str = r#"{
549            "version": "1.0",
550            "truncation": null,
551            "padding": null,
552            "added_tokens": [
553                {"id": 0, "content": "<unk>", "special": true, "single_word": false, "lstrip": false, "rstrip": false, "normalized": false},
554                {"id": 3, "content": "<bos>", "special": true, "single_word": false, "lstrip": false, "rstrip": false, "normalized": false}
555            ],
556            "normalizer": null,
557            "pre_tokenizer": null,
558            "post_processor": {
559                "type": "TemplateProcessing",
560                "single": [
561                    {"SpecialToken": {"id": "<bos>", "type_id": 0}},
562                    {"Sequence": {"id": "A", "type_id": 0}}
563                ],
564                "pair": [
565                    {"SpecialToken": {"id": "<bos>", "type_id": 0}},
566                    {"Sequence": {"id": "A", "type_id": 0}},
567                    {"Sequence": {"id": "B", "type_id": 0}}
568                ],
569                "special_tokens": {
570                    "<bos>": {"id": "<bos>", "ids": [3], "tokens": ["<bos>"]}
571                }
572            },
573            "decoder": null,
574            "model": {
575                "type": "WordLevel",
576                "vocab": {"<unk>": 0, "hello": 1, "world": 2, "<bos>": 3},
577                "unk_token": "<unk>"
578            }
579        }"#;
580
581        let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
582        fs::write(dir.path().join("tokenizer.json"), TOKENIZER_JSON).unwrap();
583        let path = dir.path().join("tokenizer.json");
584
585        let tokenizer = HuggingFaceTokenizer::from_file(path.to_str().unwrap()).unwrap();
586        assert_eq!(tokenizer.num_special_tokens_added().unwrap(), 1);
587    }
588}