HuggingFace's transformers library is the de-facto standard for NLP - used by practitioners worldwide, it's powerful, flexible, and easy to use. It achieves this through a fairly large (and complex) code-base, which has resulted in the question:
"Why are there so many tokenization methods in HuggingFace transformers?"
Tokenization is the process of encoding a string of text into transformer-readable token ID integers. In this video we cover five different methods for this - do these all produce the same output, or is there a difference between them?
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