| This is a fork of the GPT NeoX 20B tokenizer, edited to split every numerical digit into a separate token. This has the goal of making it easier for the model to learn arithmetic capabilities and to hopefully be more interpretable, and copies the idea from the [PaLM tokenizer](https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.html). | |
| This was done, extremely hackily, by just removing every token that contained "\d\d" (eg "2013"). All remaining digit containing tokens are "0" ... "9" and " 0" ... " 9" | |
| This comes at the cost of making modelling normal text harder, since eg dates like 2013 which naturally *should* be a single token are now 2|0|1|3. | |
| This has a reduced vocab size of 48252 (several of the tokens towards the end are special whitespace tokens copied in from GPT-NeoX to make tokenizing code easier - some of these are duplicated in the vocabulary and thus may not actually show up at train time). | |
| It includes a padding token (<|PAD|>) an End-Of-String token (<|EOS|>) and a Beginning-Of-String token (<|BOS|>) |