Add the Metaspace PreTokenizer

bindings/python/src/lib.rs

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ fn pre_tokenizers(_py: Python, m: &PyModule) -> PyResult<()> {
     m.add_class::<pre_tokenizers::ByteLevel>()?;
     m.add_class::<pre_tokenizers::Whitespace>()?;
     m.add_class::<pre_tokenizers::BertPreTokenizer>()?;
+    m.add_class::<pre_tokenizers::Metaspace>()?;
     Ok(())
 }
 

bindings/python/src/pre_tokenizers.rs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ extern crate tokenizers as tk;
 
 use super::error::{PyError, ToPyResult};
 use super::utils::Container;
+use pyo3::exceptions;
 use pyo3::prelude::*;
 use pyo3::types::*;
 use tk::tokenizer::{Offsets, Result};
@@ -84,6 +85,41 @@ impl BertPreTokenizer {
     }
 }
 
+#[pyclass]
+pub struct Metaspace {}
+#[pymethods]
+impl Metaspace {
+    #[staticmethod]
+    #[args(kwargs = "**")]
+    fn new(kwargs: Option<&PyDict>) -> PyResult<PreTokenizer> {
+        let mut replacement = '▁';
+        let mut add_prefix_space = true;
+
+        if let Some(kwargs) = kwargs {
+            for (key, value) in kwargs {
+                let key: &str = key.extract()?;
+                match key {
+                    "replacement" => {
+                        let s: &str = value.extract()?;
+                        replacement = s.chars().nth(0).ok_or(exceptions::Exception::py_err(
+                            "replacement must be a character",
+                        ))?;
+                    }
+                    "add_prefix_space" => add_prefix_space = value.extract()?,
+                    _ => println!("Ignored unknown kwarg option {}", key),
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        Ok(PreTokenizer {
+            pretok: Container::Owned(Box::new(tk::pre_tokenizers::metaspace::Metaspace::new(
+                replacement,
+                add_prefix_space,
+            ))),
+        })
+    }
+}
+
 /// Attempt at providing Python the ability to give its own PreTokenizer
 struct PyPreTokenizer {
     class: PyObject,

bindings/python/tokenizers/pre_tokenizers/__init__.py

@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ PreTokenizer = pre_tokenizers.PreTokenizer
 ByteLevel = pre_tokenizers.ByteLevel
 Whitespace = pre_tokenizers.Whitespace
 BertPreTokenizer = pre_tokenizers.BertPreTokenizer
+Metaspace = pre_tokenizers.Metaspace

bindings/python/tokenizers/pre_tokenizers/__init__.pyi

@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ class ByteLevel:
 
         Args:
             add_prefix_space: (`optional`) boolean:
-                Whether a space should be added at the very beginning of the sequence
+                Whether to add a space to the first word if there isn't already one. This
-                if there isn't one already.
+                lets us treat `hello` exactly like `say hello`.
 
         Returns:
             PreTokenizer
@@ -66,3 +66,26 @@ class BertPreTokenizer:
     def new() -> PreTokenizer:
         """ Instantiate a new BertPreTokenizer """
         pass
+
+class Metaspace:
+    """ Metaspace pre-tokenizer
+
+    This pre-tokenizer replaces any whitespace by the provided replacement character.
+    It then tries to split on these spaces.
+    """
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def new(replacement: str="▁",
+            add_prefix_space: bool=True) -> PreTokenizer:
+        """ Instantiate a new Metaspace
+
+        Args:
+            replacement: str:
+                The replacement character. Must be exactly one character. By default we
+                use the `▁` (U+2581) meta symbol (Same as in SentencePiece).
+
+            add_prefix_space: boolean:
+                Whether to add a space to the first word if there isn't already one. This
+                lets us treat `hello` exactly like `say hello`.
+        """
+        pass

tokenizers/src/pre_tokenizers/metaspace.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+use crate::tokenizer::{Offsets, PreTokenizer, Result};
+
+pub struct Metaspace {
+    replacement: char,
+    add_prefix_space: bool,
+}
+
+impl Metaspace {
+    pub fn new(replacement: char, add_prefix_space: bool) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            replacement,
+            add_prefix_space,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Default for Metaspace {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self::new('▁', true)
+    }
+}
+
+impl PreTokenizer for Metaspace {
+    fn pre_tokenize(&self, s: &str) -> Result<Vec<(String, Offsets)>> {
+        let s = if self.add_prefix_space && !s.starts_with(' ') {
+            format!(" {}", s)
+        } else {
+            s.to_owned()
+        };
+
+        let mut words = vec![];
+        let mut word = Vec::with_capacity(1000);
+        let mut offset = 0;
+        s.chars().for_each(|c| {
+            if c.is_whitespace() {
+                if !word.is_empty() {
+                    let offsets = (offset - word.len(), offset);
+                    words.push((word.drain(0..).collect::<String>(), offsets));
+                }
+                word.push(self.replacement)
+            } else {
+                word.push(c);
+            }
+            offset += 1;
+        });
+        if !word.is_empty() {
+            let offsets = (offset - word.len(), offset);
+            words.push((word.drain(0..).collect::<String>(), offsets));
+        }
+
+        Ok(words)
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn basic() {
+        let pretok = Metaspace::default();
+        let res = pretok.pre_tokenize("Hey friend!").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            &res,
+            &[("▁Hey".into(), (0, 4)), ("▁friend!".into(), (4, 12)),]
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn multiple_spaces() {
+        let pretok = Metaspace::default();
+        let res = pretok.pre_tokenize("Hey   friend!").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            &res,
+            &[
+                ("▁Hey".into(), (0, 4)),
+                ("▁".into(), (4, 5)),
+                ("▁".into(), (5, 6)),
+                ("▁friend!".into(), (6, 14)),
+            ]
+        );
+    }
+}

tokenizers/src/pre_tokenizers/mod.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 pub mod bert;
 pub mod byte_level;
+pub mod metaspace;
 pub mod whitespace;