diff --git a/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs b/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
index ebc68dfb..b0836ca3 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
@@ -847,35 +847,23 @@ where
 
     /// Decode the given ids, back to a String
     pub fn decode(&self, ids: &[u32], skip_special_tokens: bool) -> Result<String> {
-        let mut result = String::with_capacity(ids.len());
-        let mut chunks = Vec::with_capacity(ids.len());
-        for id in ids {
-            if let Some(added_token) = self.added_vocabulary.simple_id_to_token(*id) {
-                if skip_special_tokens && self.added_vocabulary.is_special_token(&added_token) {
-                    continue;
-                }
-                let text_chunk = if let Some(decoder) = &self.decoder {
-                    decoder.decode(chunks.clone())?
-                } else {
-                    chunks.join(" ")
-                };
-                result.push_str(&text_chunk);
-                if !result.is_empty() && self.decoder.is_none() {
-                    result.push(' ');
-                }
-                result.push_str(&added_token);
-                chunks.clear();
-            } else if let Some(token) = self.model.id_to_token(*id) {
-                chunks.push(token);
-            }
-        }
-        let text_chunk = if let Some(decoder) = &self.decoder {
-            decoder.decode(chunks.clone())?
+        let tokens = ids
+            .iter()
+            .filter_map(|id| {
+                self.added_vocabulary
+                    .simple_id_to_token(*id)
+                    .or_else(|| self.model.id_to_token(*id))
+                    .filter(|token| {
+                        !skip_special_tokens || !self.added_vocabulary.is_special_token(token)
+                    })
+            })
+            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+        if let Some(decoder) = &self.decoder {
+            decoder.decode(tokens)
         } else {
-            chunks.join(" ")
-        };
-        result.push_str(&text_chunk);
-        Ok(result)
+            Ok(tokens.join(" "))
+        }
     }
 }