Reduce Tiktoken Creation Memory Allocation (#7202)

src/Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers/Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.csproj

@@ -32,17 +32,37 @@
       <Files ParameterType="Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITaskItem[]" Required="true" />
     </ParameterGroup>
     <Task>
+      <Using Namespace="System.Globalization" />
       <Using Namespace="System.IO" />
       <Using Namespace="System.IO.Compression" />
       <Code Type="Fragment" Language="cs">
 			<![CDATA[
-        foreach(var file in Files)
+        foreach (var file in Files)
         {
-            using var sourceStream = File.OpenRead(file.GetMetadata("FullPath"));
+            string fileName = file.GetMetadata("FullPath");
+            string fileContent = File.ReadAllText(fileName);
+            int capacity = 1;
+            int eolIndex = 0;
+            do
+            {
+                if ((eolIndex = fileContent.IndexOf('\n', eolIndex)) >= 0)
+                {
+                    eolIndex++;
+                    capacity++;
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    break;
+                }
+            } while (eolIndex < fileContent.Length);
+
+            using var sourceStream = File.OpenRead(fileName);
             using var reader = new StreamReader(sourceStream);
             using var destStream = new DeflateStream(File.Create(file.GetMetadata("Destination")), CompressionLevel.Optimal);
             using var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(destStream);
 
+            streamWriter.WriteLine($"Capacity: {capacity.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)}");
+
             string line;
             int destLineNumber = 0;
 

src/Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers/Model/TiktokenTokenizer.cs

@@ -156,21 +156,37 @@ namespace Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers
         internal static async ValueTask<(Dictionary<ReadOnlyMemory<byte>, int>, Dictionary<StringSpanOrdinalKey, (int Id, string Token)>, Dictionary<int, ReadOnlyMemory<byte>>)> LoadTiktokenBpeAsync(
             Stream vocabStream, bool useAsync, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
         {
-            var encoder = new Dictionary<ReadOnlyMemory<byte>, int>(ReadOnlyMemoryByteComparer.Instance);
-            var vocab = new Dictionary<StringSpanOrdinalKey, (int Id, string Token)>();
-            var decoder = new Dictionary<int, ReadOnlyMemory<byte>>();
+            Dictionary<ReadOnlyMemory<byte>, int> encoder;
+            Dictionary<StringSpanOrdinalKey, (int Id, string Token)> vocab;
+            Dictionary<int, ReadOnlyMemory<byte>> decoder;
 
             try
             {
                 // Don't dispose the reader as it will dispose the underlying stream vocabStream. The caller is responsible for disposing the stream.
                 StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(vocabStream);
-                string? line;
-                do
+                string? line = useAsync ? await Helpers.ReadLineAsync(reader, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false) : reader.ReadLine();
+
+                const string capacity = "Capacity: ";
+                int suggestedCapacity = 0; // default capacity
+                if (line is not null && line.StartsWith(capacity, StringComparison.Ordinal))
                 {
-                    line = useAsync ?
-                        await Helpers.ReadLineAsync(reader, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false) :
-                        reader.ReadLine();
-                } while (line is not null && line.Length == 0);
+                    if (!Helpers.TryParseInt32(line, capacity.Length, out suggestedCapacity))
+                    {
+                        throw new FormatException($"Invalid format in the BPE vocab file stream");
+                    }
+
+                    line = useAsync ? await Helpers.ReadLineAsync(reader, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false) : reader.ReadLine();
+                }
+
+                encoder = new Dictionary<ReadOnlyMemory<byte>, int>(suggestedCapacity, ReadOnlyMemoryByteComparer.Instance);
+                vocab = new Dictionary<StringSpanOrdinalKey, (int Id, string Token)>(suggestedCapacity);
+                decoder = new Dictionary<int, ReadOnlyMemory<byte>>(suggestedCapacity);
+
+                // skip empty lines
+                while (line is not null && line.Length == 0)
+                {
+                    line = useAsync ? await Helpers.ReadLineAsync(reader, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false) : reader.ReadLine();
+                }
 
                 if (line is not null && line.IndexOf(' ') < 0)
                 {

test/Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.Tests/TitokenTests.cs

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ using System.Linq;
 using System.Reflection;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Text.Json;
-using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using Xunit;
 
@@ -501,9 +500,22 @@ namespace Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.Tests
         {
             RemoteExecutor.Invoke(static (name) =>
             {
+#if NET8_0_OR_GREATER || NETFRAMEWORK_4_8_OR_GREATER
+                long allocation = GC.GetAllocatedBytesForCurrentThread();
+#endif // NET8_0_OR_GREATER || NETFRAMEWORK_4_8_OR_GREATER
+
                 Tokenizer tokenizer = TiktokenTokenizer.CreateForModel(name);
                 Assert.True(tokenizer is TiktokenTokenizer);
                 Assert.NotNull(tokenizer.PreTokenizer);
+
+#if NET8_0_OR_GREATER || NETFRAMEWORK_4_8_OR_GREATER
+                int entriesCount = GetEncoder((tokenizer as TiktokenTokenizer)!)!.Count;
+                allocation = GC.GetAllocatedBytesForCurrentThread() - allocation;
+
+                // entriesCount * 260 is average memory allocation during the initialization for the the models we carry data files for.
+                // this allocation is not the size of the cache but it include all temporary allocations during the initialization.
+                Assert.True((entriesCount * 260) > allocation, $"Memory allocation of {entriesCount} entries for {name}: {allocation} bytes");
+#endif // NET8_0_OR_GREATER || NETFRAMEWORK_4_8_OR_GREATER
             }, modelName).Dispose();
         }