Chess Challenge submission by raphael-mathiot

config.json

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   "architectures": [
     "ChessForCausalLM"
   ],
+  "auto_map": {
+    "AutoConfig": "model.ChessConfig",
+    "AutoModelForCausalLM": "model.ChessForCausalLM"
+  },
   "bos_token_id": 1,
   "dropout": 0.1,
   "dtype": "float32",

model.py

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+"""
+Chess Transformer Model for the Chess Challenge.
+
+This module provides a simple GPT-style transformer architecture
+designed to fit within the 1M parameter constraint.
+
+Key components:
+- ChessConfig: Configuration class for model hyperparameters
+- ChessForCausalLM: The main model class for next-move prediction
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import math
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Optional, Tuple, Union
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+from transformers import PretrainedConfig, PreTrainedModel
+from transformers.modeling_outputs import CausalLMOutputWithPast
+
+
+class ChessConfig(PretrainedConfig):
+    """
+    Configuration class for the Chess Transformer model.
+    
+    This configuration is designed for a ~1M parameter model.
+    Students can adjust these values to explore different architectures.
+    
+    Parameter budget breakdown (with default values):
+    - Embeddings (vocab): 1200 x 128 = 153,600
+    - Position Embeddings: 256 x 128 = 32,768
+    - Transformer Layers: 6 x ~120,000 = ~720,000
+    - LM Head (with weight tying): 0 (shared with embeddings)
+    - Total: ~906,000 parameters
+    
+    Attributes:
+        vocab_size: Size of the vocabulary (number of unique moves).
+        n_embd: Embedding dimension (d_model).
+        n_layer: Number of transformer layers.
+        n_head: Number of attention heads.
+        n_ctx: Maximum sequence length (context window).
+        n_inner: Feed-forward inner dimension (default: 3 * n_embd).
+        dropout: Dropout probability.
+        layer_norm_epsilon: Epsilon for layer normalization.
+        tie_weights: Whether to tie embedding and output weights.
+    """
+    
+    model_type = "chess_transformer"
+    
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        vocab_size: int = 1200,
+        n_embd: int = 128,
+        n_layer: int = 6,
+        n_head: int = 4,
+        n_ctx: int = 256,
+        n_inner: Optional[int] = None,
+        dropout: float = 0.1,
+        layer_norm_epsilon: float = 1e-5,
+        tie_weights: bool = True,
+        pad_token_id: int = 0,
+        bos_token_id: int = 1,
+        eos_token_id: int = 2,
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
+        super().__init__(
+            pad_token_id=pad_token_id,
+            bos_token_id=bos_token_id,
+            eos_token_id=eos_token_id,
+            **kwargs,
+        )
+        
+        self.vocab_size = vocab_size
+        self.n_embd = n_embd
+        self.n_layer = n_layer
+        self.n_head = n_head
+        self.n_ctx = n_ctx
+        self.n_inner = n_inner if n_inner is not None else 3 * n_embd  # Reduced from 4x to 3x
+        self.dropout = dropout
+        self.layer_norm_epsilon = layer_norm_epsilon
+        self.tie_weights = tie_weights
+        # Inform HF base class about tying behavior
+        self.tie_word_embeddings = bool(tie_weights)
+
+
+class MultiHeadAttention(nn.Module):
+    """
+    Multi-head self-attention module.
+    
+    This is a standard scaled dot-product attention implementation
+    with causal masking for autoregressive generation.
+    """
+    
+    def __init__(self, config: ChessConfig):
+        super().__init__()
+        
+        assert config.n_embd % config.n_head == 0, \
+            f"n_embd ({config.n_embd}) must be divisible by n_head ({config.n_head})"
+        
+        self.n_head = config.n_head
+        self.n_embd = config.n_embd
+        self.head_dim = config.n_embd // config.n_head
+        
+        # Combined QKV projection for efficiency
+        self.c_attn = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, 3 * config.n_embd)
+        self.c_proj = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, config.n_embd)
+        
+        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(config.dropout)
+        
+        # Causal mask (will be created on first forward pass)
+        self.register_buffer(
+            "bias",
+            torch.tril(torch.ones(config.n_ctx, config.n_ctx)).view(
+                1, 1, config.n_ctx, config.n_ctx
+            ),
+            persistent=False,
+        )
+    
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        x: torch.Tensor,
+        attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        batch_size, seq_len, _ = x.size()
+        
+        # Compute Q, K, V
+        qkv = self.c_attn(x)
+        q, k, v = qkv.split(self.n_embd, dim=2)
+        
+        # Reshape for multi-head attention
+        q = q.view(batch_size, seq_len, self.n_head, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2)
+        k = k.view(batch_size, seq_len, self.n_head, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2)
+        v = v.view(batch_size, seq_len, self.n_head, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2)
+        
+        # Scaled dot-product attention
+        attn_weights = torch.matmul(q, k.transpose(-2, -1)) / math.sqrt(self.head_dim)
+        
+        # Apply causal mask
+        causal_mask = self.bias[:, :, :seq_len, :seq_len]
+        attn_weights = attn_weights.masked_fill(causal_mask == 0, float("-inf"))
+        
+        # Apply attention mask (for padding)
+        if attention_mask is not None:
+            # attention_mask shape: (batch_size, seq_len) -> (batch_size, 1, 1, seq_len)
+            attention_mask = attention_mask.unsqueeze(1).unsqueeze(2)
+            attn_weights = attn_weights.masked_fill(attention_mask == 0, float("-inf"))
+        
+        attn_weights = F.softmax(attn_weights, dim=-1)
+        attn_weights = self.dropout(attn_weights)
+        
+        # Apply attention to values
+        attn_output = torch.matmul(attn_weights, v)
+        
+        # Reshape back
+        attn_output = attn_output.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().view(
+            batch_size, seq_len, self.n_embd
+        )
+        
+        # Output projection
+        attn_output = self.c_proj(attn_output)
+        
+        return attn_output
+
+
+class FeedForward(nn.Module):
+    """
+    Feed-forward network (MLP) module.
+    
+    Standard two-layer MLP with GELU activation.
+    """
+    
+    def __init__(self, config: ChessConfig):
+        super().__init__()
+        
+        self.c_fc = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, config.n_inner)
+        self.c_proj = nn.Linear(config.n_inner, config.n_embd)
+        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(config.dropout)
+    
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        x = self.c_fc(x)
+        x = F.gelu(x)
+        x = self.c_proj(x)
+        x = self.dropout(x)
+        return x
+
+
+class TransformerBlock(nn.Module):
+    """
+    A single transformer block with attention and feed-forward layers.
+    
+    Uses pre-normalization (LayerNorm before attention/FFN) for better
+    training stability.
+    """
+    
+    def __init__(self, config: ChessConfig):
+        super().__init__()
+        
+        self.ln_1 = nn.LayerNorm(config.n_embd, eps=config.layer_norm_epsilon)
+        self.attn = MultiHeadAttention(config)
+        self.ln_2 = nn.LayerNorm(config.n_embd, eps=config.layer_norm_epsilon)
+        self.mlp = FeedForward(config)
+    
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        x: torch.Tensor,
+        attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        # Pre-norm attention
+        x = x + self.attn(self.ln_1(x), attention_mask=attention_mask)
+        # Pre-norm FFN
+        x = x + self.mlp(self.ln_2(x))
+        return x
+
+
+class ChessForCausalLM(PreTrainedModel):
+    """
+    Chess Transformer for Causal Language Modeling (next-move prediction).
+    
+    This model is designed to predict the next chess move given a sequence
+    of previous moves. It uses a GPT-style architecture with:
+    - Token embeddings for chess moves
+    - Learned positional embeddings
+    - Stacked transformer blocks
+    - Linear head for next-token prediction
+    
+    The model supports weight tying between the embedding layer and the
+    output projection to save parameters.
+    
+    Example:
+        >>> config = ChessConfig(vocab_size=1200, n_embd=128, n_layer=6)
+        >>> model = ChessForCausalLM(config)
+        >>> inputs = {"input_ids": torch.tensor([[1, 42, 87]])}
+        >>> outputs = model(**inputs)
+        >>> next_move_logits = outputs.logits[:, -1, :]
+    """
+    
+    config_class = ChessConfig
+    base_model_prefix = "transformer"
+    supports_gradient_checkpointing = True
+    # Suppress missing-key warning for tied lm_head when loading
+    keys_to_ignore_on_load_missing = ["lm_head.weight"]
+    
+    def __init__(self, config: ChessConfig):
+        super().__init__(config)
+        
+        # Token and position embeddings
+        self.wte = nn.Embedding(config.vocab_size, config.n_embd)
+        self.wpe = nn.Embedding(config.n_ctx, config.n_embd)
+        
+        self.drop = nn.Dropout(config.dropout)
+        
+        # Transformer blocks
+        self.h = nn.ModuleList([
+            TransformerBlock(config) for _ in range(config.n_layer)
+        ])
+        
+        # Final layer norm
+        self.ln_f = nn.LayerNorm(config.n_embd, eps=config.layer_norm_epsilon)
+        
+        # Output head
+        self.lm_head = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, config.vocab_size, bias=False)
+        
+        # Declare tied weights for proper serialization
+        if config.tie_weights:
+            self._tied_weights_keys = ["lm_head.weight"]
+        
+        # Initialize weights
+        self.post_init()
+        
+        # Tie weights if configured
+        if config.tie_weights:
+            self.tie_weights()
+
+    def get_input_embeddings(self) -> nn.Module:
+        return self.wte
+
+    def set_input_embeddings(self, new_embeddings: nn.Module):
+        self.wte = new_embeddings
+        if getattr(self.config, "tie_weights", False):
+            self.tie_weights()
+
+    def get_output_embeddings(self) -> nn.Module:
+        return self.lm_head
+
+    def set_output_embeddings(self, new_embeddings: nn.Module):
+        self.lm_head = new_embeddings
+
+    def tie_weights(self):
+        # Use HF helper to tie or clone depending on config
+        if getattr(self.config, "tie_weights", False) or getattr(self.config, "tie_word_embeddings", False):
+            self._tie_or_clone_weights(self.lm_head, self.wte)
+    
+    def _init_weights(self, module: nn.Module):
+        """Initialize weights following GPT-2 style."""
+        if isinstance(module, nn.Linear):
+            torch.nn.init.normal_(module.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.02)
+            if module.bias is not None:
+                torch.nn.init.zeros_(module.bias)
+        elif isinstance(module, nn.Embedding):
+            torch.nn.init.normal_(module.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.02)
+        elif isinstance(module, nn.LayerNorm):
+            torch.nn.init.ones_(module.weight)
+            torch.nn.init.zeros_(module.bias)
+    
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        input_ids: torch.LongTensor,
+        attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
+        labels: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
+        return_dict: Optional[bool] = None,
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> Union[Tuple, CausalLMOutputWithPast]:
+        """
+        Forward pass of the model.
+        
+        Args:
+            input_ids: Token IDs of shape (batch_size, seq_len).
+            attention_mask: Attention mask of shape (batch_size, seq_len).
+            position_ids: Position IDs of shape (batch_size, seq_len).
+            labels: Labels for language modeling loss.
+            return_dict: Whether to return a ModelOutput object.
+        
+        Returns:
+            CausalLMOutputWithPast containing loss (if labels provided) and logits.
+        """
+        return_dict = return_dict if return_dict is not None else self.config.use_return_dict
+        
+        batch_size, seq_len = input_ids.size()
+        device = input_ids.device
+        
+        # Create position IDs if not provided
+        if position_ids is None:
+            position_ids = torch.arange(seq_len, device=device).unsqueeze(0).expand(batch_size, -1)
+        
+        # Get embeddings
+        token_embeds = self.wte(input_ids)
+        position_embeds = self.wpe(position_ids)
+        hidden_states = self.drop(token_embeds + position_embeds)
+        
+        # Pass through transformer blocks
+        for block in self.h:
+            hidden_states = block(hidden_states, attention_mask=attention_mask)
+        
+        # Final layer norm
+        hidden_states = self.ln_f(hidden_states)
+        
+        # Get logits
+        logits = self.lm_head(hidden_states)
+        
+        # Compute loss if labels are provided
+        loss = None
+
+        if labels is not None:
+            # Shift logits and labels for next-token prediction
+            shift_logits = logits[..., :-1, :].contiguous()
+            shift_labels = labels[..., 1:].contiguous()
+
+            #print(shift_labels[0, 32].item(), torch.argmax(shift_logits[0, 33]).item())
+            
+            # Flatten for cross-entropy
+            #loss_fct = nn.CrossEntropyLoss(ignore_index=self.config.pad_token_id)
+            loss_fct = nn.CrossEntropyLoss(ignore_index=-100)
+            loss = loss_fct(
+                shift_logits.view(-1, shift_logits.size(-1)),
+                shift_labels.view(-1),
+            )
+        
+        if not return_dict:
+            output = (logits,)
+            return ((loss,) + output) if loss is not None else output
+        
+        return CausalLMOutputWithPast(
+            loss=loss,
+            logits=logits,
+            past_key_values=None,
+            hidden_states=None,
+            attentions=None,
+        )
+    
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def generate_move(
+        self,
+        input_ids: torch.LongTensor,
+        temperature: float = 1.0,
+        top_k: Optional[int] = None,
+        top_p: Optional[float] = None,
+    ) -> int:
+        """
+        Generate the next move given a sequence of moves.
+        
+        Args:
+            input_ids: Token IDs of shape (1, seq_len).
+            temperature: Sampling temperature (1.0 = no change).
+            top_k: If set, only sample from top k tokens.
+            top_p: If set, use nucleus sampling with this threshold.
+        
+        Returns:
+            The token ID of the predicted next move.
+        """
+        self.eval()
+        
+        # Get logits for the last position
+        outputs = self(input_ids)
+        logits = outputs.logits[:, -1, :] / temperature
+        
+        # Apply top-k filtering
+        if top_k is not None:
+            indices_to_remove = logits < torch.topk(logits, top_k)[0][..., -1, None]
+            logits[indices_to_remove] = float("-inf")
+        
+        # Apply top-p (nucleus) filtering
+        if top_p is not None:
+            sorted_logits, sorted_indices = torch.sort(logits, descending=True)
+            cumulative_probs = torch.cumsum(F.softmax(sorted_logits, dim=-1), dim=-1)
+            
+            # Remove tokens with cumulative probability above the threshold
+            sorted_indices_to_remove = cumulative_probs > top_p
+            sorted_indices_to_remove[..., 1:] = sorted_indices_to_remove[..., :-1].clone()
+            sorted_indices_to_remove[..., 0] = 0
+            
+            indices_to_remove = sorted_indices_to_remove.scatter(
+                dim=-1, index=sorted_indices, src=sorted_indices_to_remove
+            )
+            logits[indices_to_remove] = float("-inf")
+        
+        # Sample from the distribution
+        probs = F.softmax(logits, dim=-1)
+        next_token = torch.multinomial(probs, num_samples=1)
+        
+        return next_token.item()
+
+
+# Register the model with Auto classes for easy loading
+from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoModelForCausalLM
+
+AutoConfig.register("chess_transformer", ChessConfig)
+AutoModelForCausalLM.register(ChessConfig, ChessForCausalLM)

tokenizer.py

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+"""
+Custom Chess Tokenizer for the Chess Challenge.
+
+This tokenizer treats each move as a single token using the extended UCI notation
+from the Lichess dataset (e.g., WPe2e4, BNg8f6).
+
+The dataset format uses:
+- W/B prefix for White/Black
+- Piece letter: P=Pawn, N=Knight, B=Bishop, R=Rook, Q=Queen, K=King
+- Source and destination squares (e.g., e2e4)
+- Special suffixes: (x)=capture, (+)=check, (+*)=checkmate, (o)/(O)=castling
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional
+import re
+
+from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizer
+
+
+class ChessTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
+    """
+    A custom tokenizer for chess moves using extended UCI notation.
+    
+    This tokenizer splits moves into semantic components (Pieces, Squares, Metadata).
+    Example: "WPe2e4" -> ["WP", "e2", "e4"]
+    """
+    
+    model_input_names = ["input_ids", "attention_mask"]
+    vocab_files_names = {"vocab_file": "vocab.json"}
+    
+    # Special tokens
+    PAD_TOKEN = "[PAD]"
+    BOS_TOKEN = "[BOS]"
+    EOS_TOKEN = "[EOS]"
+    UNK_TOKEN = "[UNK]"
+    
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        vocab_file: Optional[str] = None,
+        vocab: Optional[Dict[str, int]] = None,
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
+        """
+        Initialize the chess tokenizer.
+        """
+        # Initialize special tokens
+        self._pad_token = self.PAD_TOKEN
+        self._bos_token = self.BOS_TOKEN
+        self._eos_token = self.EOS_TOKEN
+        self._unk_token = self.UNK_TOKEN
+
+        # Clean kwargs
+        kwargs.pop("pad_token", None)
+        kwargs.pop("bos_token", None)
+        kwargs.pop("eos_token", None)
+        kwargs.pop("unk_token", None)
+        
+        # Regex for splitting moves into:
+        # 1. Castling: (O), (o)
+        # 2. Metadata: (x), (+*), (+)
+        # 3. Pieces: WP, BR, etc.
+        # 4. Squares: a1, h8, etc.
+        self.token_pattern = re.compile(
+            r'\(O\)|\(o\)|'        # Castling
+            r'\(x\)|\(\+\*\)|\(\+\)|'  # Metadata (Capture, Mate, Check)
+            r'[WB][PRNBQK]|'       # Pieces (Color + Type)
+            r'[a-h][1-8]'          # Squares
+        )
+
+        # Load or create vocabulary
+        if vocab is not None:
+            self._vocab = vocab
+        elif vocab_file is not None and os.path.exists(vocab_file):
+            with open(vocab_file, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+                self._vocab = json.load(f)
+        else:
+            # In this version, the default vocab is the FULL vocab 
+            # because chess rules are static.
+            self._vocab = self._create_default_vocab()
+        
+        # Create reverse mapping
+        self._ids_to_tokens = {v: k for k, v in self._vocab.items()}
+        
+        super().__init__(
+            pad_token=self._pad_token,
+            bos_token=self._bos_token,
+            eos_token=self._eos_token,
+            unk_token=self._unk_token,
+            **kwargs,
+        )
+    
+    def _create_default_vocab(self) -> Dict[str, int]:
+        """
+        Create the full static vocabulary for Chess.
+        Since the 'rules' of the tokens are known (squares a1-h8, pieces),
+        we generate the full map here instead of learning it.
+        """
+        # 1. Special Tokens
+        special_tokens = [self.PAD_TOKEN, self.BOS_TOKEN, self.EOS_TOKEN, self.UNK_TOKEN]
+        vocab = {token: idx for idx, token in enumerate(special_tokens)}
+        idx = len(vocab)
+
+        # 2. Pieces (White/Black + Pawn/Rook/Knight/Bishop/Queen/King)
+        colors = ['W', 'B']
+        pieces = ['P', 'R', 'N', 'B', 'Q', 'K']
+        for c in colors:
+            for p in pieces:
+                token = f"{c}{p}"
+                if token not in vocab:
+                    vocab[token] = idx
+                    idx += 1
+
+        # 3. Squares (a1 to h8)
+        files = 'abcdefgh'
+        ranks = '12345678'
+        for f in files:
+            for r in ranks:
+                token = f"{f}{r}"
+                if token not in vocab:
+                    vocab[token] = idx
+                    idx += 1
+
+        # 4. Special Move Suffixes
+        # Note: Order is handled by regex, but we just need them in vocab here
+        specials = ['(O)', '(o)', '(x)', '(+)', '(+*)']
+        for s in specials:
+            if s not in vocab:
+                vocab[s] = idx
+                idx += 1
+                
+        return vocab
+    
+    @classmethod
+    def build_vocab_from_iterator(
+        cls,
+        iterator: Iterator,
+        min_frequency: int = 1,
+    ) -> "ChessTokenizer":
+        """
+        API Compatibility Method.
+        
+        Since this tokenizer uses a static vocabulary based on Chess rules,
+        scanning the iterator is not necessary. We simply consume the iterator
+        (optional) and return the standard tokenizer.
+        """
+        # We explicitly ignore the iterator data because our vocab 
+        # is pre-defined by the rules of the game.
+        return cls()
+    
+    @classmethod
+    def build_vocab_from_dataset(
+        cls,
+        dataset_name: str = "dlouapre/lichess_2025-01_1M",
+        split: str = "train",
+        column: str = "text",
+        min_frequency: int = 500,
+        max_samples: Optional[int] = 100000,
+    ) -> "ChessTokenizer":
+        """
+        API Compatibility Method.
+        
+        Returns a tokenizer with the standard chess vocabulary.
+        Does not download the dataset as the vocabulary is static.
+        """
+        return cls()
+    
+    @property
+    def vocab_size(self) -> int:
+        """Return the size of the vocabulary."""
+        return len(self._vocab)
+    
+    def get_vocab(self) -> Dict[str, int]:
+        """Return the vocabulary as a dictionary."""
+        return dict(self._vocab)
+    
+    def _tokenize(self, text: str) -> List[str]:
+        """
+        Tokenize a string of moves into semantic components using Regex.
+        
+        Args:
+            text: A string of space-separated moves (e.g., "WPe2e4 BPe7e5")
+        
+        Returns:
+            List of components (e.g., ["WP", "e2", "e4", "BP", "e7", "e5"])
+        """
+        # findall will ignore spaces and return only the matching components
+        return self.token_pattern.findall(text)
+    
+    def _convert_token_to_id(self, token: str) -> int:
+        """Convert a token to its ID."""
+        return self._vocab.get(token, self._vocab.get(self.UNK_TOKEN))
+    
+    def _convert_id_to_token(self, index: int) -> str:
+        """Convert an ID to its token."""
+        return self._ids_to_tokens.get(index, self.UNK_TOKEN)
+    
+    def _is_start_of_move(self, token: str) -> bool:
+            """
+            Helper to determine if a token represents the start of a new move.
+            Moves start with a Piece (e.g., 'WP') or Castling (e.g., '(O)').
+            """
+            # 1. Check for Castling (Short or Long)
+            if token in ['(O)', '(o)']:
+                return True
+                
+            # 2. Check for Pieces (Length 2, starts with W/B, ends with Piece type)
+            # We check specific characters to avoid confusion with squares or suffixes
+            if len(token) == 2 and token[0] in 'WB' and token[1] in 'PRNBQK':
+                return True
+                
+            return False
+
+    def convert_tokens_to_string(self, tokens: List[str]) -> str:
+        """
+        Converts a list of tokens back to a string, respecting Chess notation rules.
+        
+        Logic:
+        - Spaces are inserted BEFORE a token ONLY if that token marks the start of a new move.
+        - Squares (e2, e4) and Suffixes (x, +) are concatenated to the previous token.
+        """
+        output = []
+        special_tokens = {self.PAD_TOKEN, self.BOS_TOKEN, self.EOS_TOKEN, self.UNK_TOKEN}
+        
+        for i, token in enumerate(tokens):
+            # 1. Handle Special Tokens (keep them, surround with spaces if needed)
+            if token in special_tokens:
+                if output and output[-1] != " ":
+                    output.append(" ")
+                output.append(token)
+                
+            # 2. Handle Start of New Move (Insert space before)
+            elif self._is_start_of_move(token):
+                # Add a space if we aren't at the very start and the previous char isn't already a space
+                if output and output[-1] != " ":
+                    output.append(" ")
+                output.append(token)
+                
+            # 3. Handle Continuations (Squares 'e2', Suffixes '(x)') -> Concatenate
+            else:
+                output.append(token)
+        
+        return "".join(output).strip()
+    
+    def save_vocabulary(
+        self,
+        save_directory: str,
+        filename_prefix: Optional[str] = None,
+    ) -> tuple:
+        """
+        Save the vocabulary to a JSON file.
+        
+        Args:
+            save_directory: Directory to save the vocabulary.
+            filename_prefix: Optional prefix for the filename.
+        
+        Returns:
+            Tuple containing the path to the saved vocabulary file.
+        """
+        if not os.path.isdir(save_directory):
+            os.makedirs(save_directory, exist_ok=True)
+        
+        vocab_file = os.path.join(
+            save_directory,
+            (filename_prefix + "-" if filename_prefix else "") + "vocab.json",
+        )
+        
+        with open(vocab_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            json.dump(self._vocab, f, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
+        
+        return (vocab_file,)
+
+
+def count_vocab_from_dataset(
+    dataset_name: str = "dlouapre/lichess_2025-01_1M",
+    split: str = "train",
+    column: str = "text",
+    max_samples: Optional[int] = 10000,
+) -> Dict[str, int]:
+    """
+    Count token frequencies in a dataset (useful for vocabulary analysis).
+    
+    Args:
+        dataset_name: Name of the dataset on Hugging Face Hub.
+        split: Dataset split to use.
+        column: Column containing the game strings.
+        max_samples: Maximum number of samples to process.
+    
+    Returns:
+        Dictionary mapping tokens to their frequencies.
+    """
+    from collections import Counter
+    from datasets import load_dataset
+    
+    dataset = load_dataset(dataset_name, split=split)
+    
+    if max_samples is not None:
+        dataset = dataset.select(range(min(max_samples, len(dataset))))
+    
+    token_counts = Counter()
+    
+    for example in dataset:
+        moves = example[column].strip().split()
+        token_counts.update(moves)
+    
+    return dict(token_counts)