"""Tokenize -> concatenate -> fixed-length pack -> binary shard, the standard "packed sequences" strategy for LM pretraining (used by nanoGPT/GPT-NeoX-style data prep): every document's tokens are concatenated into one long stream (documents separated by EOS, not padding), then sliced into fixed-length blocks. This means every training example is fully utilized -- no padding waste the way per-document batching with CausalCollator would have for variable-length documents. Output format: raw token-id shards written as flat binary files (uint16 if vocab fits, else uint32), one small JSON sidecar per shard describing how to interpret the bytes. This is intentionally NOT a database or a fancy container format -- for pretraining-scale corpora, sequential memory-mapped reads of flat arrays is the fastest and simplest thing that works, and is what real large-scale pretraining pipelines actually do. """ from __future__ import annotations import json from collections.abc import Iterable, Iterator from dataclasses import dataclass from pathlib import Path import numpy as np def pack_token_stream( documents: Iterable[list[int]], seq_len: int, eos_id: int, drop_last_partial: bool = True, ) -> Iterator[list[int]]: """Concatenate tokenized documents (inserting eos_id between them) and yield fixed-length seq_len chunks as they become available -- streaming, so the full corpus is never held in memory at once. drop_last_partial=True (default): the final = seq_len: yield buffer[:seq_len] buffer = buffer[seq_len:] if buffer and not drop_last_partial: yield buffer # caller must handle the short final sequence @dataclass class ShardWriter: """Streams packed sequences to disk as fixed-size binary shards, so a corpus far larger than RAM can be written without ever materializing the whole thing in memory. Use as a context manager. """ output_dir: str | Path seq_len: int vocab_size: int sequences_per_shard: int = 50_000 shard_prefix: str = "shard" def __post_init__(self) -> None: self.output_dir = Path(self.output_dir) self.output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) self.dtype = np.uint16 if self.vocab_size <= 65_536 else np.uint32 self._shard_idx = 0 self._buffer: list[list[int]] = [] self._shard_paths: list[Path] = [] self._total_sequences = 0 def __enter__(self) -> "ShardWriter": return self def __exit__(self, *exc) -> None: self.close() def add(self, sequence: list[int]) -> None: if len(sequence) != self.seq_len: raise ValueError( f"sequence length {len(sequence)} != configured seq_len {self.seq_len}" ) self._buffer.append(sequence) self._total_sequences += 1 if len(self._buffer) >= self.sequences_per_shard: self._flush() def _flush(self) -> None: if not self._buffer: return arr = np.array(self._buffer, dtype=self.dtype) # (n_seqs, seq_len) path = self.output_dir / f"{self.shard_prefix}_{self._shard_idx:05d}.bin" arr.tofile(path) self._shard_paths.append(path) self._shard_idx += 1 self._buffer = [] def close(self) -> dict: self._flush() meta = { "seq_len": self.seq_len, "vocab_size": self.vocab_size, "dtype": np.dtype(self.dtype).name, "num_shards": len(self._shard_paths), "total_sequences": self._total_sequences, "shard_files": [p.name for p in self._shard_paths], } (self.output_dir / "meta.json").write_text(json.dumps(meta, indent=2)) return meta def build_shards_from_texts( texts: Iterable[str], tokenizer, output_dir: str | Path, context_length: int, sequences_per_shard: int = 50_000, ) -> dict: """End-to-end: raw cleaned document strings -> tokenized -> packed -> written to shards, ready for PackedDataset. `tokenizer` must implement `.encode(text)` returning a list of ints and have `.eos_id`/`.vocab_size` (matches brain.tokenizer.tokenizer.BrainTokenizer's interface). context_length is the model's actual context length. Each stored sequence is context_length + 1 tokens -- PackedDataset splits that into an input_ids/labels pair of exactly context_length each via a next-token shift ([:-1] / [1:]). Requesting seq_len=context_length directly here would silently hand the model context_length - 1 usable tokens per example after shifting, which is why this wrapper adds the 1 rather than leaving it to the caller to remember. """ def token_docs() -> Iterator[list[int]]: for text in texts: yield tokenizer.encode(text, add_special_tokens=False) stored_seq_len = context_length + 1 with ShardWriter(output_dir, stored_seq_len, tokenizer.vocab_size, sequences_per_shard) as writer: for seq in pack_token_stream(token_docs(), stored_seq_len, tokenizer.eos_id): writer.add(seq) return writer.close()