[Tokenizer] Add tokenizer mode

vllm/config.py

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ class ModelConfig:
     Args:
         model: Name or path of the huggingface model to use.
         tokenizer: Name or path of the huggingface tokenizer to use.
+        tokenizer_mode: Tokenizer mode. "auto" will use the fast tokenizer if
+            available, and "slow" will always use the slow tokenizer.
         download_dir: Directory to download and load the weights, default to the
             default cache directory of huggingface.
         use_np_weights: Save a numpy copy of model weights for faster loading.
@@ -31,7 +33,8 @@ class ModelConfig:
     def __init__(
         self,
         model: str,
-        tokenizer: Optional[str],
+        tokenizer: str,
+        tokenizer_mode: str,
         download_dir: Optional[str],
         use_np_weights: bool,
         use_dummy_weights: bool,
@@ -40,13 +43,23 @@ def __init__(
     ) -> None:
         self.model = model
         self.tokenizer = tokenizer
+        self.tokenizer_mode = tokenizer_mode
         self.download_dir = download_dir
         self.use_np_weights = use_np_weights
         self.use_dummy_weights = use_dummy_weights
         self.seed = seed
 
         self.hf_config: PretrainedConfig = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model)
         self.dtype = _get_and_verify_dtype(self.hf_config, dtype)
+        self._verify_tokenizer_mode()
+
+    def _verify_tokenizer_mode(self) -> None:
+        tokenizer_mode = self.tokenizer_mode.lower()
+        if tokenizer_mode not in ["auto", "slow"]:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Unknown tokenizer mode: {self.tokenizer_mode}. Must be "
+                "either 'auto' or 'slow'.")
+        self.tokenizer_mode = tokenizer_mode
 
     def verify_with_parallel_config(
         self,

vllm/engine/arg_utils.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ class EngineArgs:
     """Arguments for vLLM engine."""
     model: str
     tokenizer: Optional[str] = None
+    tokenizer_mode: str = "auto"
     download_dir: Optional[str] = None
     use_np_weights: bool = False
     use_dummy_weights: bool = False
@@ -42,6 +43,12 @@ def add_cli_args(
                             help='name or path of the huggingface model to use')
         parser.add_argument('--tokenizer', type=str, default=EngineArgs.tokenizer,
                             help='name or path of the huggingface tokenizer to use')
+        parser.add_argument('--tokenizer-mode', type=str,
+                            default=EngineArgs.tokenizer_mode,
+                            choices=['auto', 'slow'],
+                            help='tokenizer mode. "auto" will use the fast '
+                                 'tokenizer if available, and "slow" will '
+                                 'always use the slow tokenizer.')
         parser.add_argument('--download-dir', type=str,
                             default=EngineArgs.download_dir,
                             help='directory to download and load the weights, '
@@ -109,8 +116,8 @@ def create_engine_configs(
     ) -> Tuple[ModelConfig, CacheConfig, ParallelConfig, SchedulerConfig]:
         # Initialize the configs.
         model_config = ModelConfig(
-            self.model, self.tokenizer, self.download_dir, self.use_np_weights,
-            self.use_dummy_weights, self.dtype, self.seed)
+            self.model, self.tokenizer, self.tokenizer_mode, self.download_dir,
+            self.use_np_weights, self.use_dummy_weights, self.dtype, self.seed)
         cache_config = CacheConfig(self.block_size, self.gpu_memory_utilization,
                                    self.swap_space)
         parallel_config = ParallelConfig(self.pipeline_parallel_size,

vllm/engine/llm_engine.py

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ def __init__(
             "Initializing an LLM engine with config: "
             f"model={model_config.model!r}, "
             f"tokenizer={model_config.tokenizer!r}, "
+            f"tokenizer_mode={model_config.tokenizer_mode}, "
             f"dtype={model_config.dtype}, "
             f"use_dummy_weights={model_config.use_dummy_weights}, "
             f"download_dir={model_config.download_dir!r}, "
@@ -77,7 +78,8 @@ def __init__(
         self.log_stats = log_stats
         self._verify_args()
 
-        self.tokenizer = get_tokenizer(model_config.tokenizer)
+        self.tokenizer = get_tokenizer(model_config.tokenizer,
+                                       model_config.tokenizer_mode)
         self.seq_counter = Counter()
 
         # Create the parallel GPU workers.

vllm/entrypoints/llm.py

@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ class LLM:
     Args:
         model: The name or path of a HuggingFace Transformers model.
         tokenizer: The name or path of a HuggingFace Transformers tokenizer.
+        tokenizer_mode: The tokenizer mode. "auto" will use the fast tokenizer
+            if available, and "slow" will always use the slow tokenizer.
         tensor_parallel_size: The number of GPUs to use for distributed
             execution with tensor parallelism.
         dtype: The data type for the model weights and activations. Currently,
@@ -40,6 +42,7 @@ def __init__(
         self,
         model: str,
         tokenizer: Optional[str] = None,
+        tokenizer_mode: str = "auto",
         tensor_parallel_size: int = 1,
         dtype: str = "auto",
         seed: int = 0,
@@ -50,6 +53,7 @@ def __init__(
         engine_args = EngineArgs(
             model=model,
             tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            tokenizer_mode=tokenizer_mode,
             tensor_parallel_size=tensor_parallel_size,
             dtype=dtype,
             seed=seed,

vllm/entrypoints/openai/api_server.py

@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ async def fake_stream_generator() -> AsyncGenerator[str, None]:
     engine = AsyncLLMEngine.from_engine_args(engine_args)
 
     # A separate tokenizer to map token IDs to strings.
-    tokenizer = get_tokenizer(args.model)
+    tokenizer = get_tokenizer(engine_args.tokenizer, engine_args.tokenizer_mode)
 
     uvicorn.run(app, host=args.host, port=args.port, log_level="info",
                 timeout_keep_alive=TIMEOUT_KEEP_ALIVE)

vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizer.py

@@ -13,10 +13,17 @@
 
 def get_tokenizer(
     tokenizer_name: str,
+    tokenizer_mode: str = "auto",
     *args,
     **kwargs,
 ) -> Union[PreTrainedTokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerFast]:
     """Gets a tokenizer for the given model name via Huggingface."""
+    if tokenizer_mode == "slow":
+        if kwargs.get("use_fast", False):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Cannot use the fast tokenizer in slow tokenizer mode.")
+        kwargs["use_fast"] = False
+
     if "llama" in tokenizer_name.lower() and kwargs.get("use_fast", True):
         logger.info(
             "For some LLaMA-based models, initializing the fast tokenizer may "