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"""
Downloads and tokenizes the TinyStories dataset.
- The download is from HuggingFace datasets.
- The tokenization is using either GPT-2 or LLaMA 3 tokenizer.
The output is written to a newly created tinystories/ folder.
The script prints:
For GPT-2:
Number of shards: 50
Tokenizing val split...
writing 19,043,638 tokens to tinystories/TinyStories_val.bin
Tokenizing train split...
writing 925,653,391 tokens to tinystories/TinyStories_train.bin
For LLaMA 3:
Number of shards: 50
Tokenizing val split...
writing 18,660,516 tokens to tinystories/TinyStories_val.bin
Tokenizing train split...
writing 907,021,844 tokens to tinystories/TinyStories_train.bin
And runs in few minutes two depending on your internet
connection and computer. The .bin files are raw byte
streams of uint16 (gpt-2) or uint32 (llama) numbers indicating the token ids.
"""
import argparse
import os
import glob
import json
import random
from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor, as_completed
import tiktoken
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
from data_common import download_file, write_datafile
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
DATA_CACHE_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "tinystories")
def download():
"""Downloads the TinyStories dataset to DATA_CACHE_DIR"""
os.makedirs(DATA_CACHE_DIR, exist_ok=True)
# download the TinyStories dataset, unless it's already downloaded
data_url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/roneneldan/TinyStories/resolve/main/TinyStories_all_data.tar.gz"
data_filename = os.path.join(DATA_CACHE_DIR, "TinyStories_all_data.tar.gz")
if not os.path.exists(data_filename):
print(f"Downloading {data_url} to {data_filename}...")
download_file(data_url, data_filename)
else:
print(f"{data_filename} already exists, skipping download...")
# unpack the tar.gz file into all the data shards (json files)
data_dir = os.path.join(DATA_CACHE_DIR, "TinyStories_all_data")
if not os.path.exists(data_dir):
os.makedirs(data_dir, exist_ok=True)
print(f"Unpacking {data_filename}...")
os.system(f"tar -xzf {data_filename} -C {data_dir}")
else:
print(f"{data_dir} already exists, skipping unpacking...")
# print a single example just for debugging and such
shard_filenames = sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(data_dir, "*.json")))
print("Download done.")
print(f"Number of shards: {len(shard_filenames)}")
# with open(shard_filenames[0], "r") as f:
# data = json.load(f)
# print(f"Example story:\n{data[0]}")
def process_shard(shard_index, shard_filename, model_desc):
if model_desc == "gpt-2":
enc = tiktoken.get_encoding("gpt2")
encode = lambda s: enc.encode_ordinary(s)
eot = enc._special_tokens['<|endoftext|>'] # end of text token
elif model_desc == "llama-3":
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B")
encode = lambda s: tokenizer.encode(s, add_special_tokens=False, verbose=False, split_special_tokens=True)
eot = tokenizer.encode('')[0] # by default the tokenizer adds the EOT token (128000)
else:
raise ValueError(f"unknown model descriptor {model_desc}")
with open(shard_filename, "r") as f:
data = json.load(f)
rng = random.Random(1337 + shard_index)
rng.shuffle(data)
all_tokens = []
for example in data:
text = example["story"]
text = text.strip() # get rid of leading/trailing whitespace
tokens = encode(text)
all_tokens.append(eot)
all_tokens.extend(tokens)
return all_tokens
def tokenize(model_desc):
# shard 0 will be the val split, rest is train
data_dir = os.path.join(DATA_CACHE_DIR, "TinyStories_all_data")
shard_filenames = sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(data_dir, "*.json")))
val_shards = [shard_filenames[0]]
train_shards = shard_filenames[1:]
for split_name, split_shards in [("val", val_shards), ("train", train_shards)]:
print(f"Tokenizing {split_name} split...")
all_tokens = []
with ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor:
futures = [executor.submit(process_shard, shard_index, shard_filename, model_desc)
for shard_index, shard_filename in enumerate(split_shards)]
for future in as_completed(futures):
all_tokens.extend(future.result())
split_filename = os.path.join(DATA_CACHE_DIR, f"TinyStories_{split_name}.bin")
write_datafile(split_filename, all_tokens, model_desc)
if __name__ == "__main__":
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Tiny Stories dataset preprocessing")
parser.add_argument("-m", "--model_desc", type=str, default="gpt-2", choices=["gpt-2", "llama-3"], help="Model type, gpt-2|llama-3")
args = parser.parse_args()
download()
tokenize(args.model_desc)