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LLBPE: GPU-Parallel Byte Pair Encoding Tokenizer for Faster LLM Inference

LLBPE introduces a linked-list based GPU-parallel implementation of Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenization, shifting this step from CPU to GPU to increase throughput. This approach targets the initial tokenization phase of LLM inference, which converts raw input into model-consumable tokens.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-10-04T04:50:52+00:00 Detected 2026-10-06T05:21:22+00:00
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LLBPE introduces a linked-list based GPU-parallel implementation of Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenization, shifting this step from CPU to GPU to increase throughput. This approach targets the initial tokenization phase of LLM inference, which converts raw input into model-consumable tokens.

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Every LLM inference begins with tokenization, which converts raw input bytes into the discrete token sequence the model consumes. For text, this step is often implemented using Byte Pair Encoding (BPE), an algorithm originally introduced for data compression. BPE has traditionally run on the CPU with extensive...

Tokenization is a critical first step in LLM inference, and accelerating it on GPUs can reduce overall latency and improve processing speed. Moving BPE tokenization to GPUs aligns with trends to optimize all inference stages for better performance.

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