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--- title: Improving Unigram Tokenizer CPU Performance description: We reimplemented our Unigram tokenizer from scratch as a focused performance project. published: "May 27, 2026, 3:41 PM UTC" --- May 20, 2026 # Improving Unigram Tokenizer CPU Performance We reimplemented our Unigram tokenizer from scratch as a focused performance project. We reimplemented our Unigram tokenizer from scratch as a focused performance project. At production input lengths, the new encoder cuts p50 latency by ...