Cache tokenizer output to improve speed of tasks like Zero Shot Class…

…ification

examples/pipelines/zero-shot-classification.php

@@ -4,18 +4,27 @@
 
 use function Codewithkyrian\Transformers\Pipelines\pipeline;
 use function Codewithkyrian\Transformers\Utils\memoryUsage;
+use function Codewithkyrian\Transformers\Utils\timeUsage;
 
 require_once './bootstrap.php';
 
 
 //$classifier = pipeline('zero-shot-classification', 'Xenova/mobilebert-uncased-mnli');
 //$result = $classifier('Who are you voting for in 2020?', ['politics', 'public health', 'economics', 'elections']);
 
-ini_set('memory_limit', '160M');
+ini_set('memory_limit', -1);
 $classifier = pipeline('zero-shot-classification', 'Xenova/nli-deberta-v3-xsmall');
+
+$input = "The tension was thick as fog in the arena tonight as the underdogs, the Nets, clawed their way back from a significant deficit to steal a victory from the heavily favored The BUlls  in a final score of 120 - Nets to 80 - Bulls
+
+The game was a nail-biter from the start. The Bulls jumped out to an early lead, showcasing their signature fast-paced offense.  Net's defense struggled to contain their star player, Frank, who racked up points in the first half.
+
+However, just before halftime, the tide began to turn. The NEts's forward -  James hit a series of clutch three-pointers, igniting a spark in the home crowd.  The team rallied behind his energy, tightening up their defense and chipping away at the lead.
+
+The second half was a back-and-forth affair, with neither team able to establish a clear advantage.  Both sides traded baskets, steals, and blocks, keeping the fans on the edge of their seats.  With seconds remaining on the clock, the score was tied.";
 $result = $classifier(
-    'I have a problem with my iphone that needs to be resolved asap!',
-    ['urgent', 'not urgent', 'phone', 'tablet', 'computer'],
+    $input,
+    ['politics', 'public health', 'economics', 'elections', 'sports', 'entertainment', 'technology', 'business', 'finance', 'education', 'science', 'religion', 'history', 'culture', 'environment', 'weather'],
     multiLabel: true
 );
 
@@ -29,5 +38,6 @@
 //
 //$result = $classifier('Apple just announced the newest iPhone 13', ["technology", "sports", "politics"]);
 
-dd(memoryUsage(), $result);
+dd( $result, timeUsage(), memoryUsage());
 
+// Improved from 11.7687s to 2.9687s, 3.5x faster (75% improvement)

src/PretrainedTokenizers/PretrainedTokenizer.php

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 use Codewithkyrian\Transformers\Tokenizers\AddedToken;
 use Codewithkyrian\Transformers\Tokenizers\Tokenizer;
 use Codewithkyrian\Transformers\Utils\Tensor;
+use function Codewithkyrian\Transformers\Utils\timeUsage;
 
 class PretrainedTokenizer
 {
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ class PretrainedTokenizer
 
     protected mixed $chatTemplate;
     protected array $compiledTemplateCache = [];
+    protected array $tokenizationCache = [];
 
     /**
      * @param array $tokenizerJSON The JSON of the tokenizer.
@@ -404,6 +406,13 @@ protected function encodeText(?string $text): ?array
             return null;
         }
 
+        // Hash the text and check if it is in the cache
+        $hash = hash('sha256', $text);
+
+        if (isset($this->tokenizationCache[$hash])) {
+            return $this->tokenizationCache[$hash];
+        }
+
         // Actual function which does encoding, for a single text
         // First, we take care of special tokens. Needed to avoid issues arising from
         // normalization and/or pretokenization (which may not preserve special tokens)
@@ -442,7 +451,12 @@ protected function encodeText(?string $text): ?array
             }
         }, $sections, array_keys($sections));
 
-        return array_merge(...$tokens);
+        $result =  array_merge(...$tokens);
+
+        // Cache the result
+        $this->tokenizationCache[$hash] = $result;
+
+        return $result;
     }