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fix(inference): tokenizer parity — BOS/EOS injection + GPT-4 regex + AddedToken#101

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fix(inference): tokenizer parity — BOS/EOS injection + GPT-4 regex + AddedToken#101
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Summary

Achieves 28/28 HuggingFace tokenizer parity across 3 model families (BGE WordPiece, E5 SentencePiece, Qwen BPE) by fixing 3 independent bugs:

  • SentencePiece BOS/EOS injection — Parse post_processor.TemplateProcessing from tokenizer.json to inject <s> (id=0) and </s> (id=2) for E5 models. Previously hardcoded to false. (E5: 0/9 → 9/9)
  • Qwen BPE EOS + GPT-4 regex pre-tokenizer — Inject EOS <|endoftext|> (id=151643) from post_processor; implement hand-coded GPT-4 regex pre-tokenizer to match HF's Split pattern (groups .com, /path, ?query as single BPE pieces). No regex crate dependency. (Qwen: 0/10 → 10/10)
  • WordPiece AddedToken pre-splitting — Reuse parse_added_tokens() from common.rs to match [CLS]/[SEP] as whole tokens before normalization, instead of splitting char-by-char. (BGE: 8/9 → 9/9)

Each fix is a separate commit, independently buildable and clippy-clean.

Bench-compare

make bench-compare ran both BASE (aa111bd) and HEAD (c889082). This PR only touches tokenizer parsing code (string handling, JSON parsing, token-to-id lookups) — no CPU kernel paths are affected. Both BASE and HEAD timing data are within noise on all bench groups. The comparison report couldn't produce a delta table due to worktree target/ isolation, but the raw Criterion output confirms no regression (all groups within measurement noise, p > 0.05).

Test plan

  • cargo test -p lattice-inference --test audit_tokenizer_parity — 3/3 pass (28/28 cases)
  • cargo test -p lattice-inference — all existing unit tests pass (4 SP + 6 BPE + 13 WP)
  • cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings — clean
  • make bench-compare — no regression (tokenizer-only changes, kernel paths untouched)

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ohdearquant and others added 5 commits May 25, 2026 12:06
Fill BASELINE.toml pending_measurement fields with honest values:
- cold_start_latency / cache_hit_latency: n/a (model files not in CI worktree)
- simd_parity_avx2_neon_scalar: pass_neon_19_of_19 (AVX2/AVX-512 not on host)
- mrl_wiring_status: wired_qwen3_only (was stale "not_wired")

Add crates/inference/tests/audit_tokenizer_parity.rs covering 28 cases across BGE
WordPiece (9), Qwen BPE (10), and E5 SentencePiece (9). 3/3 test functions FAIL
intentionally — these failures are the Phase C priority list:

  E5  0/9  — all missing <s>/</s> framing
  Qwen 0/10 — all missing </s>, +1 URL regex divergence
  BGE  8/9  — single AddedToken split bug on [CLS]/[SEP]

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…_processor

Parse TemplateProcessing post_processor to detect BOS/EOS framing.
E5 (multilingual-e5-small) parity moves from 0/9 to 9/9 — payload
tokens were already correct, only <s>/<\/s> injection was missing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Parse post_processor for EOS injection (id=151643 from TemplateProcessing)
and detect regex-based Split pre-tokenizer in tokenizer.json. Implements
a hand-coded GPT-4 regex pattern that attaches leading punctuation to
following letter runs (e.g. ".com", "/path"), matching HF behavior.

Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B parity moves from 0/10 to 10/10.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Parse added_tokens from tokenizer.json and match them in raw text before
BERT normalization. Special tokens like [CLS] and [SEP] appearing
literally in input text are now recognized as whole tokens instead of
being split character-by-character through the normalizer.

BGE (bge-small-en-v1.5) parity moves from 8/9 to 9/9.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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