""" Prepare the Shakespeare dataset for character-level language modeling. So instead of encoding with GPT-2 BPE tokens, we just map characters to ints. Will save train.bin, val.bin containing the ids, and meta.pkl containing the encoder and decoder and some other related info. """ import os import pickle import requests import numpy as np # download the tiny shakespeare dataset if not os.path.exists('input.txt'): data_url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karpathy/char-rnn/master/data/tinyshakespeare/input.txt' with open('input.txt', 'w') as f: f.write(requests.get(data_url).text) with open('input.txt', 'r') as f: data = f.read() print(f"length of dataset in characters: {len(data):,}") # get all the unique characters that occur in this text chars = sorted(list(set(data))) vocab_size = len(chars) print("all the unique characters:", ''.join(chars)) print(f"vocab size: {vocab_size:,}") # create a mapping from characters to integers stoi = { ch:i for i,ch in enumerate(chars) } itos = { i:ch for i,ch in enumerate(chars) } def encode(s): return [stoi[c] for c in s] # encoder: take a string, output a list of integers def decode(l): return ''.join([itos[i] for i in l]) # decoder: take a list of integers, output a string # create the train and test splits n = len(data) train_data = data[:int(n*0.9)] val_data = data[int(n*0.9):] # encode both to integers train_ids = encode(train_data) val_ids = encode(val_data) print(f"train has {len(train_ids):,} tokens") print(f"val has {len(val_ids):,} tokens") # export to bin files train_ids = np.array(train_ids, dtype=np.uint16) val_ids = np.array(val_ids, dtype=np.uint16) train_ids.tofile(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'train.bin')) val_ids.tofile(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'val.bin')) # save the meta information as well, to help us encode/decode later meta = { 'vocab_size': vocab_size, 'itos': itos, 'stoi': stoi, } with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'meta.pkl'), 'wb') as f: pickle.dump(meta, f) # length of dataset in characters: 1115394 # all the unique characters: # !$&',-.3:;?ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz # vocab size: 65 # train has 1003854 tokens # val has 111540 tokens