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Support Llama3.1 tokenization

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, typescript

Research direction

Start by locating the existing BPE tokenizer implementation and its model-specific configuration for OpenAI LLMs. Determine what Llama3.1 tokenization data and behavior must be represented, then identify the relevant tests or add coverage for representative Llama3.1 inputs. Done means the library supports Llama3.1 without requiring another tokenizer library.

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Description

Llama3.1's tokenizer is also BPE-based. We already ship this library in VS Code's Copilot Chat extension and it would be great if Llama3.1 was supported so that we do not need to ship another library.

Dominant language
C#
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213
Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
5

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