A tokenizer is in charge of preparing the inputs for a model. The HuggingFace transformers library (which DeepChem tokenizers are built on top of) comprise tokenizers for all transformer models.
A tokenizer is in charge of preparing the inputs for a natural language processing model. For many scientific applications, it is possible to treat inputs as "words"/"sentences" and use NLP methods to make meaningful predictions. For example, SMILES strings or DNA sequences have grammatical structure and can be usefully modeled with NLP techniques. DeepChem provides some scientifically relevant tokenizers for use in different applications. These tokenizers are based on those from the Huggingface transformers library (which DeepChem tokenizers inherit from).
The base classes PreTrainedTokenizer and PreTrainedTokenizerFast implements the common methods for encoding string inputs in model inputs and instantiating/saving python tokenizers either from a local file or directory or from a pretrained tokenizer provided by the library (downloaded from HuggingFace’s AWS S3 repository).
