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ISubwordTokenizer.TryGetId

The id of a token, if the vocabulary holds it.

public bool TryGetId(string token, out int id)

Parameters — token is the exact token string, as the vocabulary spells it — including a continuation prefix or a ▁, where the family uses one. id receives the token's id, or 0 when the lookup fails.

Returns — bool, true when the vocabulary holds it; id is the token's id then and 0 otherwise.

Example — a token that exists and one that does not.

using Lodestar.Embeddings.Tokenization;

var vocab = new Dictionary<string, int>(StringComparer.Ordinal)
{
    ["[UNK]"] = 0, ["token"] = 1, ["##ize"] = 2, ["text"] = 3,
};
ISubwordTokenizer tokenizer = new WordPieceTokenizer(
    vocab, unkToken: "[UNK]", continuationPrefix: "##", maxCharsPerWord: 100, lowercase: true);

bool known = tokenizer.TryGetId("text", out int id);  // => True
bool unknown = tokenizer.TryGetId("absent", out int missing);  // => False

Remarks — missing is 0 rather than -1, and 0 is a perfectly good id in most vocabularies — usually the unknown token's. Read the bool, never the int alone.

It is a lookup, not an encode: TryGetId("tokenize") fails on a vocabulary that would happily encode that word as token + ##ize, because no single entry spells it. This is what BatchEncoder uses to resolve a template's [CLS] against a vocabulary, which is why a missing special token is caught at construction.

Applies to — net10.0, netstandard2.0.

See also — ISubwordTokenizer.Encode, SpecialTokenTemplate.