import re, collections def get_stats(vocab): pairs = collections.defaultdict(int) for word, freq in vocab.items(): symbols = word.split() for i in range(len(symbols)-1): pairs[symbols[i],symbols[i+1]] += freq return pairs
def merge_vocab(pair, v_in): v_out = {} bigram = re.escape(' '.join(pair)) p = re.compile(r'(?<!\S)' + bigram + r'(?!\S)') for word in v_in: w_out = p.sub(''.join(pair), word) v_out[w_out] = v_in[word] return v_out
vocab = {'l o w </w>' : 5, 'l o w e r </w>' : 2, 'n e w e s t </w>':6, 'w i d e s t </w>':3} num_merges = 10
for i in range(num_merges): pairs = get_stats(vocab) best = max(pairs, key=pairs.get) vocab = merge_vocab(best, vocab) print(best)