Comment by hbcondo714
7 days ago
> You don’t have to worry about the exact tokens that Foundation Models operates with, the API nicely abstracts that away for you [1]
I have the same question. Their Deep dive into the Foundation Models framework video is nice for seeing code using the new `FoundationModels` library but for a "deep dive", I would like to learn more about tokenization. Hopefully these details are eventually disclosed unless someone else here already knows?
[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/301/?time=1...
I guess I'd say "mu", from a dev perspective, you shouldn't care about tokens ever - if your inference framework isn't abstracting that for you, your first task would be to patch it to do so.
To parent, yes this is for local models, so insomuch worrying about token implies financial cost, yes
Ish - it always depends how deep in the weeds you need to get. Tokenisation impacts performance, both speed and results, so details can be important.
I maintain a llama.cpp wrapper, on everything from web to Android and cannot quite wrap my mind around if you'd have any more info by getting individual token IDs from the API, beyond what you'd get from wall clock time and checking their vocab.
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