# Caching tokenization

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/caching-tokenization/69072>\
**Category:** 🤗Tokenizers\
**Created:** [January 14, 2024, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/caching-tokenization/69072 "2024-01-14T12:16:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kason123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kason123](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Kason123)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/caching-tokenization/69072/1 "2024-01-14T12:16:23Z")

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Hi I tokenize my data as follows but every time I try to run it, the code does the mapping scratch although there is a cached one in the respective folder. Can anyone help to avoid this redundant process?

```auto
tokenizer=AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(script_args.model_name, cache_dir="hf_cache_dir", local_files_only=True)
def tokenize_function(example):
    return tokenizer(example["text"], truncation=True)

tokenized_datasets = dataset.map(tokenize_function, batched=True, load_from_cache_file=True)

```