GSoC 2025: Add Tokenizer Support to DNN Module #27534
merge with https://github.com/opencv/opencv_extra/pull/1276
### Summary
This pull request introduces initial support for a tokenizer module under `modules/dnn/src/tokenizer` as part of Google Summer of Code 2025 (Project: Tokenization for OpenCV DNN).
### Status
- [x] Project structure in place
- [x] Initial BPE tokenizer loading
- [x] Regex splitting (in progress)
- [x] Encoding logic for GPT-2 tokenizer (in progress)
- [ ] Documentation (to be improved)
### Goals
The goal is to support Hugging Face-compatible tokenization (e.g., GPT-2) natively in C++ to be integrated with DNN inference pipelines.
The core pipeline lives in `dnn/src/tokenizer/core_bpe.hpp` and `dnn/src/tokenizer/encoding.hpp`. For Unicode handling I’m using `dnn/src/tokenizer/unicode.hpp`, which is adapted from llama.cpp.
### Feedback
Please share early feedback on:
- General design structure
- Integration strategy with `dnn`
- Code organization or naming conventions
### Reference
Project: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/79SW6eNK
Update printingin GPT2 sample #26584
This PR update how GPT2 prints its output
**Note**: As the length of the prompt increases while inference, the token generation time slows down. May be its right time to introduce QK cashing to speed up the inference
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- [x] To the best of my knowledge, the proposed patch is not based on a code under GPL or another license that is incompatible with OpenCV
- [x] The PR is proposed to the proper branch
- [x] There is a reference to the original bug report and related work
- [x] There is accuracy test, performance test and test data in opencv_extra repository, if applicable
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Fix gpt2 sample #26573
This PR adds dynamic input support for `gpt2_inference.py` sample.
Fixes#26518Fixes#26517
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Add sample for GPT2 inference #25868
### Pull Request Readiness Checklist
This PR adds sample for inferencing GPT-2 model. More specificly implementation of GPT-2 from [this repository](https://github.com/karpathy/build-nanogpt). Currently inference in OpenCV is only possible to do with fixed window size due to not supported dynamic shapes.
See details at https://github.com/opencv/opencv/wiki/How_to_contribute#making-a-good-pull-request
- [x] I agree to contribute to the project under Apache 2 License.
- [x] To the best of my knowledge, the proposed patch is not based on a code under GPL or another license that is incompatible with OpenCV
- [x] The PR is proposed to the proper branch
- [ ] There is a reference to the original bug report and related work
- [ ] There is accuracy test, performance test and test data in opencv_extra repository, if applicable
Patch to opencv_extra has the same branch name.
- [x] The feature is well documented and sample code can be built with the project CMake
Abhishek Gola
Jorge Velez
Abduragim Shtanchaev