Enable NullTokenizer for pretraining to reduce I/O access

[asolergi-nv]

What does this PR do ?

Problem

During pretraining, Megatron-LM requires a tokenizer config even though data is already pretokenized. The tokenizer is only used for 3 integer values (vocab_size, eod, pad), yet every rank loads tokenizer files from the filesystem. At scale, this causes expensive redundant I/O on shared filesystems like Lustre. This PR is a improvement over #2865.

Changes

Update NullTokenizer so it can serve as a zero-I/O tokenizer for real pretokenized data:

• vocab_size returns the exact value passed (previously added +1 for an implicit eod token)
• eod = vocab_size - 1 (last token in the vocabulary)
• Added pad_id property (defaults to -1)
• Added vocab_size to unique_identifiers for proper dataset cache invalidation
• Replaced GPT2BPETokenizer with NullTokenizer in gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_cp2 functional test, eliminating the need for --vocab-file and --merge-file. This test is leveraging HF tokenizers, so it's a way to showcase that we can savely replace them w/ NullTokenizer
• Updated --vocab-size in all existing NullTokenizer tests to preserve the same effective vocab size

Usage

Before: requires tokenizer files:

--tokenizer-type TikTokenizer --tokenizer-model /path/to/vocab.json

After: zero file I/O

--tokenizer-type NullTokenizer --vocab-size 128256

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[dimapihtar]

LGTM. Thank you!

[janEbert]

When using this for training, I think it would be really important to have a small check whether the automatically assigned tokens actually match what the true tokenizer uses. Maybe as a script in tools? Then people could add it to job submission scripts to error out early in case things don't match.

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/ok to test 688110b

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/ok to test bae5537

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/ok to test f1d2a4e

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/ok to test fcd96dc

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