diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 79e54a9..cf7b817 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ images = parti.generate(texts = [
 
 - <a href="https://huggingface.co/">🤗 Huggingface</a> for the transformers library and the ease for encoding text with T5 language model
 
+## Todo
+
+- [ ] get working vit vqgan-vae trainer code, as discriminator needs to be trained
+- [ ] preencoding of text with designated t5
+- [ ] training code for parti
+- [ ] inference caching
 
 ## Citations
 
diff --git a/parti_pytorch/t5.py b/parti_pytorch/t5.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7ad0689
--- /dev/null
+++ b/parti_pytorch/t5.py
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+import torch
+import transformers
+from transformers import T5Tokenizer, T5EncoderModel, T5Config
+
+transformers.logging.set_verbosity_error()
+
+def exists(val):
+    return val is not None
+
+# config
+
+MAX_LENGTH = 256
+
+DEFAULT_T5_NAME = 'google/t5-v1_1-base'
+
+T5_CONFIGS = {}
+
+# singleton globals
+
+def get_tokenizer(name):
+    tokenizer = T5Tokenizer.from_pretrained(name)
+    return tokenizer
+
+def get_model(name):
+    model = T5EncoderModel.from_pretrained(name)
+    return model
+
+def get_model_and_tokenizer(name):
+    global T5_CONFIGS
+
+    if name not in T5_CONFIGS:
+        T5_CONFIGS[name] = dict()
+    if "model" not in T5_CONFIGS[name]:
+        T5_CONFIGS[name]["model"] = get_model(name)
+    if "tokenizer" not in T5_CONFIGS[name]:
+        T5_CONFIGS[name]["tokenizer"] = get_tokenizer(name)
+
+    return T5_CONFIGS[name]['model'], T5_CONFIGS[name]['tokenizer']
+
+def get_encoded_dim(name):
+    if name not in T5_CONFIGS:
+        # avoids loading the model if we only want to get the dim
+        config = T5Config.from_pretrained(name)
+        T5_CONFIGS[name] = dict(config=config)
+    elif "config" in T5_CONFIGS[name]:
+        config = T5_CONFIGS[name]["config"]
+    elif "model" in T5_CONFIGS[name]:
+        config = T5_CONFIGS[name]["model"].config
+    else:
+        assert False
+    return config.d_model
+
+# encoding text
+
+def t5_encode_text(texts, name = DEFAULT_T5_NAME):
+    t5, tokenizer = get_model_and_tokenizer(name)
+
+    if torch.cuda.is_available():
+        t5 = t5.cuda()
+
+    device = next(t5.parameters()).device
+
+    encoded = tokenizer.batch_encode_plus(
+        texts,
+        return_tensors = "pt",
+        padding = 'longest',
+        max_length = MAX_LENGTH,
+        truncation = True
+    )
+
+    input_ids = encoded.input_ids.to(device)
+    attn_mask = encoded.attention_mask.to(device)
+
+    t5.eval()
+
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        output = t5(input_ids = input_ids, attention_mask = attn_mask)
+        encoded_text = output.last_hidden_state.detach()
+
+    return encoded_text, attn_mask.bool()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9ae34d6..2c3500d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 setup(
   name = 'parti-pytorch',
   packages = find_packages(exclude=[]),
-  version = '0.0.1',
+  version = '0.0.2',
   license='MIT',
   description = 'Parti - Pathways Autoregressive Text-to-Image Model - Pytorch',
   author = 'Phil Wang',