diff --git a/Libraries/LLM/Load.swift b/Libraries/LLM/Load.swift
index e733f2d..add4552 100644
--- a/Libraries/LLM/Load.swift
+++ b/Libraries/LLM/Load.swift
@@ -59,73 +59,6 @@ public func load(
     return (model, tokenizer)
 }
 
-// MARK: - Tokenizers
-
-public func loadTokenizer(name: String) async throws -> Tokenizer {
-    // from AutoTokenizer.from() -- this lets us override parts of the configuration
-    let config = LanguageModelConfigurationFromHub(modelName: name)
-    guard var tokenizerConfig = try await config.tokenizerConfig else {
-        throw LLMError(message: "missing config")
-    }
-    var tokenizerData = try await config.tokenizerData
-
-    // workaround: replacement tokenizers for unhandled values in swift-transform
-    if let tokenizerClass = tokenizerConfig.tokenizerClass?.stringValue,
-        let replacement = replacementTokenizers[tokenizerClass]
-    {
-        var dictionary = tokenizerConfig.dictionary
-        dictionary["tokenizer_class"] = replacement
-        tokenizerConfig = Config(dictionary)
-    }
-
-    // workaround: some merges can't be split on space in BPETokenizer
-    if let tokenizerClass = tokenizerConfig.tokenizerClass?.stringValue {
-        switch tokenizerClass {
-        case "T5Tokenizer":
-            break
-        default:
-            tokenizerData = discardUnhandledMerges(tokenizerData: tokenizerData)
-        }
-    }
-
-    return try PreTrainedTokenizer(tokenizerConfig: tokenizerConfig, tokenizerData: tokenizerData)
-}
-
-public func discardUnhandledMerges(tokenizerData: Config) -> Config {
-    // see https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-swift-examples/issues/1
-    // and https://github.com/huggingface/swift-transformers/issues/51
-
-    if let model = tokenizerData.model {
-        if let merges = model.dictionary["merges"] as? [String] {
-            // discard any merges that can't be split on a space
-            // (required by BPETokenizer)
-            let newMerges =
-                merges
-                .filter {
-                    $0.split(separator: " ").count == 2
-                }
-
-            if newMerges.count != merges.count {
-                var newModel = model.dictionary
-                newModel["merges"] = newMerges
-
-                var newTokenizerData = tokenizerData.dictionary
-                newTokenizerData["model"] = newModel
-
-                return Config(newTokenizerData)
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    return tokenizerData
-}
-
-/// overrides for TokenizerModel/knownTokenizers
-let replacementTokenizers = [
-    "CodeLlamaTokenizer": "LlamaTokenizer",
-    "GemmaTokenizer": "PreTrainedTokenizer",
-]
-
 // MARK: - Quantization
 
 private func quantizeIfNeeded(
diff --git a/Libraries/LLM/Tokenizer.swift b/Libraries/LLM/Tokenizer.swift
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc062c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Libraries/LLM/Tokenizer.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+// Copyright © 2024 Apple Inc.
+
+import Foundation
+import Hub
+import Tokenizers
+
+public func loadTokenizer(name: String) async throws -> Tokenizer {
+    // from AutoTokenizer.from() -- this lets us override parts of the configuration
+    let config = LanguageModelConfigurationFromHub(modelName: name)
+    guard var tokenizerConfig = try await config.tokenizerConfig else {
+        throw LLMError(message: "missing config")
+    }
+    var tokenizerData = try await config.tokenizerData
+
+    // workaround: replacement tokenizers for unhandled values in swift-transform
+    if let tokenizerClass = tokenizerConfig.tokenizerClass?.stringValue,
+        let replacement = replacementTokenizers[tokenizerClass]
+    {
+        var dictionary = tokenizerConfig.dictionary
+        dictionary["tokenizer_class"] = replacement
+        tokenizerConfig = Config(dictionary)
+    }
+
+    // workaround: some merges can't be split on space in BPETokenizer
+    if let tokenizerClass = tokenizerConfig.tokenizerClass?.stringValue {
+        switch tokenizerClass {
+        case "T5Tokenizer":
+            break
+        default:
+            tokenizerData = discardUnhandledMerges(tokenizerData: tokenizerData)
+        }
+    }
+
+    return try PreTrainedTokenizer(tokenizerConfig: tokenizerConfig, tokenizerData: tokenizerData)
+}
+
+public func discardUnhandledMerges(tokenizerData: Config) -> Config {
+    // see https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-swift-examples/issues/1
+    // and https://github.com/huggingface/swift-transformers/issues/51
+
+    if let model = tokenizerData.model {
+        if let merges = model.dictionary["merges"] as? [String] {
+            // discard any merges that can't be split on a space
+            // (required by BPETokenizer)
+            let newMerges =
+                merges
+                .filter {
+                    $0.split(separator: " ").count == 2
+                }
+
+            if newMerges.count != merges.count {
+                var newModel = model.dictionary
+                newModel["merges"] = newMerges
+
+                var newTokenizerData = tokenizerData.dictionary
+                newTokenizerData["model"] = newModel
+
+                return Config(newTokenizerData)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    return tokenizerData
+}
+
+/// overrides for TokenizerModel/knownTokenizers
+let replacementTokenizers = [
+    "CodeLlamaTokenizer": "LlamaTokenizer",
+    "GemmaTokenizer": "PreTrainedTokenizer",
+]
diff --git a/mlx-swift-examples.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj b/mlx-swift-examples.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
index f033265..4f68254 100644
--- a/mlx-swift-examples.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
+++ b/mlx-swift-examples.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 		C3932D592B6A0BE400A81055 /* Random.swift in Sources */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; fileRef = C3932D582B6A0BE400A81055 /* Random.swift */; };
 		C397C59C2B62C6D0004B084D /* ArgumentParser in Frameworks */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; productRef = C397C59B2B62C6D0004B084D /* ArgumentParser */; };
 		C3E786AB2B8D1AEC0004D037 /* Evaluate.swift in Sources */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; fileRef = C3E786AA2B8D1AEC0004D037 /* Evaluate.swift */; };
+		C3E786AD2B8D4AF50004D037 /* Tokenizer.swift in Sources */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; fileRef = C3E786AC2B8D4AF50004D037 /* Tokenizer.swift */; };
 		C3FBCB212B8520B80007E490 /* MLX in Frameworks */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; productRef = C3FBCB202B8520B80007E490 /* MLX */; };
 		C3FBCB292B8520DA0007E490 /* MLX in Frameworks */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; productRef = C3FBCB282B8520DA0007E490 /* MLX */; };
 		C3FBCB2B2B8520DA0007E490 /* MLXNN in Frameworks */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; productRef = C3FBCB2A2B8520DA0007E490 /* MLXNN */; };
@@ -154,6 +155,7 @@
 		C3C3240B2B6CA689007D2D9A /* README.md */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = net.daringfireball.markdown; path = README.md; sourceTree = "<group>"; };
 		C3C3240C2B6CA792007D2D9A /* README.md */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = net.daringfireball.markdown; path = README.md; sourceTree = "<group>"; };
 		C3E786AA2B8D1AEC0004D037 /* Evaluate.swift */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = sourcecode.swift; path = Evaluate.swift; sourceTree = "<group>"; };
+		C3E786AC2B8D4AF50004D037 /* Tokenizer.swift */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = sourcecode.swift; path = Tokenizer.swift; sourceTree = "<group>"; };
 /* End PBXFileReference section */
 
 /* Begin PBXFrameworksBuildPhase section */
@@ -273,6 +275,7 @@
 				C34E48F62B69832600FCB841 /* README.md */,
 				C34E48ED2B696E6500FCB841 /* Load.swift */,
 				C3E786AA2B8D1AEC0004D037 /* Evaluate.swift */,
+				C3E786AC2B8D4AF50004D037 /* Tokenizer.swift */,
 			);
 			path = LLM;
 			sourceTree = "<group>";
@@ -610,6 +613,7 @@
 				C38935CD2B869C870037B833 /* Configuration.swift in Sources */,
 				C38935DF2B869DD00037B833 /* Phi.swift in Sources */,
 				C38935CE2B869C870037B833 /* Load.swift in Sources */,
+				C3E786AD2B8D4AF50004D037 /* Tokenizer.swift in Sources */,
 				C3E786AB2B8D1AEC0004D037 /* Evaluate.swift in Sources */,
 				C38935CC2B869C870037B833 /* Llama.swift in Sources */,
 			);