diff --git a/merlin/models/tokenizers/__init__.py b/merlin/models/tokenizers/__init__.py
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+from merlin.models.tokenizers.sentencepiece import SentencePieceTokenizer  # noqa: F401
+from merlin.models.tokenizers.tokenizer import Tokenizer  # noqa: F401
diff --git a/merlin/models/tokenizers/sentencepiece.py b/merlin/models/tokenizers/sentencepiece.py
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+++ b/merlin/models/tokenizers/sentencepiece.py
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+from typing import List
+
+from merlin.models.tokenizers.tokenizer import Tokenizer
+
+
+class SentencePieceTokenizer(Tokenizer):
+    """Tokenizer using SentencePiece [1].
+
+    References
+    ----------
+    [1] https://github.com/google/sentencepiece
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *, processor: "SentencePieceTrainer") -> None:  # noqa: F821
+        require_sentencepiece()
+
+        self.processor = processor
+        self.bos_id = self.processor.bos_id()
+        self.eos_id = self.processor.eos_id()
+        self.pad_id = self.processor.pad_id()
+
+    def encode(
+        self,
+        string: str,
+        bos: bool = False,
+        eos: bool = False,
+        max_length: int = -1,
+        pad: bool = False,
+    ) -> List[int]:
+        tokens = self.processor.encode(string)
+        if bos:
+            tokens = [self.bos_id] + tokens
+        if eos:
+            tokens = tokens + [self.eos_id]
+        if max_length > 0:
+            tokens = tokens[:max_length]
+        if pad and len(tokens) < max_length:
+            tokens += [self.pad_id] * (max_length - len(tokens))
+
+        return tokens
+
+    def decode(self, tokens: List[int]) -> str:
+        return self.processor.decode(tokens)
+
+    @property
+    def vocab_size(self) -> int:
+        return self.processor.vocab_size()
+
+
+def require_sentencepiece() -> None:
+    try:
+        from sentencepiece import SentencePieceProcessor, SentencePieceTrainer  # noqa: F401
+    except ImportError:
+        raise ImportError(
+            "This requires `sentencepiece`. Install it with `pip install sentencepiece`."
+        )
diff --git a/merlin/models/tokenizers/tokenizer.py b/merlin/models/tokenizers/tokenizer.py
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+++ b/merlin/models/tokenizers/tokenizer.py
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+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+from typing import List
+
+
+class Tokenizer(ABC):
+    """
+    Base class for all tokenizers.
+    """
+
+    def __call__(self, string: str):
+        return self.encode(string)
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def decode(self, tokens: List[int]):
+        ...
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def encode(self, string: str):
+        ...
diff --git a/merlin/models/torch/blocks/tokenizer.py b/merlin/models/torch/blocks/tokenizer.py
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+++ b/merlin/models/torch/blocks/tokenizer.py
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+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Optional
+
+import torch
+from sentencepiece import SentencePieceProcessor, SentencePieceTrainer
+
+
+class SentencePieceTokenizer:
+    """Tokenizer for LLaMA.
+
+    Example usage
+    -------------
+    >> tokenizer_path = Path("llama/tokenizer.model")
+    >> tokenizer = SentencePieceTokenizer(tokenizer_path)
+    >> tokenizer.encode("Hello, my name is", bos=True, eos=False)
+    tensor([    1, 15043, 29892,   590,  1024,   338], dtype=torch.int32)
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, model_path: Path) -> None:
+        try:
+            import sentencepiece  # noqa: F401
+        except ImportError:
+            raise ImportError(
+                "`sentencepiece` is required to use this feature. "
+                "Install it with `pip install sentencepiece`."
+            )
+
+        self.processor = SentencePieceProcessor(model_file=str(model_path))
+        self.bos_id = self.processor.bos_id()
+        self.eos_id = self.processor.eos_id()
+        self.pad_id = self.processor.pad_id()
+
+    @property
+    def vocab_size(self) -> int:
+        return self.processor.vocab_size()
+
+    def encode(
+        self,
+        string: str,
+        bos: bool = True,
+        eos: bool = False,
+        max_length: int = -1,
+        pad: bool = False,
+        device: Optional[torch.device] = None,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        tokens = self.processor.encode(string)
+        if bos:
+            tokens = [self.bos_id] + tokens
+        if eos:
+            tokens = tokens + [self.eos_id]
+        if max_length > 0:
+            tokens = tokens[:max_length]
+        if pad and len(tokens) < max_length:
+            tokens += [self.pad_id] * (max_length - len(tokens))
+
+        return torch.tensor(tokens, dtype=torch.int, device=device)
+
+    def decode(self, tokens: torch.Tensor) -> str:
+        return self.processor.decode(tokens.tolist())
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def train(input: str, destination: str, vocab_size=32000) -> None:
+        model_prefix = os.path.join(destination, "tokenizer")
+        SentencePieceTrainer.Train(input=input, model_prefix=model_prefix, vocab_size=vocab_size)
diff --git a/merlin/models/torch/tokenizers/__init__.py b/merlin/models/torch/tokenizers/__init__.py
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diff --git a/merlin/models/torch/tokenizers/llama.py b/merlin/models/torch/tokenizers/llama.py
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+++ b/merlin/models/torch/tokenizers/llama.py
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+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Optional, Union
+
+import torch
+
+from merlin.models.tokenizers.sentencepiece import SentencePieceTokenizer, require_sentencepiece
+
+
+class LlamaTokenizer(SentencePieceTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, path: Union[str, Path]) -> None:
+        require_sentencepiece()
+
+        from sentencepiece import SentencePieceProcessor
+
+        if isinstance(path, Path):
+            path = str(path)
+        processor = SentencePieceProcessor(model_file=str(path))
+
+        super().__init__(processor=processor)
+
+    def endode(
+        self,
+        string: str,
+        bos: bool = True,
+        eos: bool = False,
+        max_length: int = -1,
+        pad: bool = False,
+        device: Optional[torch.device] = None,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        tokens = super().encode(
+            string=string,
+            bos=bos,
+            eos=eos,
+            max_length=max_length,
+            pad=pad,
+        )
+        return torch.tensor(tokens, dtype=torch.int, device=device)
+
+    def decode(self, tokens: torch.Tensor) -> str:
+        return self.processor.decode(tokens.tolist())