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+from collections import Counter
+import argparse
+import pickle
+
+from utils import logger
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Token Counts for smoothing the masking probabilities in MLM (cf XLM/word2vec)")
+    parser.add_argument("--data_file", type=str, default="data/dump.bert-base-uncased.pickle",
+                        help="The binarized dataset."
+    parser.add_argument("--token_counts_dump", type=str, default="data/token_counts.bert-base-uncased.pickle",
+                        help="The dump file.")
+    parser.add_argument("--vocab_size", default=30522, type=int)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    logger.info(f'Loading data from {args.data_file}')
+    with open(args.data_file, 'rb') as fp:
+        data = pickle.load(fp)
+
+    logger.info('Counting occurences for MLM.')
+    counter = Counter()
+    for tk_ids in data:
+        counter.update(tk_ids)
+    counts = [0]*args.vocab_size
+    for k, v in counter.items():
+        counts[k] = v
+
+    logger.info(f'Dump to {args.token_counts_dump}')
+    with open(args.token_counts_dump, 'wb') as handle:
+        pickle.dump(counts, handle, protocol=pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)