diff --git a/router/src/db.rs b/router/src/db.rs
index df9f2b8e..1d7df627 100644
--- a/router/src/db.rs
+++ b/router/src/db.rs
@@ -71,12 +71,8 @@ impl State {
                 id: *id,
                 inputs: entry.request.inputs.clone(),
                 input_length: entry.input_length as u32,
-                parameters: Some(NextTokenChooserParameters::from(
-                    entry.request.parameters.clone(),
-                )),
-                stopping_parameters: Some(StoppingCriteriaParameters::from(
-                    entry.request.parameters.clone(),
-                )),
+                parameters: Some((&entry.request.parameters).into()),
+                stopping_parameters: Some(entry.request.parameters.clone().into()),
             });
 
             ids.push(*id);
@@ -162,8 +158,8 @@ impl Db {
     }
 }
 
-impl From<GenerateParameters> for NextTokenChooserParameters {
-    fn from(parameters: GenerateParameters) -> Self {
+impl From<&GenerateParameters> for NextTokenChooserParameters {
+    fn from(parameters: &GenerateParameters) -> Self {
         Self {
             temperature: parameters.temperature,
             top_k: parameters.top_k as u32,
diff --git a/router/src/validation.rs b/router/src/validation.rs
index f6da1913..4a9d0c23 100644
--- a/router/src/validation.rs
+++ b/router/src/validation.rs
@@ -4,12 +4,11 @@ use axum::http::StatusCode;
 use axum::Json;
 use thiserror::Error;
 use tokenizers::tokenizer::Tokenizer;
-use tokenizers::{
-    DecoderWrapper, ModelWrapper, NormalizerWrapper, PostProcessorWrapper, PreTokenizerWrapper,
-    TokenizerImpl,
-};
 use tokio::sync::{mpsc, oneshot};
 
+const MAX_MAX_NEW_TOKENS: u32 = 512;
+const MAX_STOP_SEQUENCES: usize = 4;
+
 /// Validation
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
 pub struct Validation {
@@ -63,7 +62,7 @@ async fn validation_task(
 
     // Create workers
     for _ in 0..workers {
-        let tokenizer_clone = tokenizer.clone();
+        let tokenizer_clone: Tokenizer = tokenizer.clone().into();
         // Create channel to communicate with worker
         let (worker_sender, worker_receiver) = mpsc::channel(workers);
         workers_senders.push(worker_sender);
@@ -89,68 +88,54 @@ async fn validation_task(
 /// Check the parameters inside the payload and get the number of tokens inside the input using
 /// the tokenizer
 fn validation_worker(
-    tokenizer: TokenizerImpl<
-        ModelWrapper,
-        NormalizerWrapper,
-        PreTokenizerWrapper,
-        PostProcessorWrapper,
-        DecoderWrapper,
-    >,
+    tokenizer: Tokenizer,
     max_input_length: usize,
     mut receiver: mpsc::Receiver<ValidationRequest>,
 ) {
     // Loop over requests
     while let Some((request, response_tx)) = receiver.blocking_recv() {
-        if request.parameters.temperature <= 0.0 {
-            response_tx
-                .send(Err(ValidationError::Temperature))
-                .unwrap_or(());
-            continue;
-        }
-        if request.parameters.top_p <= 0.0 || request.parameters.top_p > 1.0 {
-            response_tx.send(Err(ValidationError::TopP)).unwrap_or(());
-            continue;
-        }
-        if request.parameters.top_k < 0 {
-            response_tx.send(Err(ValidationError::TopK)).unwrap_or(());
-            continue;
-        }
-        if request.parameters.max_new_tokens > 512 {
-            response_tx
-                .send(Err(ValidationError::MaxNewTokens))
-                .unwrap_or(());
-            continue;
-        }
-        if request.parameters.stop.len() > 4 {
-            response_tx
-                .send(Err(ValidationError::StopSequence(
-                    request.parameters.stop.len(),
-                )))
-                .unwrap_or(());
-            continue;
-        }
+        response_tx.send(validate(request, &tokenizer, max_input_length)).unwrap_or(())
+    }
+}
 
-        // Get the number of tokens in the input
-        match tokenizer.encode(request.inputs.clone(), true) {
-            Ok(inputs) => {
-                let input_length = inputs.len();
+fn validate(
+    request: GenerateRequest,
+    tokenizer: &Tokenizer,
+    max_input_length: usize,
+) -> Result<(usize, GenerateRequest), ValidationError> {
+    if request.parameters.temperature <= 0.0 {
+        return Err(ValidationError::Temperature);
+    }
+    if request.parameters.top_p <= 0.0 || request.parameters.top_p > 1.0 {
+        return Err(ValidationError::TopP);
+    }
+    if request.parameters.top_k < 0 {
+        return Err(ValidationError::TopK);
+    }
+    if request.parameters.max_new_tokens > MAX_MAX_NEW_TOKENS {
+        return Err(ValidationError::MaxNewTokens(MAX_MAX_NEW_TOKENS));
+    }
+    if request.parameters.stop.len() > MAX_STOP_SEQUENCES {
+        return Err(ValidationError::StopSequence(
+            MAX_STOP_SEQUENCES, request.parameters.stop.len(),
+        ))
+    }
 
-                if input_length > max_input_length {
-                    response_tx
-                        .send(Err(ValidationError::InputLength(
-                            input_length,
-                            max_input_length,
-                        )))
-                        .unwrap_or(());
-                    continue;
-                }
+    // Get the number of tokens in the input
+    match tokenizer.encode(request.inputs.clone(), true) {
+        Ok(inputs) => {
+            let input_length = inputs.len();
 
-                response_tx.send(Ok((input_length, request))).unwrap_or(());
+            if input_length > max_input_length {
+                Err(ValidationError::InputLength(
+                    input_length,
+                    max_input_length,
+                ))
+            } else {
+                Ok((input_length, request))
             }
-            Err(err) => response_tx
-                .send(Err(ValidationError::Tokenizer(err.to_string())))
-                .unwrap_or(()),
-        };
+        },
+        Err(err) => Err(ValidationError::Tokenizer(err.to_string())),
     }
 }
 
@@ -167,12 +152,12 @@ pub enum ValidationError {
     TopP,
     #[error("top_k must be strictly positive")]
     TopK,
-    #[error("max_new_tokens must be <= 512")]
-    MaxNewTokens,
+    #[error("max_new_tokens must be <= {0}")]
+    MaxNewTokens(u32),
     #[error("inputs must have less than {1} tokens. Given: {0}")]
     InputLength(usize, usize),
-    #[error("stop supports up to 4 stop sequences. Given: {0}")]
-    StopSequence(usize),
+    #[error("stop supports up to {0} stop sequences. Given: {1}")]
+    StopSequence(usize, usize),
     #[error("tokenizer error {0}")]
     Tokenizer(String),
 }