diff --git a/src/preprocessing.py b/src/preprocessing.py
index 311781a..e2995b4 100644
--- a/src/preprocessing.py
+++ b/src/preprocessing.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from Bio.SeqIO import parse
 from numpy.random import random
 from tensorflow import Tensor, int64
 from tensorflow.data import TFRecordDataset
+from tensorflow.data import AUTOTUNE, TFRecordDataset
 from tensorflow.io import TFRecordWriter, VarLenFeature, parse_single_example
 from tensorflow.sparse import to_dense
 from tensorflow.train import Example, Feature, Features, Int64List
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ def read_dataset(filepath) -> TFRecordDataset:
     Read TFRecords files and generate a dataset
     """
     data_input = TFRecordDataset(filenames=filepath)
-    dataset = data_input.map(map_func=process_input)
+    dataset = data_input.map(map_func=process_input, num_parallel_calls=AUTOTUNE)
     shuffled_dataset = dataset.shuffle(buffer_size=10000, seed=42)
     batched_dataset = shuffled_dataset.batch(batch_size=BATCH_SIZE).repeat(count=EPOCHS)
     return batched_dataset