paddlenlp 2.4.0

Easy-to-use and powerful NLP library with Awesome model zoo, supporting wide-range of NLP tasks from research to industrial applications, including Neural Search, Question Answering, Information Extraction and Sentiment Analysis end-to-end system.

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PaddleNLP is an easy-to-use and powerful NLP library with Awesome pre-trained model zoo, supporting wide-range of NLP tasks from research to industrial applications.

News 📢

• 📝 2022.8.1 PaddleNLP v2.3.5 Released！
  • Release the dialogic code generation model CodeGen, which can be easily used via Taskflow.
  • Release UIE en, supports for multiple tasks in open-domain information extraction.
  • Release RGL, an independent research prompt-base tuning approach for few-shot learning, the paper is accepted by NAACL 2022.
• 🍭 2022.6.29 PaddleNLP v2.3.4 Released! Whole series of Chinese pretrained models ERNIE Tiny are released to quickly improve deployment efficiency. We also provides smaller and faster models UIE Tiny for universal information extraction.
• 🔥 2022.5.16 PaddleNLP v2.3 Released!🎉
  • 💎 Release UIE (Universal Information Extraction) technique, single model supports multiple open-domain IE tasks. Super easy to use and finetune with few examples via Taskflow.
  • 😊 Release ERNIE 3.0 light-weight model achieved better results compared to ERNIE 2.0 on CLUE, also including 🗜️lossless model compression and ⚙️end-to-end deployment.
  • 🏥 Release ERNIE-Health, a SOTA biomedical pretrained model on CBLUE.
  • 💬 Release PLATO-XL with ⚡FasterGeneration⚡, the 11B open-domain SOTA chatbot model can be deployed on multi-GPU and do parallel inference easily.

Features

📦 Out-of-Box NLP Toolset

🤗 Awesome Chinese Model Zoo

🎛️ Industrial End-to-end System

🚀 High Performance Distributed Training and Inference

Out-of-Box NLP Toolset

Taskflow aims to provide off-the-shelf NLP pre-built task covering NLU and NLG technique, in the meanwhile with extreamly fast infernece satisfying industrial scenario.

For more usage please refer to Taskflow Docs.

Awesome Chinese Model Zoo

🀄 Comprehensive Chinese Transformer Models

We provide 45+ network architectures and over 500+ pretrained models. Not only includes all the SOTA model like ERNIE, PLATO and SKEP released by Baidu, but also integrates most of the high-quality Chinese pretrained model developed by other organizations. Use AutoModel API to ⚡SUPER FAST⚡ download pretrained mdoels of different architecture. We welcome all developers to contribute your Transformer models to PaddleNLP!

from paddlenlp.transformers import *

ernie = AutoModel.from_pretrained('ernie-3.0-medium-zh')
bert = AutoModel.from_pretrained('bert-wwm-chinese')
albert = AutoModel.from_pretrained('albert-chinese-tiny')
roberta = AutoModel.from_pretrained('roberta-wwm-ext')
electra = AutoModel.from_pretrained('chinese-electra-small')
gpt = AutoModelForPretraining.from_pretrained('gpt-cpm-large-cn')

Due to the computation limitation, you can use the ERNIE-Tiny light models to accelerate the deployment of pretrained models.

# 6L768H
ernie = AutoModel.from_pretrained('ernie-3.0-medium-zh')
# 6L384H
ernie = AutoModel.from_pretrained('ernie-3.0-mini-zh')
# 4L384H
ernie = AutoModel.from_pretrained('ernie-3.0-micro-zh')
# 4L312H
ernie = AutoModel.from_pretrained('ernie-3.0-nano-zh')

Unified API experience for NLP task like semantic representation, text classification, sentence matching, sequence labeling, question answering, etc.

import paddle
from paddlenlp.transformers import *

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('ernie-3.0-medium-zh')
text = tokenizer('natural language processing')

# Semantic Representation
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('ernie-3.0-medium-zh')
sequence_output, pooled_output = model(input_ids=paddle.to_tensor([text['input_ids']]))
# Text Classificaiton and Matching
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained('ernie-3.0-medium-zh')
# Sequence Labeling
model = AutoModelForTokenClassification.from_pretrained('ernie-3.0-medium-zh')
# Question Answering
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained('ernie-3.0-medium-zh')

Wide-range NLP Task Support

PaddleNLP provides rich examples covering mainstream NLP task to help developers accelerate problem solving. You can find our powerful transformer Model Zoo, and wide-range NLP application exmaples with detailed instructions.

Also you can run our interactive Notebook tutorial on AI Studio, a powerful platform with FREE computing resource.

PaddleNLP Transformer model summary (click to show details)

Model	Sequence Classification	Token Classification	Question Answering	Text Generation	Multiple Choice
ALBERT	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
BART	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
BERT	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
BigBird	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
BlenderBot	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
ChineseBERT	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
ConvBERT	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
CTRL	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
DistilBERT	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
ELECTRA	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
ERNIE	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
ERNIE-CTM	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌
ERNIE-Doc	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
ERNIE-GEN	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
ERNIE-Gram	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
ERNIE-M	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
FNet	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Funnel-Transformer	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
GPT	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌
LayoutLM	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
LayoutLMv2	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌
LayoutXLM	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌
LUKE	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
mBART	✅	❌	✅	❌	✅
MegatronBERT	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
MobileBERT	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌
MPNet	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
NEZHA	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
PP-MiniLM	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
ProphetNet	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Reformer	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌
RemBERT	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
RoBERTa	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
RoFormer	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
SKEP	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
SqueezeBERT	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
T5	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
TinyBERT	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
UnifiedTransformer	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
XLNet	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅

For more pretrained model usage, please refer to Transformer API Docs.

Industrial End-to-end System

We provide high value scenarios including information extraction, semantic retrieval, questionn answering high-value.

For more details industial cases please refer to Applications.

🔍 Neural Search System

For more details please refer to Neural Search.

❓ Question Answering System

We provide question answering pipeline which can support FAQ system, Document-level Visual Question answering system based on 🚀RocketQA.

For more details please refer to Question Answering and Document VQA.

💌 Opinion Extraction and Sentiment Analysis

We build an opinion extraction system for product review and fine-grained sentiment analysis based on SKEP Model.

For more details please refer to Sentiment Analysis.

🎙️ Speech Command Analysis

Integrated ASR Model, Information Extraction, we provide a speech command analysis pipeline that show how to use PaddleNLP and PaddleSpeech to solve Speech + NLP real scenarios.

For more details please refer to Speech Command Analysis.

High Performance Distributed Training and Inference

⚡ FasterTokenizer: High Performance Text Preprocessing Library

AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ernie-3.0-medium-zh", use_faster=True)

Set use_faster=True to use C++ Tokenizer kernel to achieve 100x faster on text pre-processing. For more usage please refer to FasterTokenizer.

⚡ FasterGeneration: High Perforance Generation Library

model = GPTLMHeadModel.from_pretrained('gpt-cpm-large-cn')
...
outputs, _ = model.generate(
    input_ids=inputs_ids, max_length=10, decode_strategy='greedy_search',
    use_faster=True)

Set use_faster=True to achieve 5x speedup for Transformer, GPT, BART, PLATO, UniLM text generation. For more usage please refer to FasterGeneration.

🚀 Fleet: 4D Hybrid Distributed Training

For more super large-scale model pre-training details please refer to GPT-3.

Installation

Prerequisites

• python >= 3.6
• paddlepaddle >= 2.2

More information about PaddlePaddle installation please refer to PaddlePaddle's Website.

Python pip Installation

pip install --upgrade paddlenlp

Quick Start

Taskflow aims to provide off-the-shelf NLP pre-built task covering NLU and NLG scenario, in the meanwhile with extreamly fast infernece satisfying industrial applications.

from paddlenlp import Taskflow

# Chinese Word Segmentation
seg = Taskflow("word_segmentation")
seg("第十四届全运会在西安举办")
>>> ['第十四届', '全运会', '在', '西安', '举办']

# POS Tagging
tag = Taskflow("pos_tagging")
tag("第十四届全运会在西安举办")
>>> [('第十四届', 'm'), ('全运会', 'nz'), ('在', 'p'), ('西安', 'LOC'), ('举办', 'v')]

# Named Entity Recognition
ner = Taskflow("ner")
ner("《孤女》是2010年九州出版社出版的小说，作者是余兼羽")
>>> [('《', 'w'), ('孤女', '作品类_实体'), ('》', 'w'), ('是', '肯定词'), ('2010年', '时间类'), ('九州出版社', '组织机构类'), ('出版', '场景事件'), ('的', '助词'), ('小说', '作品类_概念'), ('，', 'w'), ('作者', '人物类_概念'), ('是', '肯定词'), ('余兼羽', '人物类_实体')]

# Dependency Parsing
ddp = Taskflow("dependency_parsing")
ddp("9月9日上午纳达尔在亚瑟·阿什球场击败俄罗斯球员梅德韦杰夫")
>>> [{'word': ['9月9日', '上午', '纳达尔', '在', '亚瑟·阿什球场', '击败', '俄罗斯', '球员', '梅德韦杰夫'], 'head': [2, 6, 6, 5, 6, 0, 8, 9, 6], 'deprel': ['ATT', 'ADV', 'SBV', 'MT', 'ADV', 'HED', 'ATT', 'ATT', 'VOB']}]

# Sentiment Analysis
senta = Taskflow("sentiment_analysis")
senta("这个产品用起来真的很流畅，我非常喜欢")
>>> [{'text': '这个产品用起来真的很流畅，我非常喜欢', 'label': 'positive', 'score': 0.9938690066337585}]

API Reference

• Support LUGE dataset loading and compatible with Hugging Face Datasets. For more details please refer to Dataset API.
• Using Hugging Face style API to load 500+ selected transformer models and download with fast speed. For more information please refer to Transformers API.
• One-line of code to load pre-trained word embedding. For more usage please refer to Embedding API.

Please find all PaddleNLP API Reference from our readthedocs.

Community

Special Interest Group (SIG)

Welcome to join PaddleNLP SIG for contribution, eg. Dataset, Models and Toolkit.

Slack

To connect with other users and contributors, welcome to join our Slack channel.

WeChat

Scan the QR code below with your Wechat⬇️. You can access to official technical exchange group. Look forward to your participation.

Citation

If you find PaddleNLP useful in your research, please consider cite

@misc{=paddlenlp,
    title={PaddleNLP: An Easy-to-use and High Performance NLP Library},
    author={PaddleNLP Contributors},
    howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleNLP}},
    year={2021}
}

Acknowledge

We have borrowed from Hugging Face's Transformers🤗 excellent design on pretrained models usage, and we would like to express our gratitude to the authors of Hugging Face and its open source community.

License

PaddleNLP is provided under the Apache-2.0 License.