RAN: Recurrent Attention Network

📢 This project is still in the works in order to make long document modeling easier.

⬇️ Installation

stable

python -m pip install -U rannet

latest

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/4AI/RAN.git

environment

• ⭐ tensorflow>2.0,<=2.10 🤗 export TF_KERAS=1
• tensorflow>=1.14,<2.0 🤗 Keras==2.3.1

🏛️ Pretrained Models

🚀 Quick Tour

🈶 w/ pretrained models

For the classification task

from rannet import RanNet, RanNetWordPieceTokenizer


vocab_path = 'pretrained/vocab.txt'
ckpt_path = 'pretrained/model.ckpt'
config_path = 'pretrained/config.json'
tokenizer = RanNetWordPieceTokenizer(vocab_path, lowercase=True)

rannet, rannet_model = RanNet.load_rannet(
    config_path=config_path, checkpoint_path=ckpt_path, return_sequences=False)
output = rannet_model.output  # (B, D)
output = L.Dropout(0.1)(output)
output = L.Dense(2, activation='softmax')(output)
model = keras.models.Model(rannet_model.input, output)
model.summary()

For the sequence task

from rannet import RanNet, RanNetWordPieceTokenizer


vocab_path = 'pretrained/vocab.txt'
ckpt_path = 'pretrained/model.ckpt'
config_path = 'pretrained/config.json'
tokenizer = RanNetWordPieceTokenizer(vocab_path, lowercase=True)

rannet, rannet_model = RanNet.load_rannet(
    config_path=config_path, checkpoint_path=ckpt_path, return_cell=False)
output = rannet_model.output  # (B, L, D)
rannet_model.summary()

🈚 w/o pretrained models

Embed the RAN (a Keras layer) into your network.

from rannet import RAN

ran = RAN(head_num=8,
          head_size=256,
          window_size=256,
          min_window_size=16,
          activation='swish',
          kernel_initializer='glorot_normal',
          apply_lm_mask=False,
          apply_seq2seq_mask=False,
          apply_memory_review=True,
          dropout_rate=0.0,
          cell_initializer_type='zero')
output, cell = ran(X)

📚 Citation

If you use our code in your research, please cite our work:

@inproceedings{li-etal-2023-ran,
    title = "Recurrent Attention Networks for Long-text Modeling",
    author = "Li, Xianming and Li, Zongxi and Luo, Xiaotian and Xie, Haoran and Lee, Xing and Zhao, Yingbin and Wang, Fu Lee and Li, Qing",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023",
    year = "2023",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics"
}

Contact

Please contact us at 1) for code problems, create a GitHub issue; 2) for paper problems, email xmlee97@gmail.com