transformers-from-scratch 0.1.1

Encoder, decoder, and encoder-decoder Transformer architectures in PyTorch

Transformer Variants

Implementations of encoder, decoder, and encoder-decoder Transformer architectures in PyTorch, following "Attention Is All You Need" (Vaswani et al., 2017).

Installation

pip install transformers-from-scratch

PyTorch is required but not installed automatically (to allow users to choose their CUDA build). Install it first from pytorch.org.

Development Setup

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Modules

The transformer_variants package provides three stand-alone models and the building blocks they are composed of.

Class	Description
EncoderTransformer	BERT-style bidirectional encoder
DecoderOnlyTransformer	GPT-style autoregressive decoder
EncoderDecoderTransformer	Sequence-to-sequence encoder-decoder
DecoderTransformer	Decoder component — not for stand-alone use

Usage

import torch
from transformer_variants import EncoderTransformer, DecoderOnlyTransformer, EncoderDecoderTransformer

VOCAB_SIZE, MAX_SEQ_LEN = 32000, 512
D_MODEL, D_FF, N_HEADS, N_BLOCKS = 512, 2048, 8, 6

Encoder

model = EncoderTransformer(VOCAB_SIZE, MAX_SEQ_LEN, D_MODEL, D_FF, N_HEADS, N_BLOCKS)

src = torch.randint(0, VOCAB_SIZE, (B, T_src))          # [B, T_src]
src_mask = (src == pad_id).unsqueeze(1)                 # [B, 1, T_src]  True = padding

out = model(src, src_mask)                              # [B, T_src, d_model]

Decoder-only

model = DecoderOnlyTransformer(VOCAB_SIZE, MAX_SEQ_LEN, D_MODEL, D_FF, N_HEADS, N_BLOCKS)

tgt = torch.randint(0, VOCAB_SIZE, (B, T))              # [B, T]
pad_mask = (tgt == pad_id).unsqueeze(1)                 # [B, 1, T]  True = padding (optional)

logits = model(tgt, pad_mask)                           # [B, T, vocab_size]

A causal mask is generated internally — no need to pass one.

Encoder-decoder

model = EncoderDecoderTransformer(VOCAB_SIZE, MAX_SEQ_LEN, D_MODEL, D_FF, N_HEADS, N_BLOCKS, N_BLOCKS)

src = torch.randint(0, VOCAB_SIZE, (B, T_src))          # [B, T_src]
tgt = torch.randint(0, VOCAB_SIZE, (B, T_tgt))          # [B, T_tgt]

src_mask = (src == pad_id).unsqueeze(1)                 # [B, 1, T_src]
T_tgt = tgt.size(1)
causal = torch.ones(T_tgt, T_tgt, dtype=torch.bool).triu(1).unsqueeze(0)  # [1, T_tgt, T_tgt]
tgt_mask = causal | (tgt == pad_id).unsqueeze(1)        # [B, T_tgt, T_tgt]

logits = model(src, tgt, src_mask, tgt_mask)            # [B, T_tgt, vocab_size]

Running tests

python -m unittest test -v