UNMASS - Unsupervised NMT with Masked Sequence-to-Sequence training
Project description
MASS
MASS is a novel pre-training method for sequence to sequence based language generation tasks. It randomly masks a sentence fragment in the encoder, and then predicts it in the decoder.
MASS can be applied on cross-lingual tasks such as neural machine translation (NMT), and monolingual tasks such as text summarization. The current codebase supports unsupervised NMT (implemented based on XLM).
Credits: the original developers/researchers:
facebookresearch/XLM
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Unsupervised NMT
Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation just uses monolingual data to train the models. During MASS pre-training, the source and target languages are pre-trained in one model, with the corresponding language embeddings to differentiate the languages. During MASS fine-tuning, back-translation is used to train the unsupervised models. We provide pre-trained and fine-tuned models:
Languages | Pre-trained Model | Fine-tuned Model | BPE codes | Vocabulary |
---|---|---|---|---|
EN - FR | MODEL | MODEL | BPE codes | Vocabulary |
EN - DE | MODEL | MODEL | BPE codes | Vocabulary |
En - RO | MODEL | MODEL | BPE_codes | Vocabulary |
We are also preparing larger models on more language pairs, and will release them in the future.
Dependencies
Currently we implement MASS for unsupervised NMT based on the codebase of XLM. The depencies are as follows:
- Python 3
- NumPy
- PyTorch (version 0.4 and 1.0)
- fastBPE (for BPE codes)
- Moses (for tokenization)
- Apex (for fp16 training)
Data Ready
We use the same BPE codes and vocabulary with XLM. Here we take English-French as an example.
cd MASS
wget https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/XLM/codes_enfr
wget https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/XLM/vocab_enfr
./get-data-nmt.sh --src en --tgt fr --reload_codes codes_enfr --reload_vocab vocab_enfr
Pre-training:
python train.py \
--exp_name unsupMT_enfr \
--data_path ./data/processed/en-fr/ \
--lgs 'en-fr' \
--mass_steps 'en,fr' \
--encoder_only false \
--emb_dim 1024 \
--n_layers 6 \
--n_heads 8 \
--dropout 0.1 \
--attention_dropout 0.1 \
--gelu_activation true \
--tokens_per_batch 3000 \
--optimizer adam_inverse_sqrt,beta1=0.9,beta2=0.98,lr=0.0001 \
--epoch_size 200000 \
--max_epoch 100 \
--eval_bleu true \
--word_mass 0.5 \
--min_len 5 \
During the pre-training prcess, even without any back-translation, you can observe the model can achieve some intial BLEU scores:
epoch -> 4
valid_fr-en_mt_bleu -> 10.55
valid_en-fr_mt_bleu -> 7.81
test_fr-en_mt_bleu -> 11.72
test_en-fr_mt_bleu -> 8.80
Distributed Training
To use multiple GPUs e.g. 3 GPUs on same node
export NGPU=3; CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2 python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=$NGPU train.py [...args]
To use multiple GPUS across many nodes, use Slurm to request multi-node job and launch the above command. The code automatically detects the SLURM_* environment vars to distribute the training.
Fine-tuning
After pre-training, we use back-translation to fine-tune the pre-trained model on unsupervised machine translation:
MODEL=mass_enfr_1024.pth
python train.py \
--exp_name unsupMT_enfr \
--data_path ./data/processed/en-fr/ \
--lgs 'en-fr' \
--bt_steps 'en-fr-en,fr-en-fr' \
--encoder_only false \
--emb_dim 1024 \
--n_layers 6 \
--n_heads 8 \
--dropout 0.1 \
--attention_dropout 0.1 \
--gelu_activation true \
--tokens_per_batch 2000 \
--batch_size 32 \
--bptt 256 \
--optimizer adam_inverse_sqrt,beta1=0.9,beta2=0.98,lr=0.0001 \
--epoch_size 200000 \
--max_epoch 30 \
--eval_bleu true \
--reload_model "$MODEL,$MODEL" \
We also provide a demo to use MASS pre-trained model on the WMT16 en-ro bilingual dataset. We provide pre-trained and fine-tuned models:
Model | Ro-En BLEU (with BT) |
---|---|
Baseline | 34.0 |
XLM | 38.5 |
MASS | 39.1 |
Download dataset by the below command:
wget https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/XLM/codes_enro
wget https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/XLM/vocab_enro
./get-data-bilingual-enro-nmt.sh --src en --tgt ro --reload_codes codes_enro --reload_vocab vocab_enro
After download the mass pre-trained model from the above link. And use the following command to fine tune:
MODEL=mass_enro_1024.pth
python train.py \
--exp_name unsupMT_enro \
--data_path ./data/processed/en-ro \
--lgs 'en-ro' \
--bt_steps 'en-ro-en,ro-en-ro' \
--encoder_only false \
--mt_steps 'en-ro,ro-en' \
--emb_dim 1024 \
--n_layers 6 \
--n_heads 8 \
--dropout 0.1 \
--attention_dropout 0.1 \
--gelu_activation true \
--tokens_per_batch 2000 \
--batch_size 32 \
--bptt 256 \
--optimizer adam_inverse_sqrt,beta1=0.9,beta2=0.98,lr=0.0001 \
--epoch_size 200000 \
--max_epoch 50 \
--eval_bleu true \
--reload_model "$MODEL,$MODEL"
Training Details
MASS-base-uncased
uses 32x NVIDIA 32GB V100 GPUs and trains on (Wikipekia + BookCorpus, 16GB) for 20 epochs (float32), batch size is simulated as 4096.
Other questions
- Q: When I run this program in multi-gpus or multi-nodes, the program reports errors like
ModuleNotFouldError: No module named 'mass'
.
A: This seems a bug in pythonmultiprocessing/spawn.py
, a direct solution is to move these files into each relative folder under fairseq. Do not forget to modify the import path in the code.
Reference
If you find MASS useful in your work, you can cite the paper as below:
@inproceedings{song2019mass,
title={MASS: Masked Sequence to Sequence Pre-training for Language Generation},
author={Song, Kaitao and Tan, Xu and Qin, Tao and Lu, Jianfeng and Liu, Tie-Yan},
booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning},
pages={5926--5936},
year={2019}
}
Related Works
- MPNet: Masked and Permuted Pre-training for Language Understanding, by Kaitao Song, Xu Tan, Tao Qin, Jianfeng Lu, Tie-Yan Liu. GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/MPNet
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