visuallm 0.2.0

Visualization tool for various generation tasks on Language Models.

Conditional Language Model Generation Visualization

VERSION: 0.2.0

• when evaluating language models it is often pain to see what is generated and why
• this little package is a vue.js frontend together with flask backend and it is designed to easily show some interesting visualizations on conditional generation models
• it handles frontend-backend communication as well as frontend rendering
• hence the developper can focus only on ML aspects of his work!

Usage

The library is composed of three parts:

1. Server - visuallm.server.Server
2. Component - visuallm.component_base.ComponentBase
3. Elements - visuallm.elements.*

Expected Workflow

1. Create a class inheriting from visuallm.component_base.ComponentBase. In __init__ you should:

• create all the elements from which the page should be composed

# ./examples_py/simple_component.py lines 1-15
from visuallm.component_base import ComponentBase
from visuallm.elements.plain_text_element import PlainTextElement


class SimpleComponent(ComponentBase):
    def __init__(self):
        self.main_heading_element = PlainTextElement(
            is_heading=True, heading_level=2, content="Really Easy Component"
        )
        self.text_element = PlainTextElement(
            content="""
                Some really interesting text that isn't formatted in any way, it is
                just a plain simple text
            """
        )

• call super().__init__, where you specify name and title of the component as well as the created elements in the order that they should appear in the page

# ./examples_py/simple_component.py lines 16-21
        super().__init__(
            name="simple_component",
            title="Simple Component",
            elements=[self.main_heading_element, self.text_element],
        )

2. Initialize llm_generation_server.server.Server and pass in the initialized components

# ./examples_py/simple_app.py
from visuallm.server import Server

from .simple_component import SimpleComponent

server = Server(__name__, [SimpleComponent()])
app = server.app

3. Standard method to run the flask application, e.g. for the example provided above, it would be

python3 -m flask --app examples_py.simple_app run

Implemented Elements

I wrote this library to help me visualize the output distributions of various models I implemented during my master's thesis. Therefore I implemented only few basic elements for ML purposes.

In the following paragraphs I'll explain how to create configuration selectors, tables and bar-charts, and I'll use the following server: (You'll see the implementation of each of yet unknown components)

# ./examples_py/app.py
from visuallm.server import Server

from .bar_chart_component_advanced import BarChartComponentAdvanced
from .bar_chart_component_simple import BarChartComponentSimple
from .selector_component import SelectorComponent
from .table_component import TableComponent
from .text_input_component import TextInputComponent
from .two_tables_component import TwoTablesComponent

flask_app = Server(
    __name__,
    [
        BarChartComponentAdvanced(),
        BarChartComponentSimple(),
        BarChartComponentSimple(long_contexts=True, title="Long Contexts BarChart"),
        TableComponent(),
        TwoTablesComponent(),
        SelectorComponent(),
        TextInputComponent(),
    ],
)
app = flask_app.app

You can see the generated page by running the following script after cloning the github repository and navigating into it:

flask --app examples_py.app run

Configuration Selection

Several different kinds of configuration specifier, together with one button element. The button element allows backend communication and by itself it does nothing. However you can specify subelements, for which the button element will provide communication updates. For the example below, the following imports will be used:

# ./examples_py/selector_component.py lines 1-10
import time

from visuallm.component_base import ComponentBase
from visuallm.elements.plain_text_element import PlainTextElement
from visuallm.elements.selector_elements import (
    ButtonElement,
    CheckBoxSubElement,
    ChoicesSubElement,
    MinMaxSubElement,
)

MinMax SubElement

Input element for setting integer in a range.

# ./examples_py/selector_component.py lines 13-18
class SelectorComponent(ComponentBase):
    def __init__(self):
        self.text_element = PlainTextElement(content="Nothing was selected")
        self.number_selector_element = MinMaxSubElement(
            sample_min=0, sample_max=10, text="Select Number:"
        )

Choices SubElement

Input element for choosing between several choices.

# ./examples_py/selector_component.py lines 19-21
        self.choices_element = ChoicesSubElement(
            choices=["super", "magnificent", "incredible"], text="This library is:"
        )

Checkbox SubElement

Simple checkbox input element.

# ./examples_py/selector_component.py lines 22
        self.checkbox_element = CheckBoxSubElement(text="Have you slept?:")

Button Element

This is an element that should encapsulate all the other configuration selection elements. It needs a callback method that will be called when the button is pressed and we provide ButtonElement.default_select_callback() which handles processing all the changes sent from the frontend and attributing them to subelement.selected properties of subelements.

# ./examples_py/selector_component.py lines 23-61
        self.button_element = ButtonElement(
            processing_callback=self.button_clicked,
            subelements=[
                self.number_selector_element,
                self.choices_element,
                self.checkbox_element,
            ],
        )
        super().__init__(
            name="selector_component",
            title="Selector Component",
            elements=[
                PlainTextElement(
                    is_heading=True, heading_level=2, content="Selector Component"
                ),
                self.button_element,
                self.text_element,
            ],
        )

    def button_clicked(self):
        n = self.number_selector_element.selected
        c = self.choices_element.selected
        b = (
            "I say it as a well-relaxed man!"
            if self.checkbox_element.selected
            else "Don't take me seriously."
        )
        any_updated = (
            self.number_selector_element.updated
            or self.choices_element.updated
            or self.checkbox_element.updated
        )
        self.text_element.content = (
            f"This library is {c} and I would give "
            + f"it {n} stars out of {n} if I could. ({b})"
            + f" This {'has' if any_updated else 'has not'} changed!"
        )
        time.sleep(n)

Table Element

This element can show several tables on the frontend together with a special feature, links between rows of the tables. They may connect different rows of different tables and display some value above links. The below example displays, how to generate one table on the frontend with the links pointing from each row to all the upwards rows as displayed on the image.

# ./examples_py/table_component.py
from visuallm.component_base import ComponentBase
from visuallm.elements.plain_text_element import PlainTextElement
from visuallm.elements.table_element import LinkBetweenRows, TableElement


class TableComponent(ComponentBase):
    def __init__(self):
        self._initialize_table_element()
        super().__init__(
            name="table_component",
            title="Table Component",
            elements=[
                PlainTextElement(
                    is_heading=True, heading_level=2, content="Table Component"
                ),
                self.table_element,
            ],
        )

    def _initialize_table_element(self):
        """Create a simple table with links pointing to all the rows upwards"""
        self.table_element = TableElement()

        # create a table with headers
        headers = ["No.", "Turn"]
        rows = [
            [i, x]
            for i, x in enumerate(
                [
                    "This is first row",
                    "This is second row",
                    "This is third row",
                    "This is fourth row",
                    "This is fifth row",
                ]
            )
        ]
        self.table_element.clear()
        TABLE_NAME = "Table1 is a Great Table"
        self.table_element.add_table(TABLE_NAME, headers, rows)

        # add links pointing to all the rows upwards
        for j in range(len(rows) - 1, 0, -1):
            for i in range(j):
                self.table_element.add_link_between_rows(
                    LinkBetweenRows(TABLE_NAME, j, TABLE_NAME, i, Label="some value")
                )

Table Element (Advanced)

Let's look at an advanced example of table element, where we create two tables and add links which connect multiple tables. I will only show the important snippets of code.

Firstly, we will import Colors enumeration to color links to different tables with different colors.

# ./examples_py/two_tables_component.py lines 1-7
from visuallm.component_base import ComponentBase
from visuallm.elements.plain_text_element import PlainTextElement
from visuallm.elements.table_element import Colors, LinkBetweenRows, TableElement


class TwoTablesComponent(ComponentBase):
    def __init__(self):

Secondly, we will create the links in such a way, that links going within the same table will be colored orange (the default color), while the links going to the other table will be colored light blue. Also links within one table will be thin, while links to the other table will be thick (Importance parameter).

# ./examples_py/two_tables_component.py lines 65-69
        # add links pointing from each row of the second table to all the rows
        # of the first table and also to all the rows of the second table
        # upwards
        for j in range(len(rows[1]) - 1, 0, -1):
            # links going from the row j of the second table to all the upper

BarChart Element

This element displays a modular horizontal barchart. It has several configuration options, so I'll try to show-case several of them.

The default bar-chart displays a horizontal selectable bar-chart. It is useful for displaying softmax distributions for the next token prediction. I implemented it in such a way that it is selectable, hence you can navigate the whole process of sequence generation in the same way as the automatic generation would do. Hence this component also implements frontend-backend communication and you can supply an endpoint_callback to it.

# ./examples_py/bar_chart_component_simple.py lines 1-47
import heapq
import math
import random

import requests

from visuallm.component_base import ComponentBase
from visuallm.elements.barchart_element import BarChartElement
from visuallm.elements.plain_text_element import PlainTextElement


class BarChartComponentSimple(ComponentBase):
    def __init__(self, long_contexts: bool = False, title="BarChart Component"):
        self.word_vocab, self.word_ids = download_word_vocabulary()
        self.barchart_element = BarChartElement(
            processing_callback=self.barchart_callback, long_contexts=long_contexts
        )
        self.text_element = PlainTextElement()
        self.update_barchart_component()

        super().__init__(
            name="barchart_component",
            title=title,
            elements=[self.barchart_element, self.text_element],
        )

    def update_barchart_component(self):
        probs = sample_ten_words(self.word_ids)
        ten_largest_probs = heapq.nlargest(10, zip(*zip(*probs), self.word_vocab))

        # bar height is the height of the bar, should be between 0 and 100
        bar_heights = [[x[0]] for x in ten_largest_probs]

        # bar annotation is the text displayed within the bar
        bar_annotations = [[f"{x[0]:.2f}%"] for x in ten_largest_probs]

        # annotation is the name of whole bar sub element
        annotations = [x[-1] for x in ten_largest_probs]

        self.barchart_element.set_possibilities(
            bar_heights, bar_annotations, annotations
        )

    def barchart_callback(self):
        s = self.barchart_element.selected
        self.text_element.content = f"Last selected: {s}"
        self.update_barchart_component()

When you set long_contexts option to true, the bar charts will be below the bar titles.

BarChart Element (Advanced)

This example will display the advanced possibilities I use when e.g. comparing different generation candidates provided by the model.

When I want to compare several candidates, I can display multi-bar-chart, e.g. add multiple bars with different heights, different annotations, each describing one particular quality of the generated sample.

# ./examples_py/bar_chart_component_advanced.py lines 1-46
import math
import random
from typing import List

from visuallm.component_base import ComponentBase
from visuallm.elements.barchart_element import BarChartElement


class BarChartComponentAdvanced(ComponentBase):
    def __init__(self):
        self.barchart_element = BarChartElement(
            long_contexts=True,
            names=["Quality", "Perplexity", "Consistency", "Fluency"],
        )
        self.init_barchart_element()
        super().__init__(
            name="advanced_barchart",
            title="Advanced BarChart",
            elements=[self.barchart_element],
        )

    def init_barchart_element(self):
        ds = []
        size_of_distro = 5
        for i in range(len(self.barchart_element.names)):
            ds.append(make_some_distribution(size_of_distro))

        # bar height is the height of the bar, should be between 0 and 100
        bar_heights = list(zip(*ds))

        # bar annotation is the text displayed within the bar
        bar_annotations = [[f"{h:.2f}" for h in hs] for hs in bar_heights]

        # annotation is the name of whole bar sub element
        annotations = [
            "Use the portable output format.",
            "Give very verbose output about all the program knows about.",
            "Terminate option list.",
            "You should document the library so that the potential user "
            + "could make sense of it.",
            "This will indicate the state of the repository that should be "
            + "evaluated.",
        ]
        self.barchart_element.set_possibilities(
            bar_heights, bar_annotations, annotations
        )

Text Input Element

Allows chat-like interfaces with the models.

# ./examples_py/text_input_component.py
from visuallm.component_base import ComponentBase
from visuallm.elements.plain_text_element import PlainTextElement
from visuallm.elements.text_input_element import TextInputElement


class TextInputComponent(ComponentBase):
    def __init__(self):
        self.text_display_element = PlainTextElement(
            content="Nothing has been typed in yet"
        )
        self.text_input_element = TextInputElement(processing_callback=self.text_sent)

        super().__init__(
            name="text_input_component",
            title="Text Input Component",
            elements=[self.text_display_element, self.text_input_element],
        )

    def text_sent(self):
        self.text_display_element.content = self.text_input_element.text_input