DIET-pytorch

Dual Intent Entity Transformer Pytorch version

It is implemented pytorch-lightning based module

How to train

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1. Training

   from DIET import trainer
   
   trainer.train(
       file_path,
   
       #training args
       train_ratio=0.8,
       batch_size=32,
       optimizer="Adam",
       intent_optimizer_lr=1e-5,
       entity_optimizer_lr=2e-5,
       checkpoint_path=os.getcwd(),
       max_epochs=10,
   
       #model args
       num_encoder_layers=3,
       **kwargs
   )
   

   file_path indicate markdown format NLU dataset which follow below RASA NLU training data format

   All parameters in trainer including kwargs saved as a modeel hparams

   User can check these paramters via checkpoint tensorboard logs

2. Inference

   from DIET import Inferencer
   
   inferencer = Inferencer(checkpoint_path)
   inferencer.inference(text: str, intent_topk=5)
   

   As this repository model is implemented based on pytorch-lightning, it generate checkpoint file automatically(user can set checkpoint path in training step)

   After setting checkpoint path, query text to inferencer. Result contain intent_rank, user can set n-th rank confidences of intents.

   Inference result will be like below

   {
       "text": "오늘 서울 날씨 어때?",
       "intent": {
           "confidence": 0.6323,
           "name": "ask_weather"
       },
       "intent_ranking": [
           {
               "confidence": 0.6323,
               "name": "ask_weather"
           },
           ...
       ],
       "entities": [
           {
               "start": 3,
               "end": 4,
               "value": "서울",
               "entity": "location"
           },
           ...
       ]
   }
   

How it works

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The model in this repository refered from Rasa DIET classifier.

this blog explain how it works in Rasa framework.

But more simple implementation & fast training, inference, There are several changes int here.

1. There is no CRF layer ahead TransformerEncoder layer

   In real training situation, CRF training pipeline takes a lot of training time. But it can not sure CRF model really learn token relation well or it really need(I guess transformer self-attention do similar things)

2. It takes character tokenzier for enhancing korean language parsing.

   Differ from English or other languages. Korean's character can be joined or splitted in character themselves. Considering this feature, I applied character based tokenizer

3. There is no mask loss.

   Relating upper difference, it doesn't use any pre-trained embedding and tokenizer. So masking techinique is hard to apply.