Blenderbot

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• Blenderbot
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2. Requirments
  • 3. Example
  • 4. Code and reproduce details
    • 4.1 Code overview
    • 4.2 Convert model weight
    • 4.3 Model Verify
      • Verify Tokenizer
      • Verify Model Forward Consistency
  • 4.4 Conversation Example
  • 4.5 Others
  • 5.Model Information

1.Introduction

Open-domain chatbots is a challenging in Machine Learning/ Deep Learning fields. The experiment in Recipes for building an open-domain chatbot shows that chatbot is able to emphasize key points, maintaining a consistent persona under appropriate training and generating methods.

Blenderbot Generator applied traditional Seq2Seq Transformer architecture, this repository reproduced Blenderbot (referred to model with 2.7B parameters) and BlenderbotSmall (referred to model with 90M parameters) in Recipes for building an open-domain chatbot using PaddlePaddle.

2. Requirements

This repo use python==3.7 and paddlepaddle==2.1.2, both model forward test and weight converting are done in CPU mode.

Install paddle and paddlenlp relevant requirements.

pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m pip install paddlepaddle -i https://mirror.baidu.com/pypi/simple

To conduct weight converting and forward test, torch and transformers are needed:

torch==1.7.1
transformers==4.9.1

useful links:

pip install torch==1.7.1+cpu torchvision==0.8.2+cpu torchaudio==0.7.2 -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html

3. Example

For BlenderbotSmall:

from paddlenlp.transformers import BlenderbotSmallTokenizer,BlenderbotSmallForConditionalGeneration
model_name = "blenderbot_small-90M"

# load pretrained model
tokneizer = BlenderbotSmallTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = BlenderbotSmallForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(model_name)

text = "it is a nice day today!" 
inputs = tokenizer(text)
input_tensor = paddle.to_tensor([inputs["input_ids"]])

logits = model(input_tensor)

For Blenderbot:

from paddlenlp.transformers import BlenderbotTokenizer,BlenderbotForConditionalGeneration
model_name = "blenderbot-400M-distill"

tokneizer = BlenderbotTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = BlenderbotForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(model_name)

text = "it is a nice day today!" 
inputs = tokenizer(text)
input_tensor = paddle.to_tensor([inputs["input_ids"]])

logits = model(input_tensor)

other model_name options: blenderbot-1B-distill, blenderbot-3B.

4. Code and reproduce details

4.1 Code overview

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├── data
│   └── blenderbot_small-90M        //pretrain weight and vocab store path
├── paddlenlp                       //paddlenlp library
│   └── transformers
│       ├── blenderbot              //blenderbot - referred to 2.7B model
│       │   ├── modeling.py         //model
│       │   └── tokenizer.py        //blenderbot tokenizer
│       └── blenderbot_small        //blenderbot_small - referred to 90Mmodel
│           ├── modeling.py
│           └── tokenizer.py
├── img                             //Readme image path
├── README.md                       //Readme in English
├── README_cn.md                    //Readme in Chinese
├── requirements.txt                //paddlenlp relevant requirements
├── model_check.py                  //forward accuracy check
├── convert.py                      //file for convert weight
└── tokenizer_check.py              //tokenizer consistency check

4.2 Convert model weight

Convert pretrained model weight from Hugging Face, the model to convert is blenderbot_small-90M, blenderbot-400M-distill, blenderbot-1B-distill, and blenderbot-3B. Please download the corresponding pretrained weight before convert them.

Convert model weight for blenderbot-400M-distill :

python convert.py --model_name=blenderbot-400M-distill --torch_file_folder=../../../Download

Notes:

• --model_name should be selected from：blenderbot-400M-distill, blenderbot_small-90M, blenderbot-1B-distill, blenderbot-3B.
• The code will load hugging face weight from --torch_file_folder/model_name/pytorch_model.bin. For instance, the loading path of above sample code is ../../../Download/blenderbot-400M-distill/pytorch_model.bin . The default output path is ./data/blenderbot-400M-distill/model_state.pdparams
• For hugging face, blenderbot-400M-distill and blenderbot_small-90M use float32 as the default dtype, while blenderbot-1B-distill , blenderbot-3B use float16. You might pass --dtype parameter (default as float32) to modify the output dtype, for example:

python convert.py --model_name=blenderbot-3B --torch_file_folder=../../../Download --dtype=float16

links for converted paddle weight:

Baidu Drive: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1MGHSE4Q_mXEMuYT3CwzJiA Password: lgl5

4.3 Model Verify

Verify Tokenizer

Verify Blenderbotsmall tokenizer

python tokenizer_check.py --model_name=blenderbot_small-90M

input text: My friends are cool but they eat too many carbs.

torch tokenizer: [42, 643, 46, 1430, 45, 52, 1176, 146, 177, 753, 2430, 5]

paddle tokenizer: [42, 643, 46, 1430, 45, 52, 1176, 146, 177, 753, 2430, 5]

Verify Blenderbot tokenizer

python tokenizer_check.py --model_name=blenderbot-400M-distill

input text: My friends are cool but they eat too many carbs.

torch tokenizer: [863, 1329, 366, 1449, 373, 382, 1861, 618, 847, 911, 1372, 21, 2]

paddle tokenizer: [863, 1329, 366, 1449, 373, 382, 1861, 618, 847, 911, 1372, 21, 2]

Verify Model Forward Propagation Consistency

Since the dtype of blenderbot-400M-distill and blenderbot_small-90M is float32, to conduct the following test, please convert the corresponding weight with dtype float32.

Verify blenderbot-400M-distill

python model_check.py --model_name=blenderbot-400M-distill

Verify blenderbot_small-90M

python model_check.py --model_name=blenderbot_small-90M

Verify blenderbot-1B-distill

4.4 Conversation Example

import paddle
from paddlenlp.transformers import BlenderbotTokenizer, BlenderbotForConditionalGeneration

pretrained_model_name = "blenderbot-400M-distill"
tokenizer = BlenderbotTokenizer.from_pretrained(pretrained_model_name)
model = BlenderbotForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(pretrained_model_name)

sample_text = "My friends are cool but they eat too many carbs."
inputs = tokenizer(sample_text, return_attention_mask=True, return_token_type_ids=False)
inputs = {k: paddle.to_tensor([v]) for (k, v) in inputs.items()}

# Generate response using beam search
result_ids, scores = model.generate(input_ids=inputs['input_ids'],
                                    max_length=60,
                                    min_length=20,
                                    decode_strategy='beam_search',
                                    num_beams=10,
                                    length_penalty=0.65)
for sequence_ids in result_ids.numpy().tolist():
    print("User:\t", sample_text)
    print("bot:\t", tokenizer.convert_ids_to_string(sequence_ids))
    # "bot:	  That's unfortunate. Are they trying to lose weight?"

4.5 Others

Blenderbot Vs. BlenderbotSmall

Parameters in Hugging face config file	BlenderbotSmall (Value)	Blenderbot (Value)
Normalize_before	False	True
add_final_layer_norm	False	True
normalize_embedding	True	False

• normalize_before refers to normalize_before parameter in nn.TransformerEncoderLayer .
• Whennormalize_embedding is True, in encoder and decoder, the layer norm will be applied on input_embeds . Please referred to line 241 in paddlenlp/transformers/blenderbot_small/modeling.py for detail.
• When add_final_layer_norm is True, in encoder and decoder, layer norm will be applied on encoder_output and decoder_output. Please referred to line 222 in paddlenlp/transformers/blenderbot/modeling.py for detail.

Some parameters about generating the prediction result is not configured in this repo:

{"length_penalty": 0.65,
  "max_length": 60,
  "min_length": 20,
  "num_beams": 10,
  "force_bos_token_to_be_generated": false,
  "forced_eos_token_id": 2,}

Other parameters, which are not configured in this repo:

{
  "classif_dropout": 0.0,
  "decoder_layerdrop": 0.0,
  "encoder_layerdrop": 0.0,
  "do_blenderbot_90_layernorm": true, 
  "static_position_embeddings": false,
  "use_cache": true,
  "num_hidden_layers": 2,
  "layernorm_variant": "prelayernorm",
  "is_encoder_decoder": true,
  "encoder_no_repeat_ngram_size": 3,
}

For do_lenderbot_90_layernorm , which is mentioned in transformers configuration, no related settings was found in transformers.model.blenderbot source code. You might refer to some discussions about this parameter.

The value for decoder_layerdrop and encoder_layerdrop are both 0, which is consistent with TransformersDecoder/ TransformersEncoder in paddlenlp.

5.Model Information

Information Name	Description
Announcer	kevin Wu
Time	2021.08
Framework Version	Paddle 2.1.2
Application Scenario	NLP/ Dialogue
Supported Hardwares	GPU、CPU
Download Links	pretrained model weight Baidu Drive Password: lgl5