MultiQA is a project whose goal is to facilitate training and evaluating reading
comprehension models over arbitrary sets of datasets.
All datasets are in a single format, and it is accompanied by
an AllenNLP DatasetReader and model that enable easy training and evaluation
on multiple subsets of datasets.
This repository contains the code for our paper MultiQA: An Empirical Investigation of Generalization and Transfer in Reading Comprehension.
This work was performed at The Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence.
This project is constantly being improved. Contributions, comments and suggestions are welcome!
| Date | Message |
|---|---|
| Jan 21, 2020 | bug fix |
Link to the single format datasets are provided in to formats: MultiQA, and SQuAD2.0. The SQuAD2.0 are GZipped JSONs that are the results of applying convert_multiqa_to_squad_format to the MultiQA dataset. To used them with Pytorch-Transformers code simply unzip them. (see models Readme for an example)
| Dataset | MultiQA format | SQuAD2.0 format (GZipped) |
|---|---|---|
| SQuAD-1.1 | train , dev | train , dev |
| SQuAD-2.0 | train , dev | train , dev |
| NewsQA | train , dev | train , dev |
| HotpotQA | train , dev | train , dev |
| TriviaQA-unfiltered | dev | dev |
| TriviaQA-wiki | train , dev | train , dev |
| SearchQA | train , dev | train , dev |
| BoolQ | train , dev | train , dev |
| ComplexWebQuestions | train , dev | train , dev |
| DROP | train , dev | train , dev |
| WikiHop | train , dev | train , dev |
| DuoRC Paraphrase | train , dev | train , dev |
| DuoRC Self | train , dev | train , dev |
| ComplexQuestions | train , dev | train , dev |
| ComQA | train , dev | train , dev |
| Natural Questions | Coming soon | Coming soon |
Datasets will be addeed weekly, so please stay tuned!
Trained Models for download and results will be posted in this table. The BERT-Base column contains evaluation results (EM/F1) as well as a link to the trained model. The MultiQA-5Base column contain the link to the model (in the header) and evalution results for this model. This model is BERT-Base that has been trained on 5 datasets. The pytorch-transformers columns contain .bin models trained with pytorch-transformers code added.
| Dataset | BERT-Base AllenNLP |
BERT Base uncased Pytorch-Transformers |
MultiQA-5Base AllenNLP (model) |
BERT-Large AllenNLP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQuAD-1.1 | 80.1 / 87.5 (model) |
80.2 / 87.7 (model) |
81.7 / 88.8 | 83.3 / 90.3 (model) |
| NewsQA | 47.5 / 62.9 (model) |
47.5 / 62.3 (model) |
48.3 / 64.7 | 50.3 / 66.0 (model) |
| HotpotQA | 50.1 / 63.2 (model) |
- | 54.0 / 67.0 (model) |
|
| TriviaQA-unfiltered | 59.4 / 65.2 (model) |
59.0 / 64.7 | 60.7 / 66.5 (model) |
|
| TriviaQA-wiki | 57.5 / 62.3 (model) |
- | - | |
| SearchQA | 58.7 / 65.2 (model) |
58.8 / 65.3 | 60.5 / 67.3 (model) |
In order to simply train BERT on multiple datasets (with AllenNLP) please use:
python multiqa.py train --datasets SQuAD1-1,NewsQA,SearchQA --cuda_device 0,1,2,3
python multiqa.py evaluate --model SQuAD1-1 --datasets SQuAD1-1,NewsQA,SearchQA --cuda_device 0
By default the output will be stored in models/datatset1_dataset2_... to change this please change --serialization_dir
Type python multiqa.py for additional options.
Note, this version uses the default multiqa format datasets stored in s3, to use your own dataset please see Readme for using allennlp core commands.
If you prefer using SQuAD2.0 format, or run the Pytorch-Trasformers models, please use:
python convert_multiqa_to_squad_format.py --datasets https://multiqa.s3.amazonaws.com/data/HotpotQA_dev.jsonl.gz --output_file data/squad_format/HotpotQA_dev.json
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First, clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/alontalmor/MultiQA.git -
Change your directory to where you cloned the files:
cd MultiQA -
Create a virtual environment with Python 3.6 or above:
virtualenv venv --python=python3.7 (or python3.7 -m venv venv or conda create -n multiqa python=3.7) -
Activate the virtual environment. You will need to activate the venv environment in each terminal in which you want to use MultiQA.
source venv/bin/activate (or source venv/bin/activate.csh or conda activate multiqa) -
Install the required dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt
You can test all challenges using pytest, or using pycharm tests directory (pytest-pycharm added):
pytest pytests
The allennlp caching infra is used, so be sure to have enough disk space, and control the cache directory using ALLENNLP_CACHE_ROOT env variable.
This will take a dataset from it's original URL and output the same dataset in the MultiQA format.
python build_dataset.py --dataset_name HotpotQA --split train --output_file path/to/output.jsonl.gz --n_processes 10
first argument is the allennlp model, second is the preprocessed evalutaion file ( path/to/output.jsonl.gz in preprocess), then the dataset name (in order to create the official predictions format)
python predict.py --model https://multiqa.s3.amazonaws.com/models/BERTBase/SQuAD1-1.tar.gz --dataset https://multiqa.s3.amazonaws.com/data/SQuAD1-1_dev.jsonl.gz --dataset_name SQuAD
To predict only a the first N examples use --sample_size N
To add a GPU device simply append: --cuda_device 0
By default the output will be saved at results/DATASET_NAME/... You may also change the output filename and path using --prediction_filepath path/to/my/output
see Readme in the datasets folder. A json-schema for a single context in multiqa is available here.
see Readme in the models folder.
see Readme in the models folder.
Allennlp caching infra is used, so make sure to have enough disk space, and control the cache directory using ALLENNLP_CACHE_ROOT env variable.