anuradha1992/EmpatheticDialogues

Dialogue model that produces empathetic responses when trained on the EmpatheticDialogues dataset.

EmpatheticDialogues

PyTorch original implementation of Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: a New Benchmark and Dataset (https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00207).

We provide a novel dataset of 25k conversations grounded in emotional situations. The code in this repo demonstrates that automated metrics (P@1,100 and BLEU) are improved both when using candidates from our dataset and when fine-tuning on it.

This repo contains code for:

• Transformer-based retrieval (pretraining, fine-tuning)
• BERT-based retrieval (pretraining, fine-tuning)
• Prepending classifier labels (e.g. EmoPrepend-1)

Dataset

To download the EmpatheticDialogues dataset:

wget https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/parlai/empatheticdialogues/empatheticdialogues.tar.gz

Dependencies

Versions given are what the code has been tested on.

Required

• numpy (1.14.3)
• PyTorch (1.0.1.post2)
• tqdm (4.19.7)

Optional

• fairseq (0.6.2; for BLEU calculation in retrieval_eval_bleu.py)
• fastText (0.8.22; for Prepend models)
• pandas (0.22.0; for DailyDialog dataset)
• ParlAI (commit used; for BERT model)
• pytorch-pretrained-BERT (0.5.1; for BERT model)

Commands

Transformer-based retrieval

Pretraining

python retrieval_train.py \
--batch-size 512 \
--cuda \
--dataset-name reddit \
--dict-max-words 250000 \
--display-iter 250 \
--embeddings ${REDDIT_EMBEDDINGS_PATH} \
--empchat-folder ${EMPATHETIC_DIALOGUES_DATA_FOLDER} \
--learn-embeddings \
--learning-rate 8e-4 \
--model transformer \
--model-dir ${TRAIN_SAVE_FOLDER} \
--model-name model \
--n-layers 4 \
--num-epochs 10000 \
--optimizer adamax \
--reddit-folder ${REDDIT_DATA_FOLDER} \
--transformer-dim 300 \
--transformer-n-heads 6

Fine-tuning

python retrieval_train.py \
--batch-size 512 \
--cuda \
--dataset-name empchat \
--dict-max-words 250000 \
--display-iter 250 \
--empchat-folder ${EMPATHETIC_DIALOGUES_DATA_FOLDER} \
--learn-embeddings \
--learning-rate 8e-4 \
--load-checkpoint ${PRETRAINED_MODEL_PATH} \
--max-hist-len 4 \
--model transformer \
--model-dir ${TRAIN_SAVE_FOLDER} \
--model-name model \
--n-layers 4 \
--num-epochs 10 \
--optimizer adamax \
--reddit-folder ${REDDIT_DATA_FOLDER} \
--transformer-dim 300 \
--transformer-n-heads 6

Evaluation

# P@1,100
python retrieval_train.py \
--batch-size 512 \
--cuda \
--dataset-name empchat \
--dict-max-words 250000 \
--display-iter 250 \
--empchat-folder ${EMPATHETIC_DIALOGUES_DATA_FOLDER} \
--max-hist-len 4 \
--model transformer \
--model-dir ${EVAL_SAVE_FOLDER} \
--model-name model \
--n-layers 4 \
--optimizer adamax \
--pretrained ${TRAIN_SAVE_FOLDER}/model.mdl \
--reactonly \
--transformer-dim 300 \
--transformer-n-heads 6

# BLEU (EmpatheticDialogues context/candidates)
python retrieval_eval_bleu.py \
--empchat-cands \
--empchat-folder ${EMPATHETIC_DIALOGUES_DATA_FOLDER} \
--max-hist-len 4 \
--model ${TRAIN_SAVE_FOLDER}/model.mdl \
--name model \
--output-folder ${EVAL_SAVE_FOLDER} \
--reactonly \
--task empchat

BERT-based retrieval

Pretraining

python retrieval_train.py \
--batch-size 256 \
--bert-dim 300 \
--cuda \
--dataset-name reddit \
--dict-max-words 250000 \
--display-iter 100 \
--embeddings None \
--empchat-folder ${EMPATHETIC_DIALOGUES_DATA_FOLDER} \
--learning-rate 6e-5 \
--model bert \
--model-dir ${TRAIN_SAVE_FOLDER} \
--model-name model \
--num-epochs 10000 \
--optimizer adamax \
--reddit-folder ${BERT_TOKENIZED_REDDIT_DATA_FOLDER}

Fine-tuning

python retrieval_train.py \
--batch-size 256 \
--bert-dim 300 \
--cuda \
--dataset-name empchat \
--dict-max-words 250000 \
--display-iter 100 \
--embeddings None \
--empchat-folder ${EMPATHETIC_DIALOGUES_DATA_FOLDER} \
--learning-rate 1e-5 \
--load-checkpoint ${PRETRAINED_MODEL_PATH} \
--max-hist-len 4 \
--model bert \
--model-dir ${TRAIN_SAVE_FOLDER} \
--model-name model \
--num-epochs 100 \
--optimizer adamax \
--stop-crit-num-epochs 10

Evaluation

# P@1,100
python retrieval_train.py \
--batch-size 256 \
--bert-dim 300 \
--cuda \
--dataset-name empchat \
--dict-max-words 250000 \
--display-iter 100 \
--embeddings None \
--empchat-folder ${EMPATHETIC_DIALOGUES_DATA_FOLDER} \
--max-hist-len 4 \
--model bert \
--model-dir ${EVAL_SAVE_FOLDER} \
--model-name model \
--optimizer adamax \
--pretrained ${TRAIN_SAVE_FOLDER}/model.mdl \
--reactonly

# BLEU (EmpatheticDialogues context/candidates)
python retrieval_eval_bleu.py \
--bleu-dict ${PATH_TO_MODEL_WITH_TRANSFORMER_DICT} \
--empchat-cands \
--empchat-folder ${EMPATHETIC_DIALOGUES_DATA_FOLDER} \
--max-hist-len 4 \
--model ${TRAIN_SAVE_FOLDER}/model.mdl \
--name model \
--output-folder ${EVAL_SAVE_FOLDER} \
--reactonly \
--task empchat

Note: we pass in a separate dictionary (--bleu-dict) in order to use the same tokenization when calculating the BLEU of both Transformer and BERT models.

EmoPrepend-1

Add the following flags when calling retrieval_train.py or retrieval_eval_bleu.py:

--fasttext 1 \
--fasttext-path ${PATH_TO_TRAINED_FASTTEXT_MODEL} \
--fasttext-type emo

References

Please cite [1] if you found the resources in this repository useful.

Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: a New Benchmark and Dataset

[1] H. Rashkin, E. M. Smith, M. Li, Y. Boureau Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: a New Benchmark and Dataset

@inproceedings{rashkin2019towards,
  title = {Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: a New Benchmark and Dataset},
  author = {Hannah Rashkin and Eric Michael Smith and Margaret Li and Y-Lan Boureau},
  booktitle = {ACL},
  year = {2019},
}

License

See the LICENSE file in the root repo folder for more details.