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海量中文预训练ALBERT模型, A LITE BERT FOR SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING OF LANGUAGE REPRESENTATIONS

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albert_zh

An Implementation of A Lite Bert For Self-Supervised Learning Language Representations with TensorFlow

海量中文语料上预训练ALBERT模型:参数更少,效果更好。预训练小模型也能拿下13项NLP任务,ALBERT三大改造登顶GLUE基准

Chinese version of ALBERT pre-trained model, both TensorFlow and PyTorch checkpoint of Chinese will be available

*** UPDATE, 2019-09-30 *** add albert_config; going to release ALBert_zh_base with only 1/6 parameters of Bert on 1st Oct

*** UPDATE, 2019-09-28 *** add code for three main changes of albert from bert and its test functions

ALBERT模型介绍 Introduction of ALBERT

ALBert is based on Bert, but with some improvements. It achieve state of the art performance on main benchmarks recently, but with

30% parameters less or more.

ALBERT模型是BERT的改进版,与最近其他State of the art的模型不同的是,这次是预训练小模型,效果更好、参数更少。

它对BERT进行了三个改造 Three main changes of ALBert from Bert:

1)词嵌入向量参数的因式分解 Factorized embedding parameterization

 O(V * H) to O(V * E + E * H)
 
 如以ALBert_xxlarge为例,V=30000, H=4096, E=128
   
 那么原先参数为V * H= 30000 * 4096 = 1.23亿个参数,现在则为V * E + E * H = 30000*128+128*4096 = 384万 + 52万 = 436万,
   
 词嵌入相关的参数变化前是变换后的28倍。

2)跨层参数共享 Cross-Layer Parameter Sharing

 参数共享能显著减少参数。共享可以分为全连接层、注意力层的参数共享;注意力层的参数对效果的减弱影响小一点。

3)段落连续性任务 Inter-sentence coherence loss.

 使用段落连续性任务。正例,使用从一个文档中连续的两个文本段落;负例,使用从一个文档中连续的两个文本段落,但位置调换了。
 
 避免使用原有的NSP任务,原有的任务包含隐含了预测主题这类过于简单的任务。

  We maintain that inter-sentence modeling is an important aspect of language understanding, but we propose a loss 
  based primarily on coherence. That is, for ALBERT, we use a sentence-order prediction (SOP) loss, which avoids topic 
  prediction and instead focuses on modeling inter-sentence coherence. The SOP loss uses as positive examples the 
  same technique as BERT (two consecutive segments from the same document), and as negative examples the same two 
  consecutive segments but with their order swapped. This forces the model to learn finer-grained distinctions about
  discourse-level coherence properties. 

其他变化,还有 Other changes:

1)去掉了dropout  Remvoe dropout to enlarge capacity of model.
    最大的模型,训练了1百万步后,还是没有过拟合训练数据。说明模型的容量还可以更大,就移除了dropout(dropout可以认为是随机的去掉网络中的一部分,同时使网络变小一些)
    We also note that, even after training for 1M steps, our largest models still do not overfit to their training data. As a result, we decide to remove dropout to further increase our model capacity.
    其他型号的模型,在我们的实现中我们还是会保留原始的dropout的比例,防止模型对训练数据的过拟合。
    
2)为加快训练速度,使用LAMB做为优化器 Use lAMB as optimizer, to train with big batch size
  使用了大的batch_size来训练(4096)。 LAMB优化器使得我们可以训练,特别大的批次batch_size,如高达6万。

3)使用n-gram(uni-gram,bi-gram, tri-gram)来做遮蔽语言模型 Use n-gram as make language model
   即以不同的概率使用n-gram,uni-gram的概率最大,bi-gram其次,tri-gram概率最小。
   本项目中目前使用的是在中文上做whole word mask,稍后会更新一下与n-gram mask的效果对比。n-gram从spanBERT中来。

发布计划 Release Plan

1、albert_base, 参数量12M, 层数12,10月5号

2、albert_large, 参数量18M, 层数24,10月13号

3、albert_xlarge, 参数量59M, 层数24,10月6号

4、albert_xxlarge, 参数量233M, 层数12,10月7号(效果最佳的模型)

训练语料 Training data

40g中文语料,超过100亿汉字,包括多个百科、新闻、互动社区、小说、评论。

模型性能与对比(英文) Performance and Comparision

中文任务集上效果对比测试 Performance on Chinese datasets

自然语言推断:XNLI of Chinese Version

模型 开发集 测试集
BERT 77.8 (77.4) 77.8 (77.5)
ERNIE 79.7 (79.4) 78.6 (78.2)
BERT-wwm 79.0 (78.4) 78.2 (78.0)
BERT-wwm-ext 79.4 (78.6) 78.7 (78.3)
XLNet 79.2 78.7
RoBERTa-zh-base 79.8 78.8
RoBERTa-zh-Large 80.2 (80.0) 79.9 (79.5)
ALBERT-xlarge ? ?
ALBERT-xxlarge ? ?

注:BERT-wwm-ext来自于这里;XLNet来自于这里; RoBERTa-zh-base,指12层RoBERTa中文模型

问题匹配语任务:LCQMC(Sentence Pair Matching)

模型 开发集(Dev) 测试集(Test)
BERT 89.4(88.4) 86.9(86.4)
ERNIE 89.8 (89.6) 87.2 (87.0)
BERT-wwm 89.4 (89.2) 87.0 (86.8)
BERT-wwm-ext - -
RoBERTa-zh-base 88.7 87.0
RoBERTa-zh-Large 89.9(89.6) 87.2(86.7)
RoBERTa-zh-Large(20w_steps) 89.7 87.0
ALBERT-xlarge ? ?
ALBERT-xxlarge ? ?

注:将很快替换?

模型参数和配置 Configuration of Models

代码实现和测试 Implementation and Code Testing

通过运行以下命令测试主要的改进点,包括但不限于词嵌入向量参数的因式分解、跨层参数共享、段落连续性任务等。

python test_changes.py

预训练 Pre-training

生成特定格式的文件(tfrecords) Generate tfrecords Files

运行以下命令即可。项目自动了一个示例的文本文件(data/news_zh_1.txt)

   bash create_pretrain_data.sh

如果你有很多文本文件,可以通过传入参数的方式,生成多个特定格式的文件(tfrecords)

执行预训练 pre-training on GPU/TPU

GPU:
export BERT_BASE_DIR=albert_config
nohup python3 run_pretraining.py --input_file=./data/tf*.tfrecord  \
--output_dir=my_new_model_path --do_train=True --do_eval=True --bert_config_file=$BERT_BASE_DIR/albert_config_xxlarge.json \
--train_batch_size=4096 --max_seq_length=512 --max_predictions_per_seq=76 \
--num_train_steps=125000 --num_warmup_steps=12500 --learning_rate=0.00176    \
--save_checkpoints_steps=2000   --init_checkpoint=$BERT_BASE_DIR/bert_model.ckpt &

TPU, add following information:
    --use_tpu=True  --tpu_name=grpc://10.240.1.66:8470 --tpu_zone=us-central1-a
    
注:如果你重头开始训练,可以不指定init_checkpoint;
如果你从现有的模型基础上训练,指定一下BERT_BASE_DIR的路径,并确保bert_config_file和init_checkpoint两个参数的值能对应到相应的文件上;
领域上的预训练,根据数据的大小,可以不用训练特别久。

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If you have any question, you can raise an issue, or send me an email: brightmart@hotmail.com;

You can also send pull request to report you performance on your task or add methods on how to load models for PyTorch and so on.

If you have ideas for generate best performance pre-training Chinese model, please also let me know.

Research supported with Cloud TPUs from Google's TensorFlow Research Cloud (TFRC)

Reference

1、ALBERT: A Lite BERT For Self-Supervised Learning Of Language Representations

2、预训练小模型也能拿下13项NLP任务,ALBERT三大改造登顶GLUE基准

3、BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

4、SpanBERT: Improving Pre-training by Representing and Predicting Spans

5、RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach