Subformer
This repository contains the code for the Subformer. To help overcome this we propose the Subformer, allowing us to retain performance while reducing parameters in generative Transformers from 25% ~ 70%. The Subformer consists of the following two techniques:
- Sandwich-style parameter sharing, in which we share all the layers in a block except the first and last. This allows us the use the central shared layers --"sandwich module" -- as a large representation learner (similar to BERT vs ALBERT) while the input and output model layers are able to focus on more specific representations for token prediction/generation while maintaining performance.
- For our sequence to sequence tasks, we also introduce SAFE (self-attentive factorized embeddings), which help us reduce embedding parameters significantly, while still retaining performance.
If you used this code or found our work useful, please cite:
@inproceedings{reid2021subformer,
title = {{S}ubformer: {E}xploring {W}eight {S}haring for {P}arameter {E}fficiency in {G}enerative {T}ransformers},
author = {Machel Reid and Edison Marrese-Taylor and Yutaka Matsuo},
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021",
month = nov,
year = "2021",
address = "Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
}
Requirements and Installation
(As this code is based on fairseq, some installation instructions are taken straight from their README)
- PyTorch version >= 1.5.0
- Python version >= 3.6
- For training new models, you'll also need an NVIDIA GPU and NCCL
- To install and develop locally:
git clone https://github.com/machelreid/subformer
cd subformer
pip install --e ./
# on MacOS:
# CFLAGS="-stdlib=libc++" pip install --editable ./
- For faster training install NVIDIA's apex library:
git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex
cd apex
pip install -v --no-cache-dir --global-option="--cpp_ext" --global-option="--cuda_ext" \
--global-option="--deprecated_fused_adam" --global-option="--xentropy" \
--global-option="--fast_multihead_attn" ./
- For large datasets install PyArrow:
pip install pyarrow - If you use Docker make sure to increase the shared memory size either with
--ipc=hostor--shm-sizeas command line options tonvidia-docker run.
Training
Machine Translation
python train.py $DATA_BIN --arch transformer_wmt_en_de \
--criterion label_smoothed_cross_entropy --label-smoothing 0.1 --lr 5e-4 \
--warmup-init-lr 1e-7 --stop-min-lr 1e-9 --lr-scheduler inverse_sqrt --warmup-updates 10000 \
--optimizer adam --adam-betas '(0.9, 0.999)' --adam-eps 1e-6 --task translation \
--max-tokens 8192 --weight-decay 0.01 --dropout 0.2 --encoder-layers 6 --encoder-embed-dim 512 \
--decoder-layers 6 --decoder-embed-dim 512 --fp16 --max-source-positions 10000 \
--max-target-positions 10000 --max-update 200000 --seed 1 \
--save-dir $CHECKPOINT_DIR --share-all-embeddings \
--share-encoder-parameters-sandwich --share-decoder-parameters-sandwich \ #for sandwich-style parameter sharing
--reduction-dim 320 #for SAFE embeddings
Generation
python generate.py --path $CHECKPOINT --gen-subset $SPLIT --beam 5 --lenpen $LENPEN --batch-size 400 --remove-bpe
CNN-DM Summarization
fairseq-train $DATA_BIN \
--share-decoder-input-output-embed \
--max-update 30000 \
--optimizer adam --adam-betas '(0.9, 0.98)' --skip-invalid-size-inputs-valid-test \
--lr-scheduler inverse_sqrt --warmup-init-lr 1e-07 --warmup-updates 10000 --lr 0.0005 \
--stop-min-lr 1e-09 --clip-norm 0.1 --dropout 0.3 --weight-decay 0.0 \
--criterion label_smoothed_cross_entropy --label-smoothing 0.1 --update-freq 7 --attention-dropout 0.2 \
--max-tokens 8192 --arch transformer_wmt_en_de --seed 1 --warmup-init-lr 1e-7 \
--source-lang source_bpe --target-lang target_bpe --save-dir $CHECKPOINT_DIR --no-epoch-checkpoints --keep-best-checkpoints 10 --truncate-source --max-source-positions 512 --share-encoder-parameters-sandwich --share-decoder-parameters-sandwich --sandwich-embed-dim 1024 --sandwich-ffn-embed-dim 3072 --reduction-dim 256
Generation
fairseq-generate $DATA_BIN --task translation --gen-subset $SPLIT --batch-size 32 --path $CHECKPOINT --remove-bpe --min-len 55 --beam 5 --max-len-b 140 --no-repeat-ngram-size 3 --lenpen $LENPEN -s source_bpe -t target_bpe --truncate-source --max-source-positions 512
Note that the min,max len parameters can be tuned for better performance
For post processing and ROUGE calculation feel free to take a look at this.
Citation
Please cite as:
@inproceedings{reid2021subformer,
title = {{S}ubformer: {E}xploring {W}eight {S}haring for {P}arameter {E}fficiency in {G}enerative {T}ransformers},
author = {Machel Reid and Edison Marrese-Taylor and Yutaka Matsuo},
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021",
month = nov,
year = "2021",
address = "Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
}
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