diff --git a/spacy/default_config.cfg b/spacy/default_config.cfg
index 8bd2c7065..1b360dd7f 100644
--- a/spacy/default_config.cfg
+++ b/spacy/default_config.cfg
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ frozen_components = []
# Names of pipeline components that should set annotations during training
annotating_components = []
# Names of pipeline components that should get rehearsed during training
-rehearse_components = []
+rehearsal_components = []
# Location in the config where the dev corpus is defined
dev_corpus = "corpora.dev"
# Location in the config where the train corpus is defined
diff --git a/spacy/language.py b/spacy/language.py
index 133c9aa93..170041bbe 100644
--- a/spacy/language.py
+++ b/spacy/language.py
@@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ class Language:
losses: Optional[Dict[str, float]] = None,
component_cfg: Optional[Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]]] = None,
exclude: Iterable[str] = SimpleFrozenList(),
- rehearse_components: List[str] = [],
+ rehearsal_components: List[str] = [],
) -> Dict[str, float]:
"""Make a "rehearsal" update to the models in the pipeline, to prevent
forgetting. Rehearsal updates run an initial copy of the model over some
@@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ class Language:
component_cfg (Dict[str, Dict]): Config parameters for specific pipeline
components, keyed by component name.
exclude (Iterable[str]): Names of components that shouldn't be updated.
- rehearse_components (List[str]): Names of components that should be rehearsed
+ rehearsal_components (List[str]): Names of components that should be rehearsed
RETURNS (dict): Results from the update.
EXAMPLE:
@@ -1221,20 +1221,12 @@ class Language:
if (
name in exclude
or not hasattr(proc, "rehearse")
- or name not in rehearse_components
+ or name not in rehearsal_components
):
continue
- proc.rehearse( # type: ignore[attr-defined]
- examples, sgd=None, losses=losses, **component_cfg.get(name, {})
+ proc.rehearse(
+ examples, sgd=sgd, losses=losses, **component_cfg.get(name, {})
)
- if isinstance(sgd, Optimizer):
- if (
- name not in exclude
- and isinstance(proc, ty.TrainableComponent)
- and proc.is_trainable
- and proc.model not in (True, False, None)
- ):
- proc.finish_update(sgd)
return losses
diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/tagger.pyx b/spacy/pipeline/tagger.pyx
index b1698d11c..f236bc20e 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/tagger.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/tagger.pyx
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ class Tagger(TrainablePipe):
loss_func = SequenceCategoricalCrossentropy()
if losses is None:
losses = {}
- losses.setdefault(self.name, 0.0)
+ losses.setdefault(self.name+"_rehearse", 0.0)
validate_examples(examples, "Tagger.rehearse")
docs = [eg.predicted for eg in examples]
if self._rehearsal_model is None:
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ class Tagger(TrainablePipe):
bp_tag_scores(grads)
if sgd is not None:
self.finish_update(sgd)
- losses[self.name] += loss
+ losses[self.name+"_rehearse"] += loss
return losses
def get_loss(self, examples, scores):
diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/textcat.py b/spacy/pipeline/textcat.py
index 650a01949..8b9762c4a 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/textcat.py
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/textcat.py
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ class TextCategorizer(TrainablePipe):
"""
if losses is None:
losses = {}
- losses.setdefault(self.name, 0.0)
+ losses.setdefault(self.name+"_rehearse", 0.0)
if self._rehearsal_model is None:
return losses
validate_examples(examples, "TextCategorizer.rehearse")
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ class TextCategorizer(TrainablePipe):
bp_scores(gradient)
if sgd is not None:
self.finish_update(sgd)
- losses[self.name] += (gradient**2).sum()
+ losses[self.name+"_rehearse"] += (gradient**2).sum()
return losses
def _examples_to_truth(
diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/transition_parser.pyx b/spacy/pipeline/transition_parser.pyx
index 1327db2ce..ed58b41a5 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/transition_parser.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/transition_parser.pyx
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ cdef class Parser(TrainablePipe):
multitask.rehearse(examples, losses=losses, sgd=sgd)
if self._rehearsal_model is None:
return None
- losses.setdefault(self.name, 0.)
+ losses.setdefault(self.name+"_rehearse", 0.)
validate_examples(examples, "Parser.rehearse")
docs = [eg.predicted for eg in examples]
states = self.moves.init_batch(docs)
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ cdef class Parser(TrainablePipe):
backprop_tok2vec(docs)
if sgd is not None:
self.finish_update(sgd)
- losses[self.name] += loss / n_scores
+ losses[self.name+"_rehearse"] += loss / n_scores
del backprop
del backprop_tok2vec
model.clear_memory()
diff --git a/spacy/schemas.py b/spacy/schemas.py
index cab909e21..f707c7dcf 100644
--- a/spacy/schemas.py
+++ b/spacy/schemas.py
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ class ConfigSchemaTraining(BaseModel):
logger: Logger = Field(..., title="The logger to track training progress")
frozen_components: List[str] = Field(..., title="Pipeline components that shouldn't be updated during training")
annotating_components: List[str] = Field(..., title="Pipeline components that should set annotations during training")
- rehearse_components: List[str] = Field(..., title="Pipeline components that should be rehearsed during training")
+ rehearsal_components: List[str] = Field(..., title="Pipeline components that should be rehearsed during training")
before_to_disk: Optional[Callable[["Language"], "Language"]] = Field(..., title="Optional callback to modify nlp object after training, before it's saved to disk")
before_update: Optional[Callable[["Language", Dict[str, Any]], None]] = Field(..., title="Optional callback that is invoked at the start of each training step")
# fmt: on
diff --git a/spacy/tests/training/test_training.py b/spacy/tests/training/test_training.py
index bff84e924..65b03c30a 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/training/test_training.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/training/test_training.py
@@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ def test_training_before_update(doc):
max_steps=100,
exclude=[],
annotating_components=[],
- rehearse_components=[],
+ rehearsal_components=[],
before_update=before_update,
)
diff --git a/spacy/training/initialize.py b/spacy/training/initialize.py
index 1d2184dd1..9453959bf 100644
--- a/spacy/training/initialize.py
+++ b/spacy/training/initialize.py
@@ -67,10 +67,10 @@ def init_nlp(config: Config, *, use_gpu: int = -1) -> "Language":
with nlp.select_pipes(enable=resume_components):
logger.info(f"Resuming training for: {resume_components}")
nlp.resume_training(sgd=optimizer)
- # Components that shouldn't be updated during training
- rehearse_components = T["rehearse_components"]
- if rehearse_components:
- logger.info(f"Rehearsing components: {rehearse_components}")
+ # Components that should be updated during training
+ rehearsal_components = T["rehearsal_components"]
+ if rehearsal_components:
+ logger.info(f"Rehearsing components: {rehearsal_components}")
# Make sure that listeners are defined before initializing further
nlp._link_components()
with nlp.select_pipes(disable=[*frozen_components, *resume_components]):
diff --git a/spacy/training/loop.py b/spacy/training/loop.py
index 9368384ae..233b5e642 100644
--- a/spacy/training/loop.py
+++ b/spacy/training/loop.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def train(
# Components that should set annotations on update
annotating_components = T["annotating_components"]
# Components that should be rehearsed after update
- rehearse_components = T["rehearse_components"]
+ rehearsal_components = T["rehearsal_components"]
# Create iterator, which yields out info after each optimization step.
training_step_iterator = train_while_improving(
nlp,
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def train(
eval_frequency=T["eval_frequency"],
exclude=frozen_components,
annotating_components=annotating_components,
- rehearse_components=rehearse_components,
+ rehearsal_components=rehearsal_components,
before_update=before_update,
)
clean_output_dir(output_path)
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ def train_while_improving(
max_steps: int,
exclude: List[str],
annotating_components: List[str],
- rehearse_components: List[str],
+ rehearsal_components: List[str],
before_update: Optional[Callable[["Language", Dict[str, Any]], None]],
):
"""Train until an evaluation stops improving. Works as a generator,
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ def train_while_improving(
losses=losses,
sgd=None,
exclude=exclude,
- rehearse_components=rehearse_components,
+ rehearsal_components=rehearsal_components,
)
# TODO: refactor this so we don't have to run it separately in here
for name, proc in nlp.pipeline:
diff --git a/website/docs/api/data-formats.mdx b/website/docs/api/data-formats.mdx
index 41ef131d9..225c9c6b3 100644
--- a/website/docs/api/data-formats.mdx
+++ b/website/docs/api/data-formats.mdx
@@ -181,27 +181,27 @@ single corpus once and then divide it up into `train` and `dev` partitions.
This section defines settings and controls for the training and evaluation
process that are used when you run [`spacy train`](/api/cli#train).
-| Name | Description |
-| ---------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `accumulate_gradient` | Whether to divide the batch up into substeps. Defaults to `1`. ~~int~~ |
-| `batcher` | Callable that takes an iterator of [`Doc`](/api/doc) objects and yields batches of `Doc`s. Defaults to [`batch_by_words`](/api/top-level#batch_by_words). ~~Callable[[Iterator[Doc], Iterator[List[Doc]]]]~~ |
-| `before_to_disk` | Optional callback to modify `nlp` object right before it is saved to disk during and after training. Can be used to remove or reset config values or disable components. Defaults to `null`. ~~Optional[Callable[[Language], Language]]~~ |
-| `before_update` 3.5 | Optional callback that is invoked at the start of each training step with the `nlp` object and a `Dict` containing the following entries: `step`, `epoch`. Can be used to make deferred changes to components. Defaults to `null`. ~~Optional[Callable[[Language, Dict[str, Any]], None]]~~ |
-| `dev_corpus` | Dot notation of the config location defining the dev corpus. Defaults to `corpora.dev`. ~~str~~ |
-| `dropout` | The dropout rate. Defaults to `0.1`. ~~float~~ |
-| `eval_frequency` | How often to evaluate during training (steps). Defaults to `200`. ~~int~~ |
-| `frozen_components` | Pipeline component names that are "frozen" and shouldn't be initialized or updated during training. See [here](/usage/training#config-components) for details. Defaults to `[]`. ~~List[str]~~ |
-| `annotating_components` 3.1 | Pipeline component names that should set annotations on the predicted docs during training. See [here](/usage/training#annotating-components) for details. Defaults to `[]`. ~~List[str]~~ |
-| `rehearse_components` 3.5.1 | Pipeline component names that should get rehearsed during training. See [here](/usage/training#rehearse-components) for details. Defaults to `[]`. ~~List[str]~~ |
-| `gpu_allocator` | Library for cupy to route GPU memory allocation to. Can be `"pytorch"` or `"tensorflow"`. Defaults to variable `${system.gpu_allocator}`. ~~str~~ |
-| `logger` | Callable that takes the `nlp` and stdout and stderr `IO` objects, sets up the logger, and returns two new callables to log a training step and to finalize the logger. Defaults to [`ConsoleLogger`](/api/top-level#ConsoleLogger). ~~Callable[[Language, IO, IO], [Tuple[Callable[[Dict[str, Any]], None], Callable[[], None]]]]~~ |
-| `max_epochs` | Maximum number of epochs to train for. `0` means an unlimited number of epochs. `-1` means that the train corpus should be streamed rather than loaded into memory with no shuffling within the training loop. Defaults to `0`. ~~int~~ |
-| `max_steps` | Maximum number of update steps to train for. `0` means an unlimited number of steps. Defaults to `20000`. ~~int~~ |
-| `optimizer` | The optimizer. The learning rate schedule and other settings can be configured as part of the optimizer. Defaults to [`Adam`](https://thinc.ai/docs/api-optimizers#adam). ~~Optimizer~~ |
-| `patience` | How many steps to continue without improvement in evaluation score. `0` disables early stopping. Defaults to `1600`. ~~int~~ |
-| `score_weights` | Score names shown in metrics mapped to their weight towards the final weighted score. See [here](/usage/training#metrics) for details. Defaults to `{}`. ~~Dict[str, float]~~ |
-| `seed` | The random seed. Defaults to variable `${system.seed}`. ~~int~~ |
-| `train_corpus` | Dot notation of the config location defining the train corpus. Defaults to `corpora.train`. ~~str~~ |
+| Name | Description |
+| ----------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `accumulate_gradient` | Whether to divide the batch up into substeps. Defaults to `1`. ~~int~~ |
+| `batcher` | Callable that takes an iterator of [`Doc`](/api/doc) objects and yields batches of `Doc`s. Defaults to [`batch_by_words`](/api/top-level#batch_by_words). ~~Callable[[Iterator[Doc], Iterator[List[Doc]]]]~~ |
+| `before_to_disk` | Optional callback to modify `nlp` object right before it is saved to disk during and after training. Can be used to remove or reset config values or disable components. Defaults to `null`. ~~Optional[Callable[[Language], Language]]~~ |
+| `before_update` 3.5 | Optional callback that is invoked at the start of each training step with the `nlp` object and a `Dict` containing the following entries: `step`, `epoch`. Can be used to make deferred changes to components. Defaults to `null`. ~~Optional[Callable[[Language, Dict[str, Any]], None]]~~ |
+| `dev_corpus` | Dot notation of the config location defining the dev corpus. Defaults to `corpora.dev`. ~~str~~ |
+| `dropout` | The dropout rate. Defaults to `0.1`. ~~float~~ |
+| `eval_frequency` | How often to evaluate during training (steps). Defaults to `200`. ~~int~~ |
+| `frozen_components` | Pipeline component names that are "frozen" and shouldn't be initialized or updated during training. See [here](/usage/training#config-components) for details. Defaults to `[]`. ~~List[str]~~ |
+| `annotating_components` 3.1 | Pipeline component names that should set annotations on the predicted docs during training. See [here](/usage/training#annotating-components) for details. Defaults to `[]`. ~~List[str]~~ |
+| `rehearsal_components` 3.5.1 | Pipeline component names that should get rehearsed during training. See [here](/usage/training#rehearse-components) for details. Defaults to `[]`. ~~List[str]~~ |
+| `gpu_allocator` | Library for cupy to route GPU memory allocation to. Can be `"pytorch"` or `"tensorflow"`. Defaults to variable `${system.gpu_allocator}`. ~~str~~ |
+| `logger` | Callable that takes the `nlp` and stdout and stderr `IO` objects, sets up the logger, and returns two new callables to log a training step and to finalize the logger. Defaults to [`ConsoleLogger`](/api/top-level#ConsoleLogger). ~~Callable[[Language, IO, IO], [Tuple[Callable[[Dict[str, Any]], None], Callable[[], None]]]]~~ |
+| `max_epochs` | Maximum number of epochs to train for. `0` means an unlimited number of epochs. `-1` means that the train corpus should be streamed rather than loaded into memory with no shuffling within the training loop. Defaults to `0`. ~~int~~ |
+| `max_steps` | Maximum number of update steps to train for. `0` means an unlimited number of steps. Defaults to `20000`. ~~int~~ |
+| `optimizer` | The optimizer. The learning rate schedule and other settings can be configured as part of the optimizer. Defaults to [`Adam`](https://thinc.ai/docs/api-optimizers#adam). ~~Optimizer~~ |
+| `patience` | How many steps to continue without improvement in evaluation score. `0` disables early stopping. Defaults to `1600`. ~~int~~ |
+| `score_weights` | Score names shown in metrics mapped to their weight towards the final weighted score. See [here](/usage/training#metrics) for details. Defaults to `{}`. ~~Dict[str, float]~~ |
+| `seed` | The random seed. Defaults to variable `${system.seed}`. ~~int~~ |
+| `train_corpus` | Dot notation of the config location defining the train corpus. Defaults to `corpora.train`. ~~str~~ |
### pretraining {id="config-pretraining",tag="section,optional"}
diff --git a/website/docs/api/language.mdx b/website/docs/api/language.mdx
index 9831030d4..a744e89fc 100644
--- a/website/docs/api/language.mdx
+++ b/website/docs/api/language.mdx
@@ -346,7 +346,14 @@ and custom registered functions if needed. See the
Perform a "rehearsal" update from a batch of data. Rehearsal updates teach the
current model to make predictions similar to an initial model, to try to address
-the "catastrophic forgetting" problem. Please note that `Language.rehearse` needs to be used together with `Language.update`. This feature is experimental.
+the "catastrophic forgetting" problem.
+
+
+
+Note that `Language.rehearse` needs to be used together with `Language.update`.
+This feature is experimental.
+
+
> #### Example
>
diff --git a/website/docs/api/pipe.mdx b/website/docs/api/pipe.mdx
index 744186e18..4f72ef0ff 100644
--- a/website/docs/api/pipe.mdx
+++ b/website/docs/api/pipe.mdx
@@ -244,7 +244,14 @@ predictions and gold-standard annotations, and update the component's model.
Perform a "rehearsal" update from a batch of data. Rehearsal updates teach the
current model to make predictions similar to an initial model, to try to address
-the "catastrophic forgetting" problem. Please note that `TrainablePipe.update` needs to be used together with `TrainablePipe.update`. This feature is experimental.
+the "catastrophic forgetting" problem.
+
+
+
+Note that `TrainablePipe.rehearse` needs to be used together with
+`TrainablePipe.update`. This feature is experimental.
+
+
> #### Example
>
diff --git a/website/docs/usage/training.mdx b/website/docs/usage/training.mdx
index 0a05037c5..bae9ef326 100644
--- a/website/docs/usage/training.mdx
+++ b/website/docs/usage/training.mdx
@@ -577,7 +577,15 @@ now-updated model to the predicted docs.
### Using rehearsing to address catastrophic forgetting {id="rehearse-components", tag="experimental", version="3.5.1"}
-Perform “rehearsal” updates to pre-trained components. Rehearsal updates teach the current component to make predictions similar to an initial model, to try to address the “catastrophic forgetting” problem. This feature is experimental.
+When fine-tuning pre-trained components, we can perform an additional
+`rehearsal` update after every regular update to address the problem of
+[`catastrophic forgetting`](https://explosion.ai/blog/pseudo-rehearsal-catastrophic-forgetting).
+These updates teach the fine-tuned component to make predictions similar to its
+initial, pre-trained version.
+
+Perform “rehearsal” updates to pre-trained components. Rehearsal updates teach
+the current component to make predictions similar to an initial model, to try to
+address the “catastrophic forgetting” problem. This feature is experimental.
```ini {title="config.cfg (excerpt)"}
[nlp]
@@ -587,17 +595,9 @@ pipeline = ["sentencizer", "ner", "entity_linker"]
source = "en_core_web_sm"
[training]
-rehearse_components = ["ner"]
+rehearsal_components = ["ner"]
```
-
-
-Be aware that the loss is calculated by the sum of both the `update` and `rehearse` function.
-If both the loss and accuracy of the component increases over time, it can be caused due to the trained component making more different predictions that the inital model,
-indicating `catastrophic forgetting`.
-
-
-
### Using registered functions {id="config-functions"}
The training configuration defined in the config file doesn't have to only