Our epic matrix multiplication odyssey is drawing to a close...
I've now finally got the Blis linear algebra routines in a self-contained Python package, with wheels for Windows, Linux and OSX. The only missing platform at the moment is Windows Python 2.7. The result is at https://github.com/explosion/cython-blis
Thinc v7.0.0 will make the change to Blis. I've put a Thinc v7.0.0.dev0 up on PyPi so that we can test these changes with the CI, and even get them out to spacy-nightly, before Thinc v7.0.0 is released. This PR also updates the other dependencies to be in line with the current versions master is using. I've also resolved the msgpack deprecation problems, and gotten spaCy and Thinc up to date with the latest Cython.
The point of switching to Blis is to have control of how our matrix multiplications are executed across platforms. When we were using numpy for this, a different library would be used on pip and conda, OSX would use Accelerate, etc. This would open up different bugs and performance problems, especially when multi-threading was introduced.
With the change to Blis, we now strictly single-thread the matrix multiplications. This will make it much easier to use multiprocessing to parallelise the runtime, since we won't have nested parallelism problems to deal with.
* Use blis
* Use -2 arg to Cython
* Update dependencies
* Fix requirements
* Update setup dependencies
* Fix requirement typo
* Fix msgpack errors
* Remove Python27 test from Appveyor, until Blis works there
* Auto-format setup.py
* Fix murmurhash version
* Go back to using requests instead of urllib (closes#2320)
Fewer dependencies are good, but this one was simply causing too many other problems around SSL verification and Python 2/3 compatibility. requests is a popular enough package that it's okay for spaCy to depend on it – and this will hopefully make model downloads less flakey.
* Only download model if not installed (see #1456)
Use #egg=model==version to allow pip to check for existing installations. The download is only started if no installation matching the package/version is found. Fixes a long-standing inconvenience.
* Pass additional options to pip when installing model (resolves#1456)
Treat all additional arguments passed to the download command as pip options to allow user to customise the command. For example:
python -m spacy download en --user
* Add CLI option to enable installing model package dependencies
* Revert "Add CLI option to enable installing model package dependencies"
This reverts commit 9336ffe695.
* Update documentation
This patch takes a step towards #1487 by introducing the
doc.retokenize() context manager, to handle merging spans, and soon
splitting tokens.
The idea is to do merging and splitting like this:
with doc.retokenize() as retokenizer:
for start, end, label in matches:
retokenizer.merge(doc[start : end], attrs={'ent_type': label})
The retokenizer accumulates the merge requests, and applies them
together at the end of the block. This will allow retokenization to be
more efficient, and much less error prone.
A retokenizer.split() function will then be added, to handle splitting a
single token into multiple tokens. These methods take `Span` and `Token`
objects; if the user wants to go directly from offsets, they can append
to the .merges and .splits lists on the retokenizer.
The doc.merge() method's behaviour remains unchanged, so this patch
should be 100% backwards incompatible (modulo bugs). Internally,
doc.merge() fixes up the arguments (to handle the various deprecated styles),
opens the retokenizer, and makes the single merge.
We can later start making deprecation warnings on direct calls to doc.merge(),
to migrate people to use of the retokenize context manager.
This patch does a few smallish things that tighten up the training workflow a little, and allow memory use during training to be reduced by letting the GoldCorpus stream data properly.
Previously, the parser and entity recognizer read and saved labels as lists, with extra labels noted separately. Lists were used becaue ordering is very important, to ensure that the label-to-class mapping is stable.
We now manage labels as nested dictionaries, first keyed by the action, and then keyed by the label. Values are frequencies. The trick is, how do we save new labels? We need to make sure we iterate over these in the same order they're added. Otherwise, we'll get different class IDs, and the model's predictions won't make sense.
To allow stable sorting, we map the new labels to negative values. If we have two new labels, they'll be noted as having "frequency" -1 and -2. The next new label will then have "frequency" -3. When we sort by (frequency, label), we then get a stable sort.
Storing frequencies then allows us to make the next nice improvement. Previously we had to iterate over the whole training set, to pre-process it for the deprojectivisation. This led to storing the whole training set in memory. This was most of the required memory during training.
To prevent this, we now store the frequencies as we stream in the data, and deprojectivize as we go. Once we've built the frequencies, we can then apply a frequency cut-off when we decide how many classes to make.
Finally, to allow proper data streaming, we also have to have some way of shuffling the iterator. This is awkward if the training files have multiple documents in them. To solve this, the GoldCorpus class now writes the training data to disk in msgpack files, one per document. We can then shuffle the data by shuffling the paths.
This is a squash merge, as I made a lot of very small commits. Individual commit messages below.
* Simplify label management for TransitionSystem and its subclasses
* Fix serialization for new label handling format in parser
* Simplify and improve GoldCorpus class. Reduce memory use, write to temp dir
* Set actions in transition system
* Require thinc 6.11.1.dev4
* Fix error in parser init
* Add unicode declaration
* Fix unicode declaration
* Update textcat test
* Try to get model training on less memory
* Print json loc for now
* Try rapidjson to reduce memory use
* Remove rapidjson requirement
* Try rapidjson for reduced mem usage
* Handle None heads when projectivising
* Stream json docs
* Fix train script
* Handle projectivity in GoldParse
* Fix projectivity handling
* Add minibatch_by_words util from ud_train
* Minibatch by number of words in spacy.cli.train
* Move minibatch_by_words util to spacy.util
* Fix label handling
* More hacking at label management in parser
* Fix encoding in msgpack serialization in GoldParse
* Adjust batch sizes in parser training
* Fix minibatch_by_words
* Add merge_subtokens function to pipeline.pyx
* Register merge_subtokens factory
* Restore use of msgpack tmp directory
* Use minibatch-by-words in train
* Handle retokenization in scorer
* Change back-off approach for missing labels. Use 'dep' label
* Update NER for new label management
* Set NER tags for over-segmented words
* Fix label alignment in gold
* Fix label back-off for infrequent labels
* Fix int type in labels dict key
* Fix int type in labels dict key
* Update feature definition for 8 feature set
* Update ud-train script for new label stuff
* Fix json streamer
* Print the line number if conll eval fails
* Update children and sentence boundaries after deprojectivisation
* Export set_children_from_heads from doc.pxd
* Render parses during UD training
* Remove print statement
* Require thinc 6.11.1.dev6. Try adding wheel as install_requires
* Set different dev version, to flush pip cache
* Update thinc version
* Update GoldCorpus docs
* Remove print statements
* Fix formatting and links [ci skip]
The required version was specified for plac in requirements.txt but not in setup.py, which could cause a conflicting version error.
Similarly, set the version of ujson in requirements.txt to be the same as in setup.py
