Remove hacks and wrappers, keep code in sync across our libraries and move spaCy a few steps closer to only depending on packages with binary wheels 🎉
See here: https://github.com/explosion/srsly
Serialization is hard, especially across Python versions and multiple platforms. After dealing with many subtle bugs over the years (encodings, locales, large files) our libraries like spaCy and Prodigy have steadily grown a number of utility functions to wrap the multiple serialization formats we need to support (especially json, msgpack and pickle). These wrapping functions ended up duplicated across our codebases, so we wanted to put them in one place.
At the same time, we noticed that having a lot of small dependencies was making maintainence harder, and making installation slower. To solve this, we've made srsly standalone, by including the component packages directly within it. This way we can provide all the serialization utilities we need in a single binary wheel.
srsly currently includes forks of the following packages:
ujson
msgpack
msgpack-numpy
cloudpickle
* WIP: replace json/ujson with srsly
* Replace ujson in examples
Use regular json instead of srsly to make code easier to read and follow
* Update requirements
* Fix imports
* Fix typos
* Replace msgpack with srsly
* Fix warning
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
* Work on refactoring greedy parser
* Compile updated parser
* Fix refactored parser
* Update test
* Fix refactored parser
* Fix refactored parser
* Readd beam search after refactor
* Fix beam search after refactor
* Fix parser
* Fix beam parsing
* Support oracle segmentation in ud-train CLI command
* Avoid relying on final gold check in beam search
* Add a keyword argument sink to GoldParse
* Bug fixes to beam search after refactor
* Avoid importing fused token symbol in ud-run-test, untl that's added
* Avoid importing fused token symbol in ud-run-test, untl that's added
* Don't modify Token in global scope
* Fix error in beam gradient calculation
* Default to beam_update_prob 1
* Set a more aggressive threshold on the max violn update
* Disable some tests to figure out why CI fails
* Disable some tests to figure out why CI fails
* Add some diagnostics to travis.yml to try to figure out why build fails
* Tell Thinc to link against system blas on Travis
* Point thinc to libblas on Travis
* Try running sudo=true for travis
* Unhack travis.sh
* Restore beam_density argument for parser beam
* Require thinc 6.11.1.dev16
* Revert hacks to tests
* Revert hacks to travis.yml
* Update thinc requirement
* Fix parser model loading
* Fix size limits in training data
* Add missing name attribute for parser
* Fix appveyor for Windows
