spaCy/spacy/syntax/nn_parser.pxd
Matthew Honnibal 83ac227bd3
💫 Better support for semi-supervised learning (#3035)
The new spacy pretrain command implemented BERT/ULMFit/etc-like transfer learning, using our Language Modelling with Approximate Outputs version of BERT's cloze task. Pretraining is convenient, but in some ways it's a bit of a strange solution. All we're doing is initialising the weights. At the same time, we're putting a lot of work into our optimisation so that it's less sensitive to initial conditions, and more likely to find good optima. I discuss this a bit in the pseudo-rehearsal blog post: https://explosion.ai/blog/pseudo-rehearsal-catastrophic-forgetting
Support semi-supervised learning in spacy train

One obvious way to improve these pretraining methods is to do multi-task learning, instead of just transfer learning. This has been shown to work very well: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.08370.pdf . This patch makes it easy to do this sort of thing.

    Add a new argument to spacy train, --raw-text. This takes a jsonl file with unlabelled data that can be used in arbitrary ways to do semi-supervised learning.

    Add a new method to the Language class and to pipeline components, .rehearse(). This is like .update(), but doesn't expect GoldParse objects. It takes a batch of Doc objects, and performs an update on some semi-supervised objective.

    Move the BERT-LMAO objective out from spacy/cli/pretrain.py into spacy/_ml.py, so we can create a new pipeline component, ClozeMultitask. This can be specified as a parser or NER multitask in the spacy train command. Example usage:

python -m spacy train en ./tmp ~/data/en-core-web/train/nw.json ~/data/en-core-web/dev/nw.json --pipeline parser --raw-textt ~/data/unlabelled/reddit-100k.jsonl --vectors en_vectors_web_lg --parser-multitasks cloze

Implement rehearsal methods for pipeline components

The new --raw-text argument and nlp.rehearse() method also gives us a good place to implement the the idea in the pseudo-rehearsal blog post in the parser. This works as follows:

    Add a new nlp.resume_training() method. This allocates copies of pre-trained models in the pipeline, setting things up for the rehearsal updates. It also returns an optimizer object. This also greatly reduces confusion around the nlp.begin_training() method, which randomises the weights, making it not suitable for adding new labels or otherwise fine-tuning a pre-trained model.

    Implement rehearsal updates on the Parser class, making it available for the dependency parser and NER. During rehearsal, the initial model is used to supervise the model being trained. The current model is asked to match the predictions of the initial model on some data. This minimises catastrophic forgetting, by keeping the model's predictions close to the original. See the blog post for details.

    Implement rehearsal updates for tagger

    Implement rehearsal updates for text categoriz
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from thinc.typedefs cimport atom_t
from .stateclass cimport StateClass
from .arc_eager cimport TransitionSystem
from ..vocab cimport Vocab
from ..tokens.doc cimport Doc
from ..structs cimport TokenC
from ._state cimport StateC
from ._parser_model cimport WeightsC, ActivationsC, SizesC
cdef class Parser:
cdef readonly Vocab vocab
cdef public object model
cdef public object _rehearsal_model
cdef readonly TransitionSystem moves
cdef readonly object cfg
cdef public object _multitasks
cdef void _parseC(self, StateC** states,
WeightsC weights, SizesC sizes) nogil
cdef void c_transition_batch(self, StateC** states, const float* scores,
int nr_class, int batch_size) nogil