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"""Implemetation of beam seach with penalties.""" from __future__ import absolute_import from __future__ import division from __future__ import print_function # Dependency imports import tensorflow as tf from tensorflow.python.util import nest # Assuming EOS_ID is 1 EOS_ID = 1 # Default value for INF INF = 1. * 1e7 def _get_shape(tensor): """Returns static shape if available and dynamic shape otherwise.""" static = tensor.shape.as_list() dynamic = tf.unstack(tf.shape(tensor)) return [s[1] if s[0] is None else s[0] for s in zip(static, dynamic)] def _merge_beam_dim(tensor): """Reshapes first two dimensions in to single dimension. Args: tensor: Tensor to reshape of shape [A, B, ...] Returns: Reshaped tensor of shape [A*B, ...] """ shape = _get_shape(tensor) shape[0] *= shape[1] # batch -> batch * beam_size shape.pop(1) # Remove beam dim return tf.reshape(tensor, shape) def _unmerge_beam_dim(tensor, batch_size, beam_size): """Reshapes first dimension back to [batch_size, beam_size]. Args: tensor: Tensor to reshape of shape [batch_size*beam_size, ...] batch_size: Tensor, original batch size. beam_size: int, original beam size. Returns: Reshaped tensor of shape [batch_size, beam_size, ...] """ shape = _get_shape(tensor) new_shape = [batch_size] + [beam_size] + shape[1:] return tf.reshape(tensor, new_shape) def _expand_to_beam_size(tensor, beam_size): """Tiles a given tensor by beam_size. Args: tensor: tensor to tile [batch_size, ...] beam_size: How much to tile the tensor by. Returns: Tiled tensor [batch_size, beam_size, ...] """ tensor = tf.expand_dims(tensor, axis=1) tile_dims = [1] * tensor.shape.ndims tile_dims[1] = beam_size return tf.tile(tensor, tile_dims) def log_prob_from_logits(logits): return logits - tf.reduce_logsumexp(logits, axis=2, keep_dims=True) def compute_batch_indices(batch_size, beam_size): """Computes the i'th coodinate that contains the batch index for gathers. Batch pos is a tensor like [[0,0,0,0,],[1,1,1,1],..]. It says which batch the beam item is in. This will create the i of the i,j coordinate needed for the gather. Args: batch_size: Batch size beam_size: Size of the beam. Returns: batch_pos: [batch_size, beam_size] tensor of ids """ batch_pos = tf.range(batch_size * beam_size) // beam_size batch_pos = tf.reshape(batch_pos, [batch_size, beam_size]) return batch_pos def compute_topk_scores_and_seq(sequences, scores, scores_to_gather, flags, beam_size, batch_size, prefix="default", states_to_gather=None): """Given sequences and scores, will gather the top k=beam size sequences. This function is used to grow alive, and finished. It takes sequences, scores, and flags, and returns the top k from sequences, scores_to_gather, and flags based on the values in scores. This method permits easy introspection using tfdbg. It adds three named ops that are prefixed by `prefix`: - _topk_seq: the tensor for topk_seq returned by this method. - _topk_flags: the tensor for topk_finished_flags returned by this method. - _topk_scores: the tensor for tokp_gathered_scores returned by this method. Args: sequences: Tensor of sequences that we need to gather from. [batch_size, beam_size, seq_length] scores: Tensor of scores for each sequence in sequences. [batch_size, beam_size]. We will use these to compute the topk. scores_to_gather: Tensor of scores for each sequence in sequences. [batch_size, beam_size]. We will return the gathered scores from here. Scores to gather is different from scores because for grow_alive, we will need to return log_probs, while for grow_finished, we will need to return the length penalized scors. flags: Tensor of bools for sequences that say whether a sequence has reached EOS or not beam_size: int batch_size: int prefix: string that will prefix unique names for the ops run. states_to_gather: dict (possibly nested) of decoding states. Returns: Tuple of (topk_seq [batch_size, beam_size, decode_length], topk_gathered_scores [batch_size, beam_size], topk_finished_flags[batch_size, beam_size]) """ _, topk_indexes = tf.nn.top_k(scores, k=beam_size) # The next three steps are to create coordinates for tf.gather_nd to pull # out the topk sequences from sequences based on scores. # batch pos is a tensor like [[0,0,0,0,],[1,1,1,1],..]. It says which # batch the beam item is in. This will create the i of the i,j coordinate # needed for the gather batch_pos = compute_batch_indices(batch_size, beam_size) # top coordinates will give us the actual coordinates to do the gather. # stacking will create a tensor of dimension batch * beam * 2, where the # last dimension contains the i,j gathering coordinates. top_coordinates = tf.stack([batch_pos, topk_indexes], axis=2) # Gather up the highest scoring sequences. For each operation added, give it # a concrete name to simplify observing these operations with tfdbg. Clients # can capture these tensors by watching these node names. def gather(tensor, name): return tf.gather_nd(tensor, top_coordinates, name=(prefix + name)) topk_seq = gather(sequences, "_topk_seq") topk_flags = gather(flags, "_topk_flags") topk_gathered_scores = gather(scores_to_gather, "_topk_scores") if states_to_gather: topk_gathered_states = nest.map_structure( lambda state: gather(state, "_topk_states"), states_to_gather) else: topk_gathered_states = states_to_gather return topk_seq, topk_gathered_scores, topk_flags, topk_gathered_states def beam_search(symbols_to_logits_fn, initial_ids, beam_size, decode_length, vocab_size, alpha, states=None, eos_id=EOS_ID): """Beam search with length penalties. Requires a function that can take the currently decoded sybmols and return the logits for the next symbol. The implementation is inspired by https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144. When running, the beam search steps can be visualized by using tfdbg to watch the operations generating the output ids for each beam step. These operations have the pattern: (alive|finished)_topk_(seq,scores) Operations marked `alive` represent the new beam sequences that will be processed in the next step. Operations marked `finished` represent the completed beam sequences, which may be padded with 0s if no beams finished. Operations marked `seq` store the full beam sequence for the time step. Operations marked `scores` store the sequence's final log scores. The beam search steps will be processed sequentially in order, so when capturing observed from these operations, tensors, clients can make assumptions about which step is being recorded. Args: symbols_to_logits_fn: Interface to the model, to provide logits. Shoud take [batch_size, decoded_ids] and return [batch_size, vocab_size] initial_ids: Ids to start off the decoding, this will be the first thing handed to symbols_to_logits_fn (after expanding to beam size) [batch_size] beam_size: Size of the beam. decode_length: Number of steps to decode for. vocab_size: Size of the vocab, must equal the size of the logits returned by symbols_to_logits_fn alpha: alpha for length penalty. states: dict (possibly nested) of decoding states. eos_id: ID for end of sentence. Returns: Tuple of (decoded beams [batch_size, beam_size, decode_length] decoding probablities [batch_size, beam_size]) """ batch_size = tf.shape(initial_ids)[0] # Assume initial_ids are prob 1.0 initial_log_probs = tf.constant([[0.] + [-float("inf")] * (beam_size - 1)]) # Expand to beam_size (batch_size, beam_size) alive_log_probs = tf.tile(initial_log_probs, [batch_size, 1]) # Expand each batch and state to beam_size alive_seq = _expand_to_beam_size(initial_ids, beam_size) alive_seq = tf.expand_dims(alive_seq, axis=2) # (batch_size, beam_size, 1) if states: states = nest.map_structure( lambda state: _expand_to_beam_size(state, beam_size), states) else: states = {} # Finished will keep track of all the sequences that have finished so far # Finished log probs will be negative infinity in the beginning # finished_flags will keep track of booleans finished_seq = tf.zeros(tf.shape(alive_seq), tf.int32) # Setting the scores of the initial to negative infinity. finished_scores = tf.ones([batch_size, beam_size]) * -INF finished_flags = tf.zeros([batch_size, beam_size], tf.bool) def grow_finished(finished_seq, finished_scores, finished_flags, curr_seq, curr_scores, curr_finished): """Given sequences and scores, will gather the top k=beam size sequences. Args: finished_seq: Current finished sequences. [batch_size, beam_size, current_decoded_length] finished_scores: scores for each of these sequences. [batch_size, beam_size] finished_flags: finished bools for each of these sequences. [batch_size, beam_size] curr_seq: current topk sequence that has been grown by one position. [batch_size, beam_size, current_decoded_length] curr_scores: scores for each of these sequences. [batch_size, beam_size] curr_finished: Finished flags for each of these sequences. [batch_size, beam_size] Returns: Tuple of (Topk sequences based on scores, log probs of these sequences, Finished flags of these sequences) """ # First append a column of 0'ids to finished to make the same length with # finished scores finished_seq = tf.concat( [finished_seq, tf.zeros([batch_size, beam_size, 1], tf.int32)], axis=2) # Set the scores of the unfinished seq in curr_seq to large negative # values curr_scores += (1. - tf.to_float(curr_finished)) * -INF # concatenating the sequences and scores along beam axis curr_finished_seq = tf.concat([finished_seq, curr_seq], axis=1) curr_finished_scores = tf.concat([finished_scores, curr_scores], axis=1) curr_finished_flags = tf.concat([finished_flags, curr_finished], axis=1) return compute_topk_scores_and_seq( curr_finished_seq, curr_finished_scores, curr_finished_scores, curr_finished_flags, beam_size, batch_size, "grow_finished") def grow_alive(curr_seq, curr_scores, curr_log_probs, curr_finished, states): """Given sequences and scores, will gather the top k=beam size sequences. Args: curr_seq: current topk sequence that has been grown by one position. [batch_size, beam_size, i+1] curr_scores: scores for each of these sequences. [batch_size, beam_size] curr_log_probs: log probs for each of these sequences. [batch_size, beam_size] curr_finished: Finished flags for each of these sequences. [batch_size, beam_size] states: dict (possibly nested) of decoding states. Returns: Tuple of (Topk sequences based on scores, log probs of these sequences, Finished flags of these sequences) """ # Set the scores of the finished seq in curr_seq to large negative # values curr_scores += tf.to_float(curr_finished) * -INF return compute_topk_scores_and_seq(curr_seq, curr_scores, curr_log_probs, curr_finished, beam_size, batch_size, "grow_alive", states) def grow_topk(i, alive_seq, alive_log_probs, states): r"""Inner beam seach loop. This function takes the current alive sequences, and grows them to topk sequences where k = 2*beam. We use 2*beam because, we could have beam_size number of sequences that might hit and there will be no alive sequences to continue. With 2*beam_size, this will not happen. This relies on the assumption the vocab size is > beam size. If this is true, we'll have at least beam_size non extensions if we extract the next top 2*beam words. Length penalty is given by = (5+len(decode)/6) ^ -\alpha. Pls refer to https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144. Args: i: loop index alive_seq: Topk sequences decoded so far [batch_size, beam_size, i+1] alive_log_probs: probabilities of these sequences. [batch_size, beam_size] states: dict (possibly nested) of decoding states. Returns: Tuple of (Topk sequences extended by the next word, The log probs of these sequences, The scores with length penalty of these sequences, Flags indicating which of these sequences have finished decoding, dict of transformed decoding states) """ # Get the logits for all the possible next symbols flat_ids = tf.reshape(alive_seq, [batch_size * beam_size, -1]) # (batch_size * beam_size, decoded_length) if states: flat_states = nest.map_structure(_merge_beam_dim, states) flat_logits, flat_states = symbols_to_logits_fn(flat_ids, i, flat_states) states = nest.map_structure( lambda t: _unmerge_beam_dim(t, batch_size, beam_size), flat_states) else: flat_logits = symbols_to_logits_fn(flat_ids) logits = tf.reshape(flat_logits, [batch_size, beam_size, -1]) # Convert logits to normalized log probs candidate_log_probs = log_prob_from_logits(logits) # Multiply the probabilites by the current probabilites of the beam. # (batch_size, beam_size, vocab_size) + (batch_size, beam_size, 1) log_probs = candidate_log_probs + tf.expand_dims(alive_log_probs, axis=2) length_penalty = tf.pow(((5. + tf.to_float(i + 1)) / 6.), alpha) curr_scores = log_probs / length_penalty # Flatten out (beam_size, vocab_size) probs in to a list of possibilites flat_curr_scores = tf.reshape(curr_scores, [-1, beam_size * vocab_size]) topk_scores, topk_ids = tf.nn.top_k(flat_curr_scores, k=beam_size * 2) # Recovering the log probs because we will need to send them back topk_log_probs = topk_scores * length_penalty # Work out what beam the top probs are in. topk_beam_index = topk_ids // vocab_size topk_ids %= vocab_size # Unflatten the ids # The next three steps are to create coordinates for tf.gather_nd to pull # out the correct seqences from id's that we need to grow. # We will also use the coordinates to gather the booleans of the beam items # that survived. batch_pos = compute_batch_indices(batch_size, beam_size * 2) # top beams will give us the actual coordinates to do the gather. # stacking will create a tensor of dimension batch * beam * 2, where the # last dimension contains the i,j gathering coordinates. topk_coordinates = tf.stack([batch_pos, topk_beam_index], axis=2) # Gather up the most probable 2*beams both for the ids and finished_in_alive # bools topk_seq = tf.gather_nd(alive_seq, topk_coordinates) if states: states = nest.map_structure( lambda state: tf.gather_nd(state, topk_coordinates), states) # Append the most probable alive topk_seq = tf.concat([topk_seq, tf.expand_dims(topk_ids, axis=2)], axis=2) topk_finished = tf.equal(topk_ids, eos_id) return topk_seq, topk_log_probs, topk_scores, topk_finished, states def inner_loop(i, alive_seq, alive_log_probs, finished_seq, finished_scores, finished_flags, states): """Inner beam seach loop. There are three groups of tensors, alive, finished, and topk. The alive group contains information about the current alive sequences The topk group contains information about alive + topk current decoded words the finished group contains information about finished sentences, that is, the ones that have decoded to . These are what we return. The general beam search algorithm is as follows: While we haven't terminated (pls look at termination condition) 1. Grow the current alive to get beam*2 topk sequences 2. Among the topk, keep the top beam_size ones that haven't reached EOS into alive 3. Among the topk, keep the top beam_size ones have reached EOS into finished Repeat To make things simple with using fixed size tensors, we will end up inserting unfinished sequences into finished in the beginning. To stop that we add -ve INF to the score of the unfinished sequence so that when a true finished sequence does appear, it will have a higher score than all the unfinished ones. Args: i: loop index alive_seq: Topk sequences decoded so far [batch_size, beam_size, i+1] alive_log_probs: probabilities of the beams. [batch_size, beam_size] finished_seq: Current finished sequences. [batch_size, beam_size, i+1] finished_scores: scores for each of these sequences. [batch_size, beam_size] finished_flags: finished bools for each of these sequences. [batch_size, beam_size] states: dict (possibly nested) of decoding states. Returns: Tuple of (Incremented loop index New alive sequences, Log probs of the alive sequences, New finished sequences, Scores of the new finished sequences, Flags inidicating which sequence in finished as reached EOS, dict of final decoding states) """ # Each inner loop, we carry out three steps: # 1. Get the current topk items. # 2. Extract the ones that have finished and haven't finished # 3. Recompute the contents of finished based on scores. topk_seq, topk_log_probs, topk_scores, topk_finished, states = grow_topk( i, alive_seq, alive_log_probs, states) alive_seq, alive_log_probs, _, states = grow_alive( topk_seq, topk_scores, topk_log_probs, topk_finished, states) finished_seq, finished_scores, finished_flags, _ = grow_finished( finished_seq, finished_scores, finished_flags, topk_seq, topk_scores, topk_finished) return (i + 1, alive_seq, alive_log_probs, finished_seq, finished_scores, finished_flags, states) def _is_finished(i, unused_alive_seq, alive_log_probs, unused_finished_seq, finished_scores, finished_in_finished, unused_states): """Checking termination condition. We terminate when we decoded up to decode_length or the lowest scoring item in finished has a greater score that the higest prob item in alive divided by the max length penalty Args: i: loop index alive_log_probs: probabilities of the beams. [batch_size, beam_size] finished_scores: scores for each of these sequences. [batch_size, beam_size] finished_in_finished: finished bools for each of these sequences. [batch_size, beam_size] Returns: Bool. """ max_length_penalty = tf.pow(((5. + tf.to_float(decode_length)) / 6.), alpha) # The best possible score of the most likley alive sequence lower_bound_alive_scores = alive_log_probs[:, 0] / max_length_penalty # Now to compute the lowest score of a finished sequence in finished # If the sequence isn't finished, we multiply it's score by 0. since # scores are all -ve, taking the min will give us the score of the lowest # finished item. lowest_score_of_fininshed_in_finished = tf.reduce_min( finished_scores * tf.to_float(finished_in_finished), axis=1) # If none of the sequences have finished, then the min will be 0 and # we have to replace it by -ve INF if it is. The score of any seq in alive # will be much higher than -ve INF and the termination condition will not # be met. lowest_score_of_fininshed_in_finished += ( (1. - tf.to_float(tf.reduce_any(finished_in_finished, 1))) * -INF) bound_is_met = tf.reduce_all( tf.greater(lowest_score_of_fininshed_in_finished, lower_bound_alive_scores)) return tf.logical_and( tf.less(i, decode_length), tf.logical_not(bound_is_met)) (_, alive_seq, alive_log_probs, finished_seq, finished_scores, finished_flags, _) = tf.while_loop( _is_finished, inner_loop, [ tf.constant(0), alive_seq, alive_log_probs, finished_seq, finished_scores, finished_flags, states ], shape_invariants=[ tf.TensorShape([]), tf.TensorShape([None, None, None]), alive_log_probs.get_shape(), tf.TensorShape([None, None, None]), finished_scores.get_shape(), finished_flags.get_shape(), nest.map_structure( lambda tensor: tf.TensorShape(tensor.shape), states), ], parallel_iterations=1, back_prop=False) alive_seq.set_shape((None, beam_size, None)) finished_seq.set_shape((None, beam_size, None)) # Accounting for corner case: It's possible that no sequence in alive for a # particular batch item ever reached EOS. In that case, we should just copy # the contents of alive for that batch item. tf.reduce_any(finished_flags, 1) # if 0, means that no sequence for that batch index had reached EOS. We need # to do the same for the scores as well. finished_seq = tf.where( tf.reduce_any(finished_flags, 1), finished_seq, alive_seq) finished_scores = tf.where( tf.reduce_any(finished_flags, 1), finished_scores, alive_log_probs) return finished_seq, finished_scores