# Copyright (c) 2018 PaddlePaddle Authors. All Rights Reserve. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. """ This module provides a general beam search decoder API for RNN based decoders. The purpose of this API is to allow users to highly customize the behavior within their RNN decoder(vanilla RNN, LSTM, attention + LSTM, future etc.), without using the low level API such as while ops. This API is still under active development and may change drastically. """ from ...wrapped_decorator import signature_safe_contextmanager import numpy as np from ... import layers from ...framework import Variable from ... import core from ... import framework, unique_name from ...layer_helper import LayerHelper __all__ = ['InitState', 'StateCell', 'TrainingDecoder', 'BeamSearchDecoder'] class _DecoderType: TRAINING = 1 BEAM_SEARCH = 2 class InitState(object): """ The initial hidden state object. The state objects holds a variable, and may use it to initialize the hidden state cell of RNN. Usually used as input to `StateCell` class. Args: init (Variable): The initial variable of the hidden state. If set None, the variable will be created as a tensor with constant value based on `shape` and `value` param. shape (tuple|list): If `init` is None, new Variable's shape. Default None. value (float): If `init` is None, new Variable's value. Default None. init_boot (Variable): If provided, the initial variable will be created with the same shape as this variable. need_reorder (bool): If set true, the init will be sorted by its lod rank within its batches. This should be used if `batch_size > 1`. dtype (np.dtype|core.VarDesc.VarType|str): Data type of the initial variable. Returns: An initialized state object. Examples: See `StateCell`. """ def __init__(self, init=None, shape=None, value=0.0, init_boot=None, need_reorder=False, dtype='float32'): if init is not None: self._init = init elif init_boot is None: raise ValueError( 'init_boot must be provided to infer the shape of InitState .\n' ) else: self._init = layers.fill_constant_batch_size_like(input=init_boot, value=value, shape=shape, dtype=dtype) self._shape = shape self._value = value self._need_reorder = need_reorder self._dtype = dtype @property def value(self): return self._init @property def need_reorder(self): return self._need_reorder class _MemoryState(object): def __init__(self, state_name, rnn_obj, init_state): self._state_name = state_name # each is a rnn.memory self._rnn_obj = rnn_obj self._state_mem = self._rnn_obj.memory( init=init_state.value, need_reorder=init_state.need_reorder) def get_state(self): return self._state_mem def update_state(self, state): self._rnn_obj.update_memory(self._state_mem, state) class _ArrayState(object): def __init__(self, state_name, block, init_state): self._state_name = state_name self._block = block self._state_array = self._block.create_var( name=unique_name.generate('array_state_array'), type=core.VarDesc.VarType.LOD_TENSOR_ARRAY, dtype=init_state.value.dtype) self._counter = self._block.create_var( name=unique_name.generate('array_state_counter'), type=core.VarDesc.VarType.LOD_TENSOR, dtype='int64') # initialize counter self._block.append_op(type='fill_constant', inputs={}, outputs={'Out': [self._counter]}, attrs={ 'shape': [1], 'dtype': self._counter.dtype, 'value': float(0.0), 'force_cpu': True }) self._counter.stop_gradient = True # write initial state block.append_op(type='write_to_array', inputs={ 'X': init_state.value, 'I': self._counter }, outputs={'Out': self._state_array}) def get_state(self): state = layers.array_read(array=self._state_array, i=self._counter) return state def update_state(self, state): layers.increment(x=self._counter, value=1, in_place=True) layers.array_write(state, array=self._state_array, i=self._counter) class StateCell(object): """ The state cell class stores the hidden state of the RNN cell. A typical RNN cell has one or more hidden states, and one or more step inputs. This class allows you to defines the name of hidden states as well as step inputs, and their associated variables. Args: inputs (dict): A feeding dict of {name(str) : Variable}. It specifies the names of step inputs for RNN cell, and the associated variables. The variable could initially be None and set manually during each RNN step. states (dict): A feeding dict of {name(str) : InitState object}. It specifies the names of hidden states and their initialized state. out_state (str): A string that specifies the name of hidden state that will be used to compute the score in beam search process. name (str): The name of the RNN cell. Default None. Raises: `ValueError`: If the initial state is not an instance of InitState, or the out_state is not in the dict of states. Returns: StateCell: The initialized StateCell object. Examples: .. code-block:: python hidden_state = InitState(init=encoder_out, need_reorder=True) state_cell = StateCell( inputs={'current_word': None}, states={'h': hidden_state}, out_state='h') """ def __init__(self, inputs, states, out_state, name=None): self._helper = LayerHelper('state_cell', name=name) self._cur_states = {} self._state_names = [] for state_name, state in states.items(): if not isinstance(state, InitState): raise ValueError('state must be an InitState object.') self._cur_states[state_name] = state self._state_names.append(state_name) self._inputs = inputs # inputs is place holder here self._cur_decoder_obj = None self._in_decoder = False self._states_holder = {} self._switched_decoder = False self._state_updater = None self._out_state = out_state if self._out_state not in self._cur_states: raise ValueError('out_state must be one state in states') def _enter_decoder(self, decoder_obj): if self._in_decoder == True or self._cur_decoder_obj is not None: raise ValueError('StateCell has already entered a decoder.') self._in_decoder = True self._cur_decoder_obj = decoder_obj self._switched_decoder = False def _leave_decoder(self, decoder_obj): if not self._in_decoder: raise ValueError('StateCell not in decoder, ' 'invalid leaving operation.') if self._cur_decoder_obj != decoder_obj: raise ValueError('Inconsistent decoder object in StateCell.') self._in_decoder = False self._cur_decoder_obj = None self._switched_decoder = False def _switch_decoder(self): # lazy switch if not self._in_decoder: raise ValueError('StateCell must be enter a decoder.') if self._switched_decoder: raise ValueError('StateCell already done switching.') for state_name in self._state_names: if state_name not in self._states_holder: state = self._cur_states[state_name] if not isinstance(state, InitState): raise ValueError('Current type of state is %s, should be ' 'an InitState object.' % type(state)) self._states_holder[state_name] = {} if self._cur_decoder_obj.type == _DecoderType.TRAINING: self._states_holder[state_name][id(self._cur_decoder_obj)] \ = _MemoryState(state_name, self._cur_decoder_obj.dynamic_rnn, state) elif self._cur_decoder_obj.type == _DecoderType.BEAM_SEARCH: self._states_holder[state_name][id(self._cur_decoder_obj)] \ = _ArrayState(state_name, self._cur_decoder_obj._parent_block(), state) else: raise ValueError('Unknown decoder type, only support ' '[TRAINING, BEAM_SEARCH]') # Read back, since current state should be LoDTensor self._cur_states[state_name] = \ self._states_holder[state_name][ id(self._cur_decoder_obj)].get_state() self._switched_decoder = True def get_state(self, state_name): """ The getter of state object. Find the state variable by its name. Args: state_name (str): A string of the state's name. Returns: The associated state object. """ if self._in_decoder and not self._switched_decoder: self._switch_decoder() if state_name not in self._cur_states: raise ValueError( 'Unknown state %s. Please make sure _switch_decoder() ' 'invoked.' % state_name) return self._cur_states[state_name] def get_input(self, input_name): """ The getter of input variable. Find the input variable by its name. Args: input_name (str): The string of the input's name. Returns: The associated input variable. """ if input_name not in self._inputs or self._inputs[input_name] is None: raise ValueError('Invalid input %s.' % input_name) return self._inputs[input_name] def set_state(self, state_name, state_value): """ The setter of the state variable. Change the variable of the given `state_name`. Args: state_name (str): The name of the state to change. state_value (Var): The variable of the new state. """ self._cur_states[state_name] = state_value def state_updater(self, updater): """ Set up the updater to update the hidden state every RNN step. The behavior of updater could be customized by users. The updater should be a function that takes a `StateCell` object as input and update the hidden state within it. The hidden state could be accessed through `get_state` method. Args: updater (func): the updater to update the state cell. """ self._state_updater = updater def _decorator(state_cell): if state_cell == self: raise TypeError('Updater should only accept a StateCell object ' 'as argument.') updater(state_cell) return _decorator def compute_state(self, inputs): """ Provide the step input of RNN cell, and compute the new hidden state with updater and give step input. Args: inputs (dict): A feed dict, {name(str): Variable}. name should be the names of step inputs for this RNN cell, and Variable should be the associated variables. Examples: .. code-block:: python state_cell.compute_state(inputs={'x': current_word}) """ if self._in_decoder and not self._switched_decoder: self._switch_decoder() for input_name, input_value in inputs.items(): if input_name not in self._inputs: raise ValueError('Unknown input %s. ' 'Please make sure %s in input ' 'place holder.' % (input_name, input_name)) self._inputs[input_name] = input_value self._state_updater(self) def update_states(self): """ Update and record state information after each RNN step. """ if self._in_decoder and not self._switched_decoder: self._switched_decoder() for state_name, decoder_state in self._states_holder.items(): if id(self._cur_decoder_obj) not in decoder_state: raise ValueError('Unknown decoder object, please make sure ' 'switch_decoder been invoked.') decoder_state[id(self._cur_decoder_obj)].update_state( self._cur_states[state_name]) def out_state(self): """ Get the output state variable. This must be called after update_states. Returns: The output variable of the RNN cell. """ return self._cur_states[self._out_state] class TrainingDecoder(object): """ A decoder that can only be used for training. The decoder could be initialized with a `StateCell` object. The computation within the RNN cell could be defined with decoder's block. Args: state_cell (StateCell): A StateCell object that handles the input and state variables. name (str): The name of this decoder. Default None. Returns: TrainingDecoder: The initialized TrainingDecoder object. Examples: .. code-block:: python decoder = TrainingDecoder(state_cell) with decoder.block(): current_word = decoder.step_input(trg_embedding) decoder.state_cell.compute_state(inputs={'x': current_word}) current_score = layers.fc(input=decoder.state_cell.get_state('h'), size=32, act='softmax') decoder.state_cell.update_states() decoder.output(current_score) """ BEFORE_DECODER = 0 IN_DECODER = 1 AFTER_DECODER = 2 def __init__(self, state_cell, name=None): self._helper = LayerHelper('training_decoder', name=name) self._status = TrainingDecoder.BEFORE_DECODER self._dynamic_rnn = layers.DynamicRNN() self._type = _DecoderType.TRAINING self._state_cell = state_cell self._state_cell._enter_decoder(self) @signature_safe_contextmanager def block(self): """ Define the behavior of the decoder for each RNN time step. """ if self._status != TrainingDecoder.BEFORE_DECODER: raise ValueError('decoder.block() can only be invoked once') self._status = TrainingDecoder.IN_DECODER with self._dynamic_rnn.block(): yield self._status = TrainingDecoder.AFTER_DECODER self._state_cell._leave_decoder(self) @property def state_cell(self): self._assert_in_decoder_block('state_cell') return self._state_cell @property def dynamic_rnn(self): return self._dynamic_rnn @property def type(self): return self._type def step_input(self, x): """ Set the input variable as a step input to the RNN cell. For example, in machine translation, each time step we read one word from the target sentences, then the target sentence is a step input to the RNN cell. Args: x (Variable): the variable to be used as step input. Returns: Variable: The variable as input of current step. Examples: .. code-block:: python current_word = decoder.step_input(trg_embedding) """ self._assert_in_decoder_block('step_input') return self._dynamic_rnn.step_input(x) def static_input(self, x): """ Set the input variable as a static input of RNN cell. In contrast to step input, this variable will be used as a whole within the RNN decode loop and will not be scattered into time steps. Args: x (Variable): the variable to be used as static input. Returns: Variable: The variable as input of current step. Examples: .. code-block:: python encoder_vec = decoder.static_input(encoded_vector) """ self._assert_in_decoder_block('static_input') return self._dynamic_rnn.static_input(x) def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs): """ Get the output of RNN. This API should only be invoked after RNN.block() Returns: Variable: The specified output of the RNN cell. """ if self._status != TrainingDecoder.AFTER_DECODER: raise ValueError('Output of training decoder can only be visited ' 'outside the block.') return self._dynamic_rnn(*args, **kwargs) def output(self, *outputs): """ Set the output variable of the RNN cell. Args: *outputs (Variables): a series of variables that treated as output of the RNN cell. Examples: .. code-block:: python out = fluid.layers.fc(input=h, size=32, bias_attr=True, act='softmax') decoder.output(out) """ self._assert_in_decoder_block('output') self._dynamic_rnn.output(*outputs) def _assert_in_decoder_block(self, method): if self._status != TrainingDecoder.IN_DECODER: raise ValueError('%s should be invoked inside block of ' 'TrainingDecoder object.' % method) class BeamSearchDecoder(object): """ A beam search decoder that can be used for inference. The decoder should be initialized with a `StateCell` object. The decode process can be defined within its block. Args: state_cell (StateCell): A StateCell object that handles the input and state variables. init_ids (Variable): The init beam search token ids. init_scores (Variable): The associated score of each id. target_dict_dim (int): Size of dictionary. word_dim (int): Word embedding dimension. input_var_dict (dict): A feeding dict to feed the required input variables to the state cell. It will be used by state_cell 's compute method. Default empty. topk_size (int): The topk size used for beam search. Default 50. max_len (int): The maximum allowed length of the generated sentence. Default 100. beam_size (int): The beam width of beam search decode. Default 1. end_id (int): The id of end token within beam search. name (str): The name of this decoder. Default None. Returns: BeamSearchDecoder: A initialized BeamSearchDecoder object. Examples: .. code-block:: python decoder = BeamSearchDecoder( state_cell=state_cell, init_ids=init_ids, init_scores=init_scores, target_dict_dim=target_dict_dim, word_dim=word_dim, init_var_dict={}, topk_size=topk_size, sparse_emb=IS_SPARSE, max_len=max_length, beam_size=beam_size, end_id=1, name=None ) decoder.decode() translation_ids, translation_scores = decoder() """ BEFORE_BEAM_SEARCH_DECODER = 0 IN_BEAM_SEARCH_DECODER = 1 AFTER_BEAM_SEARCH_DECODER = 2 def __init__(self, state_cell, init_ids, init_scores, target_dict_dim, word_dim, input_var_dict={}, topk_size=50, sparse_emb=True, max_len=100, beam_size=1, end_id=1, name=None): self._helper = LayerHelper('beam_search_decoder', name=name) self._counter = layers.zeros(shape=[1], dtype='int64') self._counter.stop_gradient = True self._type = _DecoderType.BEAM_SEARCH self._max_len = layers.fill_constant(shape=[1], dtype='int64', value=max_len) self._cond = layers.less_than(x=self._counter, y=layers.fill_constant(shape=[1], dtype='int64', value=max_len)) self._while_op = layers.While(self._cond) self._state_cell = state_cell self._state_cell._enter_decoder(self) self._status = BeamSearchDecoder.BEFORE_BEAM_SEARCH_DECODER self._zero_idx = layers.fill_constant(shape=[1], value=0, dtype='int64', force_cpu=True) self._array_dict = {} self._array_link = [] self._ids_array = None self._scores_array = None self._beam_size = beam_size self._end_id = end_id self._init_ids = init_ids self._init_scores = init_scores self._target_dict_dim = target_dict_dim self._topk_size = topk_size self._sparse_emb = sparse_emb self._word_dim = word_dim self._input_var_dict = input_var_dict @signature_safe_contextmanager def block(self): """ Define the behavior of the decoder for each RNN time step. """ if self._status != BeamSearchDecoder.BEFORE_BEAM_SEARCH_DECODER: raise ValueError('block() can only be invoke once.') self._status = BeamSearchDecoder.IN_BEAM_SEARCH_DECODER with self._while_op.block(): yield with layers.Switch() as switch: with switch.case(self._cond): layers.increment(x=self._counter, value=1.0, in_place=True) for value, array in self._array_link: layers.array_write(x=value, i=self._counter, array=array) layers.less_than(x=self._counter, y=self._max_len, cond=self._cond) self._status = BeamSearchDecoder.AFTER_BEAM_SEARCH_DECODER self._state_cell._leave_decoder(self) @property def type(self): return self._type def early_stop(self): """ Stop the generation process in advance. Could be used as "break". """ layers.fill_constant(shape=[1], value=0, dtype='bool', force_cpu=True, out=self._cond) def decode(self): """ Set up the computation within the decoder. Then you could call the decoder to get the result of beam search decode. If you want to define a more specific decoder, you could override this function. Examples: .. code-block:: python decoder.decode() translation_ids, translation_scores = decoder() """ with self.block(): prev_ids = self.read_array(init=self._init_ids, is_ids=True) prev_scores = self.read_array(init=self._init_scores, is_scores=True) prev_ids_embedding = layers.embedding( input=prev_ids, size=[self._target_dict_dim, self._word_dim], dtype='float32', is_sparse=self._sparse_emb) feed_dict = {} update_dict = {} for init_var_name, init_var in self._input_var_dict.items(): if init_var_name not in self.state_cell._inputs: raise ValueError('Variable ' + init_var_name + ' not found in StateCell!\n') read_var = self.read_array(init=init_var) update_dict[init_var_name] = read_var feed_var_expanded = layers.sequence_expand( read_var, prev_scores) feed_dict[init_var_name] = feed_var_expanded for state_str in self._state_cell._state_names: prev_state = self.state_cell.get_state(state_str) prev_state_expanded = layers.sequence_expand( prev_state, prev_scores) self.state_cell.set_state(state_str, prev_state_expanded) for i, input_name in enumerate(self._state_cell._inputs): if input_name not in feed_dict: feed_dict[input_name] = prev_ids_embedding self.state_cell.compute_state(inputs=feed_dict) current_state = self.state_cell.out_state() current_state_with_lod = layers.lod_reset(x=current_state, y=prev_scores) scores = layers.fc(input=current_state_with_lod, size=self._target_dict_dim, act='softmax') topk_scores, topk_indices = layers.topk(scores, k=self._topk_size) accu_scores = layers.elementwise_add(x=layers.log(x=topk_scores), y=layers.reshape(prev_scores, shape=[-1]), axis=0) selected_ids, selected_scores = layers.beam_search(prev_ids, prev_scores, topk_indices, accu_scores, self._beam_size, end_id=1, level=0) with layers.Switch() as switch: with switch.case(layers.is_empty(selected_ids)): self.early_stop() with switch.default(): self.state_cell.update_states() self.update_array(prev_ids, selected_ids) self.update_array(prev_scores, selected_scores) for update_name, var_to_update in update_dict.items(): self.update_array(var_to_update, feed_dict[update_name]) def read_array(self, init, is_ids=False, is_scores=False): """ Read an array to get the decoded ids and scores generated by previous RNN step. At the first step of RNN, the init variable mut be used to initialize the array. Args: init (Variable): The initial variable for first step usage. init must be provided. is_ids (bool): Specify whether the variable is an id. is_scores (bool): Specify whether the variable is a score. Returns: The associated variable generated during previous RNN steps. Examples: .. code-block:: python prev_ids = decoder.read_array(init=init_ids, is_ids=True) prev_scores = decoder.read_array(init=init_scores, is_scores=True) """ self._assert_in_decoder_block('read_array') if is_ids and is_scores: raise ValueError('Shouldn\'t mark current array be ids array and' 'scores array at the same time.') if not isinstance(init, Variable): raise TypeError('The input argument `init` must be a Variable.') parent_block = self._parent_block() array = parent_block.create_var( name=unique_name.generate('beam_search_decoder_array'), type=core.VarDesc.VarType.LOD_TENSOR_ARRAY, dtype=init.dtype) parent_block.append_op(type='write_to_array', inputs={ 'X': init, 'I': self._zero_idx }, outputs={'Out': array}) if is_ids: self._ids_array = array elif is_scores: self._scores_array = array read_value = layers.array_read(array=array, i=self._counter) self._array_dict[read_value.name] = array return read_value def update_array(self, array, value): """ Store the value generated in current step in an array for each RNN step. This array could be accessed by read_array method. Args: array (Variable): The array to append the new variable to. value (Variable): The newly generated value to be stored. """ self._assert_in_decoder_block('update_array') if not isinstance(array, Variable): raise TypeError( 'The input argument `array` of must be a Variable.') if not isinstance(value, Variable): raise TypeError('The input argument `value` of must be a Variable.') array = self._array_dict.get(array.name, None) if array is None: raise ValueError('Please invoke read_array before update_array.') self._array_link.append((value, array)) def __call__(self): """ Run the decode process and return the final decode result. Returns: A tuple of decoded (id, score) pairs. id is a Variable that holds the generated tokens, and score is a Variable with the same shape as id, holds the score for each generated token. """ if self._status != BeamSearchDecoder.AFTER_BEAM_SEARCH_DECODER: raise ValueError('Output of BeamSearchDecoder object can ' 'only be visited outside the block.') return layers.beam_search_decode(ids=self._ids_array, scores=self._scores_array, beam_size=self._beam_size, end_id=self._end_id) @property def state_cell(self): self._assert_in_decoder_block('state_cell') return self._state_cell def _parent_block(self): """ Getter of parent block. Returns: The parent block of decoder. """ program = self._helper.main_program parent_block_idx = program.current_block().parent_idx if parent_block_idx < 0: raise ValueError('Invalid block with index %d.' % parent_block_idx) parent_block = program.block(parent_block_idx) return parent_block def _assert_in_decoder_block(self, method): if self._status != BeamSearchDecoder.IN_BEAM_SEARCH_DECODER: raise ValueError('%s should be invoked inside block of ' 'BeamSearchDecoder object.' % method)