phase I of Vocab rework

phase II vocab rework

added more test cases

fix api doc string

address review cmts and fix CI

address ci complains

fix review cmts

ci

mindspore/ccsrc/dataset/api/de_pipeline.cc

@@ -1277,18 +1277,18 @@ Status DEPipeline::ParseBuildVocabOp(const py::dict &args, std::shared_ptr<Datas
         py::tuple tp = py::reinterpret_borrow<py::tuple>(value);
         if (!tp[0].is_none()) (void)builder->SetMinFreq(py::reinterpret_borrow<py::int_>(tp[0]));
         if (!tp[1].is_none()) (void)builder->SetMaxFreq(py::reinterpret_borrow<py::int_>(tp[1]));
-      }
-      if (key == "top_k") {
+      } else if (key == "top_k") {
         builder->SetTopK(py::reinterpret_borrow<py::int_>(value));
-      }
-      if (key == "columns") {
+      } else if (key == "columns") {
         (void)builder->SetColumnNames(ToStringVector(value));
-      }
-      if (key == "vocab") {
+      } else if (key == "vocab") {
         (void)builder->SetVocab(value.cast<std::shared_ptr<Vocab>>());
-      }
-      if (key == "num_parallel_workers") {
+      } else if (key == "num_parallel_workers") {
         (void)builder->SetNumWorkers(ToInt(value));
+      } else if (key == "special_first") {
+        (void)builder->SetSpecialFirst(ToBool(value));
+      } else if (key == "special_tokens") {
+        (void)builder->SetSpecialTokens(ToStringVector(value));
       }
     }
   }

mindspore/ccsrc/dataset/api/python_bindings.cc

@@ -668,15 +668,16 @@ void bindVocabObjects(py::module *m) {
   (void)py::class_<Vocab, std::shared_ptr<Vocab>>(*m, "Vocab")
     .def(py::init<>())
     .def_static("from_list",
-                [](const py::list &words) {
+                [](const py::list &words, const py::list &special_tokens, bool special_first) {
                   std::shared_ptr<Vocab> v;
-                  THROW_IF_ERROR(Vocab::BuildFromPyList(words, &v));
+                  THROW_IF_ERROR(Vocab::BuildFromPyList(words, special_tokens, special_first, &v));
                   return v;
                 })
     .def_static("from_file",
-                [](const std::string &path, const std::string &dlm, int32_t vocab_size) {
+                [](const std::string &path, const std::string &dlm, int32_t vocab_size, const py::list &special_tokens,
+                   bool special_first) {
                   std::shared_ptr<Vocab> v;
-                  THROW_IF_ERROR(Vocab::BuildFromFile(path, dlm, vocab_size, &v));
+                  THROW_IF_ERROR(Vocab::BuildFromFile(path, dlm, vocab_size, special_tokens, special_first, &v));
                   return v;
                 })
     .def_static("from_dict", [](const py::dict &words) {

mindspore/ccsrc/dataset/engine/datasetops/build_vocab_op.cc

@@ -27,13 +27,16 @@ namespace mindspore {
 namespace dataset {
 
 BuildVocabOp::BuildVocabOp(std::shared_ptr<Vocab> vocab, std::vector<std::string> col_names,
-                           std::pair<int64_t, int64_t> freq_r, int64_t top_k, int32_t num_workers, int32_t op_conn_size)
+                           std::pair<int64_t, int64_t> freq_r, int64_t top_k, const std::vector<std::string> &tokens,
+                           bool prepend, int32_t num_workers, int32_t op_conn_size)
     : ParallelOp(num_workers, op_conn_size),
       interval_(op_conn_size * num_workers),
       vocab_(vocab),
       col_names_(col_names),
       freq_range_(freq_r),
-      top_k_(top_k) {
+      top_k_(top_k),
+      special_tokens_(tokens),
+      special_first_(prepend) {
   // init two queues for thread sync
   distributor_queue_ = std::make_unique<Queue<TensorRow>>(num_workers * op_conn_size);
   collector_queue_ =
@@ -129,7 +132,7 @@ Status BuildVocabOp::CollectorThread() {
   }  // all frequencies are obtained
   CHECK_FAIL_RETURN_UNEXPECTED(!word_cnt_.empty(), "word_cnt is empty");
   std::vector<std::string> words;
-  // make sure enough is reserved
+  // make sure enough is reserved, this will become a partially sorted list eventually
   words.reserve(wrkr_map->size());
 
   for (auto it = word_cnt_.begin(); it != word_cnt_.end();) {
@@ -140,6 +143,15 @@ Status BuildVocabOp::CollectorThread() {
       it = word_cnt_.erase(it);
     }
   }
+  std::string err_msg;
+
+  for (const std::string &sp_tk : special_tokens_) {
+    // if a special word exists in dataset, warn user about this
+    err_msg += (word_cnt_.find(sp_tk) != word_cnt_.end() ? sp_tk + "\t" : "");
+  }
+
+  CHECK_FAIL_RETURN_UNEXPECTED(err_msg.empty(), "These specials words are already in the dataset: " + err_msg + ".");
+
   int64_t num_words = std::min(static_cast<int64_t>(words.size()), top_k_);
   if (num_words == 0) {
     MS_LOG(WARNING) << "No word falls in the frequency range: (" << freq_range_.first << "," << freq_range_.second
@@ -152,9 +164,19 @@ Status BuildVocabOp::CollectorThread() {
                       int64_t f1 = word_cnt_[w1], f2 = word_cnt_[w2];
                       return f1 == f2 ? w1 < w2 : f1 > f2;
                     });
+
+  if (special_first_) {
+    for (const std::string &sp_tk : special_tokens_) vocab_->append_word(sp_tk);
+  }
+
   for (int64_t i = 0; i < num_words; i++) {
     vocab_->append_word(words[i]);
   }
+
+  if (!special_first_) {
+    for (const std::string &sp_tk : special_tokens_) vocab_->append_word(sp_tk);
+  }
+
   RETURN_IF_NOT_OK(out_connector_->Add(0, std::make_unique<DataBuffer>(0, DataBuffer::kDeBFlagEOE)));
   RETURN_IF_NOT_OK(out_connector_->Add(0, std::make_unique<DataBuffer>(0, DataBuffer::kDeBFlagEOF)));
   // then use std::nth_element to partial sort
@@ -166,16 +188,17 @@ Status BuildVocabOp::Builder::Build(std::shared_ptr<BuildVocabOp> *op) {
   CHECK_FAIL_RETURN_UNEXPECTED(builder_top_k_ > 0, "top_k needs to be positive number");
   CHECK_FAIL_RETURN_UNEXPECTED(builder_max_freq_ >= builder_min_freq_ && builder_min_freq_ >= 0,
                                "frequency range [a,b] should be 0 <= a <= b (a,b are inclusive)");
-  (*op) = std::make_shared<BuildVocabOp>(builder_vocab_, builder_col_names_,
-                                         std::make_pair(builder_min_freq_, builder_max_freq_), builder_top_k_,
-                                         builder_num_workers_, builder_connector_size_);
+  (*op) = std::make_shared<BuildVocabOp>(
+    builder_vocab_, builder_col_names_, std::make_pair(builder_min_freq_, builder_max_freq_), builder_top_k_,
+    builder_speical_tokens_, builder_special_first_, builder_num_workers_, builder_connector_size_);
   return Status::OK();
 }
 
 BuildVocabOp::Builder::Builder()
     : builder_top_k_(std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::max()),
       builder_min_freq_(0),
-      builder_max_freq_(std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::max()) {
+      builder_max_freq_(std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::max()),
+      builder_special_first_(true) {
   std::shared_ptr<ConfigManager> cfg = GlobalContext::config_manager();
   builder_num_workers_ = cfg->num_parallel_workers();
   builder_connector_size_ = cfg->op_connector_size();

mindspore/ccsrc/dataset/engine/datasetops/build_vocab_op.h

@@ -88,12 +88,26 @@ class BuildVocabOp : public ParallelOp {
       return *this;
     }
 
+    // set special tokens
+    // @param const std::vector<std::string> & col_names - name of columns to get words
+    // @return Builder & reference to builder class object
+    Builder &SetSpecialTokens(const std::vector<std::string> &tokens) {
+      builder_speical_tokens_ = tokens;
+      return *this;
+    }
+
     // set vocab object
     Builder &SetVocab(std::shared_ptr<Vocab> vocab) {
       builder_vocab_ = vocab;
       return *this;
     }
 
+    // set special tokens first (or last)
+    Builder &SetSpecialFirst(bool prepend) {
+      builder_special_first_ = prepend;
+      return *this;
+    }
+
     // The builder "build" method creates the final object.
     // @param std::shared_ptr<BuildVocabOp> *op - DatasetOp
     // @return - The error code return
@@ -104,13 +118,16 @@ class BuildVocabOp : public ParallelOp {
     int32_t builder_connector_size_;
     int64_t builder_min_freq_;
     int64_t builder_max_freq_;
+    bool builder_special_first_;
     std::vector<std::string> builder_col_names_;
+    std::vector<std::string> builder_speical_tokens_;
     std::shared_ptr<Vocab> builder_vocab_;
     int64_t builder_top_k_;
   };
 
   BuildVocabOp(std::shared_ptr<Vocab> vocab, std::vector<std::string> col_names, std::pair<int64_t, int64_t> freq_range,
-               int64_t top_k, int32_t num_workers, int32_t op_connector_size);
+               int64_t top_k, const std::vector<std::string> &tokens, bool prepend, int32_t num_workers,
+               int32_t op_connector_size);
 
   ~BuildVocabOp() = default;
 
@@ -137,9 +154,11 @@ class BuildVocabOp : public ParallelOp {
 
  private:
   const int32_t interval_;
+  bool special_first_;
   std::shared_ptr<Vocab> vocab_;
   std::vector<std::string> col_names_;
   std::vector<int32_t> col_ids_;
+  std::vector<std::string> special_tokens_;
   // pair = {min_f, max_f}
   // make sure that 0<= min_f < max_f <= int32_max in the builder
   std::pair<int64_t, int64_t> freq_range_;

mindspore/ccsrc/dataset/text/kernels/lookup_op.h

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class LookupOp : public TensorOp {
   // constructor for lookup, takes in a vocab object
   // @param std::shared_ptr<Vocab> vocab -
   // @param WordIdType default_id, id to lookup if a word is not in vocab
-  explicit LookupOp(std::shared_ptr<Vocab> vocab, WordIdType default_id = Vocab::kSpecialTokens::unk);
+  explicit LookupOp(std::shared_ptr<Vocab> vocab, WordIdType default_id = 1);
 
   ~LookupOp() = default;
 

mindspore/ccsrc/dataset/text/vocab.cc

@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 #include <fstream>
-#include <map>
+#include <unordered_set>
+#include <unordered_map>
 #include <utility>
 
 #include "dataset/text/vocab.h"
@@ -28,41 +29,38 @@ WordIdType Vocab::Lookup(const WordType &word, WordIdType default_id) const {
   return itr == word2id_.end() ? default_id : itr->second;
 }
 
-WordType Vocab::Lookup(WordIdType id) {
-  // this operation is most likely only done with since reverse lookup is only needed when training is done
-  // hence, the worst case of inserting while keep looking up isn't likely to happen
-  if (id2word_.size() != word2id_.size() && (id - kSpecialTokens::num_tokens >= id2word_.size())) {
-    id2word_.clear();
-    id2word_.reserve(word2id_.size());
-    for (auto p : word2id_) {
-      id2word_[p.second - kSpecialTokens::num_tokens] = p.first;
-    }
-  }
-  if (id < kSpecialTokens::num_tokens) {
-    return reserved_token_str_[id];
-  } else if (id - kSpecialTokens::num_tokens >= id2word_.size()) {
-    return reserved_token_str_[kSpecialTokens::unk];
-  } else {
-    return id2word_[id - kSpecialTokens::num_tokens];
-  }
-}
-
-Status Vocab::BuildFromPyList(const py::list &words, std::shared_ptr<Vocab> *vocab) {
+Status Vocab::BuildFromPyList(const py::list &words, const py::list &special_tokens, bool prepend_special,
+                              std::shared_ptr<Vocab> *vocab) {
+  // check of duplication on both words and special_tokens will be performed in python
+  // special_tokens and words both need to be unique, and shouldn't overlap
   std::unordered_map<WordType, WordIdType> word2id;
-  WordIdType word_id = kSpecialTokens::num_tokens;
+  // if special is added in front, normal words id will start from number of special tokens
+  WordIdType word_id = prepend_special ? static_cast<WordIdType>(special_tokens.size()) : 0;
+
   for (auto word : words) {
-    const std::string s = py::str(word);
-    CHECK_FAIL_RETURN_UNEXPECTED(word2id.find(s) == word2id.end(), "duplicate word:" + s);
-    word2id[s] = word_id++;
+    word2id[py::str(word)] = word_id++;
+  }
+
+  word_id = prepend_special ? 0 : word2id.size();
+
+  for (auto special_token : special_tokens) {
+    word2id[py::str(special_token)] = word_id++;
   }
+
   *vocab = std::make_shared<Vocab>(std::move(word2id));
   return Status::OK();
 }
 
 Status Vocab::BuildFromFile(const std::string &path, const std::string &delimiter, int32_t vocab_size,
-                            std::shared_ptr<Vocab> *vocab) {
+                            const py::list &special_tokens, bool prepend_special, std::shared_ptr<Vocab> *vocab) {
+  // python validator checks special_tokens doesn't contain any duplicate words
+  std::unordered_set<std::string> specials;
+  // used to check that words in file don't contain any special token that already exists
+  for (auto word : special_tokens) {
+    specials.insert(py::str(word));
+  }
+  WordIdType word_id = prepend_special ? static_cast<WordIdType>(special_tokens.size()) : 0;
   std::unordered_map<WordType, WordIdType> word2id;
-  WordIdType word_id = kSpecialTokens::num_tokens;
   std::fstream handle(path, std::ios::in);
   CHECK_FAIL_RETURN_UNEXPECTED(handle.good() && handle.is_open(), "fail to open:" + path);
   std::string word;
@@ -71,40 +69,35 @@ Status Vocab::BuildFromFile(const std::string &path, const std::string &delimite
       // if delimiter is not found, find_first_of would return std::string::npos which is -1
       word = word.substr(0, word.find_first_of(delimiter));
     }
-    CHECK_FAIL_RETURN_UNEXPECTED(word2id.find(word) == word2id.end(), "duplicate word:" + word);
+    CHECK_FAIL_RETURN_UNEXPECTED(word2id.find(word) == word2id.end(), "duplicate word:" + word + ".");
+    CHECK_FAIL_RETURN_UNEXPECTED(specials.find(word) == specials.end(), word + " is already in special_tokens.");
     word2id[word] = word_id++;
     // break if enough row is read, if vocab_size is smaller than 0
-    if (word_id == vocab_size + kSpecialTokens::num_tokens) break;
+    if (word2id.size() == vocab_size) break;
+  }
+
+  word_id = prepend_special ? 0 : word2id.size();
+
+  for (auto special_token : special_tokens) {
+    word2id[py::str(special_token)] = word_id++;
   }
+
   *vocab = std::make_shared<Vocab>(std::move(word2id));
   return Status::OK();
 }
 
 Status Vocab::BuildFromPyDict(const py::dict &words, std::shared_ptr<Vocab> *vocab) {
   std::unordered_map<WordType, WordIdType> word2id;
-  std::map<WordIdType, WordType> id2word;
   for (auto p : words) {
-    WordIdType word_id = py::reinterpret_borrow<py::int_>(p.second);
-    if (word_id < kSpecialTokens::num_tokens) continue;  // skip id that are reserved
-    std::string word = py::str(p.first);
-    CHECK_FAIL_RETURN_UNEXPECTED(id2word.find(word_id) == id2word.end(), "duplicate id:" + word);
-    id2word[word_id] = word;
-  }
-
-  WordIdType cnt = kSpecialTokens::num_tokens;
-  for (auto p : id2word) {
-    CHECK_FAIL_RETURN_UNEXPECTED(p.first == cnt++, "word id needs to be continuous starting from 2");
-    word2id[p.second] = p.first;
+    word2id[py::str(p.first)] = py::reinterpret_borrow<py::int_>(p.second);
   }
-
   *vocab = std::make_shared<Vocab>(std::move(word2id));
   return Status::OK();
 }
-const std::vector<WordType> Vocab::reserved_token_str_ = {"<pad>", "<unk>"};
 
 void Vocab::append_word(const std::string &word) {
   if (word2id_.find(word) == word2id_.end()) {
-    word2id_[word] = word2id_.size() + kSpecialTokens::num_tokens;
+    word2id_[word] = word2id_.size();
   }
 }
 }  // namespace dataset

mindspore/ccsrc/dataset/text/vocab.h

@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ class Vocab {
   // @param const py::list &words - a list of string, used to build vocab, id starts from 2
   // @param std::shared_ptr<Vocab> *vocab - return value, vocab object
   // @return error code
-  static Status BuildFromPyList(const py::list &words, std::shared_ptr<Vocab> *vocab);
+  static Status BuildFromPyList(const py::list &words, const py::list &special_tokens, bool prepend_special,
+                                std::shared_ptr<Vocab> *vocab);
 
   // Build a vocab from reading a vocab file, id are automatically assigned, start from 2
   // @param std::string &path - path to vocab file , each line is assumed to contain 1 word
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ class Vocab {
   // @param std::shared_ptr<Vocab> *vocab - return value, vocab object
   // @return error code
   static Status BuildFromFile(const std::string &path, const std::string &delimiter, int32_t vocab_size,
-                              std::shared_ptr<Vocab> *vocab);
+                              const py::list &special_tokens, bool prepend_special, std::shared_ptr<Vocab> *vocab);
 
   // Lookup the id of a word, if word doesn't exist in vocab, return default_id
   // @param const WordType word - word to look up
@@ -80,15 +81,8 @@ class Vocab {
   // destructor
   ~Vocab() = default;
 
-  // enum type that holds all special tokens, add more if needed
-  enum kSpecialTokens : WordIdType { pad = 0, unk = 1, num_tokens = 2 };
-
-  // reversed lookup table for the reserved tokens
-  static const std::vector<WordType> reserved_token_str_;
-
  private:
   std::unordered_map<WordType, WordIdType> word2id_;
-  std::vector<WordType> id2word_;  // reverse lookup
 };
 
 }  // namespace dataset

mindspore/dataset/engine/datasets.py

@@ -894,9 +894,9 @@ class Dataset:
 
         return ProjectDataset(self, columns)
 
-    def build_vocab(self, vocab, columns, freq_range, top_k):
+    def build_vocab(self, vocab, columns, freq_range, top_k, special_tokens, special_first):
         """ Internal function for building a vocab"""
-        return BuildVocabDataset(self, vocab, columns, freq_range, top_k)
+        return BuildVocabDataset(self, vocab, columns, freq_range, top_k, special_tokens, special_first)
 
     def apply(self, apply_func):
         """
@@ -4865,9 +4865,15 @@ class BuildVocabDataset(DatasetOp):
         top_k(int, optional): top_k > 0. Number of words to be built into vocab. top_k most frequent words are
             taken. The top_k is taken after freq_range. If not enough top_k, all words will be taken (default=None,
             all words are included).
+        special_tokens(list):  a list of strings, each one is a special token. for e.g. ["<pad>","<unk>"]
+            (default=None, no special tokens will be added).
+        special_first(bool): whether special_tokens will be prepended/appended to vocab, If special_tokens is
+            specified and special_first is set to None, special_tokens will be prepended. (default=None).
+        prefetch_size (int, optional): prefetch number of records ahead of the user's request (default=None).
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, input_dataset, vocab, columns, freq_range, top_k, prefetch_size=None):
+    def __init__(self, input_dataset, vocab, columns, freq_range, top_k, special_tokens, special_first,
+                 prefetch_size=None):
         super().__init__()
         self.columns = columns
         self.input.append(input_dataset)
@@ -4875,6 +4881,8 @@ class BuildVocabDataset(DatasetOp):
         self.vocab = vocab
         self.freq_range = freq_range
         self.top_k = top_k
+        self.special_tokens = special_tokens
+        self.special_first = special_first
         input_dataset.output.append(self)
 
     def get_args(self):
@@ -4884,6 +4892,8 @@ class BuildVocabDataset(DatasetOp):
         args["freq_range"] = self.freq_range
         args["prefetch_size"] = self.prefetch_size
         args["top_k"] = self.top_k
+        args["special_tokens"] = self.special_tokens
+        args["special_first"] = self.special_first
         return args
 
     def __deepcopy__(self, memodict):
@@ -4900,4 +4910,7 @@ class BuildVocabDataset(DatasetOp):
         new_op.freq_range = copy.deepcopy(self.freq_range, memodict)
         new_op.top_k = copy.deepcopy(self.top_k, memodict)
         new_op.vocab = self.vocab
+        new_op.special_tokens = copy.deepcopy(self.special_tokens)
+        new_op.special_first = copy.deepcopy(self.special_first)
+
         return new_op

mindspore/dataset/text/transforms.py

@@ -28,10 +28,12 @@ from .validators import check_lookup, check_jieba_add_dict, \
 
 class Lookup(cde.LookupOp):
     """
-        Lookup operator that looks up a word to an id
+        Lookup operator that looks up a word to an id.
     Args:
         vocab(Vocab): a Vocab object.
-        unknown(int): default id to lookup a word that is out of vocab (default is None).
+        unknown(int, optional): default id to lookup a word that is out of vocab. If no argument is passed, 1 will be
+            used to be the default id which is the convention for unknown_token <unk>. Otherwise, user is strongly
+            encouraged to pass in the id for <unk> (default=None).
     """
 
     @check_lookup

mindspore/dataset/text/utils.py

@@ -25,12 +25,13 @@ from .validators import check_from_file, check_from_list, check_from_dict, check
 
 class Vocab(cde.Vocab):
     """
-        Vocab object that is used for lookup word.
+        Vocab object that is used to lookup a word. It contains a map that maps each word(str) to an id (int)
     """
 
     @classmethod
     @check_from_dataset
-    def from_dataset(cls, dataset, columns=None, freq_range=None, top_k=None):
+    def from_dataset(cls, dataset, columns=None, freq_range=None, top_k=None, special_tokens=None,
+                     special_first=None):
         """
         Build a vocab from a dataset. This would collect all unique words in a dataset and return a vocab within
         the frequency range specified by user in freq_range. User would be warned if no words fall into the frequency.
@@ -49,11 +50,16 @@ class Vocab(cde.Vocab):
             top_k(int, optional): top_k > 0. Number of words to be built into vocab. top_k most frequent words are
                 taken. top_k is taken after freq_range. If not enough top_k, all words will be taken. (default=None
                 all words are included).
+            special_tokens(list):  a list of strings, each one is a special token. for e.g. ["<pad>","<unk>"]
+                (default=None, no special tokens will be added).
+            special_first(bool, optional): whether special_tokens will be prepended/appended to vocab. If special_tokens
+                is specified and special_first is set to None, special_tokens will be prepended. (default=None).
         return:
             text.Vocab: Vocab object built from dataset.
         """
+
         vocab = Vocab()
-        root = copy.deepcopy(dataset).build_vocab(vocab, columns, freq_range, top_k)
+        root = copy.deepcopy(dataset).build_vocab(vocab, columns, freq_range, top_k, special_tokens, special_first)
         for d in root.create_dict_iterator():
             if d is not None:
                 raise ValueError("from_dataset should receive data other than None.")
@@ -61,17 +67,21 @@ class Vocab(cde.Vocab):
 
     @classmethod
     @check_from_list
-    def from_list(cls, word_list):
+    def from_list(cls, word_list, special_tokens=None, special_first=None):
         """
             build a vocab object from a list of word.
         Args:
-            word_list(list): a list of string where each element is a word.
+            word_list(list): a list of string where each element is a word of type string.
+            special_tokens(list):  a list of strings, each one is a special token. for e.g. ["<pad>","<unk>"]
+                (default=None, no special tokens will be added).
+            special_first(bool, optional): whether special_tokens will be prepended/appended to vocab, If special_tokens
+                is specified and special_first is set to None, special_tokens will be prepended. (default=None).
         """
-        return super().from_list(word_list)
+        return super().from_list(word_list, special_tokens, special_first)
 
     @classmethod
     @check_from_file
-    def from_file(cls, file_path, delimiter=None, vocab_size=None):
+    def from_file(cls, file_path, delimiter=None, vocab_size=None, special_tokens=None, special_first=None):
         """
             build a vocab object from a list of word.
         Args:
@@ -79,8 +89,12 @@ class Vocab(cde.Vocab):
             delimiter(str, optional): a delimiter to break up each line in file, the first element is taken to be
                 the word (default=None).
             vocab_size(int, optional): number of words to read from file_path (default=None, all words are taken).
+            special_tokens(list):  a list of strings, each one is a special token. for e.g. ["<pad>","<unk>"]
+                (default=None, no special tokens will be added).
+            special_first(bool, optional): whether special_tokens will be prepended/appended to vocab, If special_tokens
+                is specified and special_first is set to None, special_tokens will be prepended. (default=None).
         """
-        return super().from_file(file_path, delimiter, vocab_size)
+        return super().from_file(file_path, delimiter, vocab_size, special_tokens, special_first)
 
     @classmethod
     @check_from_dict
@@ -88,7 +102,8 @@ class Vocab(cde.Vocab):
         """
             build a vocab object from a dict.
         Args:
-            word_dict(dict): dict contains word, id pairs. id should start from 2 and be continuous.
+            word_dict(dict): dict contains word, id pairs where word should be str and id int. id is recommended to
+            start from 0 and be continuous. ValueError will be raised if id is negative.
         """
         return super().from_dict(word_dict)
 

mindspore/dataset/text/validators.py

@@ -23,6 +23,21 @@ import mindspore._c_dataengine as cde
 from ..transforms.validators import check_uint32, check_pos_int64
 
 
+def check_unique_list_of_words(words, arg_name):
+    """Check that words is a list and each element is a str without any duplication"""
+
+    if not isinstance(words, list):
+        raise ValueError(arg_name + " needs to be a list of words of type string.")
+    words_set = set()
+    for word in words:
+        if not isinstance(word, str):
+            raise ValueError("each word in " + arg_name + " needs to be type str.")
+        if word in words_set:
+            raise ValueError(arg_name + " contains duplicate word: " + word + ".")
+        words_set.add(word)
+    return words_set
+
+
 def check_lookup(method):
     """A wrapper that wrap a parameter checker to the original function."""
 
@@ -52,13 +67,17 @@ def check_from_file(method):
 
     @wraps(method)
     def new_method(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        file_path, delimiter, vocab_size = (list(args) + 3 * [None])[:3]
+        file_path, delimiter, vocab_size, special_tokens, special_first = (list(args) + 5 * [None])[:5]
         if "file_path" in kwargs:
             file_path = kwargs.get("file_path")
         if "delimiter" in kwargs:
             delimiter = kwargs.get("delimiter")
         if "vocab_size" in kwargs:
             vocab_size = kwargs.get("vocab_size")
+        if "special_tokens" in kwargs:
+            special_tokens = kwargs.get("special_tokens")
+        if "special_first" in kwargs:
+            special_first = kwargs.get("special_first")
 
         if not isinstance(file_path, str):
             raise ValueError("file_path needs to be str.")
@@ -73,9 +92,24 @@ def check_from_file(method):
                 raise ValueError("vocab size needs to be a positive integer.")
         else:
             vocab_size = -1
+
+        if special_first is None:
+            special_first = True
+
+        if not isinstance(special_first, bool):
+            raise ValueError("special_first needs to be a boolean value")
+
+        if special_tokens is None:
+            special_tokens = []
+
+        check_unique_list_of_words(special_tokens, "special_tokens")
+
         kwargs["file_path"] = file_path
         kwargs["delimiter"] = delimiter
         kwargs["vocab_size"] = vocab_size
+        kwargs["special_tokens"] = special_tokens
+        kwargs["special_first"] = special_first
+
         return method(self, **kwargs)
 
     return new_method
@@ -86,16 +120,32 @@ def check_from_list(method):
 
     @wraps(method)
     def new_method(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        word_list, = (list(args) + [None])[:1]
+        word_list, special_tokens, special_first = (list(args) + 3 * [None])[:3]
         if "word_list" in kwargs:
             word_list = kwargs.get("word_list")
-        if not isinstance(word_list, list):
-            raise ValueError("word_list needs to be a list of words.")
-        for word in word_list:
-            if not isinstance(word, str):
-                raise ValueError("each word in word list needs to be type str.")
+        if "special_tokens" in kwargs:
+            special_tokens = kwargs.get("special_tokens")
+        if "special_first" in kwargs:
+            special_first = kwargs.get("special_first")
+        if special_tokens is None:
+            special_tokens = []
+        word_set = check_unique_list_of_words(word_list, "word_list")
+        token_set = check_unique_list_of_words(special_tokens, "special_tokens")
+
+        intersect = word_set.intersection(token_set)
+
+        if intersect != set():
+            raise ValueError("special_tokens and word_list contain duplicate word :" + str(intersect) + ".")
+
+        if special_first is None:
+            special_first = True
+
+        if not isinstance(special_first, bool):
+            raise ValueError("special_first needs to be a boolean value.")
 
         kwargs["word_list"] = word_list
+        kwargs["special_tokens"] = special_tokens
+        kwargs["special_first"] = special_first
         return method(self, **kwargs)
 
     return new_method
@@ -113,9 +163,9 @@ def check_from_dict(method):
             raise ValueError("word_dict needs to be a list of word,id pairs.")
         for word, word_id in word_dict.items():
             if not isinstance(word, str):
-                raise ValueError("each word in word_dict needs to be type str.")
+                raise ValueError("Each word in word_dict needs to be type string.")
             if not (isinstance(word_id, int) and word_id >= 0):
-                raise ValueError("each word id needs to be positive integer.")
+                raise ValueError("Each word id needs to be positive integer.")
         kwargs["word_dict"] = word_dict
         return method(self, **kwargs)
 
@@ -135,11 +185,11 @@ def check_jieba_init(method):
             mp_path = kwargs.get("mp_path")
         if hmm_path is None:
             raise ValueError(
-                "the dict of HMMSegment in cppjieba is not provided.")
+                "The dict of HMMSegment in cppjieba is not provided.")
         kwargs["hmm_path"] = hmm_path
         if mp_path is None:
             raise ValueError(
-                "the dict of MPSegment in cppjieba is not provided.")
+                "The dict of MPSegment in cppjieba is not provided.")
         kwargs["mp_path"] = mp_path
         if model is not None:
             kwargs["model"] = model
@@ -171,7 +221,7 @@ def check_jieba_add_word(method):
 
 
 def check_jieba_add_dict(method):
-    """Wrapper method to check the parameters of add dict"""
+    """Wrapper method to check the parameters of add dict."""
 
     @wraps(method)
     def new_method(self, *args, **kwargs):
@@ -189,10 +239,10 @@ def check_jieba_add_dict(method):
 def check_from_dataset(method):
     """A wrapper that wrap a parameter checker to the original function."""
 
-    # def from_dataset(cls, dataset, columns, freq_range=None, top_k=None):
     @wraps(method)
     def new_method(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        dataset, columns, freq_range, top_k = (list(args) + 4 * [None])[:4]
+
+        dataset, columns, freq_range, top_k, special_tokens, special_first = (list(args) + 6 * [None])[:6]
         if "dataset" in kwargs:
             dataset = kwargs.get("dataset")
         if "columns" in kwargs:
@@ -201,6 +251,10 @@ def check_from_dataset(method):
             freq_range = kwargs.get("freq_range")
         if "top_k" in kwargs:
             top_k = kwargs.get("top_k")
+        if "special_tokens" in kwargs:
+            special_tokens = kwargs.get("special_tokens")
+        if "special_first" in kwargs:
+            special_first = kwargs.get("special_first")
 
         if columns is None:
             columns = []
@@ -232,10 +286,23 @@ def check_from_dataset(method):
         if isinstance(top_k, int) and top_k <= 0:
             raise ValueError("top_k needs to be a positive integer.")
 
+        if special_first is None:
+            special_first = True
+
+        if special_tokens is None:
+            special_tokens = []
+
+        if not isinstance(special_first, bool):
+            raise ValueError("special_first needs to be a boolean value.")
+
+        check_unique_list_of_words(special_tokens, "special_tokens")
+
         kwargs["dataset"] = dataset
         kwargs["columns"] = columns
         kwargs["freq_range"] = freq_range
         kwargs["top_k"] = top_k
+        kwargs["special_tokens"] = special_tokens
+        kwargs["special_first"] = special_first
 
         return method(self, **kwargs)
 

tests/ut/data/dataset/testVocab/simple_vocab_list.txt

+w1
+w2
+w3
+w4
+w5
+w6
+w7
+w8

tests/ut/python/dataset/test_from_dataset.py

@@ -23,19 +23,21 @@ import mindspore.dataset.text as text
 def test_demo_basic_from_dataset():
     """ this is a tutorial on how from_dataset should be used in a normal use case"""
     data = ds.TextFileDataset("../data/dataset/testVocab/words.txt", shuffle=False)
-    vocab = text.Vocab.from_dataset(data, "text", freq_range=None, top_k=None)
+    vocab = text.Vocab.from_dataset(data, "text", freq_range=None, top_k=None, special_tokens=["<pad>", "<unk>"],
+                                    special_first=True)
     data = data.map(input_columns=["text"], operations=text.Lookup(vocab))
     res = []
     for d in data.create_dict_iterator():
         res.append(d["text"].item())
-    assert res == [4, 5, 3, 6, 7, 2]
+    assert res == [4, 5, 3, 6, 7, 2], res
 
 
 def test_demo_basic_from_dataset_with_tokenizer():
     """ this is a tutorial on how from_dataset should be used in a normal use case with tokenizer"""
     data = ds.TextFileDataset("../data/dataset/testTokenizerData/1.txt", shuffle=False)
     data = data.map(input_columns=["text"], operations=text.UnicodeCharTokenizer())
-    vocab = text.Vocab.from_dataset(data, None, freq_range=None, top_k=None)
+    vocab = text.Vocab.from_dataset(data, None, freq_range=None, top_k=None, special_tokens=["<pad>", "<unk>"],
+                                    special_first=True)
     data = data.map(input_columns=["text"], operations=text.Lookup(vocab))
     res = []
     for d in data.create_dict_iterator():
@@ -55,7 +57,8 @@ def test_from_dataset():
 
     def test_config(freq_range, top_k):
         corpus_dataset = ds.GeneratorDataset(gen_corpus, column_names=["text"])
-        vocab = text.Vocab.from_dataset(corpus_dataset, None, freq_range, top_k)
+        vocab = text.Vocab.from_dataset(corpus_dataset, None, freq_range, top_k, special_tokens=["<pad>", "<unk>"],
+                                        special_first=True)
         corpus_dataset = corpus_dataset.map(input_columns="text", operations=text.Lookup(vocab))
         res = []
         for d in corpus_dataset.create_dict_iterator():
@@ -87,6 +90,35 @@ def test_from_dataset():
     assert test6_res == [[4, 4, 4, 4], [3, 3, 3, 3], [2, 2, 2, 2], [1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1], [1, 1], [1]], str(test6_res)
 
 
+def test_from_dataset_special_token():
+    """ test build vocab with generator dataset """
+
+    def gen_corpus():
+        # key: word, value: number of occurrences, reason for using letters is so their order is apparent
+        corpus = {"D": 1, "C": 1, "B": 1, "A": 1}
+        for k, v in corpus.items():
+            yield (np.array([k] * v, dtype='S'),)
+
+    def gen_input(texts):
+        for word in texts.split(" "):
+            yield (np.array(word, dtype='S'),)
+
+    def test_config(texts, top_k, special_tokens, special_first):
+        corpus_dataset = ds.GeneratorDataset(gen_corpus, column_names=["text"])
+        vocab = text.Vocab.from_dataset(corpus_dataset, None, None, top_k, special_tokens, special_first)
+        data = ds.GeneratorDataset(gen_input(texts), column_names=["text"])
+        data = data.map(input_columns="text", operations=text.Lookup(vocab))
+        res = []
+        for d in data.create_dict_iterator():
+            res.append(d["text"].item())
+        return res
+
+    # test special tokens are inserted before
+    assert test_config("A B C D <pad> <unk>", 4, ["<pad>", "<unk>"], True) == [2, 3, 4, 5, 0, 1]
+    # test special tokens are inserted after
+    assert test_config("A B C D <pad> <unk>", 4, ["<pad>", "<unk>"], False) == [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
+
+
 def test_from_dataset_exceptions():
     """ test various exceptions during that are checked in validator """
 
@@ -105,8 +137,10 @@ def test_from_dataset_exceptions():
     test_config("text", (2, 3), 0, "top_k needs to be a positive integer")
     test_config([123], (2, 3), 0, "columns need to be a list of strings")
 
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     test_demo_basic_from_dataset()
     test_from_dataset()
     test_from_dataset_exceptions()
     test_demo_basic_from_dataset_with_tokenizer()
+    test_from_dataset_special_token()

tests/ut/python/dataset/test_nlp.py

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def test_on_tokenized_line():
             word = line.split(',')[0]
             jieba_op.add_word(word)
     data = data.map(input_columns=["text"], operations=jieba_op)
-    vocab = text.Vocab.from_file(VOCAB_FILE, ",")
+    vocab = text.Vocab.from_file(VOCAB_FILE, ",", special_tokens=["<pad>", "<unk>"])
     lookup = text.Lookup(vocab)
     data = data.map(input_columns=["text"], operations=lookup)
     res = np.array([[10, 1, 11, 1, 12, 1, 15, 1, 13, 1, 14],

tests/ut/python/dataset/test_vocab.py

+# Copyright 2019 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
+#
+# 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.
+# ==============================================================================
+
+import numpy as np
+
 import mindspore.dataset as ds
 import mindspore.dataset.text as text
 
 # this file contains "home is behind the world head" each word is 1 line
 DATA_FILE = "../data/dataset/testVocab/words.txt"
 VOCAB_FILE = "../data/dataset/testVocab/vocab_list.txt"
+SIMPLE_VOCAB_FILE = "../data/dataset/testVocab/simple_vocab_list.txt"
 
 
-def test_from_list():
-    vocab = text.Vocab.from_list("home IS behind the world ahead !".split(" "))
+def test_from_list_tutorial():
+    vocab = text.Vocab.from_list("home IS behind the world ahead !".split(" "), ["<pad>", "<unk>"], True)
     lookup = text.Lookup(vocab)
     data = ds.TextFileDataset(DATA_FILE, shuffle=False)
     data = data.map(input_columns=["text"], operations=lookup)
@@ -18,8 +36,8 @@ def test_from_list():
         ind += 1
 
 
-def test_from_file():
-    vocab = text.Vocab.from_file(VOCAB_FILE, ",")
+def test_from_file_tutorial():
+    vocab = text.Vocab.from_file(VOCAB_FILE, ",", None, ["<pad>", "<unk>"], True)
     lookup = text.Lookup(vocab)
     data = ds.TextFileDataset(DATA_FILE, shuffle=False)
     data = data.map(input_columns=["text"], operations=lookup)
@@ -30,7 +48,7 @@ def test_from_file():
         ind += 1
 
 
-def test_from_dict():
+def test_from_dict_tutorial():
     vocab = text.Vocab.from_dict({"home": 3, "behind": 2, "the": 4, "world": 5, "<unk>": 6})
     lookup = text.Lookup(vocab, 6)  # default value is -1
     data = ds.TextFileDataset(DATA_FILE, shuffle=False)
@@ -41,7 +59,61 @@ def test_from_dict():
         assert d["text"] == res[ind], ind
         ind += 1
 
+
+def test_from_list():
+    def gen(texts):
+        for word in texts.split(" "):
+            yield (np.array(word, dtype='S'),)
+
+    def test_config(lookup_str, vocab_input, special_tokens, special_first):
+        try:
+            vocab = text.Vocab.from_list(vocab_input, special_tokens, special_first)
+            data = ds.GeneratorDataset(gen(lookup_str), column_names=["text"])
+            data = data.map(input_columns=["text"], operations=text.Lookup(vocab))
+            res = []
+            for d in data.create_dict_iterator():
+                res.append(d["text"].item())
+            return res
+        except ValueError as e:
+            return str(e)
+
+    # test normal operations
+    assert test_config("w1 w2 w3 s1 s2", ["w1", "w2", "w3"], ["s1", "s2"], True) == [2, 3, 4, 0, 1]
+    assert test_config("w1 w2 w3 s1 s2", ["w1", "w2", "w3"], ["s1", "s2"], False) == [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
+    assert test_config("w3 w2 w1", ["w1", "w2", "w3"], None, True) == [2, 1, 0]
+    assert test_config("w3 w2 w1", ["w1", "w2", "w3"], None, False) == [2, 1, 0]
+
+    # test exceptions
+    assert "word_list contains duplicate" in test_config("w1", ["w1", "w1"], [], True)
+    assert "special_tokens contains duplicate" in test_config("w1", ["w1", "w2"], ["s1", "s1"], True)
+    assert "special_tokens and word_list contain duplicate" in test_config("w1", ["w1", "w2"], ["s1", "w1"], True)
+
+
+def test_from_file():
+    def gen(texts):
+        for word in texts.split(" "):
+            yield (np.array(word, dtype='S'),)
+
+    def test_config(lookup_str, special_tokens, special_first):
+        try:
+            vocab = text.Vocab.from_file(SIMPLE_VOCAB_FILE, special_tokens=special_tokens, special_first=special_first)
+            data = ds.GeneratorDataset(gen(lookup_str), column_names=["text"])
+            data = data.map(input_columns=["text"], operations=text.Lookup(vocab))
+            res = []
+            for d in data.create_dict_iterator():
+                res.append(d["text"].item())
+            return res
+        except ValueError as e:
+            return str(e)
+
+    assert test_config("w1 w2 w3", ["s1", "s2", "s3"], True) == [3, 4, 5]
+    assert test_config("w1 w2 w3", ["s1", "s2", "s3"], False) == [0, 1, 2]
+    assert "special_tokens contains duplicate" in test_config("w1", ["s1", "s1"], True)
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
+    test_from_list_tutorial()
+    test_from_file_tutorial()
+    test_from_dict_tutorial()
     test_from_list()
     test_from_file()
-    test_from_dict()