Reformer Language model on character level and trained on enwik8.
enwik8 is a dataset based on Wikipedia and is often used to measure the model's ability to compress data, e.g. in the scope of the Hutter prize: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize.
reformer-enwik8 was pretrained on the first 90M chars of enwik8 whereas the text was chunked into batches of size 65536 chars (=2^16).
The model's weights were taken from https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/trax-ml/reformer/enwik8 and converted
to Hugging Face's PyTorch ReformerLM model ReformerModelWithLMHead.
The model is a language model that operates on characters. Therefore, this model does not need a tokenizer. The following function can instead be used for encoding and decoding:
import torch
# Encoding
def encode(list_of_strings, pad_token_id=0):
max_length = max([len(string) for string in list_of_strings])
# create emtpy tensors
attention_masks = torch.zeros((len(list_of_strings), max_length), dtype=torch.long)
input_ids = torch.full((len(list_of_strings), max_length), pad_token_id, dtype=torch.long)
for idx, string in enumerate(list_of_strings):
# make sure string is in byte format
if not isinstance(string, bytes):
string = str.encode(string)
input_ids[idx, :len(string)] = torch.tensor([x + 2 for x in string])
attention_masks[idx, :len(string)] = 1
return input_ids, attention_masks
# Decoding
def decode(outputs_ids):
decoded_outputs = []
for output_ids in outputs_ids.tolist():
# transform id back to char IDs < 2 are simply transformed to ""
decoded_outputs.append("".join([chr(x - 2) if x > 1 else "" for x in output_ids]))
return decoded_outputs
Text can be generated as follows:
from transformers import ReformerModelWithLMHead
model = ReformerModelWithLMHead.from_pretrained("google/reformer-enwik8")
encoded, attention_masks = encode(["In 1965, Brooks left IBM to found the Department of"])
decode(model.generate(encoded, do_sample=True, max_length=150))
# gives:
# In 1965, Brooks left IBM to found the Department of Journalism in 1968. IBM had jurisdiction himself in 1980, while Brooks resolved, nevertheless thro
Note: Language generation using ReformerModelWithLMHead is not optimized yet and is rather slow.