rnnlm-core-training.h

// rnnlm/rnnlm-core-training.h

// Copyright 2017  Johns Hopkins University (author: Daniel Povey)

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#ifndef KALDI_RNNLM_RNNLM_CORE_TRAINING_H_
#define KALDI_RNNLM_RNNLM_CORE_TRAINING_H_

#include "base/kaldi-common.h"
#include "matrix/matrix-lib.h"
#include "rnnlm/rnnlm-example.h"
#include "nnet3/nnet-nnet.h"
#include "nnet3/nnet-compute.h"
#include "nnet3/nnet-optimize.h"
#include "rnnlm/rnnlm-example-utils.h"

namespace kaldi {
namespace rnnlm {


// These are options relating to the core RNNLM training,
// i.e. training the actual neural net that is for the RNNLM
// (when the word embeddings are given).  This is analogous
// to NnetTrainerOptions in ../nnet-training.h, except that
// with the RNNLM the training code a few things are different,
// so we're using a totally separate training class.
// We'll add options as we need them.
struct RnnlmCoreTrainerOptions {
  int32 print_interval;
  BaseFloat momentum;
  BaseFloat max_param_change;
  BaseFloat l2_regularize_factor;
  BaseFloat backstitch_training_scale;
  int32 backstitch_training_interval;

  RnnlmCoreTrainerOptions():
      print_interval(100),
      momentum(0.0),
      max_param_change(2.0),
      l2_regularize_factor(1.0),
      backstitch_training_scale(0.0),
      backstitch_training_interval(1) { }

  void Register(OptionsItf *opts) {
    opts->Register("momentum", &momentum, "Momentum constant to apply during "
                   "training (help stabilize update).  e.g. 0.9.  Note: we "
                   "automatically multiply the learning rate by (1-momenum) "
                   "so that the 'effective' learning rate is the same as "
                   "before (because momentum would normally increase the "
                   "effective learning rate by 1/(1-momentum))");
    opts->Register("max-param-change", &max_param_change, "The maximum change in "
                   "parameters allowed per minibatch, measured in Euclidean norm "
                   "over the entire model (change will be clipped to this value)");
    opts->Register("l2-regularize-factor", &l2_regularize_factor, "Factor that "
                   "affects the strength of l2 regularization on model "
                   "parameters. The primary way to specify this type of "
                   "l2 regularization is via the 'l2-regularize'"
                   "configuration value at the config-file level. "
                   "--l2-regularize-factor will be multiplied by the component-level "
                   "l2-regularize values and can be used to correct for effects "
                   "related to parallelization by model averaging.");
    opts->Register("backstitch-training-scale", &backstitch_training_scale,
                   "backstitch training factor. "
                   "if 0 then in the normal training mode. It is referred to as "
                   "'\\alpha' in our publications.");
    opts->Register("backstitch-training-interval",
                   &backstitch_training_interval,
                   "do backstitch training with the specified interval of "
                   "minibatches. It is referred to as 'n' in our publications.");
  }
};


class ObjectiveTracker {
 public:
  ObjectiveTracker(int32 reporting_interval);


  void AddStats(BaseFloat weight, BaseFloat num_objf,
                BaseFloat den_objf,
                BaseFloat exact_den_objf = 0.0);


  ~ObjectiveTracker();  // Prints stats for the final interval, and the overall
                        // stats.


 private:
  // prints the stats for the current interval.
  void PrintStatsThisInterval() const;
  // zeroes the stats for the current interval and adds them to
  // the global stats.
  void CommitIntervalStats();
  // prints the overall stats.
  void PrintStatsOverall() const;

  int32 reporting_interval_;
  int32 num_egs_this_interval_;
  double tot_weight_this_interval_;  // sum of weights of outputs-- the
                                     // objective is to be divided by this.
  double num_objf_this_interval_;  // numerator term in objective
  double den_objf_this_interval_;  // denominator term in objective, to be
                                  // added to numerator term.
  // exact_den_objf_this_interval_ is the exact version of the denominator term,
  // of the form log(sum(...)) instead of sum(...).  This is included for
  // debugging and diagnostic purposes, and it will be zero if we're using
  // sampling (which will be most of the time).
  int32 exact_den_objf_this_interval_;

  // the following versions of the variables are overall, not just for
  // this interval: once we finish an interval (e.g. 100 examples), we
  // add the '...this_interval_' versions of the variables to the
  // variables below.
  int32 num_egs_;
  double tot_weight_;
  double num_objf_;
  double den_objf_;
  double exact_den_objf_;
};


/** This class does the core part of the training of the RNNLM; the
    word embeddings are supplied to this class for each minibatch and
    while this class can compute objective function derivatives w.r.t.
    these embeddings, it is not responsible for updating them.
 */
class RnnlmCoreTrainer {
 public:
  /** Constructor.
       @param [in] config  Structure that holds configuration options
       @param [in,out] nnet   The neural network that is to be trained.
                              Will be modified each time you call Train().
   */
  RnnlmCoreTrainer(const RnnlmCoreTrainerOptions &config,
                   const RnnlmObjectiveOptions &objective_config,
                   nnet3::Nnet *nnet);

  /* Train on one minibatch.
       @param [in] minibatch  The RNNLM minibatch to train on, containing
                            a number of parallel word sequences.  It will not
                            necessarily contain words with the 'original'
                            numbering, it will in most circumstances contain
                            just the ones we used; see RenumberRnnlmMinibatch().
       @param [in] derived   Derived quantities of the minibatch, pre-computed by
                            calling GetRnnlmExampleDerived() with suitable arguments.
       @param [in] word_embedding  The matrix giving the embedding of words, of
                            dimension minibatch.vocab_size by the embedding dimension.
                            The numbering of the words does not have to be the 'real'
                            numbering of words, it can consist of words renumbered
                            by RenumberRnnlmMinibatch(); it just has to be
                            consistent with the word-ids present in 'minibatch'.
       @param [out] word_embedding_deriv  If supplied, the derivative of the
                            objective function w.r.t. the word embedding will be
                            *added* to this location; it must have the same
                            dimension as 'word_embedding'.
   */
  void Train(const RnnlmExample &minibatch,
             const RnnlmExampleDerived &derived,
             const CuMatrixBase<BaseFloat> &word_embedding,
             CuMatrixBase<BaseFloat> *word_embedding_deriv = NULL);

  // The backstitch version of the above function. Depending
  // on whether is_backstitch_step1 is true, It could be either the first
  // (backward) step, or the second (forward) step of backstitch.
  void TrainBackstitch(bool is_backstitch_step1,
                       const RnnlmExample &minibatch,
                       const RnnlmExampleDerived &derived,
                       const CuMatrixBase<BaseFloat> &word_embedding,
                       CuMatrixBase<BaseFloat> *word_embedding_deriv = NULL);

  // Prints out the final stats.
  void PrintTotalStats() const;

  // Prints out the max-change stats (if nonzero): the percentage of time that
  // per-component max-change and global max-change were enforced.
  void PrintMaxChangeStats() const;


  // Calls ConsolidateMemory() on nnet_ and delta_nnet_.
  void ConsolidateMemory();

  ~RnnlmCoreTrainer();
 private:

  void ProvideInput(const RnnlmExample &minibatch,
                    const RnnlmExampleDerived &derived,
                    const CuMatrixBase<BaseFloat> &word_embedding,
                    nnet3::NnetComputer *computer);

  /** Process the output of the neural net and record the objective function
      in objf_info_.
   @param [in] is_backstitch_step1  If true update stats otherwise not.
   @param [in] minibatch  The minibatch for which we're proessing the output.
   @param [in] derived  Derived quantities from the minibatch.
   @param [in] word_embedding  The word embedding, with the same numbering as
                      used in the minibatch (may be subsampled at this point).
   @param [out] word_embedding_deriv  If non-NULL, the part of the derivative
                      w.r.t. the word-embedding that arises from the output
                      computation will be *added* to here.
  */
  void ProcessOutput(bool is_backstitch_step1,
                     const RnnlmExample &minibatch,
                     const RnnlmExampleDerived &derived,
                     const CuMatrixBase<BaseFloat> &word_embedding,
                     nnet3::NnetComputer *computer,
                     CuMatrixBase<BaseFloat> *word_embedding_deriv = NULL);

  // Applies per-component max-change and global max-change to all updatable
  // components in *delta_nnet_, and use *delta_nnet_ to update parameters
  // in *nnet_.
  void UpdateParamsWithMaxChange();

  const RnnlmCoreTrainerOptions config_;
  const RnnlmObjectiveOptions objective_config_;
  nnet3::Nnet *nnet_;
  nnet3::Nnet *delta_nnet_;  // nnet representing parameter-change for this
                             // minibatch (or, when using momentum, its moving
                             // weighted average).
  nnet3::CachingOptimizingCompiler compiler_;

  int32 num_minibatches_processed_;

  // stats for max-change.
  std::vector<int32> num_max_change_per_component_applied_;
  int32 num_max_change_global_applied_;

  ObjectiveTracker objf_info_;
};






} // namespace rnnlm
} // namespace kaldi

#endif //KALDI_RNNLM_RNNLM_CORE_TRAINING_H_