Summarization, translation, Q&A, text generation and more at blazing speed using a T5 version implemented in ONNX.

This package is still in alpha stage, therefore some functionalities such as beam searches are still in development.

Installation

ONNX-T5 is available on PyPi.

pip install onnxt5

For the dev version you can run the following.

git clone https://github.com/abelriboulot/onnxt5
cd onnxt5
pip install -e .

Usage

The simplest way to get started for generation is to use the default pre-trained version of T5 on ONNX included in the package.

NOTE: Please note that the first time you call get_encoder_decoder_tokenizer, the models are being downloaded which might take a minute or two.

from onnxt5 import GenerativeT5
from onnxt5.api import get_encoder_decoder_tokenizer
decoder_sess, encoder_sess, tokenizer = get_encoder_decoder_tokenizer()
generative_t5 = GenerativeT5(encoder_sess, decoder_sess, tokenizer, onnx=True)
prompt = 'translate English to French: I was a victim of a series of accidents.'

output_text, output_logits = generative_t5(prompt, max_length=100, temperature=0.)
# output_text: "J'ai été victime d'une série d'accidents."

Other tasks just require to change the prefix in your prompt, for instance for summarization:

prompt = 'summarize: <PARAGRAPH>'
output_text, output_logits = generative_t5(prompt, max_length=100, temperature=0.)

If you want to get the embeddings of text, you can run the following

from onnxt5.api import get_encoder_decoder_tokenizer, run_embeddings_text

decoder_sess, encoder_sess, tokenizer = get_encoder_decoder_tokenizer()
prompt = 'Listen, Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.'
encoder_embeddings, decoder_embeddings = run_embeddings_text(encoder_sess, decoder_sess, tokenizer, prompt)

ONNXT5 also lets you export and use your own models. See the examples\ folder for more detailed examples.

T5 works with tokens such as summarize:, translate English to German:, or question: ... context:. You can see a list of the pretrained tasks and token in the appendix D of the original paper.

Functionalities

• Run any of the T5 trained tasks in a line (translation, summarization, sentiment analysis, completion, generation)
• Export your own T5 models to ONNX easily
• Utility functions to generate what you need quickly
• Up to 4X speedup compared to PyTorch execution for smaller contexts

Benchmarks

The outperformance varies heavily based on the length of the context. For contexts less than ~500 words, ONNX outperforms greatly, going up to a 4X speedup compared to PyTorch. However, the longer the context, the smaller the speedup of ONNX, with Pytorch being faster above 500 words.

GPU Benchmark, Embedding Task

GPU Benchmark, Generation Task

Contributing

The project is still in its infancy, so I would love your feedback, to know what problems you are trying to solve, hear issues you're encountering, and discuss features that would help you. Therefore feel free to shoot me an e-mail (see my profile for the address!) or join our slack community.

Acknowledgements

This repo is based on the work of Colin Raffel and Noam Shazeer and Adam Roberts and Katherine Lee and Sharan Narang and Michael Matena and Yanqi Zhou and Wei Li and Peter J. Liu from Google, as well as the implementation of T5 from the huggingface team, the work of the Microsoft ONNX and onnxruntime teams, in particular Tianlei Wu, and the work of Thomas Wolf on generation of text.

Original T5 Paper

@article{2019t5,
  author = {Colin Raffel and Noam Shazeer and Adam Roberts and Katherine Lee and Sharan Narang and Michael Matena and Yanqi Zhou and Wei Li and Peter J. Liu},
  title = {Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer},
  journal = {arXiv e-prints},
  year = {2019},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {1910.10683},
}

Microsoft onnxruntime repo

HuggingFace implementation of T5