This is a project to learn to implement different s2s model on tensorflow.

This project is only used for learning, which means it will contain many bugs. I suggest to use nmt project to do experiments and train seq2seq models. You can find it in the reference part.

I am experimenting the copynet and pg on lcsts dataset, you can find the code in the lcsts branch.

Issues and suggestions are welcomed.

The models I have implemented are as following:

• Basic seq2seq model
  • A model with bi-direction RNN encdoer and attention mechanism
• Seq2seq model
  • Same as basic model, but using tf.data pipeline to process input data
• GNMT model
  • Residual conection and attention same as GNMT model to speed up training
  • refer to GNMT for more details
• Pointer-Generator model
  • A model that support copy mechanism
  • refer to Pointer-Generator for more details
• CopyNet model
  • A model also support copy mechanism
  • refer to CopyNet for more details.

For the implement details, refer to ReadMe in the model folder.

A typical sequence to sequence(seq2seq) model contains an encoder, an decoder and an attetion structure. Tensorflow provide many useful apis to implement a seq2seq model, usually you will need belowing apis:

• tf.contrib.rnn
  • Different RNNs
• tf.contrib.seq2seq
  • Provided different attention mechanism and also a good implementation of beam search
• tf.data
  • data preproces pipeline apis
• Other apis you need to build and train a model

Use either:

• Multi-layer rnn
  • use the last state of the last layer rnn as the initial decode state
• Bi-direction rnn
  • use a Dense layer to convert the fw and bw state to the initial decode state
• GNMT encoder
  • a bidirection rnn + serveral rnn with residual conection

• Use multi-layer rnn, and set the inital state of each layer to initial decode state
• GNMT decoder
  • only apply attention to the bottom layer of decoder, so we can utilize multi gpus during training

• Bahdanau
• Luong

Right now I only have cross entropy loss. Will add following metrics:

• bleu
  • for translation problems
• rouge
  • for summarization problems

• Using tf-1.4
• Python 3

Run the model on a toy dataset, ie. reverse the sequence

train:

python -m bin.toy_train

inference:

python -m bin.toy_inference

Also you can run on en-vi dataset, refer to en_vietnam_train.py in bin for more details.

You can find more training scripts in bin directory.

Thanks to following resources:

• https://github.com/tensorflow/nmt
  • google's NMT tutorial, very good resource to learn seq2seq
• https://github.com/OpenNMT/OpenNMT-tf
  • code from harvardnlp group, also a good resource to learn seq2seq. Good code style and structure. You can find tensor2tensor implementation details here, which is becoming more and more popular nowdays.
• https://github.com/JayParks/tf-seq2seq
  • A good implementation of seq2seq with beam search based on tf 1.2.rc1
• https://github.com/j-min/tf_tutorial_plus
  • I used the demo data from here
• https://github.com/vahidk/EffectiveTensorflow
  • how to use tensorflow effectivly
• https://github.com/abisee/pointer-generator
  • The original pointer-generator network that use old seq2seq apis
• https://github.com/stanfordmlgroup/nlc
  • This project shows how to implement an attention wrapped rnn cell
• https://github.com/lspvic/CopyNet
  • this project using nmt to implement copynet