Transformer

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Vaswani et al. · Jun 2017
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tensorflow/tensor2tensor v1.0.14 @ 0c66117 · arXiv:1706.03762v7 · WMT 2014 English–German · vocabulary of about 37,000 · no trained weights were publishedHow to read

Encoder–decoder attention

Decoder 6 layers › Cross-attention

Decoder features

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tensorquery_antecedent

The decoder’s features after its self-attention sublayer.

shape
xx [B batch, T target positions, 512 d]
Sources

Contextual evidence from LayerNorm

LayerNorm over the last axis with a learned scale and bias and ε = 1e-6.

layer-norm · tensorflow/tensor2tensor / tensor2tensor/models/common_layers.py
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def layer_norm_compute_python(x, epsilon, scale, bias):
  """Layer norm raw computation."""
  mean = tf.reduce_mean(x, axis=[-1], keep_dims=True)
  variance = tf.reduce_mean(tf.square(x - mean), axis=[-1], keep_dims=True)
  norm_x = (x - mean) * tf.rsqrt(variance + epsilon)
  return norm_x * scale + bias


@function.Defun(compiled=True)
def layer_norm_compute_grad(x, epsilon, scale, bias, dy):
  y = layer_norm_compute_python(x, epsilon, scale, bias)
  dx = tf.gradients(ys=[y], xs=[x, epsilon, scale, bias], grad_ys=[dy])
  return dx


@function.Defun(
    compiled=True,
    separate_compiled_gradients=True,
    grad_func=layer_norm_compute_grad)
def layer_norm_compute(x, epsilon, scale, bias):
  return layer_norm_compute_python(x, epsilon, scale, bias)


def layer_norm(x, filters=None, epsilon=1e-6, name=None, reuse=None):
  """Layer normalize the tensor x, averaging over the last dimension."""
  if filters is None:
    filters = x.get_shape()[-1]
  with tf.variable_scope(
      name, default_name="layer_norm", values=[x], reuse=reuse):
    scale = tf.get_variable(
        "layer_norm_scale", [filters], initializer=tf.ones_initializer())
    bias = tf.get_variable(
        "layer_norm_bias", [filters], initializer=tf.zeros_initializer())
    if allow_defun:
      result = layer_norm_compute(x, tf.constant(epsilon), scale, bias)
      result.set_shape(x.get_shape())
    else:
      result = layer_norm_compute_python(x, epsilon, scale, bias)

Contextual evidence from LayerNorm

Post-norm: each sublayer output is dropped out, added to its input and layer-normalized.

residual-fn · tensorflow/tensor2tensor / tensor2tensor/models/transformer.py
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    def residual_fn(x, y):
      return common_layers.layer_norm(x + tf.nn.dropout(
          y, 1.0 - hparams.residual_dropout))

Contextual evidence from Prepare Q, K, V

Self-attention projects queries, keys and values with one 1×1 convolution; attention to a memory projects queries from the input and keys and values from the memory; heads are split, queries scaled by depth^-0.5, attended, combined and projected out.

multihead · tensorflow/tensor2tensor / tensor2tensor/models/common_attention.py
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def multihead_attention(query_antecedent,
                        memory_antecedent,
                        bias,
                        total_key_depth,
                        total_value_depth,
                        output_depth,
                        num_heads,
                        dropout_rate,
                        summaries=False,
                        image_shapes=None,
                        name=None):
  """Multihead scaled-dot-product attention with input/output transformations.

  Args:
    query_antecedent: a Tensor with shape [batch, length_q, channels]
    memory_antecedent: a Tensor with shape [batch, length_m, channels]
    bias: bias Tensor (see attention_bias())
    total_key_depth: an integer
    total_value_depth: an integer
    output_depth: an integer
    num_heads: an integer dividing total_key_depth and total_value_depth
    dropout_rate: a floating point number
    summaries: a boolean
    image_shapes: optional tuple of integer scalars.
      see comments for attention_image_summary()
    name: an optional string

  Returns:
    A Tensor.

  Raises:
    ValueError: if the key depth or value depth are not divisible by the
      number of attention heads.
  """
  if total_key_depth % num_heads != 0:
    raise ValueError("Key depth (%d) must be divisible by the number of "
                     "attention heads (%d)." % (total_key_depth, num_heads))
  if total_value_depth % num_heads != 0:
    raise ValueError("Value depth (%d) must be divisible by the number of "
                     "attention heads (%d)." % (total_value_depth, num_heads))

  with tf.variable_scope(
      name,
      default_name="multihead_attention",
      values=[query_antecedent, memory_antecedent]):
    if memory_antecedent is None:
      # self attention
      combined = common_layers.conv1d(
          query_antecedent,
          total_key_depth * 2 + total_value_depth,
          1,
          name="qkv_transform")
      q, k, v = tf.split(
          combined, [total_key_depth, total_key_depth, total_value_depth],
          axis=2)
    else:
      q = common_layers.conv1d(
          query_antecedent, total_key_depth, 1, name="q_transform")
      combined = common_layers.conv1d(
          memory_antecedent,
          total_key_depth + total_value_depth,
          1,
          name="kv_transform")
      k, v = tf.split(combined, [total_key_depth, total_value_depth], axis=2)
    q = split_heads(q, num_heads)
    k = split_heads(k, num_heads)
    v = split_heads(v, num_heads)
    key_depth_per_head = total_key_depth // num_heads
    q *= key_depth_per_head**-0.5
    x = dot_product_attention(
        q, k, v, bias, dropout_rate, summaries, image_shapes)
    x = combine_heads(x)
    x = common_layers.conv1d(x, output_depth, 1, name="output_transform")
    return x

Contextual evidence from Prepare Q, K, V

Split the last axis into heads and move heads before positions; combine reverses it.

heads · tensorflow/tensor2tensor / tensor2tensor/models/common_attention.py
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def split_heads(x, num_heads):
  """Split channels (dimension 3) into multiple heads (becomes dimension 1).

  Args:
    x: a Tensor with shape [batch, length, channels]
    num_heads: an integer

  Returns:
    a Tensor with shape [batch, num_heads, length, channels / num_heads]
  """
  return tf.transpose(split_last_dimension(x, num_heads), [0, 2, 1, 3])


def combine_heads(x):
  """Inverse of split_heads.

  Args:
    x: a Tensor with shape [batch, num_heads, length, channels / num_heads]

  Returns:
    a Tensor with shape [batch, length, channels]
  """
  return combine_last_two_dimensions(tf.transpose(x, [0, 2, 1, 3]))

Contextual evidence from Prepare Q, K, V

conv1d is a 1×1 tf.layers.conv2d, which owns a kernel and a bias.

conv1d · tensorflow/tensor2tensor / tensor2tensor/models/common_layers.py
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def conv(inputs, filters, kernel_size, **kwargs):
  return conv_internal(tf.layers.conv2d, inputs, filters, kernel_size, **kwargs)


def conv1d(inputs, filters, kernel_size, **kwargs):
  return tf.squeeze(
      conv(tf.expand_dims(inputs, 2), filters, (kernel_size, 1), **kwargs), 2)