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: 6 layers

Encoder 6 layers

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The residual features entering this block.

shape
xnx_n [B batch, S source positions, 512 d]
Sources

Contextual evidence from Add positional encoding

The timing signal: channels/2 geometric timescales from 1 to 10,000; the sines and the cosines of position/timescale are concatenated along the channels and added to x.

timing · tensorflow/tensor2tensor / tensor2tensor/models/common_attention.py
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def add_timing_signal_1d(x, min_timescale=1.0, max_timescale=1.0e4):
  """Adds a bunch of sinusoids of different frequencies to a Tensor.

  Each channel of the input Tensor is incremented by a sinusoid of a different
  frequency and phase.

  This allows attention to learn to use absolute and relative positions.
  Timing signals should be added to some precursors of both the query and the
  memory inputs to attention.

  The use of relative position is possible because sin(x+y) and cos(x+y) can be
  experessed in terms of y, sin(x) and cos(x).

  In particular, we use a geometric sequence of timescales starting with
  min_timescale and ending with max_timescale.  The number of different
  timescales is equal to channels / 2. For each timescale, we
  generate the two sinusoidal signals sin(timestep/timescale) and
  cos(timestep/timescale).  All of these sinusoids are concatenated in
  the channels dimension.

  Args:
    x: a Tensor with shape [batch, length, channels]
    min_timescale: a float
    max_timescale: a float

  Returns:
    a Tensor the same shape as x.
  """
  length = tf.shape(x)[1]
  channels = tf.shape(x)[2]
  position = tf.to_float(tf.range(length))
  num_timescales = channels // 2
  log_timescale_increment = (
      math.log(float(max_timescale) / float(min_timescale)) /
      (tf.to_float(num_timescales) - 1))
  inv_timescales = min_timescale * tf.exp(
      tf.to_float(tf.range(num_timescales)) * -log_timescale_increment)
  scaled_time = tf.expand_dims(position, 1) * tf.expand_dims(inv_timescales, 0)
  signal = tf.concat([tf.sin(scaled_time), tf.cos(scaled_time)], axis=1)
  signal = tf.pad(signal, [[0, 0], [0, tf.mod(channels, 2)]])
  signal = tf.reshape(signal, [1, length, channels])
  return x + signal

Contextual evidence from Add positional encoding

The encoder input is the embedded source plus a learned target-space embedding of 32 rows, plus the timing signal; the padding positions become a −1e9 attention bias.

prepare-encoder · tensorflow/tensor2tensor / tensor2tensor/models/transformer.py
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def transformer_prepare_encoder(inputs, target_space, hparams):
  """Prepare one shard of the model for the encoder.

  Args:
    inputs: a Tensor.
    target_space: a Tensor.
    hparams: run hyperparameters

  Returns:
    encoder_input: a Tensor, bottom of encoder stack
    encoder_self_attention_bias: a Tensor, containing large negative values
      to implement masked attention and possibly baises for diagonal
      alignments
    encoder_padding: a Tensor
  """
  # Flatten inputs.
  ishape_static = inputs.shape.as_list()
  encoder_input = inputs
  encoder_padding = common_attention.embedding_to_padding(encoder_input)
  encoder_self_attention_bias = common_attention.attention_bias_ignore_padding(
      encoder_padding)
  # Append target_space_id embedding to inputs.
  emb_target_space = common_layers.embedding(
      target_space, 32, ishape_static[-1], name="target_space_embedding")
  emb_target_space = tf.reshape(emb_target_space, [1, 1, -1])
  encoder_input += emb_target_space
  if hparams.pos == "timing":
    encoder_input = common_attention.add_timing_signal_1d(encoder_input)
  return (encoder_input, encoder_self_attention_bias, encoder_padding)

Contextual evidence from Multi-head self-attention

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 Multi-head self-attention

Each of num_hidden_layers encoder layers: self-attention over the encoder input with the padding bias, then the feed-forward network, each through residual_fn.

encoder · tensorflow/tensor2tensor / tensor2tensor/models/transformer.py
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def transformer_encoder(encoder_input,
                        residual_fn,
                        encoder_self_attention_bias,
                        hparams,
                        name="encoder"):
  """A stack of transformer layers.

  Args:
    encoder_input: a Tensor
    residual_fn: a function from (layer_input, layer_output) -> combined_output
    encoder_self_attention_bias: bias Tensor for self-attention
       (see common_attention.attention_bias())
    hparams: hyperparameters for model
    name: a string

  Returns:
    y: a Tensors
  """
  x = encoder_input
  # Summaries don't work in multi-problem setting yet.
  summaries = "problems" not in hparams.values() or len(hparams.problems) == 1
  with tf.variable_scope(name):
    for layer in xrange(hparams.num_hidden_layers):
      with tf.variable_scope("layer_%d" % layer):
        x = residual_fn(
            x,
            common_attention.multihead_attention(
                x,
                None,
                encoder_self_attention_bias,
                hparams.attention_key_channels or hparams.hidden_size,
                hparams.attention_value_channels or hparams.hidden_size,
                hparams.hidden_size,
                hparams.num_heads,
                hparams.attention_dropout,
                summaries=summaries,
                name="encoder_self_attention"))
        x = residual_fn(x, transformer_ffn_layer(x, hparams))
  return x

Contextual evidence from Add attention output

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))

Incoming transform evidence

Dropout with the residual rate is applied to the encoder input and the decoder input.

Dropout on the encoder input · tensorflow/tensor2tensor / tensor2tensor/models/transformer.py
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    encoder_input = tf.nn.dropout(encoder_input, 1.0 - hparams.residual_dropout)
    decoder_input = tf.nn.dropout(decoder_input, 1.0 - hparams.residual_dropout)