Attention-based sequence to sequence learning

• TensorFlow 1.2+ for Python 3
• YAML and Matplotlib modules for Python 3: sudo apt-get install python3-yaml python3-matplotlib
• A recent NVIDIA GPU

Train a model (CONFIG is a YAML configuration file, such as config/default.yaml):

./seq2seq.sh CONFIG --train -v 

Translate text using an existing model:

./seq2seq.sh CONFIG --decode FILE_TO_TRANSLATE --output OUTPUT_FILE

or for interactive decoding:

./seq2seq.sh CONFIG --decode

This is the same model and dataset as Bahdanau et al. 2015.

config/WMT14/download.sh    # download WMT14 data into raw_data/WMT14
config/WMT14/prepare.sh     # preprocess the data, and copy the files to data/WMT14
./seq2seq.sh config/WMT14/baseline.yaml --train -v   # train a baseline model on this data

You should get similar BLEU scores as these (our model was trained on a single Titan X I for about 4 days).

Download this model here. To use this model, just extract the archive into the seq2seq/models folder, and run:

 ./seq2seq.sh models/WMT14/config.yaml --decode -v

This is the same dataset as Ranzato et al. 2015.

config/IWSLT14/prepare.sh
./seq2seq.sh config/IWSLT14/baseline.yaml --train -v

The model is available for download here.

If you want to use the toolkit for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Automatic Speech Translation (AST), then you'll need to pre-process your audio files accordingly. This README details how it can be done. You'll need to install the Yaafe library, and use scripts/speech/extract-audio-features.py to extract MFCCs from a set of wav files.

• YAML configuration files
• Beam-search decoder
• Ensemble decoding
• Multiple encoders
• Hierarchical encoder
• Bidirectional encoder
• Local attention model
• Convolutional attention model
• Detailed logging
• Periodic BLEU evaluation
• Periodic checkpoints
• Multi-task training: train on several tasks at once (e.g. French->English and German->English MT)
• Subwords training and decoding
• Input binary features instead of text
• Pre-processing script: we provide a fully-featured Python script for data pre-processing (vocabulary creation, lowercasing, tokenizing, splitting, etc.)
• Dynamic RNNs: we use symbolic loops instead of statically unrolled RNNs. This means that we don't mean to manually configure bucket sizes, and that model creation is much faster.

• This project is based on TensorFlow's reference implementation
• We include some of the pre-processing scripts from Moses
• The scripts for subword units come from github.com/rsennrich/subword-nmt