Chapter 48
The Transformer architecture
This is a companion notebook for the book Deep Learning with Python, Second Edition. For readability, it only contains runnable code blocks and section titles, and omits everything else in the book: text paragraphs, figures, and pseudocode.
If you want to be able to follow what's going on, I recommend reading the notebook side by side with your copy of the book.
This notebook was generated for TensorFlow 2.6.
The Transformer architecture
Understanding self-attention
Generalized self-attention: the query-key-value model
Multi-head attention
The Transformer encoder
Getting the data
!curl -O https://ai.stanford.edu/~amaas/data/sentiment/aclImdb_v1.tar.gz
!tar -xf aclImdb_v1.tar.gz
!rm -r aclImdb/train/unsupPreparing the data
import os, pathlib, shutil, random
from tensorflow import keras
batch_size = 32
base_dir = pathlib.Path("aclImdb")
val_dir = base_dir / "val"
train_dir = base_dir / "train"
for category in ("neg", "pos"):
os.makedirs(val_dir / category)
files = os.listdir(train_dir / category)
random.Random(1337).shuffle(files)
num_val_samples = int(0.2 * len(files))
val_files = files[-num_val_samples:]
for fname in val_files:
shutil.move(train_dir / category / fname,
val_dir / category / fname)
train_ds = keras.utils.text_dataset_from_directory(
"aclImdb/train", batch_size=batch_size
)
val_ds = keras.utils.text_dataset_from_directory(
"aclImdb/val", batch_size=batch_size
)
test_ds = keras.utils.text_dataset_from_directory(
"aclImdb/test", batch_size=batch_size
)
text_only_train_ds = train_ds.map(lambda x, y: x)Vectorizing the data
from tensorflow.keras import layers
max_length = 600
max_tokens = 20000
text_vectorization = layers.TextVectorization(
max_tokens=max_tokens,
output_mode="int",
output_sequence_length=max_length,
)
text_vectorization.adapt(text_only_train_ds)
int_train_ds = train_ds.map(
lambda x, y: (text_vectorization(x), y),
num_parallel_calls=4)
int_val_ds = val_ds.map(
lambda x, y: (text_vectorization(x), y),
num_parallel_calls=4)
int_test_ds = test_ds.map(
lambda x, y: (text_vectorization(x), y),
num_parallel_calls=4)Transformer encoder implemented as a subclassed Layer
import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow import keras
from tensorflow.keras import layers
class TransformerEncoder(layers.Layer):
def __init__(self, embed_dim, dense_dim, num_heads, **kwargs):
super().__init__(**kwargs)
self.embed_dim = embed_dim
self.dense_dim = dense_dim
self.num_heads = num_heads
self.attention = layers.MultiHeadAttention(
num_heads=num_heads, key_dim=embed_dim)
self.dense_proj = keras.Sequential(
[layers.Dense(dense_dim, activation="relu"),
layers.Dense(embed_dim),]
)
self.layernorm_1 = layers.LayerNormalization()
self.layernorm_2 = layers.LayerNormalization()
def call(self, inputs, mask=None):
if mask is not None:
mask = mask[:, tf.newaxis, :]
attention_output = self.attention(
inputs, inputs, attention_mask=mask)
proj_input = self.layernorm_1(inputs + attention_output)
proj_output = self.dense_proj(proj_input)
return self.layernorm_2(proj_input + proj_output)
def get_config(self):
config = super().get_config()
config.update({
"embed_dim": self.embed_dim,
"num_heads": self.num_heads,
"dense_dim": self.dense_dim,
})
return configUsing the Transformer encoder for text classification
vocab_size = 20000
embed_dim = 256
num_heads = 2
dense_dim = 32
inputs = keras.Input(shape=(None,), dtype="int64")
x = layers.Embedding(vocab_size, embed_dim)(inputs)
x = TransformerEncoder(embed_dim, dense_dim, num_heads)(x)
x = layers.GlobalMaxPooling1D()(x)
x = layers.Dropout(0.5)(x)
outputs = layers.Dense(1, activation="sigmoid")(x)
model = keras.Model(inputs, outputs)
model.compile(optimizer="rmsprop",
loss="binary_crossentropy",
metrics=["accuracy"])
model.summary()Training and evaluating the Transformer encoder based model
callbacks = [
keras.callbacks.ModelCheckpoint("transformer_encoder.keras",
save_best_only=True)
]
model.fit(int_train_ds, validation_data=int_val_ds, epochs=20, callbacks=callbacks)
model = keras.models.load_model(
"transformer_encoder.keras",
custom_objects={"TransformerEncoder": TransformerEncoder})
print(f"Test acc: {model.evaluate(int_test_ds)[1]:.3f}")Using positional encoding to re-inject order information
Implementing positional embedding as a subclassed layer
class PositionalEmbedding(layers.Layer):
def __init__(self, sequence_length, input_dim, output_dim, **kwargs):
super().__init__(**kwargs)
self.token_embeddings = layers.Embedding(
input_dim=input_dim, output_dim=output_dim)
self.position_embeddings = layers.Embedding(
input_dim=sequence_length, output_dim=output_dim)
self.sequence_length = sequence_length
self.input_dim = input_dim
self.output_dim = output_dim
def call(self, inputs):
length = tf.shape(inputs)[-1]
positions = tf.range(start=0, limit=length, delta=1)
embedded_tokens = self.token_embeddings(inputs)
embedded_positions = self.position_embeddings(positions)
return embedded_tokens + embedded_positions
def compute_mask(self, inputs, mask=None):
return tf.math.not_equal(inputs, 0)
def get_config(self):
config = super().get_config()
config.update({
"output_dim": self.output_dim,
"sequence_length": self.sequence_length,
"input_dim": self.input_dim,
})
return configPutting it all together: A text-classification Transformer
Combining the Transformer encoder with positional embedding
vocab_size = 20000
sequence_length = 600
embed_dim = 256
num_heads = 2
dense_dim = 32
inputs = keras.Input(shape=(None,), dtype="int64")
x = PositionalEmbedding(sequence_length, vocab_size, embed_dim)(inputs)
x = TransformerEncoder(embed_dim, dense_dim, num_heads)(x)
x = layers.GlobalMaxPooling1D()(x)
x = layers.Dropout(0.5)(x)
outputs = layers.Dense(1, activation="sigmoid")(x)
model = keras.Model(inputs, outputs)
model.compile(optimizer="rmsprop",
loss="binary_crossentropy",
metrics=["accuracy"])
model.summary()
callbacks = [
keras.callbacks.ModelCheckpoint("full_transformer_encoder.keras",
save_best_only=True)
]
model.fit(int_train_ds, validation_data=int_val_ds, epochs=20, callbacks=callbacks)
model = keras.models.load_model(
"full_transformer_encoder.keras",
custom_objects={"TransformerEncoder": TransformerEncoder,
"PositionalEmbedding": PositionalEmbedding})
print(f"Test acc: {model.evaluate(int_test_ds)[1]:.3f}")