This page contains pointers to pre-trained models as well as instructions on how to train new models for our paper
@inproceedings{wu2018pay,
title = {Pay Less Attention with Lightweight and Dynamic Convolutions},
author = {Felix Wu and Angela Fan and Alexei Baevski and Yann Dauphin and Michael Auli},
booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
year = {2019},
url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=SkVhlh09tX},
}
For some datasets we release models without GLUs which are faster at inference.
Please follow the instructions in examples/translation/README.md
to preprocess the data.
To use the model without GLU, please set --encoder-glu 0 --decoder-glu 0
.
For LightConv, please use --encoder-conv-type lightweight --decoder-conv-type lightweight
, otherwise the default is DynamicConv.
For best BLEU results, lenpen may need to be manually tuned.
Training and evaluating DynamicConv (without GLU) on a GPU:
# Training
SAVE="save/dynamic_conv_iwslt"
mkdir -p $SAVE
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 $(which fairseq-train) data-bin/iwslt14.tokenized.de-en \
--clip-norm 0 --optimizer adam --lr 0.0005 \
--source-lang de --target-lang en --max-tokens 4000 --no-progress-bar \
--log-interval 100 --min-lr '1e-09' --weight-decay 0.0001 \
--criterion label_smoothed_cross_entropy --label-smoothing 0.1 \
--lr-scheduler inverse_sqrt \
--ddp-backend=no_c10d \
--max-update 50000 --warmup-updates 4000 --warmup-init-lr '1e-07' \
--adam-betas '(0.9, 0.98)' --keep-last-epochs 10 \
-a lightconv_iwslt_de_en --save-dir $SAVE \
--dropout 0.3 --attention-dropout 0.1 --weight-dropout 0.1 \
--encoder-glu 0 --decoder-glu 0
python scripts/average_checkpoints.py --inputs $SAVE \
--num-epoch-checkpoints 10 --output "${SAVE}/checkpoint_last10_avg.pt"
# Evaluation
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 fairseq-generate data-bin/iwslt14.tokenized.de-en --path "${SAVE}/checkpoint_last10_avg.pt" --batch-size 128 --beam 4 --remove-bpe --lenpen 1 --gen-subset test --quiet
Training and evaluating DynamicConv (with GLU) on WMT16 En-De using cosine scheduler on one machine with 8 V100 GPUs:
# Training
SAVE="save/dynamic_conv_wmt16en2de"
mkdir -p $SAVE
python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node 8 $(which fairseq-train) \
data-bin/wmt16_en_de_bpe32k --fp16 --log-interval 100 --no-progress-bar \
--max-update 30000 --share-all-embeddings --optimizer adam \
--adam-betas '(0.9, 0.98)' --lr-scheduler inverse_sqrt \
--clip-norm 0.0 --weight-decay 0.0 \
--criterion label_smoothed_cross_entropy --label-smoothing 0.1 \
--min-lr 1e-09 --update-freq 16 --attention-dropout 0.1 --keep-last-epochs 10 \
--ddp-backend=no_c10d --max-tokens 3584 \
--lr-scheduler cosine --warmup-init-lr 1e-7 --warmup-updates 10000 \
--lr-shrink 1 --max-lr 0.001 --lr 1e-7 --min-lr 1e-9 --warmup-init-lr 1e-07 \
--t-mult 1 --lr-period-updates 20000 \
--arch lightconv_wmt_en_de_big --save-dir $SAVE \
--dropout 0.3 --attention-dropout 0.1 --weight-dropout 0.1 \
--encoder-glu 1 --decoder-glu 1
# Evaluation
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 fairseq-generate data-bin/wmt16.en-de.joined-dict.newstest2014 --path "${SAVE}/checkpoint_best.pt" --batch-size 128 --beam 5 --remove-bpe --lenpen 0.5 --gen-subset test > wmt16_gen.txt
bash scripts/compound_split_bleu.sh wmt16_gen.txt
Training DynamicConv (with GLU) on WMT14 En-Fr using cosine scheduler on one machine with 8 V100 GPUs:
# Training
SAVE="save/dynamic_conv_wmt14en2fr"
mkdir -p $SAVE
python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node 8 $(which fairseq-train) \
data-bin/wmt14_en_fr --fp16 --log-interval 100 --no-progress-bar \
--max-update 30000 --share-all-embeddings --optimizer adam \
--adam-betas '(0.9, 0.98)' --lr-scheduler inverse_sqrt \
--clip-norm 0.0 --weight-decay 0.0 \
--criterion label_smoothed_cross_entropy --label-smoothing 0.1 \
--min-lr 1e-09 --update-freq 16 --attention-dropout 0.1 --keep-last-epochs 10 \
--ddp-backend=no_c10d --max-tokens 3584 \
--lr-scheduler cosine --warmup-init-lr 1e-7 --warmup-updates 10000 \
--lr-shrink 1 --max-lr 0.001 --lr 1e-7 --min-lr 1e-9 --warmup-init-lr 1e-07 \
--t-mult 1 --lr-period-updates 70000 \
--arch lightconv_wmt_en_fr_big --save-dir $SAVE \
--dropout 0.1 --attention-dropout 0.1 --weight-dropout 0.1 \
--encoder-glu 1 --decoder-glu 1
# Evaluation
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 fairseq-generate data-bin/wmt14.en-fr.joined-dict.newstest2014 --path "${SAVE}/checkpoint_best.pt" --batch-size 128 --beam 5 --remove-bpe --lenpen 0.9 --gen-subset test