BYU CS classes

To learn about recurrent neural networks, LSTMs, GRUs and Pytorch sequence-to-sequence capabilities.

For this lab, you will need to implement the `char-rnn` model of Karpathy. You will train it on a text corpus that you're interested in, and then show samples from the model.

This lab is slightly different than previous labs in that we give you a large portion of the code, and you will just be filling in pieces of classes and functions. If you get suck, please get help from the TA's or your classmates.

You should turn in your jupyter notebook including novel text samples showing that your code is working: first, after training on the provided “alma.txt” dataset, and second, samples from your network trained on a dataset of your choice.

An example of my final samples are shown below (more detail in the final section of this writeup), after 150 passes through the data. Please generate about 15 samples for each dataset.

And ifte thin forgision forward thene over up to a fear not your
And freitions, which is great God. Behold these are the loss sub
And ache with the Lord hath bloes, which was done to the holy Gr
And appeicis arm vinimonahites strong in name, to doth piseling 
And miniquithers these words, he commanded order not; neither sa
And min for many would happine even to the earth, to said unto m
And mie first be traditions? Behold, you, because it was a sound
And from tike ended the Lamanites had administered, and I say bi

Please turn in your samples inside of the jupyter notebook, not in a separate file.

Your code/image will be graded on the following:

• 40% Correct implementation of the sequence to sequence class
• 20% Correct implementation of training and sampling
• 5% Correct implementation of GRU cell
• 20% Training and sampling on a novel text dataset (Must be your choice)
• 15% Good coding style, readable output

For this lab, you will code up the char-rnn model of Karpathy. This is a recurrent neural network that is trained probabilistically on sequences of characters, and that can then be used to sample new sequences that are like the original.

This lab will help you develop several new skills, as well as understand some best practices needed for building large models. In addition, we'll be able to create networks that generate neat text!

There are two parts of this lab: first, wiring up a basic sequence-to-sequence computation graph, and second, implementing your own GRU cell.

Your data can be found at the following link, you should download and look at the

Text Files

Part 0: Readings, data loading, and high level training

There is a tutorial here that will help build out scaffolding code, and get an understanding of using sequences in pytorch.

Pytorch sequence-to-sequence tutorial

Understanding LSTM Networks

! wget -O ./text_files.tar.gz 'https://piazza.com/redirect/s3?bucket=uploads&prefix=attach%2Fjlifkda6h0x5bk%2Fhzosotq4zil49m%2Fjn13x09arfeb%2Ftext_files.tar.gz' 
! tar -xzf text_files.tar.gz
! pip install unidecode
! pip install torch

import unidecode
import string
import random
import re
 
import pdb
 
all_characters = string.printable
n_characters = len(all_characters)
 
file = unidecode.unidecode(open('./text_files/lotr.txt').read())
file_len = len(file)
print('file_len =', file_len)

chunk_len = 200
 
def random_chunk():
    start_index = random.randint(0, file_len - chunk_len)
    end_index = start_index + chunk_len + 1
    return file[start_index:end_index]
 
print(random_chunk())

import torch
from torch.autograd import Variable
# Turn string into list of longs
def char_tensor(string):
    tensor = torch.zeros(len(string)).long()
    for c in range(len(string)):
        tensor[c] = all_characters.index(string[c])
    return Variable(tensor)
 
print(char_tensor('abcDEF'))

def random_training_set():    
    chunk = random_chunk()
    inp = char_tensor(chunk[:-1])
    target = char_tensor(chunk[1:])
    return inp, target

import time
n_epochs = 2000
print_every = 100
plot_every = 10
hidden_size = 100
n_layers = 1
lr = 0.005
 
decoder = RNN(n_characters, hidden_size, n_characters, n_layers)
decoder_optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(decoder.parameters(), lr=lr)
criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
 
start = time.time()
all_losses = []
loss_avg = 0
 
for epoch in range(1, n_epochs + 1):
    loss_ = train(*random_training_set())       
    loss_avg += loss_
 
    if epoch % print_every == 0:
        print('[%s (%d %d%%) %.4f]' % (time.time() - start, epoch, epoch / n_epochs * 100, loss_))
        print(evaluate('Wh', 100), '\n')
 
    if epoch % plot_every == 0:
        all_losses.append(loss_avg / plot_every)
        loss_avg = 0

Part 1: Building a sequence to sequence model

Great! We have the data in a useable form. We can switch out which text file we are reading from, and trying to simulate.

We now want to build out an RNN model, in this section, we will use all built in Pytorch pieces when building our RNN class.

Create an RNN class that extends from nn.Module.

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from torch.autograd import Variable
 
class RNN(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, input_size, hidden_size, output_size, n_layers=1):
        super(RNN, self).__init__()
        self.input_size = input_size
        self.hidden_size = hidden_size
        self.output_size = output_size
        self.n_layers = n_layers
 
 
        # encode using embedding layer
        # set up GRU passing in number of layers parameter (nn.GRU)
        # decode output
 
    def forward(self, input_char, hidden):
        # by reviewing the documentation, construct a forward function that properly uses the output
        # of the GRU
        # return output and hidden
 
    def init_hidden(self):
        return Variable(torch.zeros(self.n_layers, 1, self.hidden_size))

Part 2: Sample text and Training information

We now want to be able to train our network, and sample text after training.

This function outlines how training a sequence style network goes. Fill in the pieces.

def train(inp, target):
    ## initialize hidden layers, set up gradient and loss 
      # your code here
    ## /
    loss = 0
    for c in range(chunk_len):
        output, hidden = # run the forward pass of your rnn with proper input
        loss += criterion(output, target[c].unsqueeze(0))
 
    ## calculate backwards loss and step the optimizer (globally)
      # your code here
    ## /
 
    return loss.item() / chunk_len

You can at this time, if you choose, also write out your train loop boilerplate that samples random sequences and trains your RNN. This will be helpful to have working before writing your own GRU class.

If you are finished training, or during training, and you want to sample from the network you may consider using the following function. If your RNN model is instantiated as `decoder`then this will probabilistically sample a sequence of length `predict_len`

def evaluate(prime_str='A', predict_len=100, temperature=0.8):
    ## initialize hidden variable, initialize other useful variables 
      # your code here
    ## /
 
    prime_input = char_tensor(prime_str)
 
    # Use priming string to "build up" hidden state
    for p in range(len(prime_str) - 1):
        _, hidden = decoder(prime_input[p], hidden)
    inp = prime_input[-1]
 
    for p in range(predict_len):
        output, hidden = #run your RNN/decoder forward on the input
 
        # Sample from the network as a multinomial distribution
        output_dist = output.data.view(-1).div(temperature).exp()
        top_i = torch.multinomial(output_dist, 1)[0]
 
        ## get character from your list of all characters, add it to your output str sequence, set input
        ## for the next pass through the model
         # your code here
        ## /
 
    return predicted

Part 3: Creating your own GRU cell

The cell that you used in Part 1 was a pre-defined Pytorch layer. Now, write your own GRU class using the same parameters as the built-in Pytorch class does.

Please try not to look at the GRU cell definition. The answer is right there in the code, and in theory, you could just cut-and-paste it. This bit is on your honor!

Part 4: Run it and generate your final text!

Assuming everything has gone well, you should be able to run the main function in the scaffold code, using either your custom GRU cell or the built in layer, and see output something like this. I trained on the “lotr.txt” dataset, using chunk_length=200, hidden_size=100 for 2000 epochs gave.

[0m 9s (100 5%) 2.2169]
Whaiss Mainde 

'

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'od and roulll and Are say the 
rere. 
'Wor 
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'Yi 

[0m 19s (200 10%) 2.0371]
Whimbe. 

'Thhe 
on not of they was thou hit of 
sil ubat thith hy the seare 
as sower and of len beda 

[0m 29s (300 15%) 2.0051]
Whis the cart. Whe courn!' 'Bu't of they aid dou giter of fintard of the not you ous, 
'Thas orntie it 

[0m 38s (400 20%) 1.8617]
Wh win took be to the know the gost bing to kno wide dought, and he as of they thin. 

The Gonhis gura 

[0m 48s (500 25%) 1.9821]
When of they singly call the and thave thing 
they the nowly we'tly by ands, of less be grarmines of t 

[0m 58s (600 30%) 1.8170]
Whinds to mass of I 
not ken we ting and dour 
and they. 


'Wat res swe Ring set shat scmaid. The 
ha 

[1m 7s (700 35%) 2.0367]
Whad ded troud wanty agy. Ve tanle gour the gone veart on hear, as dent far of the Ridgees.' 

'The Ri 

[1m 17s (800 40%) 1.9458]
Whis is brouch Heared this lack and was weself, for on't 
abothom my and go staid it 
they curse arsh  

[1m 27s (900 45%) 1.7522]
Whout bear the 
Evening 
the pace spood, Arright the spaines beren the and Wish was was on the more yo 

[1m 37s (1000 50%) 1.6444]
Whe Swarn. at colk. N(r)rce or they he 
wearing. And the on the he was are he said Pipin. 

'Yes and i 

[1m 47s (1100 55%) 1.8770]
Whing at they and thins the Wil might 
happened you dlack rusting and thousting fy them, there lifted  

[1m 57s (1200 60%) 1.9401]
Wh the said Frodo eary him that the herremans! 

'I the Lager into came and broveener he sanly 
for 
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[2m 7s (1300 65%) 1.8095]
When lest 
- in sound fair, and 
the Did dark he in the gose cilling the stand I in the sight. Frodo y 

[2m 16s (1400 70%) 1.9229]
Whing in a shade and Mowarse round and parse could pass not a have partainly. ' for as I come of I 
le 

[2m 26s (1500 75%) 1.8169]
Whese one her of in a lief that, 
but. 'We repagessed, 
wandere in these fair of long one have here my 

[2m 36s (1600 80%) 1.6635]
Where fread in thougraned in woohis, on the the green the 
pohered alked tore becaming was seen what c 

[2m 46s (1700 85%) 1.7868]
Whil neat 
came to 
is laked, 
and fourst on him grey now they as pass away aren have in the border sw 

[2m 56s (1800 90%) 1.6343]
Wh magered. 

Then tell some tame had bear that 
came as it nome in 
to houbbirnen and to heardy. 


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[3m 6s (1900 95%) 1.8191]
Who expey to must away be to the master felkly and for, what shours was alons? I had be the long to fo 

[3m 16s (2000 100%) 1.8725]
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