Translate¶

translate.py

usage: translate.py [-h] [-config CONFIG] [-save_config SAVE_CONFIG] -tasks TASKS [-skip_empty_level {silent,warning,error}]
                    [-mammoth_transforms {prefix,denoising,filtertoolong,filterwordratio,filterrepetitions,filterterminalpunct,filternonzeronumerals,filterfeats,inferfeats,switchout,tokendrop,tokenmask,sentencepiece,bpe,onmt_tokenize} [{prefix,denoising,filtertoolong,filterwordratio,filterrepetitions,filterterminalpunct,filternonzeronumerals,filterfeats,inferfeats,switchout,tokendrop,tokenmask,sentencepiece,bpe,onmt_tokenize} ...]]
                    [-save_data SAVE_DATA] [-overwrite] [-n_sample N_SAMPLE] [-dump_transforms] -src_vocab SRC_VOCAB [-tgt_vocab TGT_VOCAB] [-share_vocab]
                    [-vocab_paths VOCAB_PATHS] [-src_feats_vocab SRC_FEATS_VOCAB] [-src_vocab_size SRC_VOCAB_SIZE] [-tgt_vocab_size TGT_VOCAB_SIZE]
                    [-vocab_size_multiple VOCAB_SIZE_MULTIPLE] [-src_words_min_frequency SRC_WORDS_MIN_FREQUENCY]
                    [-tgt_words_min_frequency TGT_WORDS_MIN_FREQUENCY] [--src_seq_length_trunc SRC_SEQ_LENGTH_TRUNC]
                    [--tgt_seq_length_trunc TGT_SEQ_LENGTH_TRUNC] [-both_embeddings BOTH_EMBEDDINGS] [-src_embeddings SRC_EMBEDDINGS]
                    [-tgt_embeddings TGT_EMBEDDINGS] [-embeddings_type {GloVe,word2vec}] [--permute_sent_ratio PERMUTE_SENT_RATIO]
                    [--rotate_ratio ROTATE_RATIO] [--insert_ratio INSERT_RATIO] [--random_ratio RANDOM_RATIO] [--mask_ratio MASK_RATIO]
                    [--mask_length {subword,word,span-poisson}] [--poisson_lambda POISSON_LAMBDA] [--replace_length {-1,0,1}]
                    [--denoising_objective {bart,mass}] [--src_seq_length SRC_SEQ_LENGTH] [--tgt_seq_length TGT_SEQ_LENGTH]
                    [--word_ratio_threshold WORD_RATIO_THRESHOLD] [--rep_threshold REP_THRESHOLD] [--rep_min_len REP_MIN_LEN] [--rep_max_len REP_MAX_LEN]
                    [--punct_threshold PUNCT_THRESHOLD] [--nonzero_threshold NONZERO_THRESHOLD] [--reversible_tokenization {joiner,spacer}]
                    [--prior_tokenization] [-switchout_temperature SWITCHOUT_TEMPERATURE] [-tokendrop_temperature TOKENDROP_TEMPERATURE]
                    [-tokenmask_temperature TOKENMASK_TEMPERATURE] [-src_subword_model SRC_SUBWORD_MODEL] [-tgt_subword_model TGT_SUBWORD_MODEL]
                    [-src_subword_nbest SRC_SUBWORD_NBEST] [-tgt_subword_nbest TGT_SUBWORD_NBEST] [-src_subword_alpha SRC_SUBWORD_ALPHA]
                    [-tgt_subword_alpha TGT_SUBWORD_ALPHA] [-src_subword_vocab SRC_SUBWORD_VOCAB] [-tgt_subword_vocab TGT_SUBWORD_VOCAB]
                    [-src_vocab_threshold SRC_VOCAB_THRESHOLD] [-tgt_vocab_threshold TGT_VOCAB_THRESHOLD] [-src_subword_type {none,sentencepiece,bpe}]
                    [-tgt_subword_type {none,sentencepiece,bpe}] [-src_onmttok_kwargs SRC_ONMTTOK_KWARGS] [-tgt_onmttok_kwargs TGT_ONMTTOK_KWARGS] --model
                    MODEL [MODEL ...] [--fp32] [--int8] [--avg_raw_probs] --task_id TASK_ID [--data_type DATA_TYPE] --src SRC [-src_feats SRC_FEATS]
                    [--tgt TGT] [--shard_size SHARD_SIZE] [--output OUTPUT] [--report_align] [--report_time] [--beam_size BEAM_SIZE] [--ratio RATIO]
                    [--random_sampling_topk RANDOM_SAMPLING_TOPK] [--random_sampling_topp RANDOM_SAMPLING_TOPP]
                    [--random_sampling_temp RANDOM_SAMPLING_TEMP] [--seed SEED] [--length_penalty {none,wu,avg}] [--alpha ALPHA]
                    [--coverage_penalty {none,wu,summary}] [--beta BETA] [--stepwise_penalty] [--min_length MIN_LENGTH] [--max_length MAX_LENGTH]
                    [--max_sent_length] [--block_ngram_repeat BLOCK_NGRAM_REPEAT] [--ignore_when_blocking IGNORE_WHEN_BLOCKING [IGNORE_WHEN_BLOCKING ...]]
                    [--replace_unk] [--ban_unk_token] [--phrase_table PHRASE_TABLE] [--log_file LOG_FILE] [--structured_log_file STRUCTURED_LOG_FILE]
                    [--log_file_level {CRITICAL,ERROR,WARNING,INFO,DEBUG,NOTSET,50,40,30,20,10,0}] [--verbose] [--attn_debug] [--align_debug]
                    [--dump_beam DUMP_BEAM] [--n_best N_BEST] [--batch_size BATCH_SIZE] [--batch_type {sents,tokens}] [--gpu GPU]
                    [--output_model OUTPUT_MODEL]

Configuration¶

-config, --config: Path of the main YAML config file.
-save_config, --save_config: Path where to save the config.

Data/Tasks¶

-tasks, --tasks

List of datasets and their specifications. See examples/*.yaml for further details.

-skip_empty_level, --skip_empty_level

Possible choices: silent, warning, error

Security level when encounter empty examples.silent: silently ignore/skip empty example;warning: warning when ignore/skip empty example;error: raise error & stop execution when encouter empty.

Default: “warning”

-mammoth_transforms, --mammoth_transforms

Possible choices: prefix, denoising, filtertoolong, filterwordratio, filterrepetitions, filterterminalpunct, filternonzeronumerals, filterfeats, inferfeats, switchout, tokendrop, tokenmask, sentencepiece, bpe, onmt_tokenize

Default transform pipeline to apply to data. Can be specified in each corpus of data to override.

Default: []

-save_data, --save_data

Output base path for objects that will be saved (vocab, transforms, embeddings, …).

-overwrite, --overwrite

Overwrite existing objects if any.

Default: False

-n_sample, --n_sample

Stop after save this number of transformed samples/corpus. Can be [-1, 0, N>0]. Set to -1 to go full corpus, 0 to skip.

Default: 0

-dump_transforms, --dump_transforms

Dump transforms *.transforms.pt to disk. -save_data should be set as saving prefix.

Default: False

Vocab¶

-src_vocab, --src_vocab

Path to src (or shared) vocabulary file. Format: one <word> or <word> <count> per line.

-tgt_vocab, --tgt_vocab

Path to tgt vocabulary file. Format: one <word> or <word> <count> per line.

-share_vocab, --share_vocab

Share source and target vocabulary.

Default: False

-vocab_paths, --vocab_paths

file name with ENCorDEC TAB language name TAB path of the vocab.

-src_feats_vocab, --src_feats_vocab

List of paths to src features vocabulary files. Files format: one <word> or <word> <count> per line.

-src_vocab_size, --src_vocab_size

Maximum size of the source vocabulary.

Default: 50000

-tgt_vocab_size, --tgt_vocab_size

Maximum size of the target vocabulary

Default: 50000

-vocab_size_multiple, --vocab_size_multiple

Make the vocabulary size a multiple of this value.

Default: 1

-src_words_min_frequency, --src_words_min_frequency

Discard source words with lower frequency.

Default: 0

-tgt_words_min_frequency, --tgt_words_min_frequency

Discard target words with lower frequency.

Default: 0

Pruning¶

--src_seq_length_trunc, -src_seq_length_trunc: Truncate source sequence length.
--tgt_seq_length_trunc, -tgt_seq_length_trunc: Truncate target sequence length.

Embeddings¶

-both_embeddings, --both_embeddings

Path to the embeddings file to use for both source and target tokens.

-src_embeddings, --src_embeddings

Path to the embeddings file to use for source tokens.

-tgt_embeddings, --tgt_embeddings

Path to the embeddings file to use for target tokens.

-embeddings_type, --embeddings_type

Possible choices: GloVe, word2vec

Type of embeddings file.

Transform/Denoising AE¶

--permute_sent_ratio, -permute_sent_ratio

Permute this proportion of sentences (boundaries defined by [‘.’, ‘?’, ‘!’]) in all inputs.

Default: 0.0

--rotate_ratio, -rotate_ratio

Rotate this proportion of inputs.

Default: 0.0

--insert_ratio, -insert_ratio

Insert this percentage of additional random tokens.

Default: 0.0

--random_ratio, -random_ratio

Instead of using <mask>, use random token this often. Incompatible with MASS

Default: 0.0

--mask_ratio, -mask_ratio

Fraction of words/subwords that will be masked.

Default: 0.0

--mask_length, -mask_length

Possible choices: subword, word, span-poisson

Length of masking window to apply.

Default: “subword”

--poisson_lambda, -poisson_lambda

Lambda for Poisson distribution to sample span length if -mask_length set to span-poisson.

Default: 3.0

--replace_length, -replace_length

Possible choices: -1, 0, 1

When masking N tokens, replace with 0, 1, or N tokens. (use -1 for N)

Default: -1

--denoising_objective

Possible choices: bart, mass

choose between BART-style or MASS-style denoising objectives

Default: “bart”

Transform/Filter¶

--src_seq_length, -src_seq_length

Maximum source sequence length.

Default: 200

--tgt_seq_length, -tgt_seq_length

Maximum target sequence length.

Default: 200

Transform/Filter¶

--word_ratio_threshold, -word_ratio_threshold

Threshold for discarding sentences based on word ratio.

Default: 3

Transform/Filter¶

--rep_threshold, -rep_threshold

Number of times the substring is repeated.

Default: 2

--rep_min_len, -rep_min_len

Minimum length of the repeated pattern.

Default: 3

--rep_max_len, -rep_max_len

Maximum length of the repeated pattern.

Default: 100

Transform/Filter¶

--punct_threshold, -punct_threshold

Minimum penalty score for discarding sentences based on their terminal punctuation signs

Default: -2

Transform/Filter¶

--nonzero_threshold, -nonzero_threshold

Threshold for discarding sentences based on numerals between the segments with zeros removed

Default: 0.5

Transform/InferFeats¶

--reversible_tokenization, -reversible_tokenization

Possible choices: joiner, spacer

Type of reversible tokenization applied on the tokenizer.

Default: “joiner”

--prior_tokenization, -prior_tokenization

Whether the input has already been tokenized.

Default: False

Transform/SwitchOut¶

-switchout_temperature, --switchout_temperature

Sampling temperature for SwitchOut. \(\tau^{-1}\) in [WPDN18]. Smaller value makes data more diverse.

Default: 1.0

Transform/Token_Drop¶

-tokendrop_temperature, --tokendrop_temperature

Sampling temperature for token deletion.

Default: 1.0

Transform/Token_Mask¶

-tokenmask_temperature, --tokenmask_temperature

Sampling temperature for token masking.

Default: 1.0

Transform/Subword/Common¶

Attention

Common options shared by all subword transforms. Including options for indicate subword model path, Subword Regularization/BPE-Dropout, and Vocabulary Restriction.

-src_subword_model, --src_subword_model

Path of subword model for src (or shared).

-tgt_subword_model, --tgt_subword_model

Path of subword model for tgt.

-src_subword_nbest, --src_subword_nbest

Number of candidates in subword regularization. Valid for unigram sampling, invalid for BPE-dropout. (source side)

Default: 1

-tgt_subword_nbest, --tgt_subword_nbest

Number of candidates in subword regularization. Valid for unigram sampling, invalid for BPE-dropout. (target side)

Default: 1

-src_subword_alpha, --src_subword_alpha

Smoothing parameter for sentencepiece unigram sampling, and dropout probability for BPE-dropout. (source side)

Default: 0

-tgt_subword_alpha, --tgt_subword_alpha

Smoothing parameter for sentencepiece unigram sampling, and dropout probability for BPE-dropout. (target side)

Default: 0

-src_subword_vocab, --src_subword_vocab

Path to the vocabulary file for src subword. Format: <word> <count> per line.

Default: “”

-tgt_subword_vocab, --tgt_subword_vocab

Path to the vocabulary file for tgt subword. Format: <word> <count> per line.

Default: “”

-src_vocab_threshold, --src_vocab_threshold

Only produce src subword in src_subword_vocab with frequency >= src_vocab_threshold.

Default: 0

-tgt_vocab_threshold, --tgt_vocab_threshold

Only produce tgt subword in tgt_subword_vocab with frequency >= tgt_vocab_threshold.

Default: 0

Transform/Subword/ONMTTOK¶

-src_subword_type, --src_subword_type

Possible choices: none, sentencepiece, bpe

Type of subword model for src (or shared) in pyonmttok.

Default: “none”

-tgt_subword_type, --tgt_subword_type

Possible choices: none, sentencepiece, bpe

Type of subword model for tgt in pyonmttok.

Default: “none”

-src_onmttok_kwargs, --src_onmttok_kwargs

Other pyonmttok options for src in dict string, except subword related options listed earlier.

Default: “{‘mode’: ‘none’}”

-tgt_onmttok_kwargs, --tgt_onmttok_kwargs

Other pyonmttok options for tgt in dict string, except subword related options listed earlier.

Default: “{‘mode’: ‘none’}”

Model¶

--model, -model

Path to model .pt file(s). Multiple models can be specified, for ensemble decoding.

Default: []

--fp32, -fp32

Force the model to be in FP32 because FP16 is very slow on GTX1080(ti).

Default: False

--int8, -int8

Enable dynamic 8-bit quantization (CPU only).

Default: False

--avg_raw_probs, -avg_raw_probs

If this is set, during ensembling scores from different models will be combined by averaging their raw probabilities and then taking the log. Otherwise, the log probabilities will be averaged directly. Necessary for models whose output layers can assign zero probability.

Default: False

--task_id, -task_id

Task id to determine components to load for translation

Data¶

--data_type, -data_type

Type of the source input. Options: [text].

Default: “text”

--src, -src

Source sequence to decode (one line per sequence)

-src_feats, --src_feats

Source sequence features (dict format). Ex: {‘feat_0’: ‘../data.txt.feats0’, ‘feat_1’: ‘../data.txt.feats1’}

--tgt, -tgt

True target sequence (optional)

--shard_size, -shard_size

Divide src and tgt (if applicable) into smaller multiple src and tgt files, then build shards, each shard will have opts.shard_size samples except last shard. shard_size=0 means no segmentation shard_size>0 means segment dataset into multiple shards, each shard has shard_size samples

Default: 10000

--output, -output

Path to output the predictions (each line will be the decoded sequence

Default: “pred.txt”

--report_align, -report_align

Report alignment for each translation.

Default: False

--report_time, -report_time

Report some translation time metrics

Default: False

Beam Search¶

--beam_size, -beam_size

Beam size

Default: 5

--ratio, -ratio

Ratio based beam stop condition

Default: -0.0

Random Sampling¶

--random_sampling_topk, -random_sampling_topk

Set this to -1 to do random sampling from full distribution. Set this to value k>1 to do random sampling restricted to the k most likely next tokens. Set this to 1 to use argmax.

Default: 0

--random_sampling_topp, -random_sampling_topp

Probability for top-p/nucleus sampling. Restrict tokens to the most likely until the cumulated probability is over p. In range [0, 1]. https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09751

Default: 0.0

--random_sampling_temp, -random_sampling_temp

If doing random sampling, divide the logits by this before computing softmax during decoding.

Default: 1.0

--beam_size, -beam_size

Beam size

Default: 5

Reproducibility¶

--seed, -seed

Set random seed used for better reproducibility between experiments.

Default: -1

Penalties¶

Note

Coverage Penalty is not available in sampling.

--length_penalty, -length_penalty

Possible choices: none, wu, avg

Length Penalty to use.

Default: “none”

--alpha, -alpha

Google NMT length penalty parameter (higher = longer generation)

Default: 0.0

--coverage_penalty, -coverage_penalty

Possible choices: none, wu, summary

Coverage Penalty to use. Only available in beam search.

Default: “none”

--beta, -beta

Coverage penalty parameter

Default: -0.0

--stepwise_penalty, -stepwise_penalty

Apply coverage penalty at every decoding step. Helpful for summary penalty.

Default: False

Decoding tricks¶

Tip

Following options can be used to limit the decoding length or content.

--min_length, -min_length

Minimum prediction length

Default: 0

--max_length, -max_length

Maximum prediction length.

Default: 100

--max_sent_length, -max_sent_length

Deprecated, use -max_length instead

--block_ngram_repeat, -block_ngram_repeat

Block repetition of ngrams during decoding.

Default: 0

--ignore_when_blocking, -ignore_when_blocking

Ignore these strings when blocking repeats. You want to block sentence delimiters.

Default: []

--replace_unk, -replace_unk

Replace the generated UNK tokens with the source token that had highest attention weight. If phrase_table is provided, it will look up the identified source token and give the corresponding target token. If it is not provided (or the identified source token does not exist in the table), then it will copy the source token.

Default: False

--ban_unk_token, -ban_unk_token

Prevent unk token generation by setting unk proba to 0

Default: False

--phrase_table, -phrase_table

If phrase_table is provided (with replace_unk), it will look up the identified source token and give the corresponding target token. If it is not provided (or the identified source token does not exist in the table), then it will copy the source token.

Default: “”

Logging¶

--log_file, -log_file

Output logs to a file under this path.

Default: “”

--structured_log_file, -structured_log_file

Output machine-readable structured logs to a file under this path.

Default: “”

--log_file_level, -log_file_level

Possible choices: CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, DEBUG, NOTSET, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 0

Default: “0”

--verbose, -verbose

Print scores and predictions for each sentence

Default: False

--attn_debug, -attn_debug

Print best attn for each word

Default: False

--align_debug, -align_debug

Print best align for each word

Default: False

--dump_beam, -dump_beam

File to dump beam information to.

Default: “”

--n_best, -n_best

If verbose is set, will output the n_best decoded sentences

Default: 1

Efficiency¶

--batch_size, -batch_size

Batch size

Default: 30

--batch_type, -batch_type

Possible choices: sents, tokens

Batch grouping for batch_size. Standard is sents. Tokens will do dynamic batching

Default: “sents”

--gpu, -gpu

Device to run on

Default: -1

--output_model, -output_model

Path to the model output