README.md

# Examples

In this section a few examples are put together. All of these examples work for several models, making use of the very
similar API between the different models.

| Section                    | Description                                                                                                                                                |
|----------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [TensorFlow 2.0 models on GLUE](#TensorFlow-2.0-Bert-models-on-GLUE) | Examples running BERT TensorFlow 2.0 model on the GLUE tasks. 
| [Language Model fine-tuning](#language-model-fine-tuning) | Fine-tuning the library models for language modeling on a text dataset. Causal language modeling for GPT/GPT-2, masked language modeling for BERT/RoBERTa. |
| [Language Generation](#language-generation) | Conditional text generation using the auto-regressive models of the library: GPT, GPT-2, Transformer-XL and XLNet.                                         |
| [GLUE](#glue) | Examples running BERT/XLM/XLNet/RoBERTa on the 9 GLUE tasks. Examples feature distributed training as well as half-precision.                              |
| [SQuAD](#squad) | Using BERT/RoBERTa/XLNet/XLM for question answering, examples with distributed training.                                                                                  |
| [Multiple Choice](#multiple-choice) | Examples running BERT/XLNet/RoBERTa on the SWAG/RACE/ARC tasks. 
| [Named Entity Recognition](#named-entity-recognition) | Using BERT for Named Entity Recognition (NER) on the CoNLL 2003 dataset, examples with distributed training.                                                                                  |
| [Abstractive summarization](#abstractive-summarization) | Fine-tuning the library models for abstractive summarization tasks on the CNN/Daily Mail dataset. |

## TensorFlow 2.0 Bert models on GLUE

Based on the script [`run_tf_glue.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/run_tf_glue.py).

Fine-tuning the library TensorFlow 2.0 Bert model for sequence classification on the  MRPC task of the GLUE benchmark: [General Language Understanding Evaluation](https://gluebenchmark.com/).

This script has an option for mixed precision (Automatic Mixed Precision / AMP) to run models on Tensor Cores (NVIDIA Volta/Turing GPUs) and future hardware and an option for XLA, which uses the XLA compiler to reduce model runtime.
Options are toggled using `USE_XLA` or `USE_AMP` variables in the script.
These options and the below benchmark are provided by @tlkh.

Quick benchmarks from the script (no other modifications):

| GPU    | Mode | Time (2nd epoch) | Val Acc (3 runs) |
| --------- | -------- | ----------------------- | ----------------------|
| Titan V | FP32 | 41s | 0.8438/0.8281/0.8333 |
| Titan V | AMP | 26s | 0.8281/0.8568/0.8411 |
| V100    | FP32 | 35s | 0.8646/0.8359/0.8464 |
| V100    | AMP | 22s | 0.8646/0.8385/0.8411 |
| 1080 Ti | FP32 | 55s | - | 

Mixed precision (AMP) reduces the training time considerably for the same hardware and hyper-parameters (same batch size was used).

## Language model fine-tuning

Based on the script [`run_lm_finetuning.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/run_lm_finetuning.py).

Fine-tuning the library models for language modeling on a text dataset for GPT, GPT-2, BERT and RoBERTa (DistilBERT 
to be added soon). GPT and GPT-2 are fine-tuned using a causal language modeling (CLM) loss while BERT and RoBERTa 
are fine-tuned using a masked language modeling (MLM) loss.

Before running the following example, you should get a file that contains text on which the language model will be
fine-tuned. A good example of such text is the [WikiText-2 dataset](https://blog.einstein.ai/the-wikitext-long-term-dependency-language-modeling-dataset/).

We will refer to two different files: `$TRAIN_FILE`, which contains text for training, and `$TEST_FILE`, which contains
text that will be used for evaluation.

### GPT-2/GPT and causal language modeling

The following example fine-tunes GPT-2 on WikiText-2. We're using the raw WikiText-2 (no tokens were replaced before
the tokenization). The loss here is that of causal language modeling.

```bash
export TRAIN_FILE=/path/to/dataset/wiki.train.raw
export TEST_FILE=/path/to/dataset/wiki.test.raw

python run_lm_finetuning.py \
    --output_dir=output \
    --model_type=gpt2 \
    --model_name_or_path=gpt2 \
    --do_train \
    --train_data_file=$TRAIN_FILE \
    --do_eval \
    --eval_data_file=$TEST_FILE
```

This takes about half an hour to train on a single K80 GPU and about one minute for the evaluation to run. It reaches
a score of ~20 perplexity once fine-tuned on the dataset.

### RoBERTa/BERT and masked language modeling

The following example fine-tunes RoBERTa on WikiText-2. Here too, we're using the raw WikiText-2. The loss is different
as BERT/RoBERTa have a bidirectional mechanism; we're therefore using the same loss that was used during their
pre-training: masked language modeling. 

In accordance to the RoBERTa paper, we use dynamic masking rather than static masking. The model may, therefore, converge
slightly slower (over-fitting takes more epochs).

We use the `--mlm` flag so that the script may change its loss function.

```bash
export TRAIN_FILE=/path/to/dataset/wiki.train.raw
export TEST_FILE=/path/to/dataset/wiki.test.raw

python run_lm_finetuning.py \
    --output_dir=output \
    --model_type=roberta \
    --model_name_or_path=roberta-base \
    --do_train \
    --train_data_file=$TRAIN_FILE \
    --do_eval \
    --eval_data_file=$TEST_FILE \
    --mlm
```

## Language generation

Based on the script [`run_generation.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/run_generation.py).

Conditional text generation using the auto-regressive models of the library: GPT, GPT-2, Transformer-XL, XLNet, CTRL.
A similar script is used for our official demo [Write With Transfomer](https://transformer.huggingface.co), where you
can try out the different models available in the library.

Example usage:

```bash
python run_generation.py \
    --model_type=gpt2 \
    --model_name_or_path=gpt2
```

## GLUE

Based on the script [`run_glue.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/run_glue.py).

Fine-tuning the library models for sequence classification on the GLUE benchmark: [General Language Understanding 
Evaluation](https://gluebenchmark.com/). This script can fine-tune the following models: BERT, XLM, XLNet and RoBERTa. 

GLUE is made up of a total of 9 different tasks. We get the following results on the dev set of the benchmark with an
uncased  BERT base model (the checkpoint `bert-base-uncased`). All experiments ran on 8 V100 GPUs with a total train
batch size of 24. Some of these tasks have a small dataset and training can lead to high variance in the results
between different runs. We report the median on 5 runs (with different seeds) for each of the metrics.

| Task  | Metric                       | Result      |
|-------|------------------------------|-------------|
| CoLA  | Matthew's corr               | 48.87       |
| SST-2 | Accuracy                     | 91.74       |
| MRPC  | F1/Accuracy                  | 90.70/86.27 |
| STS-B | Person/Spearman corr.        | 91.39/91.04 |
| QQP   | Accuracy/F1                  | 90.79/87.66 |
| MNLI  | Matched acc./Mismatched acc. | 83.70/84.83 |
| QNLI  | Accuracy                     | 89.31       |
| RTE   | Accuracy                     | 71.43       |
| WNLI  | Accuracy                     | 43.66       |

Some of these results are significantly different from the ones reported on the test set
of GLUE benchmark on the website. For QQP and WNLI, please refer to [FAQ #12](https://gluebenchmark.com/faq) on the webite.

Before running anyone of these GLUE tasks you should download the
[GLUE data](https://gluebenchmark.com/tasks) by running
[this script](https://gist.github.com/W4ngatang/60c2bdb54d156a41194446737ce03e2e)
and unpack it to some directory `$GLUE_DIR`.

```bash
export GLUE_DIR=/path/to/glue
export TASK_NAME=MRPC

python run_glue.py \
  --model_type bert \
  --model_name_or_path bert-base-cased \
  --task_name $TASK_NAME \
  --do_train \
  --do_eval \
  --do_lower_case \
  --data_dir $GLUE_DIR/$TASK_NAME \
  --max_seq_length 128 \
  --per_gpu_train_batch_size 32 \
  --learning_rate 2e-5 \
  --num_train_epochs 3.0 \
  --output_dir /tmp/$TASK_NAME/
```

where task name can be one of CoLA, SST-2, MRPC, STS-B, QQP, MNLI, QNLI, RTE, WNLI.

The dev set results will be present within the text file `eval_results.txt` in the specified output_dir. 
In case of MNLI, since there are two separate dev sets (matched and mismatched), there will be a separate 
output folder called `/tmp/MNLI-MM/` in addition to `/tmp/MNLI/`.

The code has not been tested with half-precision training with apex on any GLUE task apart from MRPC, MNLI, 
CoLA, SST-2. The following section provides details on how to run half-precision training with MRPC. With that being 
said, there shouldn’t be any issues in running half-precision training with the remaining GLUE tasks as well, 
since the data processor for each task inherits from the base class DataProcessor.

### MRPC

#### Fine-tuning example

The following examples fine-tune BERT on the Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus (MRPC) corpus and runs in less 
than 10 minutes on a single K-80 and in 27 seconds (!) on single tesla V100 16GB with apex installed.

Before running anyone of these GLUE tasks you should download the
[GLUE data](https://gluebenchmark.com/tasks) by running
[this script](https://gist.github.com/W4ngatang/60c2bdb54d156a41194446737ce03e2e)
and unpack it to some directory `$GLUE_DIR`.

```bash
export GLUE_DIR=/path/to/glue

python run_glue.py \
  --model_type bert \
  --model_name_or_path bert-base-cased \
  --task_name MRPC \
  --do_train \
  --do_eval \
  --do_lower_case \
  --data_dir $GLUE_DIR/MRPC/ \
  --max_seq_length 128 \
  --per_gpu_train_batch_size 32 \
  --learning_rate 2e-5 \
  --num_train_epochs 3.0 \
  --output_dir /tmp/mrpc_output/
```

Our test ran on a few seeds with [the original implementation hyper-
parameters](https://github.com/google-research/bert#sentence-and-sentence-pair-classification-tasks) gave evaluation 
results between 84% and 88%.

#### Using Apex and mixed-precision

Using Apex and 16 bit precision, the fine-tuning on MRPC only takes 27 seconds. First install 
[apex](https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex), then run the following example:

```bash
export GLUE_DIR=/path/to/glue

python run_glue.py \
  --model_type bert \
  --model_name_or_path bert-base-cased \
  --task_name MRPC \
  --do_train \
  --do_eval \
  --do_lower_case \
  --data_dir $GLUE_DIR/MRPC/ \
  --max_seq_length 128 \
  --per_gpu_train_batch_size 32 \
  --learning_rate 2e-5 \
  --num_train_epochs 3.0 \
  --output_dir /tmp/mrpc_output/ \
  --fp16
```

#### Distributed training

Here is an example using distributed training on 8 V100 GPUs. The model used is the BERT whole-word-masking and it
reaches F1 > 92 on MRPC.

```bash
export GLUE_DIR=/path/to/glue

python -m torch.distributed.launch \
    --nproc_per_node 8 run_glue.py \
    --model_type bert \
    --model_name_or_path bert-base-cased \
    --task_name MRPC \
    --do_train \
    --do_eval \
    --do_lower_case \
    --data_dir $GLUE_DIR/MRPC/ \
    --max_seq_length 128 \
    --per_gpu_train_batch_size 8 \
    --learning_rate 2e-5 \
    --num_train_epochs 3.0 \
    --output_dir /tmp/mrpc_output/
```

Training with these hyper-parameters gave us the following results:

```bash
acc = 0.8823529411764706
acc_and_f1 = 0.901702786377709
eval_loss = 0.3418912578906332
f1 = 0.9210526315789473
global_step = 174
loss = 0.07231863956341798
```

### MNLI

The following example uses the BERT-large, uncased, whole-word-masking model and fine-tunes it on the MNLI task.

```bash
export GLUE_DIR=/path/to/glue

python -m torch.distributed.launch \
    --nproc_per_node 8 run_glue.py \
    --model_type bert \
    --model_name_or_path bert-base-cased \
    --task_name mnli \
    --do_train \
    --do_eval \
    --do_lower_case \
    --data_dir $GLUE_DIR/MNLI/ \
    --max_seq_length 128 \
    --per_gpu_train_batch_size 8 \
    --learning_rate 2e-5 \
    --num_train_epochs 3.0 \
    --output_dir output_dir \
```

The results  are the following:

```bash
***** Eval results *****
  acc = 0.8679706601466992
  eval_loss = 0.4911287787382479
  global_step = 18408
  loss = 0.04755385363816904

***** Eval results *****
  acc = 0.8747965825874695
  eval_loss = 0.45516540421714036
  global_step = 18408
  loss = 0.04755385363816904
```

## Multiple Choice

Based on the script [`run_multiple_choice.py`]().

#### Fine-tuning on SWAG
Download [swag](https://github.com/rowanz/swagaf/tree/master/data) data

```bash
#training on 4 tesla V100(16GB) GPUS
export SWAG_DIR=/path/to/swag_data_dir
python ./examples/run_multiple_choice.py \
--model_type roberta \
--task_name swag \
--model_name_or_path roberta-base \
--do_train \
--do_eval \
--do_lower_case \
--data_dir $SWAG_DIR \
--learning_rate 5e-5 \
--num_train_epochs 3 \
--max_seq_length 80 \
--output_dir models_bert/swag_base \
--per_gpu_eval_batch_size=16 \
--per_gpu_train_batch_size=16 \
--gradient_accumulation_steps 2 \
--overwrite_output
```
Training with the defined hyper-parameters yields the following results:
```
***** Eval results *****
eval_acc = 0.8338998300509847
eval_loss = 0.44457291918821606
```

## SQuAD

Based on the script [`run_squad.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/run_squad.py).

#### Fine-tuning on SQuAD

This example code fine-tunes BERT on the SQuAD dataset. It runs in 24 min (with BERT-base) or 68 min (with BERT-large) 
on a single tesla V100 16GB. The data for SQuAD can be downloaded with the following links and should be saved in a 
$SQUAD_DIR directory.

* [train-v1.1.json](https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/dataset/train-v1.1.json)
* [dev-v1.1.json](https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/dataset/dev-v1.1.json)
* [evaluate-v1.1.py](https://github.com/allenai/bi-att-flow/blob/master/squad/evaluate-v1.1.py)

```bash
export SQUAD_DIR=/path/to/SQUAD

python run_squad.py \
  --model_type bert \
  --model_name_or_path bert-base-cased \
  --do_train \
  --do_eval \
  --do_lower_case \
  --train_file $SQUAD_DIR/train-v1.1.json \
  --predict_file $SQUAD_DIR/dev-v1.1.json \
  --per_gpu_train_batch_size 12 \
  --learning_rate 3e-5 \
  --num_train_epochs 2.0 \
  --max_seq_length 384 \
  --doc_stride 128 \
  --output_dir /tmp/debug_squad/
```

Training with the previously defined hyper-parameters yields the following results:

```bash
f1 = 88.52
exact_match = 81.22
```

#### Distributed training


Here is an example using distributed training on 8 V100 GPUs and Bert Whole Word Masking uncased model to reach a F1 > 93 on SQuAD:

```bash
python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=8 run_squad.py \
    --model_type bert \
    --model_name_or_path bert-base-cased \
    --do_train \
    --do_eval \
    --do_lower_case \
    --train_file $SQUAD_DIR/train-v1.1.json \
    --predict_file $SQUAD_DIR/dev-v1.1.json \
    --learning_rate 3e-5 \
    --num_train_epochs 2 \
    --max_seq_length 384 \
    --doc_stride 128 \
    --output_dir ../models/wwm_uncased_finetuned_squad/ \
    --per_gpu_train_batch_size 24 \
    --gradient_accumulation_steps 12
```

Training with the previously defined hyper-parameters yields the following results:

```bash
f1 = 93.15
exact_match = 86.91
```

This fine-tuned model is available as a checkpoint under the reference
`bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-finetuned-squad`.

#### Fine-tuning XLNet on SQuAD

This example code fine-tunes XLNet on the SQuAD dataset. See above to download the data for SQuAD .

```bash
export SQUAD_DIR=/path/to/SQUAD

python /data/home/hlu/transformers/examples/run_squad.py \
    --model_type xlnet \
    --model_name_or_path xlnet-large-cased \
    --do_train \
    --do_eval \
    --do_lower_case \
    --train_file /data/home/hlu/notebooks/NLP/examples/question_answering/train-v1.1.json \
    --predict_file /data/home/hlu/notebooks/NLP/examples/question_answering/dev-v1.1.json \
    --learning_rate 3e-5 \
    --num_train_epochs 2 \
    --max_seq_length 384 \
    --doc_stride 128 \
    --output_dir ./wwm_cased_finetuned_squad/ \
    --per_gpu_eval_batch_size=4  \
    --per_gpu_train_batch_size=4   \
    --save_steps 5000
```

Training with the previously defined hyper-parameters yields the following results:

```python
{
"exact": 85.45884578997162,
"f1": 92.5974600601065,
"total": 10570,
"HasAns_exact": 85.45884578997162,
"HasAns_f1": 92.59746006010651,
"HasAns_total": 10570
}
```

## Named Entity Recognition

Based on the script [`run_ner.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/run_ner.py).
This example fine-tune Bert Multilingual on GermEval 2014 (German NER).
Details and results for the fine-tuning provided by @stefan-it.

### Data (Download and pre-processing steps)

Data can be obtained from the [GermEval 2014](https://sites.google.com/site/germeval2014ner/data) shared task page.

Here are the commands for downloading and pre-processing train, dev and test datasets. The original data format has four (tab-separated) columns, in a pre-processing step only the two relevant columns (token and outer span NER annotation) are extracted:

```bash
curl -L 'https://sites.google.com/site/germeval2014ner/data/NER-de-train.tsv?attredirects=0&d=1' \
| grep -v "^#" | cut -f 2,3 | tr '\t' ' ' > train.txt.tmp
curl -L 'https://sites.google.com/site/germeval2014ner/data/NER-de-dev.tsv?attredirects=0&d=1' \
| grep -v "^#" | cut -f 2,3 | tr '\t' ' ' > dev.txt.tmp
curl -L 'https://sites.google.com/site/germeval2014ner/data/NER-de-test.tsv?attredirects=0&d=1' \
| grep -v "^#" | cut -f 2,3 | tr '\t' ' ' > test.txt.tmp
```

The GermEval 2014 dataset contains some strange "control character" tokens like `'\x96', '\u200e', '\x95', '\xad' or '\x80'`. One problem with these tokens is, that `BertTokenizer` returns an empty token for them, resulting in misaligned `InputExample`s. I wrote a script that a) filters these tokens and b) splits longer sentences into smaller ones (once the max. subtoken length is reached).

```bash
wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stefan-it/fine-tuned-berts-seq/master/scripts/preprocess.py"
```
Let's define some variables that we need for further pre-processing steps and training the model:

```bash
export MAX_LENGTH=128
export BERT_MODEL=bert-base-multilingual-cased
```

Run the pre-processing script on training, dev and test datasets:

```bash
python3 preprocess.py train.txt.tmp $BERT_MODEL $MAX_LENGTH > train.txt
python3 preprocess.py dev.txt.tmp $BERT_MODEL $MAX_LENGTH > dev.txt
python3 preprocess.py test.txt.tmp $BERT_MODEL $MAX_LENGTH > test.txt
```

The GermEval 2014 dataset has much more labels than CoNLL-2002/2003 datasets, so an own set of labels must be used:

```bash
cat train.txt dev.txt test.txt | cut -d " " -f 2 | grep -v "^$"| sort | uniq > labels.txt
```

### Training

Additional environment variables must be set:

```bash
export OUTPUT_DIR=germeval-model
export BATCH_SIZE=32
export NUM_EPOCHS=3
export SAVE_STEPS=750
export SEED=1
```

To start training, just run:

```bash
python3 run_ner.py --data_dir ./ \
--model_type bert \
--labels ./labels.txt \
--model_name_or_path $BERT_MODEL \
--output_dir $OUTPUT_DIR \
--max_seq_length  $MAX_LENGTH \
--num_train_epochs $NUM_EPOCHS \
--per_gpu_train_batch_size $BATCH_SIZE \
--save_steps $SAVE_STEPS \
--seed $SEED \
--do_train \
--do_eval \
--do_predict
```

If your GPU supports half-precision training, just add the `--fp16` flag. After training, the model will be both evaluated on development and test datasets.

### Evaluation

Evaluation on development dataset outputs the following for our example:

```bash
10/04/2019 00:42:06 - INFO - __main__ -   ***** Eval results  *****
10/04/2019 00:42:06 - INFO - __main__ -     f1 = 0.8623348017621146
10/04/2019 00:42:06 - INFO - __main__ -     loss = 0.07183869666975543
10/04/2019 00:42:06 - INFO - __main__ -     precision = 0.8467916366258111
10/04/2019 00:42:06 - INFO - __main__ -     recall = 0.8784592370979806
```

On the test dataset the following results could be achieved:

```bash
10/04/2019 00:42:42 - INFO - __main__ -   ***** Eval results  *****
10/04/2019 00:42:42 - INFO - __main__ -     f1 = 0.8614389652384803
10/04/2019 00:42:42 - INFO - __main__ -     loss = 0.07064602487454782
10/04/2019 00:42:42 - INFO - __main__ -     precision = 0.8604651162790697
10/04/2019 00:42:42 - INFO - __main__ -     recall = 0.8624150210424085
```

### Comparing BERT (large, cased), RoBERTa (large, cased) and DistilBERT (base, uncased)

Here is a small comparison between BERT (large, cased), RoBERTa (large, cased) and DistilBERT (base, uncased) with the same hyperparameters as specified in the [example documentation](https://huggingface.co/transformers/examples.html#named-entity-recognition) (one run):

| Model | F-Score Dev | F-Score Test
| --------------------------------- | ------- | --------
| `bert-large-cased`            | 95.59 | 91.70
| `roberta-large`                  | 95.96 | 91.87
| `distilbert-base-uncased` | 94.34 | 90.32

## Abstractive summarization

Based on the script
[`run_summarization_finetuning.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/run_summarization_finetuning.py).

Before running this script you should download **both** CNN and Daily Mail
datasets from [Kyunghyun Cho's website](https://cs.nyu.edu/~kcho/DMQA/)  (the
links next to "Stories") in the same folder. Then uncompress the archives by running:

```bash
tar -xvf cnn_stories.tgz && tar -xvf dailymail_stories.tgz
```

note that the finetuning script **will not work** if you do not download both
datasets. We will refer as `$DATA_PATH` the path to where you uncompressed both
archive.

```bash
export DATA_PATH=/path/to/dataset/

python run_summarization_finetuning.py \
    --output_dir=output \
    --model_type=bert2bert \
    --model_name_or_path=bert2bert \
    --do_train \
    --data_path=$DATA_PATH \
```