Fixed use of memories in XLNet (caching for language generation + warning when...

Fixed use of memories in XLNet (caching for language generation + warning when loading improper memoryless model) (#5632)

* Pytorch gpu => cpu proper device

* Memoryless XLNet warning + fixed memories during generation

* Revert "Pytorch gpu => cpu proper device"

This reverts commit 93489b36

* made black happy

* TF generation with memories

* dim => axis

* added padding_text to TF XL models

* Added comment, added TF

src/transformers/configuration_xlnet.py

@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 """ XLNet configuration """
 
-
 import logging
+import warnings
 
 from .configuration_utils import PretrainedConfig
 
@@ -195,6 +195,17 @@ class XLNetConfig(PretrainedConfig):
         self.pad_token_id = pad_token_id
         self.eos_token_id = eos_token_id
 
+        if mem_len is None or mem_len == 0:
+            warnings.warn(
+                "This config doesn't use attention memories, a core feature of XLNet."
+                " Consider setting `men_len` to a non-zero value, for example "
+                "`xlnet = XLNetLMHeadModel.from_pretrained('xlnet-base-cased'', mem_len=1024)`,"
+                " for accurate training performance as well as an order of magnitude faster inference."
+                " Starting from version 3.5.0, the default parameter will be 1024, following"
+                " the implementation in https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08237",
+                FutureWarning,
+            )
+
     @property
     def max_position_embeddings(self):
         return -1

src/transformers/modeling_tf_xlnet.py

@@ -884,8 +884,17 @@ class TFXLNetLMHeadModel(TFXLNetPreTrainedModel, TFCausalLanguageModelingLoss):
     def prepare_inputs_for_generation(self, inputs, past, **kwargs):
         # Add dummy token at the end (no attention on this one)
 
+        # At every pass, the attention values for the new token and the two last generated tokens
+        # are computed, the rest is reloaded from the `past` cache. A purely auto-regressive model would have
+        # offset = 1; offset = 2 seems to have slightly better computation.
+        offset = 2
+
         effective_batch_size = inputs.shape[0]
         dummy_token = tf.zeros((effective_batch_size, 1), dtype=tf.int32)
+
+        if past:
+            inputs = tf.concat([inputs[:, -offset:], dummy_token], axis=1)
+        else:
             inputs = tf.concat([inputs, dummy_token], axis=1)
 
         # Build permutation mask so that previous tokens don't see last token
@@ -908,7 +917,7 @@ class TFXLNetLMHeadModel(TFXLNetPreTrainedModel, TFCausalLanguageModelingLoss):
 
         # if past is defined in model kwargs then use it for faster decoding
         if past:
-            inputs["mems"] = past
+            inputs["mems"] = tuple(layer_past[:-offset, :, :] for layer_past in past)
 
         return inputs
 

src/transformers/modeling_xlnet.py

@@ -1261,6 +1261,15 @@ class XLNetLMHeadModel(XLNetPreTrainedModel):
 
         effective_batch_size = input_ids.shape[0]
         dummy_token = torch.zeros((effective_batch_size, 1), dtype=torch.long, device=input_ids.device)
+
+        # At every pass, the attention values for the new token and the two last generated tokens
+        # are computed, the rest is reloaded from the `past` cache. A purely auto-regressive model would have
+        # offset = 1; offset = 2 seems to have slightly better computation.
+        offset = 2
+
+        if past:
+            input_ids = torch.cat([input_ids[:, -offset:], dummy_token], dim=1)
+        else:
             input_ids = torch.cat([input_ids, dummy_token], dim=1)
 
         # Build permutation mask so that previous tokens don't see last token
@@ -1285,7 +1294,7 @@ class XLNetLMHeadModel(XLNetPreTrainedModel):
 
         # if past is defined in model kwargs then use it for faster decoding
         if past:
-            inputs["mems"] = past
+            inputs["mems"] = tuple(layer_past[:-offset, :, :] for layer_past in past)
 
         return inputs
 

src/transformers/pipelines.py

@@ -653,7 +653,12 @@ class TextGenerationPipeline(Pipeline):
         for prompt_text in text_inputs:
             # Manage correct placement of the tensors
             with self.device_placement():
-                if self.model.__class__.__name__ in ["XLNetLMHeadModel", "TransfoXLLMHeadModel"]:
+                if self.model.__class__.__name__ in [
+                    "XLNetLMHeadModel",
+                    "TransfoXLLMHeadModel",
+                    "TFXLNetLMHeadModel",
+                    "TFTransfoXLLMHeadModel",
+                ]:
                     # For XLNet and TransformerXL we had an article to the prompt to give more state to the model.
                     padding_text = self.PADDING_TEXT + self.tokenizer.eos_token
                     padding = self._parse_and_tokenize(padding_text, padding=False, add_special_tokens=False)