text_classification_with_transformer.md

Text classification with Transformer

Author: Apoorv Nandan
Date created: 2020/05/10
Last modified: 2024/01/18
Description: Implement a Transformer block as a Keras layer and use it for text classification.

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Setup

import keras
from keras import ops
from keras import layers

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Implement a Transformer block as a layer

class TransformerBlock(layers.Layer):
    def __init__(self, embed_dim, num_heads, ff_dim, rate=0.1):
        super().__init__()
        self.att = layers.MultiHeadAttention(num_heads=num_heads, key_dim=embed_dim)
        self.ffn = keras.Sequential(
            [layers.Dense(ff_dim, activation="relu"), layers.Dense(embed_dim),]
        )
        self.layernorm1 = layers.LayerNormalization(epsilon=1e-6)
        self.layernorm2 = layers.LayerNormalization(epsilon=1e-6)
        self.dropout1 = layers.Dropout(rate)
        self.dropout2 = layers.Dropout(rate)

    def call(self, inputs):
        attn_output = self.att(inputs, inputs)
        attn_output = self.dropout1(attn_output)
        out1 = self.layernorm1(inputs + attn_output)
        ffn_output = self.ffn(out1)
        ffn_output = self.dropout2(ffn_output)
        return self.layernorm2(out1 + ffn_output)

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Implement embedding layer

Two separate embedding layers, one for tokens, one for token index (positions).

class TokenAndPositionEmbedding(layers.Layer):
    def __init__(self, maxlen, vocab_size, embed_dim):
        super().__init__()
        self.token_emb = layers.Embedding(input_dim=vocab_size, output_dim=embed_dim)
        self.pos_emb = layers.Embedding(input_dim=maxlen, output_dim=embed_dim)

    def call(self, x):
        maxlen = ops.shape(x)[-1]
        positions = ops.arange(start=0, stop=maxlen, step=1)
        positions = self.pos_emb(positions)
        x = self.token_emb(x)
        return x + positions

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Download and prepare dataset

vocab_size = 20000  # Only consider the top 20k words
maxlen = 200  # Only consider the first 200 words of each movie review
(x_train, y_train), (x_val, y_val) = keras.datasets.imdb.load_data(num_words=vocab_size)
print(len(x_train), "Training sequences")
print(len(x_val), "Validation sequences")
x_train = keras.utils.pad_sequences(x_train, maxlen=maxlen)
x_val = keras.utils.pad_sequences(x_val, maxlen=maxlen)

``` Downloading data from https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/tf-keras-datasets/imdb.npz 17465344/17464789 [==============================] - 0s 0us/step

:6: VisibleDeprecationWarning: Creating an ndarray from ragged nested sequences (which is a list-or-tuple of lists-or-tuples-or ndarrays with different lengths or shapes) is deprecated. If you meant to do this, you must specify 'dtype=object' when creating the ndarray /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/keras/datasets/imdb.py:159: VisibleDeprecationWarning: Creating an ndarray from ragged nested sequences (which is a list-or-tuple of lists-or-tuples-or ndarrays with different lengths or shapes) is deprecated. If you meant to do this, you must specify 'dtype=object' when creating the ndarray x_train, y_train = np.array(xs[:idx]), np.array(labels[:idx]) /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/keras/datasets/imdb.py:160: VisibleDeprecationWarning: Creating an ndarray from ragged nested sequences (which is a list-or-tuple of lists-or-tuples-or ndarrays with different lengths or shapes) is deprecated. If you meant to do this, you must specify 'dtype=object' when creating the ndarray x_test, y_test = np.array(xs[idx:]), np.array(labels[idx:])

25000 Training sequences 25000 Validation sequences

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## Create classifier model using transformer layer

Transformer layer outputs one vector for each time step of our input sequence.
Here, we take the mean across all time steps and
use a feed forward network on top of it to classify text.


```python

embed_dim = 32  # Embedding size for each token
num_heads = 2  # Number of attention heads
ff_dim = 32  # Hidden layer size in feed forward network inside transformer

inputs = layers.Input(shape=(maxlen,))
embedding_layer = TokenAndPositionEmbedding(maxlen, vocab_size, embed_dim)
x = embedding_layer(inputs)
transformer_block = TransformerBlock(embed_dim, num_heads, ff_dim)
x = transformer_block(x)
x = layers.GlobalAveragePooling1D()(x)
x = layers.Dropout(0.1)(x)
x = layers.Dense(20, activation="relu")(x)
x = layers.Dropout(0.1)(x)
outputs = layers.Dense(2, activation="softmax")(x)

model = keras.Model(inputs=inputs, outputs=outputs)

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Train and Evaluate

model.compile(optimizer="adam", loss="sparse_categorical_crossentropy", metrics=["accuracy"])
history = model.fit(
    x_train, y_train, batch_size=32, epochs=2, validation_data=(x_val, y_val)
)

``` Epoch 1/2 782/782 [==============================] - 15s 18ms/step - loss: 0.5112 - accuracy: 0.7070 - val_loss: 0.3598 - val_accuracy: 0.8444 Epoch 2/2 782/782 [==============================] - 13s 17ms/step - loss: 0.1942 - accuracy: 0.9297 - val_loss: 0.2977 - val_accuracy: 0.8745

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