Text Embedding with Transformers

author: Jael Gu

Description

A text embedding operator takes a sentence, paragraph, or document in string as an input and output an embedding vector in ndarray which captures the input's core semantic elements. This operator is implemented with pre-trained models from Huggingface Transformers.

Code Example

Use the pre-trained model 'distilbert-base-cased' to generate a text embedding for the sentence "Hello, world.".

Write the pipeline:

import towhee

(
    towhee.dc(["Hello, world."])
          .text_embedding.transformers(model_name="distilbert-base-cased")
)

Write a same pipeline with explicit inputs/outputs name specifications:

import towhee

(
    towhee.dc['text'](["Hello, world."])
          .text_embedding.transformers['text', 'vec'](model_name="distilbert-base-cased")
          .show()
)

Factory Constructor

Create the operator via the following factory method:

text_embedding.transformers(model_name="bert-base-uncased")

Parameters:

model_name: str

The model name in string. The default model name is "bert-base-uncased".

Supported model names:

Albert

• albert-base-v1
• albert-large-v1
• albert-xlarge-v1
• albert-xxlarge-v1
• albert-base-v2
• albert-large-v2
• albert-xlarge-v2
• albert-xxlarge-v2

Bart

• facebook/bart-large

Bert

• bert-base-cased
• bert-large-cased
• bert-large-uncased
• bert-base-multilingual-uncased
• bert-base-multilingual-cased
• bert-base-chinese
• bert-base-german-cased
• bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking
• bert-large-cased-whole-word-masking
• bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-finetuned-squad
• bert-large-cased-whole-word-masking-finetuned-squad
• bert-base-cased-finetuned-mrpc
• bert-base-german-dbmdz-cased
• bert-base-german-dbmdz-uncased
• cl-tohoku/bert-base-japanese-whole-word-masking
• cl-tohoku/bert-base-japanese-char
• cl-tohoku/bert-base-japanese-char-whole-word-masking
• TurkuNLP/bert-base-finnish-cased-v1
• TurkuNLP/bert-base-finnish-uncased-v1
• wietsedv/bert-base-dutch-cased

BertGeneration

• google/bert_for_seq_generation_L-24_bbc_encoder

BigBird

• google/bigbird-roberta-base
• google/bigbird-roberta-large
• google/bigbird-base-trivia-itc

BigBirdPegasus

• google/bigbird-pegasus-large-arxiv
• google/bigbird-pegasus-large-pubmed
• google/bigbird-pegasus-large-bigpatent

CamemBert

• camembert-base
• Musixmatch/umberto-commoncrawl-cased-v1
• Musixmatch/umberto-wikipedia-uncased-v1

Canine

• google/canine-s
• google/canine-c

Convbert

• YituTech/conv-bert-base
• YituTech/conv-bert-medium-small
• YituTech/conv-bert-small

CTRL

- ctrl

DeBERTa

• microsoft/deberta-base
• microsoft/deberta-large
• microsoft/deberta-xlarge
• microsoft/deberta-base-mnli
• microsoft/deberta-large-mnli
• microsoft/deberta-xlarge-mnli
• microsoft/deberta-v2-xlarge
• microsoft/deberta-v2-xxlarge
• microsoft/deberta-v2-xlarge-mnli
• microsoft/deberta-v2-xxlarge-mnli

DistilBert

• distilbert-base-uncased
• distilbert-base-uncased-distilled-squad
• distilbert-base-cased
• distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad
• distilbert-base-german-cased
• distilbert-base-multilingual-cased
• distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english

Electral

• google/electra-small-generator
• google/electra-base-generator
• google/electra-large-generator
• google/electra-small-discriminator
• google/electra-base-discriminator
• google/electra-large-discriminator

Flaubert

• flaubert/flaubert_small_cased
• flaubert/flaubert_base_uncased
• flaubert/flaubert_base_cased
• flaubert/flaubert_large_cased

FNet

• google/fnet-base
• google/fnet-large

FSMT

• facebook/wmt19-ru-en

Funnel

• funnel-transformer/small
• funnel-transformer/small-base
• funnel-transformer/medium
• funnel-transformer/medium-base
• funnel-transformer/intermediate
• funnel-transformer/intermediate-base
• funnel-transformer/large
• funnel-transformer/large-base
• funnel-transformer/xlarge-base
• funnel-transformer/xlarge

GPT

• openai-gpt
• gpt2
• gpt2-medium
• gpt2-large
• gpt2-xl
• distilgpt2
• EleutherAI/gpt-neo-1.3B
• EleutherAI/gpt-j-6B

I-Bert

• kssteven/ibert-roberta-base

LED

• allenai/led-base-16384

MobileBert

• google/mobilebert-uncased

MPNet

• microsoft/mpnet-base

Nystromformer

• uw-madison/nystromformer-512

Reformer

• google/reformer-crime-and-punishment

Splinter

• tau/splinter-base
• tau/splinter-base-qass
• tau/splinter-large
• tau/splinter-large-qass

SqueezeBert

• squeezebert/squeezebert-uncased
• squeezebert/squeezebert-mnli
• squeezebert/squeezebert-mnli-headless

TransfoXL

• transfo-xl-wt103

XLM

• xlm-mlm-en-2048
• xlm-mlm-ende-1024
• xlm-mlm-enfr-1024
• xlm-mlm-enro-1024
• xlm-mlm-tlm-xnli15-1024
• xlm-mlm-xnli15-1024
• xlm-clm-enfr-1024
• xlm-clm-ende-1024
• xlm-mlm-17-1280
• xlm-mlm-100-1280

XLMRoberta

• xlm-roberta-base
• xlm-roberta-large
• xlm-roberta-large-finetuned-conll02-dutch
• xlm-roberta-large-finetuned-conll02-spanish
• xlm-roberta-large-finetuned-conll03-english
• xlm-roberta-large-finetuned-conll03-german

XLNet

• xlnet-base-cased
• xlnet-large-cased

Yoso

• uw-madison/yoso-4096

Interface

The operator takes a piece of text in string as input. It loads tokenizer and pre-trained model using model name. and then return text embedding in ndarray.

call(txt)

Parameters:

txt: str

​ The text in string.

Returns:

numpy.ndarray

​ The text embedding extracted by model.

save_model(format='pytorch', path='default')

Save model to local with specified format.

Parameters:

format: str

​ The format of saved model, defaults to 'pytorch'.

format: path

​ The path where model is saved to. By default, it will save model to the operator directory.

supported_model_names(format=None)

Get a list of all supported model names or supported model names for specified model format.

Parameters:

format: str

​ The model format such as 'pytorch', 'torchscript'.