14.10. 预训练BERT

利用 14.8节中实现的BERT模型和 14.9节中从WikiText-2数据集生成的预训练样本,我们将在本节中在WikiText-2数据集上对BERT进行预训练。

import mindspore
import mindspore.nn as nn
from d2l import mindspore as d2l
import torch
from torch import nn
from d2l import torch as d2l

首先,我们加载WikiText-2数据集作为小批量的预训练样本,用于遮蔽语言模型和下一句预测。批量大小是512,BERT输入序列的最大长度是64。注意,在原始BERT模型中,最大长度是512。

batch_size, max_len = 512, 64
train_iter, vocab = d2l.load_data_wiki(batch_size, max_len)

14.10.1. 预训练BERT

原始BERT (Devlin et al., 2018)有两个不同模型尺寸的版本。基本模型(\(\text{BERT}_{\text{BASE}}\))使用12层(Transformer编码器块),768个隐藏单元(隐藏大小)和12个自注意头。大模型(\(\text{BERT}_{\text{LARGE}}\))使用24层,1024个隐藏单元和16个自注意头。值得注意的是,前者有1.1亿个参数,后者有3.4亿个参数。为了便于演示,我们定义了一个小的BERT,使用了2层、128个隐藏单元和2个自注意头。

net = d2l.BERTModel(len(vocab), num_hiddens=128, norm_shape=[128],
                    ffn_num_input=128, ffn_num_hiddens=256, num_heads=2,
                    num_layers=2, dropout=0.2, key_size=128, query_size=128,
                    value_size=128, hid_in_features=128, mlm_in_features=128,
                    nsp_in_features=128)
loss = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
net = d2l.BERTModel(len(vocab), num_hiddens=128, norm_shape=[128],
                    ffn_num_input=128, ffn_num_hiddens=256, num_heads=2,
                    num_layers=2, dropout=0.2, key_size=128, query_size=128,
                    value_size=128, hid_in_features=128, mlm_in_features=128,
                    nsp_in_features=128)
devices = d2l.try_all_gpus()
loss = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()

在定义训练代码实现之前,我们定义了一个辅助函数_get_batch_loss_bert。给定训练样本,该函数计算遮蔽语言模型和下一句子预测任务的损失。请注意,BERT预训练的最终损失是遮蔽语言模型损失和下一句预测损失的和。

#@save
def _get_batch_loss_bert(net, loss, vocab_size, tokens_X,
                         segments_X, valid_lens_x,
                         pred_positions_X, mlm_weights_X,
                         mlm_Y, nsp_y):
    # 前向传播
    _, mlm_Y_hat, nsp_Y_hat = net(tokens_X, segments_X,
                                  valid_lens_x.reshape(-1),
                                  pred_positions_X)
    # 计算遮蔽语言模型损失
    # mlm_Y_hat = mlm_Y_hat.astype("")
    mlm_Y = mlm_Y.astype("int32")
    mlm_l = loss(mlm_Y_hat.reshape(-1, vocab_size), mlm_Y.reshape(-1)) *\
    mlm_weights_X.reshape(-1, 1)
    mlm_l = mlm_l.sum() / (mlm_weights_X.sum() + 1e-8)
    # 计算下一句子预测任务的损失
    nsp_y = nsp_y.astype("int32")
    nsp_l = loss(nsp_Y_hat, nsp_y)
    l = mlm_l + nsp_l
    return mlm_l, nsp_l, l
#@save
def _get_batch_loss_bert(net, loss, vocab_size, tokens_X,
                         segments_X, valid_lens_x,
                         pred_positions_X, mlm_weights_X,
                         mlm_Y, nsp_y):
    # 前向传播
    _, mlm_Y_hat, nsp_Y_hat = net(tokens_X, segments_X,
                                  valid_lens_x.reshape(-1),
                                  pred_positions_X)
    # 计算遮蔽语言模型损失
    mlm_l = loss(mlm_Y_hat.reshape(-1, vocab_size), mlm_Y.reshape(-1)) *\
    mlm_weights_X.reshape(-1, 1)
    mlm_l = mlm_l.sum() / (mlm_weights_X.sum() + 1e-8)
    # 计算下一句子预测任务的损失
    nsp_l = loss(nsp_Y_hat, nsp_y)
    l = mlm_l + nsp_l
    return mlm_l, nsp_l, l

通过调用上述两个辅助函数,下面的train_bert函数定义了在WikiText-2(train_iter)数据集上预训练BERT(net)的过程。训练BERT可能需要很长时间。以下函数的输入num_steps指定了训练的迭代步数,而不是像train_ch13函数那样指定训练的轮数(参见 13.1节)。

def train_bert(train_dataset, net, loss, vocab_size, num_steps):
    trainer = nn.Adam(net.trainable_params(), learning_rate=0.01)
    step, timer = 0, d2l.Timer()
    animator = d2l.Animator(xlabel='step', ylabel='loss',
                            xlim=[1, num_steps], legend=['mlm', 'nsp'])
    # 遮蔽语言模型损失的和,下一句预测任务损失的和,句子对的数量,计数
    metric = d2l.Accumulator(4)
    num_steps_reached = False
    def forward_fn(vocab_size, tokens_X, segments_X, valid_lens_x,
                   pred_positions_X, mlm_weights_X, mlm_Y, nsp_y):
        mlm_l, nsp_l, l = _get_batch_loss_bert(net, loss, vocab_size, tokens_X,
                                               segments_X, valid_lens_x,
                                               pred_positions_X, mlm_weights_X,
                                               mlm_Y, nsp_y)
        return l, mlm_l, nsp_l
    grad_fn = mindspore.value_and_grad(forward_fn, None, weights=net.trainable_params(), has_aux=True)
    while step < num_steps and not num_steps_reached:
        net.set_train()
        for tokens_X, segments_X, valid_lens_x, pred_positions_X,\
            mlm_weights_X, mlm_Y, nsp_y in train_dataset.create_tuple_iterator():
                (l, mlm_l, nsp_l), grads = grad_fn(
                    vocab_size, tokens_X, segments_X, valid_lens_x,
                    pred_positions_X, mlm_weights_X, mlm_Y, nsp_y)
                trainer(grads)
                metric.add(mlm_l, nsp_l, tokens_X.shape[0], 1)
                timer.stop()
                animator.add(step + 1,
                             (metric[0] / metric[3], metric[1] / metric[3]))
                step += 1
                if step == num_steps:
                    num_steps_reached = True
                    break

    print(f'MLM loss {metric[0] / metric[3]:.3f}, '
          f'NSP loss {metric[1] / metric[3]:.3f}')
    print(f'{metric[2] / timer.sum():.1f} sentence pairs/sec on ')
def train_bert(train_iter, net, loss, vocab_size, devices, num_steps):
    net = nn.DataParallel(net, device_ids=devices).to(devices[0])
    trainer = torch.optim.Adam(net.parameters(), lr=0.01)
    step, timer = 0, d2l.Timer()
    animator = d2l.Animator(xlabel='step', ylabel='loss',
                            xlim=[1, num_steps], legend=['mlm', 'nsp'])
    # 遮蔽语言模型损失的和,下一句预测任务损失的和,句子对的数量,计数
    metric = d2l.Accumulator(4)
    num_steps_reached = False
    while step < num_steps and not num_steps_reached:
        for tokens_X, segments_X, valid_lens_x, pred_positions_X,\
            mlm_weights_X, mlm_Y, nsp_y in train_iter:
            tokens_X = tokens_X.to(devices[0])
            segments_X = segments_X.to(devices[0])
            valid_lens_x = valid_lens_x.to(devices[0])
            pred_positions_X = pred_positions_X.to(devices[0])
            mlm_weights_X = mlm_weights_X.to(devices[0])
            mlm_Y, nsp_y = mlm_Y.to(devices[0]), nsp_y.to(devices[0])
            trainer.zero_grad()
            timer.start()
            mlm_l, nsp_l, l = _get_batch_loss_bert(
                net, loss, vocab_size, tokens_X, segments_X, valid_lens_x,
                pred_positions_X, mlm_weights_X, mlm_Y, nsp_y)
            l.backward()
            trainer.step()
            metric.add(mlm_l, nsp_l, tokens_X.shape[0], 1)
            timer.stop()
            animator.add(step + 1,
                         (metric[0] / metric[3], metric[1] / metric[3]))
            step += 1
            if step == num_steps:
                num_steps_reached = True
                break

    print(f'MLM loss {metric[0] / metric[3]:.3f}, '
          f'NSP loss {metric[1] / metric[3]:.3f}')
    print(f'{metric[2] / timer.sum():.1f} sentence pairs/sec on '
          f'{str(devices)}')

在预训练过程中,我们可以绘制出遮蔽语言模型损失和下一句预测损失。

train_bert(train_iter, net, loss, len(vocab), 50)
MLM loss 5.784, NSP loss 0.773
145.6 sentence pairs/sec on
../_images/output_bert-pretraining_41429c_41_1.svg
train_bert(train_iter, net, loss, len(vocab), devices, 50)
MLM loss 5.546, NSP loss 0.775
33157.7 sentence pairs/sec on [device(type='cuda', index=0)]
../_images/output_bert-pretraining_41429c_44_1.svg

14.10.2. 用BERT表示文本

在预训练BERT之后,我们可以用它来表示单个文本、文本对或其中的任何词元。下面的函数返回tokens_atokens_b中所有词元的BERT(net)表示。

def get_bert_encoding(net, tokens_a, tokens_b=None):
    tokens, segments = d2l.get_tokens_and_segments(tokens_a, tokens_b)
    token_ids = mindspore.Tensor(vocab[tokens]).unsqueeze(0)
    segments = mindspore.Tensor(segments).unsqueeze(0)
    valid_len = mindspore.Tensor(len(tokens)).unsqueeze(0)
    encoded_X, _, _ = net(token_ids, segments, valid_len)
    return encoded_X
def get_bert_encoding(net, tokens_a, tokens_b=None):
    tokens, segments = d2l.get_tokens_and_segments(tokens_a, tokens_b)
    token_ids = torch.tensor(vocab[tokens], device=devices[0]).unsqueeze(0)
    segments = torch.tensor(segments, device=devices[0]).unsqueeze(0)
    valid_len = torch.tensor(len(tokens), device=devices[0]).unsqueeze(0)
    encoded_X, _, _ = net(token_ids, segments, valid_len)
    return encoded_X

考虑“a crane is flying”这句话。回想一下 14.8.4节中讨论的BERT的输入表示。插入特殊标记“<cls>”(用于分类)和“<sep>”(用于分隔)后,BERT输入序列的长度为6。因为零是“<cls>”词元,encoded_text[:, 0, :]是整个输入语句的BERT表示。为了评估一词多义词元“crane”,我们还打印出了该词元的BERT表示的前三个元素。

tokens_a = ['a', 'crane', 'is', 'flying']
encoded_text = get_bert_encoding(net, tokens_a)
# 词元:'<cls>','a','crane','is','flying','<sep>'
encoded_text_cls = encoded_text[:, 0, :]
encoded_text_crane = encoded_text[:, 2, :]
encoded_text.shape, encoded_text_cls.shape, encoded_text_crane[0][:3]
((1, 6, 128),
 (1, 128),
 Tensor(shape=[3], dtype=Float32, value= [ 1.01091897e+00, -1.08268477e-01, -1.73249785e-02]))
tokens_a = ['a', 'crane', 'is', 'flying']
encoded_text = get_bert_encoding(net, tokens_a)
# 词元:'<cls>','a','crane','is','flying','<sep>'
encoded_text_cls = encoded_text[:, 0, :]
encoded_text_crane = encoded_text[:, 2, :]
encoded_text.shape, encoded_text_cls.shape, encoded_text_crane[0][:3]
(torch.Size([1, 6, 128]),
 torch.Size([1, 128]),
 tensor([-2.4664,  0.2748,  0.8431], device='cuda:0', grad_fn=<SliceBackward0>))

现在考虑一个句子“a crane driver came”和“he just left”。类似地,encoded_pair[:, 0, :]是来自预训练BERT的整个句子对的编码结果。注意,多义词元“crane”的前三个元素与上下文不同时的元素不同。这支持了BERT表示是上下文敏感的。

tokens_a, tokens_b = ['a', 'crane', 'driver', 'came'], ['he', 'just', 'left']
encoded_pair = get_bert_encoding(net, tokens_a, tokens_b)
# 词元:'<cls>','a','crane','driver','came','<sep>','he','just',
# 'left','<sep>'
encoded_pair_cls = encoded_pair[:, 0, :]
encoded_pair_crane = encoded_pair[:, 2, :]
encoded_pair.shape, encoded_pair_cls.shape, encoded_pair_crane[0][:3]
((1, 10, 128),
 (1, 128),
 Tensor(shape=[3], dtype=Float32, value= [ 1.16757222e-01, -1.34207364e-02,  1.65760005e+00]))
tokens_a, tokens_b = ['a', 'crane', 'driver', 'came'], ['he', 'just', 'left']
encoded_pair = get_bert_encoding(net, tokens_a, tokens_b)
# 词元:'<cls>','a','crane','driver','came','<sep>','he','just',
# 'left','<sep>'
encoded_pair_cls = encoded_pair[:, 0, :]
encoded_pair_crane = encoded_pair[:, 2, :]
encoded_pair.shape, encoded_pair_cls.shape, encoded_pair_crane[0][:3]
(torch.Size([1, 10, 128]),
 torch.Size([1, 128]),
 tensor([-2.3270,  0.2519,  0.9314], device='cuda:0', grad_fn=<SliceBackward0>))

15节中,我们将为下游自然语言处理应用微调预训练的BERT模型。

14.10.3. 小结

  • 原始的BERT有两个版本,其中基本模型有1.1亿个参数,大模型有3.4亿个参数。

  • 在预训练BERT之后,我们可以用它来表示单个文本、文本对或其中的任何词元。

  • 在实验中,同一个词元在不同的上下文中具有不同的BERT表示。这支持BERT表示是上下文敏感的。

14.10.4. 练习

  1. 在实验中,我们可以看到遮蔽语言模型损失明显高于下一句预测损失。为什么?

  2. 将BERT输入序列的最大长度设置为512(与原始BERT模型相同)。使用原始BERT模型的配置,如\(\text{BERT}_{\text{LARGE}}\)。运行此部分时是否遇到错误?为什么?