decoder.py

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import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F


class Decoder(nn.Module):
    """This class modifies the stateless decoder from the following paper:

        RNN-transducer with stateless prediction network
        https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9054419

    It removes the recurrent connection from the decoder, i.e., the prediction
    network. Different from the above paper, it adds an extra Conv1d
    right after the embedding layer.

    TODO: Implement https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.07513.pdf
    """

    def __init__(
        self,
        vocab_size: int,
        embedding_dim: int,
        blank_id: int,
        context_size: int,
    ):
        """
        Args:
          vocab_size:
            Number of tokens of the modeling unit including blank.
          embedding_dim:
            Dimension of the input embedding.
          blank_id:
            The ID of the blank symbol.
          context_size:
            Number of previous words to use to predict the next word.
            1 means bigram; 2 means trigram. n means (n+1)-gram.
        """
        super().__init__()
        self.embedding = nn.Embedding(
            num_embeddings=vocab_size,
            embedding_dim=embedding_dim,
            padding_idx=blank_id,
        )
        self.blank_id = blank_id
        self.vocab_size = vocab_size

        assert context_size >= 1, context_size
        self.context_size = context_size
        if context_size > 1:
            self.conv = nn.Conv1d(
                in_channels=embedding_dim,
                out_channels=embedding_dim,
                kernel_size=context_size,
                padding=0,
                groups=embedding_dim,
                bias=False,
            )
        else:
            # To avoid `RuntimeError: Module 'Decoder' has no attribute 'conv'`
            # when inference with torch.jit.script and context_size == 1
            self.conv = nn.Identity()

    def forward(self, y: torch.Tensor, need_pad: bool = True) -> torch.Tensor:
        """
        Args:
          y:
            A 2-D tensor of shape (N, U).
          need_pad:
            True to left pad the input. Should be True during training.
            False to not pad the input. Should be False during inference.
        Returns:
          Return a tensor of shape (N, U, embedding_dim).
        """
        embedding_out = self.embedding(y)
        if self.context_size > 1:
            embedding_out = embedding_out.permute(0, 2, 1)
            if need_pad is True:
                embedding_out = F.pad(embedding_out, pad=(self.context_size - 1, 0))
            else:
                # During inference time, there is no need to do extra padding
                # as we only need one output
                assert embedding_out.size(-1) == self.context_size
            embedding_out = self.conv(embedding_out)
            embedding_out = embedding_out.permute(0, 2, 1)
        return embedding_out