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# What is LMBERT?

LMBERT is BERT pre-training masked language model *without next sentence prediction*. This code is a adjustment of Google's [original BERT code](https://github.com/google-research/bert) where we simply comment the next sentence prediction parts from the data preparation script ([create_pretraining_data.py](https://github.com/UBC-NLP/LMBERT/blob/main/create_pretraining_data.py)) and also edit the objective function to remove next sentence prediction in the running script ([run_pretraining.py](https://github.com/UBC-NLP/LMBERT/blob/main/run_pretraining.py)).



# Pre-training with LMBERT



This code is to do "masked LM" on an arbitrary text corpus.

For convenience, ```we copy the below from Google's``` [GitHub](https://github.com/google-research/bert).



Here's how to run the data generation. The input is a plain text file, with one

sentence per line. (It is important that these be actual sentences for the "next

sentence prediction" task). Documents are delimited by empty lines. The output

is a set of `tf.train.Example`s serialized into `TFRecord` file format.



You can perform sentence segmentation with an off-the-shelf NLP toolkit such as

[spaCy](https://spacy.io/). The `create_pretraining_data.py` script will

concatenate segments until they reach the maximum sequence length to minimize

computational waste from padding (see the script for more details). However, you

may want to intentionally add a slight amount of noise to your input data (e.g.,

randomly truncate 2% of input segments) to make it more robust to non-sentential

input during fine-tuning.



This script stores all of the examples for the entire input file in memory, so

for large data files you should shard the input file and call the script

multiple times. (You can pass in a file glob to `run_pretraining.py`, e.g.,

`tf_examples.tf_record*`.)



The `max_predictions_per_seq` is the maximum number of masked LM predictions per

sequence. You should set this to around `max_seq_length` * `masked_lm_prob` (the

script doesn't do that automatically because the exact value needs to be passed

to both scripts).



```shell

python create_pretraining_data.py \

  --input_file=./sample_text.txt \

  --output_file=/tmp/tf_examples.tfrecord \

  --vocab_file=$BERT_BASE_DIR/vocab.txt \

  --do_lower_case=True \

  --max_seq_length=128 \

  --max_predictions_per_seq=20 \

  --masked_lm_prob=0.15 \

  --random_seed=12345 \

  --dupe_factor=5

```



Here's how to run the pre-training. Do not include `init_checkpoint` if you are

pre-training from scratch. The model configuration (including vocab size) is

specified in `bert_config_file`. This demo code only pre-trains for a small

number of steps (20), but in practice you will probably want to set

`num_train_steps` to 10000 steps or more. The `max_seq_length` and

`max_predictions_per_seq` parameters passed to `run_pretraining.py` must be the

same as `create_pretraining_data.py`.



```shell

python run_pretraining.py \

  --input_file=/tmp/tf_examples.tfrecord \

  --output_dir=/tmp/pretraining_output \

  --do_train=True \

  --do_eval=True \

  --bert_config_file=$BERT_BASE_DIR/bert_config.json \

  --init_checkpoint=$BERT_BASE_DIR/bert_model.ckpt \

  --train_batch_size=32 \

  --max_seq_length=128 \

  --max_predictions_per_seq=20 \

  --num_train_steps=20 \

  --num_warmup_steps=10 \

  --learning_rate=2e-5

```



This will produce an output like this:



```

***** Eval results *****

  global_step = 20

  loss = 0.0979674

  masked_lm_accuracy = 0.985479

  masked_lm_loss = 0.0979328

  next_sentence_accuracy = 1.0

  next_sentence_loss = 3.45724e-05

```



Note that since our `sample_text.txt` file is very small, this example training

will overfit that data in only a few steps and produce unrealistically high

accuracy numbers.



### Pre-training data



We will **not** be able to release the pre-processed datasets used in the paper.

For Wikipedia, the recommended pre-processing is to download

[the latest dump](https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2),

extract the text with

[`WikiExtractor.py`](https://github.com/attardi/wikiextractor), and then apply

any necessary cleanup to convert it into plain text.



Unfortunately the researchers who collected the

[BookCorpus](http://yknzhu.wixsite.com/mbweb) no longer have it available for

public download. The

[Project Guttenberg Dataset](https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~lahiri/gutenberg_dataset.html)

is a somewhat smaller (200M word) collection of older books that are public

domain.



[Common Crawl](http://commoncrawl.org/) is another very large collection of

text, but you will likely have to do substantial pre-processing and cleanup to

extract a usable corpus for pre-training BERT.



### Learning a new WordPiece vocabulary



This repository does not include code for *learning* a new WordPiece vocabulary.

The reason is that the code used in the paper was implemented in C++ with

dependencies on Google's internal libraries. For English, it is almost always

better to just start with our vocabulary and pre-trained models. For learning

vocabularies of other languages, there are a number of open source options

available. However, keep in mind that these are not compatible with our

`tokenization.py` library:



*   [Google's SentencePiece library](https://github.com/google/sentencepiece)



*   [tensor2tensor's WordPiece generation script](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensor2tensor/blob/master/tensor2tensor/data_generators/text_encoder_build_subword.py)



*   [Rico Sennrich's Byte Pair Encoding library](https://github.com/rsennrich/subword-nmt)



## Using BERT in Colab



If you want to use BERT with [Colab](https://colab.research.google.com), you can

get started with the notebook

"[BERT FineTuning with Cloud TPUs](https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/tpu/blob/master/tools/colab/bert_finetuning_with_cloud_tpus.ipynb)".

**At the time of this writing (October 31st, 2018), Colab users can access a

Cloud TPU completely for free.** Note: One per user, availability limited,

requires a Google Cloud Platform account with storage (although storage may be

purchased with free credit for signing up with GCP), and this capability may not

longer be available in the future. Click on the BERT Colab that was just linked

for more information.