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Neural conversational model in Torch
https://github.com/macournoyer/neuralconvo
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Neural conversational model in Torch
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/macournoyer/neuralconvo
- Owner: macournoyer
- Created: 2015-10-21T23:08:43.000Z (about 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-05-06T12:45:32.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-22T12:51:36.519Z (14 days ago)
- Topics: deep-learning, machine-learning, neural-conversation-models, seq2seq, torch
- Language: Lua
- Homepage:
- Size: 88.9 KB
- Stars: 777
- Watchers: 74
- Forks: 346
- Open Issues: 26
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Neural Conversational Model in Torch
This is an attempt at implementing [Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks (seq2seq)](http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3215) and reproducing the results in [A Neural Conversational Model](http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05869) (aka the Google chatbot).
The Google chatbot paper [became famous](http://www.sciencealert.com/google-s-ai-bot-thinks-the-purpose-of-life-is-to-live-forever) after cleverly answering a few philosophical questions, such as:
> **Human:** What is the purpose of living?
> **Machine:** To live forever.
## How it works
The model is based on two [LSTM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_short-term_memory) layers. One for encoding the input sentence into a "thought vector", and another for decoding that vector into a response. This model is called Sequence-to-sequence or seq2seq.
_Source: http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2015/11/computer-respond-to-this-email.html_
In this experiment, we train the seq2seq model with movie dialogs from the [Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus](http://www.mpi-sws.org/~cristian/Cornell_Movie-Dialogs_Corpus.html). The lines are shortened to the first sentence.
## Sample conversation
Here's a sample conversation after training for 20 epoch with 50000 examples, using the following command:
```sh
th train.lua --cuda --dataset 50000 --hiddenSize 1000
```
(Took 3 days to train on my GeForce GTX 780M.)
For OpenCL, use `--opencl` instead of `--cuda`. To train on CPU, don't provide any of those two.
*WARNING: I can no longer reproduce those results. The cause seems to be a change in one of dependencies. But I'm currently working on a new implementation based on [harvardnlp/seq2seq-attn](https://github.com/harvardnlp/seq2seq-attn).*
> **me:** Hello?
> **bot:** Hi.
>
> **me:** How are you?
> **bot:** I'm fine.
>
> **me:** What's your name?
> **bot:** It's hard to describe.
>
> **me:** How so?
> **bot:** I'm not sure.
>
> **me:** What color is the sky?
> **bot:** It's blue.
>
> **me:** What is your job?
> **bot:** It's not that i'm a fucking werewolf!
>
> **me:** What is the purpose of life?
> **bot:** A gift.
>
> **me:** Are you intelligent?
> **bot:** Yes, well...
>
> **me:** Are you a machine?
> **bot:** That's a lie.
>
> **me:** Are you human?
> **bot:** No, i'm not.
>
> **me:** What are you?
> **bot:** I'm not sure.
>
> **me:** Do you plan on taking over the world?
> **bot:** No, i don't.
Phew! That was close. Good thing I didn't train it on the full dataset. Please experiment responsibly.
_(Disclaimer: nonsensical responses have been removed.)_
## Installing
1. [Install Torch](http://torch.ch/docs/getting-started.html).
2. Install the following additional Lua libs:
```sh
luarocks install nn
luarocks install rnn
luarocks install penlight
```
To train with CUDA install the latest CUDA drivers, toolkit and run:
```sh
luarocks install cutorch
luarocks install cunn
```
To train with opencl install the lastest Opencl torch lib:
```sh
luarocks install cltorch
luarocks install clnn
```
3. Download the [Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus](http://www.mpi-sws.org/~cristian/Cornell_Movie-Dialogs_Corpus.html) and extract all the files into data/cornell_movie_dialogs.
## Training
```sh
th train.lua [-h / options]
```
The model will be saved to `data/model.t7` after each epoch if it has improved (error decreased).
### Options (some, not all)
- `--opencl` use opencl for computation (requires [torch-cl](https://github.com/hughperkins/distro-cl))
- `--cuda` use cuda for computation
- `--gpu [index]` use the nth GPU for computation (eg. on a 2015 MacBook `--gpu 0` results in the Intel GPU being used while `--gpu 1` uses the far more powerful AMD GPU)
- `-- dataset [size]` control the size of the dataset
- `--maxEpoch [amount]` specify the number of epochs to run
## Testing
To load the model and have a conversation:
```sh
th eval.lua
```
## License
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2016 Marc-Andre Cournoyer
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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