Practical Deep Learning for NLP

Practical Deep Learning for NLP
Maarten Versteegh
NLP Research Engineer

Overview
● Deep Learning Recap
● Text classification:
– Convnet with word embeddings
● Sentiment analysis:
– ResNet
● Tips and tricks

What is this deep learning thing again?

Input
Hidden
Output
Activation
Error

Rectified Linear Units
Backpropagation involves repeated multiplication with derivative of activation function
→ Problem if result is always smaller than 1!

Traditional approach: BOW + TFIDF
“The car might also need a front end alignment”
"alignment" (0.323)
"also" (0.137)
"car" (0.110)
"end" (0.182)
"front" (0.167)
"might" (0.178)
"need" (0.157)
"the" (0.053)
"also need" (0.343)
"car might" (0.358)
"end alignment" (0.358)
"front end" (0.296)
"might also" (0.358)
"need front" (0.358)
"the car" (0.161)

F1-Score*
BOW+TFIDF+SVM Some number
20 newsgroups performance
(*) Scores removed

Deep Learning 1: Replace Classifier
Hidden x 256
x 512
x 1000
BOW
Features
Hidden
Output

from keras.layers import Input, Dense
from keras.models import Model
input_layer = Input(shape=(1000,))
fc_1 = Dense(512, activation='relu')(input_layer)
fc_2 = Dense(256, activation='relu')(fc_1)
output_layer = Dense(10, activation='softmax')(fc_2)
model = Model(input=input_layer, output=output_layer)
model.compile(optimizer='rmsprop',
loss='categorical_crossentropy',
metrics=['accuracy'])
model.fit(bow, newsgroups.target)
predictions = model.predict(features).argmax(axis=1)

F1-Score*
BOW+TFIDF+SVD+ 2-layer NN Some slightly higher number
20 newsgroups performance
(*) Scores removed

What about the deep learning promise?

Convolutional Networks
Source: Andrej Karpathy

Pooling layer

Convolutional networks
Source: Y. Kim (2014) Convolutional Networks for Sentence Classification

from keras.layers import Embedding
# embedding_matrix: ndarray(vocab_size, embedding_dim)
input_layer = Input(shape=(MAX_SEQUENCE_LENGTH,), dtype='int32')
layer = Embedding(
embedding_matrix.shape[0],
embedding_matrix.shape[1],
weights=[embedding_matrix],
input_length=max_sequence_length,
trainable=False
)(input_layer)

from keras.layer import Convolution1D, MaxPooling1D,
BatchNormalization, Activation
layer = Embedding(...)(input_layer)
layer = Convolution1D(
128, # number of filters
5, # filter size
activation='relu',
)(layer)
layer = MaxPooling1D(5)(layer)

Performance
F1-Score*
CBOW+TFIDF+SVD+NN Some slightly higher number
ConvNet (3 layers) Quite a bit higher now
ConvNet (6 layers) Look mom, even higher!
(*) Scores removed

Data Set
Facebook posts from media organizations:
– CNN, MSNBC, NYTimes, The Guardian, Buzzfeed,
Breitbart, Politico, The Wall Street Journal, Washington
Post, Baltimore Sun
Measure sentiment as “reactions”

Title Org Like Love Wow Haha Sad Angry
Poll: Clinton up big on Trump in Virginia CNN 4176 601 17 211 11 83
It's a fact: Trump has tiny hands. Will
this be the one that sinks him?
Guardian 595 17 17 225 2 8
Donald Trump Explains His Obama-
Founded-ISIS Claim as ‘Sarcasm’
NYTimes 2059 32 284 1214 80 2167
Can hipsters stomach the unpalatable
truth about avocado toast?
Guardian 3655 0 396 44 773 69
Tim Kaine skewers Donald Trump's
military policy
MSNBC 1094 111 6 12 2 26
Top 5 Most Antisemitic Things Hillary
Clinton Has Done
Breitbart 1067 7 134 35 22 372
17 Hilarious Tweets About Donald
Trump Explaining Movies
Buzzfeed 11390 375 16 4121 4 5

Go deeper: ResNet
Convolutional Layers with shortcuts
He et al. Deep Residual Learning
for Image Recognition

Go deeper: ResNet
input_layer = ...
layer = Convolution1D(128, 5, activation='linear')
(input_layer)
layer = BatchNormalization()(layer)
layer = Activation('relu')(layer)
layer = Convolution1D(128, 5, activation='linear')(layer)
layer = BatchNormalization()(layer)
layer = Activation('relu')(layer)
block_output = merge([layer, input_layer], mode='sum')
block_output = Activation('relu')(block_output)

It's a fact: Trump has tiny hands.
(EMBEDDING_DIM=300)
ResNet Block
…
ResNet Block
The Guardian
(1-of-K)
Conv (128) x 10
%
Title + Message
News Org
MaxPooling
Dense
Dense

Cherry-picked predicted response
distribution*
Sentence Org Love Haha Wow Sad Angry
Trump wins the election Guardian 3% 9% 7% 32% 49%
Trump wins the election Breitbart 58% 30% 8% 1% 3%
*Your mileage may vary. By a lot. I
mean it.

Initialization
● Break symmetry:
– Never ever initialize all your weights to
the same value
● Let initialization depend on activation
function:
– ReLU/PReLU → He Normal
– sigmoid/tanh → Glorot Normal

Choose an adaptive optimizer
Source: Alec Radford
Choose an adaptive optimizer

Choose the right model size
● Start small and keep adding layers
– Check if test error keeps going down
● Cross-validate over the number of units
● You want to be able to overfit
Y. Bengio (2012) Practical
recommendations for gradient-based
training of deep architectures

Don't be scared of overfitting
● If your model can't overfit, it also can't learn enough
● So, check that your model can overfit:
– If not, make it bigger
– If so, get more date and/or regularize
Source: wikipedia

Regularization
● Norm penalties on hidden layer weights, never
on first and last
● Dropout
● Early stopping

Size of data set
● Just get more data already
● Augment data:
– Textual replacements
– Word vector perturbation
– Noise Contrastive Estimation
● Semi-supervised learning:
– Adapt word embeddings to your domain

Monitor your model
Training loss:
– Does the model converge?
– Is the learning rate too low or too high?

Training loss and learning rate

Monitor your model
Training and validation accuracy
– Is there a large gap?
– Does the training accuracy increase
while the validation accuracy
decreases?

Training and validation accuracy

Monitor your model
● Ratio of weights to updates
● Distribution of activations and gradients
(per layer)

Hyperparameter optimization
After network architecture, continue with:
– Regularization strength
– Initial learning rate
– Optimization strategy (and LR decay
schedule)

Friends don't let friends do a full grid search!

Hyperparameter optimization
Friends don't let friends do a full grid search!
– Use a smart strategy like Bayesian
optimization or Particle Swarm Optimization
(Spearmint, SMAC, Hyperopt, Optunity)
– Even random search often beats grid search

Keep up to date: arxiv-sanity.com

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