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RankGen - Improving Text Generation with Large Ranking Models

This is the official repository for our EMNLP 2022 paper, RankGen - Improving Text Generation with Large Ranking Models. RankGen is a 1.2 billion encoder model which maps prefixes and generations from any pretrained English language model to a shared vector space. RankGen can be used to rerank multiple full-length samples from an LM, and it can also be incorporated as a scoring function into beam search to significantly improve generation quality (0.85 vs 0.77 MAUVE, 75% preference according to humans annotators who are English writers). RankGen can also be used like a dense retriever, and achieves state-of-the-art performance on literary retrieval.

This repository contains human evaluation data, links to HuggingFace-compatible model checkpoints, and code to integrate RankGen in beam search on HuggingFace models. RankGen is trained by fine-tuning the T5-XL encoder using the T5X library.

Updates

• (Mar 2023) The training data for RankGen is now available (PG19 and Wiki splits)! You can get them on Google Cloud (gs://gresearch/rankgen/rankgen_pp_wiki_v1.zip, gs://gresearch/rankgen/rankgen_pp_pg19_v1.zip)
• (Nov 2022) We have updated our arXiv version to show that RankGen beats newer decoding strategies like contrastive search, contrastive decoding and eta sampling!
• (July 2022) RankGen is now a PyPI package, just run pip install rankgen to use it!
• (July 2022) RankGen checkpoints are now available on the HuggingFace Model Hub (link)!

Model checkpoints

All RankGen checkpoints are available on the HuggingFace Model Hub - link

We recommend using RankGen-XL-all.

Older versions of the checkpoints:

RankGen XL checkpoints compatible with T5XEmbeddingGeneratorLegacy - here

T5X JAX checkpoints (base, large, XL) - here

Setup

Requirements (pip will install these dependencies for you)

Python 3.7+, torch (CUDA recommended), transformers

Installation

(from PyPI)

python3.7 -m virtualenv rankgen-venv
source rankgen-venv/bin/activate
pip install rankgen

(from source)

python3.7 -m virtualenv rankgen-venv
source rankgen-venv/bin/activate
git clone https://github.com/martiansideofthemoon/rankgen
cd rankgen
pip install --editable .

Data Download / Test

Get the data here and place folder in root directory. Alternatively, use gdown as shown below,

gdown --folder https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DRG2ess7fK3apfB-6KoHb_azMuHbsIv4

Run the test script to make sure the RankGen checkpoint has loaded correctly,

python -m rankgen.test_rankgen_encoder --model_path kalpeshk2011/rankgen-t5-base-all

### Expected output
0.0009239262409127233
0.0011521980725477804

Using RankGen

Loading RankGen is simple using the HuggingFace APIs, but we suggest using RankGenEncoder, which is a small wrapper around the HuggingFace APIs for correctly preprocessing data and doing tokenization automatically. Please see rankgen/test_rankgen_encoder.py for an example of the usage or see below.

from rankgen import RankGenEncoder, RankGenGenerator

rankgen_encoder = RankGenEncoder("kalpeshk2011/rankgen-t5-xl-all")

Encoding text to prefix/suffix vectors

prefix_vectors = rankgen_encoder.encode(["This is a prefix sentence."], vectors_type="prefix")
suffix_vectors = rankgen_encoder.encode(["This is a suffix sentence."], vectors_type="suffix")

Generating text

# use a HuggingFace compatible language model
generator = RankGenGenerator(rankgen_encoder=rankgen_encoder, language_model="gpt2-medium")

inputs = ["Whatever might be the nature of the tragedy it would be over with long before this, and those moving black spots away yonder to the west, that he had discerned from the bluff, were undoubtedly the departing raiders. There was nothing left for Keith to do except determine the fate of the unfortunates, and give their bodies decent burial. That any had escaped, or yet lived, was altogether unlikely, unless, perchance, women had been in the party, in which case they would have been borne away prisoners."]

# Baseline nucleus sampling
print(generator.generate_single(inputs, top_p=0.9)[0][0])
# Over-generate and re-rank
print(generator.overgenerate_rerank(inputs, top_p=0.9, num_samples=10)[0][0])
# Beam search
print(generator.beam_search(inputs, top_p=0.9, num_samples=10, beam_size=2)[0][0])

Reproducing experiments in the paper

Running beam search with RankGen

The main file is rankgen/rankgen_beam_search.py. To execute it,

python rankgen/rankgen_beam_search.py \
    --dataset rankgen_data/wiki.jsonl \
    --rankgen_encoder kalpeshk2011/rankgen-t5-xl-all \
    --num_tokens 20 --num_samples 10 --beam_size 2 \
    --output_file outputs_beam/wiki_t5_xl_beam_2_tokens_20_samples_10.jsonl

Evaluating using MAUVE (make sure JSONL file has several thousand generations for intuitive MAUVE scores, 7713 in our experiments),

python rankgen/score_multi_beam.py --dataset outputs_beam/wiki_t5_xl_beam_2_tokens_10_samples_10.jsonl

Suffix Identification with GPT2

The main file is rankgen/rankgen_beam_search.py. To execute it,

mkdir gold-beats-neg-outputs
python rankgen/gpt2_score.py \
  --dataset rankgen_data/hellaswag_val.tsv \
  --model_size xl \
  --metric avg_conditional \
  --num_negatives 3

The corresponding data files can be found in the same Google Drive folder.

Human evaluation data

We conducted our human evaluation on Upwork, hiring English teachers and writers. We performed blind A/B testing between RankGen and nucleus sampling. We also asked our annotators to provide a 1-3 sentence explanation. You can find all the 600 annotations across two files in human-eval-data. To compute the evaluation scores run,

python rankgen/score_ab_text.py

Citation Information

If you use RankGen, please cite it as follows:

@inproceedings{rankgen22,
author={Kalpesh Krishna and Yapei Chang and John Wieting and Mohit Iyyer},
booktitle = {Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
Year = "2022",
Title={RankGen: Improving Text Generation with Large Ranking Models},
}