README.glue.md

Finetuning RoBERTa on GLUE tasks

1) Download the data from GLUE website (https://gluebenchmark.com/tasks) using following commands:

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/W4ngatang/60c2bdb54d156a41194446737ce03e2e/raw/17b8dd0d724281ed7c3b2aeeda662b92809aadd5/download_glue_data.py
python download_glue_data.py --data_dir glue_data --tasks all

2) Preprocess GLUE task data:

./examples/roberta/preprocess_GLUE_tasks.sh glue_data <glue_task_name>

glue_task_name is one of the following: {ALL, QQP, MNLI, QNLI, MRPC, RTE, STS-B, SST-2, CoLA} Use ALL for preprocessing all the glue tasks.

3) Fine-tuning on GLUE task:

Example fine-tuning cmd for RTE task

TOTAL_NUM_UPDATES=2036  # 10 epochs through RTE for bsz 16
WARMUP_UPDATES=122      # 6 percent of the number of updates
LR=2e-05                # Peak LR for polynomial LR scheduler.
NUM_CLASSES=2
MAX_SENTENCES=16        # Batch size.
ROBERTA_PATH=/path/to/roberta/model.pt

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python train.py RTE-bin/ \
    --restore-file $ROBERTA_PATH \
    --max-positions 512 \
    --max-sentences $MAX_SENTENCES \
    --max-tokens 4400 \
    --task sentence_prediction \
    --reset-optimizer --reset-dataloader --reset-meters \
    --required-batch-size-multiple 1 \
    --init-token 0 --separator-token 2 \
    --arch roberta_large \
    --criterion sentence_prediction \
    --num-classes $NUM_CLASSES \
    --dropout 0.1 --attention-dropout 0.1 \
    --weight-decay 0.1 --optimizer adam --adam-betas "(0.9, 0.98)" --adam-eps 1e-06 \
    --clip-norm 0.0 \
    --lr-scheduler polynomial_decay --lr $LR --total-num-update $TOTAL_NUM_UPDATES --warmup-updates $WARMUP_UPDATES \
    --fp16 --fp16-init-scale 4 --threshold-loss-scale 1 --fp16-scale-window 128 \
    --max-epoch 10 \
    --find-unused-parameters \
    --best-checkpoint-metric accuracy --maximize-best-checkpoint-metric;

For each of the GLUE task, you will need to use following cmd-line arguments:

Model	MNLI	QNLI	QQP	RTE	SST-2	MRPC	CoLA	STS-B
--num-classes	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	1
--lr	1e-5	1e-5	1e-5	2e-5	1e-5	1e-5	1e-5	2e-5
--max-sentences	32	32	32	16	32	16	16	16
--total-num-update	123873	33112	113272	2036	20935	2296	5336	3598
--warmup-updates	7432	1986	28318	122	1256	137	320	214

For STS-B additionally add --regression-target --best-checkpoint-metric loss and remove --maximize-best-checkpoint-metric.

Note:

a) --total-num-updates is used by --polynomial_decay scheduler and is calculated for --max-epoch=10 and --max-sentences=16/32 depending on the task.

b) Above cmd-args and hyperparams are tested on one Nvidia V100 GPU with 32gb of memory for each task. Depending on the GPU memory resources available to you, you can use increase --update-freq and reduce --max-sentences.

c) All the settings in above table are suggested settings based on our hyperparam search within a fixed search space (for careful comparison across models). You might be able to find better metrics with wider hyperparam search.

Inference on GLUE task

After training the model as mentioned in previous step, you can perform inference with checkpoints in checkpoints/ directory using following python code snippet:

from fairseq.models.roberta import RobertaModel

roberta = RobertaModel.from_pretrained(
    'checkpoints/',
    checkpoint_file='checkpoint_best.pt',
    data_name_or_path='RTE-bin'
)

label_fn = lambda label: roberta.task.label_dictionary.string(
    [label + roberta.task.label_dictionary.nspecial]
)
ncorrect, nsamples = 0, 0
roberta.cuda()
roberta.eval()
with open('glue_data/RTE/dev.tsv') as fin:
    fin.readline()
    for index, line in enumerate(fin):
        tokens = line.strip().split('\t')
        sent1, sent2, target = tokens[1], tokens[2], tokens[3]
        tokens = roberta.encode(sent1, sent2)
        prediction = roberta.predict('sentence_classification_head', tokens).argmax().item()
        prediction_label = label_fn(prediction)
        ncorrect += int(prediction_label == target)
        nsamples += 1
print('| Accuracy: ', float(ncorrect)/float(nsamples))