Adaptive Truncated Backpropagation Through Time

This is PyTorch code for Adaptive TBPTT used for training RNN

This repo contains the python code for the experiments in Adaptively Truncating Backpropagation Through Time to Control Gradient Bias by Christopher Aicher, Nicholas J. Foti, and Emily B. Fox. UAI 2019.

Overview

• The data folder stores the synthetic, language model, and temporal point process data.
• The scripts folder stores the bash scripts for the experiments.
• The experiments folder contains the python code for experiment scripts. See experiments/README.md for additional details.
• The tbptt folder contains the python module code. See tbptt/README.md for additional details.

Installation

Add the tbptt folder to the PYTHONPATH.

Requirements: Python 3+, pytorch, numpy, pandas, scipy, matplotlib, seaborn, joblib, scikit-learn, tqdm

Usage example

To download the language modeling text data call get_lm_data.sh.

cd <path_to_repo>
./get_lm_data

To download the temporal point process data call get_tpp_data.sh.

cd <path_to_repo>
./get_tpp_data

To run the experiment scripts, call individual experiment bash scripts

cd <path_to_repo>
./scripts/<experiment_name>.sh

This may take a while depending on your setup.

The output of each experiment is a pair files (options.csv and metric.csv.gz) at ./output/<experiment_name>/out/.

• options.csv is a CSV with a row for each TBPTT setup (i.e. for K = 10, 50, 100 or lr = 1, 10, etc.) and columns with training setup values (i.e. lr, K, batchsize, etc.).
• metrics.csv.gz is a compressed CSV with a row for each measured epoch and metric (i.e. valid_ppl, test_ppl, logdelta, etc.)

You can join options.csv with metrics.csv on the experiment_id column. See experiments/README.md for additional details.

The default bash scripts require the use of PyTorch with a GPU. If you do not have a GPU, set CUDA_AVAILABLE to False in ./experiments/script_maker.py and regenerate the bash scripts

cd <path_to_repo>
python ./experiments/script_maker.py

Release History / Changelog

• 0.2.0
  • The second release (July 2019)
  • Added temporal point process modeling
  • Updated scripts to use multiple initializations
• 0.1.0
  • The first release (May 2019)

Meta

Christopher Aicher – aicherc@uw.edu

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

https://github.com/aicherc/adaptive_tbptt

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/aicherc/adaptive_tbptt/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
5. Create a new Pull Request