tensorflowhub

TF-Hub is a platform to share machine learning expertise packaged in reusable resources, notably pre-trained modules. This tutorial is organized into two main parts.

pip install --upgrade tensorflow

pip install --upgrade tensorflow-gpu

pip install tensorflow-hub

Introduction: Training a text classifier with TF-Hub

We will use a TF-Hub text embedding module to train a simple sentiment classifier with a reasonable baseline accuracy. We will then analyze the predictions to make sure our model is reasonable and propose improvements to increase the accuracy.

Advanced: Transfer learning analysis

In this section, we will use various TF-Hub modules to compare their effect on the accuracy of the estimator and demonstrate advantages and pitfalls of transfer learning.

Data

We will try to solve the Large Movie Review Dataset v1.0 task from Mass et al. The dataset consists of IMDB movie reviews labeled by positivity from 1 to 10. The task is to label the reviews as negative or positive.

Feature columns

TF-Hub provides a feature column that applies a module on the given text feature and passes further the outputs of the module. In this tutorial we will be using the nnlm-en-dim128 module. For the purpose of this tutorial, the most important facts are:

• The module takes a batch of sentences in a 1-D tensor of strings as input.
• The module is responsible for preprocessing of sentences (e.g. removal of punctuation and splitting on spaces).
• The module works with any input (e.g. nnlm-en-dim128 hashes words not present in vocabulary into ~20.000 buckets).

Further improvements

• Regression on sentiment: we used a classifier to assign each example into a polarity class. But we actually have another categorical feature at our disposal - sentiment. Here classes actually represent a scale and the underlying value (positive/negative) could be well mapped into a continuous range. We could make use of this property by computing a regression (DNN Regressor) instead of a classification (DNN Classifier).
• Larger module: for the purposes of this tutorial we used a small module to restrict the memory use. There are modules with larger vocabularies and larger embedding space that could give additional accuracy points.
• Parameter tuning: we can improve the accuracy by tuning the meta-parameters like the learning rate or the number of steps, especially if we use a different module. A validation set is very important if we want to get any reasonable results, because it is very easy to set-up a model that learns to predict the training data without generalizing well to the test set. More complex model: we used a module that computes a sentence embedding by embedding each individual word and then combining them with average. One could also use a sequential module (e.g. Universal Sentence Encoder module) to better capture the nature of sentences. Or an ensemble of two or more TF-Hub modules.
• Regularization: to prevent overfitting, we could try to use an optimizer that does some sort of regularization, for example Proximal Adagrad Optimizer.

Advanced: Transfer learning analysis

Transfer learning makes it possible to save training resources and to achieve good model generalization even when training on a small dataset. In this part, we will demonstrate this by training with two different TF-Hub modules:

• nnlm-en-dim128 - pretrained text embedding module,
• random-nnlm-en-dim128 - text embedding module that has same vocabulary and network as nnlm-en-dim128, but the weights were just randomly initialized and never trained on real data.

And by training in two modes:

• training only the classifier (i.e. freezing the module), and
• training the classifier together with the module.