CamemBERT

CamemBERT

A Tasty French Language Model

Facebook AI Research

Inria

ALMAnaCH

CamemBERT

CamemBERT is a state-of-the-art language model for French based on the RoBERTa architecture pretrained on the French subcorpus of the newly available multilingual corpus OSCAR.

We evaluate CamemBERT in four different downstream tasks for French: part-of-speech (POS) tagging, dependency parsing, named entity recognition (NER) and natural language inference (NLI); improving the state of the art for most tasks over previous monolingual and multilingual approaches, which confirms the effectiveness of large pretrained language models for French.

CamemBERT was trained and evaluated by Louis Martin, Benjamin Muller, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Yoann Dupont, Laurent Romary, Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie, Djamé Seddah and Benoît Sagot.

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Pre-trained models

CamemBERT is available in github.com/huggingface/transformers and https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/

fairseq

Model #params Download Arch. Training data
camembert / camembert-base 110M camembert-base.tar.gz Base OSCAR (138 GB of text)
camembert-large 335M camembert-large.tar.gz Large CCNet (135 GB of text)
camembert-base-ccnet 110M camembert-base-ccnet.tar.gz Base CCNet (135 GB of text)
camembert-base-wikipedia-4gb 110M camembert-base-wikipedia-4gb.tar.gz Base Wikipedia (4 GB of text)
camembert-base-oscar-4gb 110M camembert-base-oscar-4gb.tar.gz Base Subsample of OSCAR (4 GB of text)
camembert-base-ccnet-4gb 110M camembert-base-ccnet-4gb.tar.gz Base Subsample of CCNet (4 GB of text)
Load CamemBERT from torch.hub (PyTorch >= 1.1):
import torch
camembert = torch.hub.load('pytorch/fairseq', 'camembert')
camembert.eval()  # disable dropout (or leave in train mode to finetune)
Load CamemBERT (for PyTorch 1.0 or custom models):

Download camembert model

wget https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/models/camembert-base.tar.gz
tar -xzvf camembert-base.tar.gz

Load the model in fairseq

from fairseq.models.roberta import CamembertModel
camembert = CamembertModel.from_pretrained('./camembert-base/')
camembert.eval()  # disable dropout (or leave in train mode to finetune)
Filling masks:
masked_line = 'Le camembert est <mask> :)'
camembert.fill_mask(masked_line, topk=3)
# [('Le camembert est délicieux :)', 0.4909118115901947, ' délicieux'),
#  ('Le camembert est excellent :)', 0.10556942224502563, ' excellent'),
#  ('Le camembert est succulent :)', 0.03453322499990463, ' succulent')]
Extract features from Camembert:
# Extract the last layer's features
line = "J'aime le camembert !"
tokens = camembert.encode(line)
last_layer_features = camembert.extract_features(tokens)
assert last_layer_features.size() == torch.Size([1, 10, 768])

# Extract all layer's features (layer 0 is the embedding layer)
all_layers = camembert.extract_features(tokens, return_all_hiddens=True)
assert len(all_layers) == 13
assert torch.all(all_layers[-1] == last_layer_features)

Transformers

import torch

from transformers.modeling_camembert import CamembertForMaskedLM
from transformers.tokenization_camembert import CamembertTokenizer


def fill_mask(masked_input, model, tokenizer, topk=5):
    # Adapted from https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/blob/master/fairseq/models/roberta/hub_interface.py
    assert masked_input.count("<mask>") == 1
    input_ids = torch.tensor(tokenizer.encode(masked_input, add_special_tokens=True)).unsqueeze(0)  # Batch size 1
    logits = model(input_ids)[0]  # The last hidden-state is the first element of the output tuple
    masked_index = (input_ids.squeeze() == tokenizer.mask_token_id).nonzero().item()
    logits = logits[0, masked_index, :]
    prob = logits.softmax(dim=0)
    values, indices = prob.topk(k=topk, dim=0)
    topk_predicted_token_bpe = " ".join(
        [tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens(indices[i].item()) for i in range(len(indices))]
    )
    masked_token = tokenizer.mask_token
    topk_filled_outputs = []
    for index, predicted_token_bpe in enumerate(topk_predicted_token_bpe.split(" ")):
        predicted_token = predicted_token_bpe.replace("\u2581", " ")
        if " {0}".format(masked_token) in masked_input:
            topk_filled_outputs.append(
                (
                    masked_input.replace(" {0}".format(masked_token), predicted_token),
                    values[index].item(),
                    predicted_token,
                )
            )
        else:
            topk_filled_outputs.append(
                (masked_input.replace(masked_token, predicted_token), values[index].item(), predicted_token,)
            )
    return topk_filled_outputs


tokenizer = CamembertTokenizer.from_pretrained("camembert-base")
model = CamembertForMaskedLM.from_pretrained("camembert-base")
model.eval()

masked_input = "Le camembert est <mask> :)"
print(fill_mask(masked_input, model, tokenizer, topk=3))

Citation

If you use our work, please cite:

@inproceedings{martin2020camembert,
  title={CamemBERT: a Tasty French Language Model},
  author={Martin, Louis and Muller, Benjamin and Ortiz Su{\'a}rez, Pedro Javier and Dupont, Yoann and Romary, Laurent and de la Clergerie, {\'E}ric Villemonte and Seddah, Djam{\'e} and Sagot, Beno{\^\i}t},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year={2020}
}

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