entmax

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This package provides a pytorch implementation of entmax and entmax losses: a sparse family of probability mappings and corresponding loss functions, generalizing softmax / cross-entropy.

Features:

• Exact partial-sort algorithms for 1.5-entmax and 2-entmax (sparsemax).
• A bisection-based algorithm for generic alpha-entmax.
• Gradients w.r.t. alpha for adaptive, learned sparsity!
• Other sparse transformations: alpha-normmax and k-subsets budget (handled through bisection-based algorithms).

Requirements: python 3, pytorch >= 1.9 (and pytest for unit tests)

Example

In [1]: import torch

In [2]: from torch.nn.functional import softmax

In [2]: from entmax import sparsemax, entmax15, entmax_bisect, normmax_bisect, budget_bisect

In [4]: x = torch.tensor([-2, 0, 0.5])

In [5]: softmax(x, dim=0)
Out[5]: tensor([0.0486, 0.3592, 0.5922])

In [6]: sparsemax(x, dim=0)
Out[6]: tensor([0.0000, 0.2500, 0.7500])

In [7]: entmax15(x, dim=0)
Out[7]: tensor([0.0000, 0.3260, 0.6740])

In [8]: normmax_bisect(x, alpha=2, dim=0)
Out[8]: tensor([0.0000, 0.3110, 0.6890])

In [9]: normmax_bisect(x, alpha=1000, dim=0)
Out[9]: tensor([0.0000, 0.4997, 0.5003])

In [10]: budget_bisect(x, budget=2, dim=0)
Out[10]: tensor([0.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000])

Gradients w.r.t. alpha (continued):

In [1]: from torch.autograd import grad

In [2]: x = torch.tensor([[-1, 0, 0.5], [1, 2, 3.5]])

In [3]: alpha = torch.tensor(1.33, requires_grad=True)

In [4]: p = entmax_bisect(x, alpha)

In [5]: p
Out[5]:
tensor([[0.0460, 0.3276, 0.6264],
        [0.0026, 0.1012, 0.8963]], grad_fn=<EntmaxBisectFunctionBackward>)

In [6]: grad(p[0, 0], alpha)
Out[6]: (tensor(-0.2562),)

Installation

pip install entmax

Citations

Sparse Sequence-to-Sequence Models

@inproceedings{entmax,
  author    = {Peters, Ben and Niculae, Vlad and Martins, Andr{\'e} FT},
  title     = {Sparse Sequence-to-Sequence Models},
  booktitle = {Proc. ACL},
  year      = {2019},
  url       = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1146}
}

Adaptively Sparse Transformers

@inproceedings{correia19adaptively,
  author    = {Correia, Gon\c{c}alo M and Niculae, Vlad and Martins, Andr{\'e} FT},
  title     = {Adaptively Sparse Transformers},
  booktitle = {Proc. EMNLP-IJCNLP (to appear)},
  year      = {2019},
}

Further reading:

• Blondel, Martins, and Niculae, 2019. Learning with Fenchel-Young Losses.
• Martins and Astudillo, 2016. From Softmax to Sparsemax: A Sparse Model of Attention and Multi-Label Classification.
• Peters and Martins, 2019 IT-IST at the SIGMORPHON 2019 Shared Task: Sparse Two-headed Models for Inflection.