Trains a memory network on the bAbI dataset.

References:

• Jason Weston, Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra, Tomas Mikolov, Alexander M. Rush, "Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks"

• Sainbayar Sukhbaatar, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston, Rob Fergus, "End-To-End Memory Networks"

Reaches 98.6% accuracy on task 'single_supporting_fact_10k' after 120 epochs.Time per epoch: 3s on CPU (core i7).

from __future__ import print_function
from keras.models import Sequential, Model
from keras.layers.embeddings import Embedding
from keras.layers import Input, Activation, Dense, Permute, Dropout
from keras.layers import add, dot, concatenate
from keras.layers import LSTM
from keras.utils.data_utils import get_file
from keras.preprocessing.sequence import pad_sequences
from functools import reduce
import tarfile
import numpy as np
import re
def tokenize(sent):
    '''Return the tokens of a sentence including punctuation.
    >>> tokenize('Bob dropped the apple. Where is the apple?')
    ['Bob', 'dropped', 'the', 'apple', '.', 'Where', 'is', 'the', 'apple', '?']
    '''
    return [x.strip() for x in re.split(r'(\W+)?', sent) if x.strip()]
def parse_stories(lines, only_supporting=False):
    '''Parse stories provided in the bAbi tasks format
    If only_supporting is true, only the sentences
    that support the answer are kept.
    '''
    data = []
    story = []
    for line in lines:
        line = line.decode('utf-8').strip()
        nid, line = line.split(' ', 1)
        nid = int(nid)
        if nid == 1:
            story = []
        if '\t' in line:
            q, a, supporting = line.split('\t')
            q = tokenize(q)
            if only_supporting:
                # Only select the related substory
                supporting = map(int, supporting.split())
                substory = [story[i - 1] for i in supporting]
            else:
                # Provide all the substories
                substory = [x for x in story if x]
            data.append((substory, q, a))
            story.append('')
        else:
            sent = tokenize(line)
            story.append(sent)
    return data
def get_stories(f, only_supporting=False, max_length=None):
    '''Given a file name, read the file,
    retrieve the stories,
    and then convert the sentences into a single story.
    If max_length is supplied,
    any stories longer than max_length tokens will be discarded.
    '''
    data = parse_stories(f.readlines(), only_supporting=only_supporting)
    flatten = lambda data: reduce(lambda x, y: x + y, data)
    data = [(flatten(story), q, answer) for story, q, answer in data
            if not max_length or len(flatten(story)) < max_length]
    return data
def vectorize_stories(data):
    inputs, queries, answers = [], [], []
    for story, query, answer in data:
        inputs.append([word_idx[w] for w in story])
        queries.append([word_idx[w] for w in query])
        answers.append(word_idx[answer])
    return (pad_sequences(inputs, maxlen=story_maxlen),
            pad_sequences(queries, maxlen=query_maxlen),
            np.array(answers))
try:
    path = get_file('babi-tasks-v1-2.tar.gz',
                    origin='https://s3.amazonaws.com/text-datasets/'
                           'babi_tasks_1-20_v1-2.tar.gz')
except:
    print('Error downloading dataset, please download it manually:\n'
          '$ wget http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/babi/tasks_1-20_v1-2'
          '.tar.gz\n'
          '$ mv tasks_1-20_v1-2.tar.gz ~/.keras/datasets/babi-tasks-v1-2.tar.gz')
    raise
challenges = {
    # QA1 with 10,000 samples
    'single_supporting_fact_10k': 'tasks_1-20_v1-2/en-10k/qa1_'
                                  'single-supporting-fact_{}.txt',
    # QA2 with 10,000 samples
    'two_supporting_facts_10k': 'tasks_1-20_v1-2/en-10k/qa2_'
                                'two-supporting-facts_{}.txt',
}
challenge_type = 'single_supporting_fact_10k'
challenge = challenges[challenge_type]
print('Extracting stories for the challenge:', challenge_type)
with tarfile.open(path) as tar:
    train_stories = get_stories(tar.extractfile(challenge.format('train')))
    test_stories = get_stories(tar.extractfile(challenge.format('test')))
vocab = set()
for story, q, answer in train_stories + test_stories:
    vocab |= set(story + q + [answer])
vocab = sorted(vocab)
# Reserve 0 for masking via pad_sequences
vocab_size = len(vocab) + 1
story_maxlen = max(map(len, (x for x, _, _ in train_stories + test_stories)))
query_maxlen = max(map(len, (x for _, x, _ in train_stories + test_stories)))
print('-')
print('Vocab size:', vocab_size, 'unique words')
print('Story max length:', story_maxlen, 'words')
print('Query max length:', query_maxlen, 'words')
print('Number of training stories:', len(train_stories))
print('Number of test stories:', len(test_stories))
print('-')
print('Here\'s what a "story" tuple looks like (input, query, answer):')
print(train_stories[0])
print('-')
print('Vectorizing the word sequences...')
word_idx = dict((c, i + 1) for i, c in enumerate(vocab))
inputs_train, queries_train, answers_train = vectorize_stories(train_stories)
inputs_test, queries_test, answers_test = vectorize_stories(test_stories)
print('-')
print('inputs: integer tensor of shape (samples, max_length)')
print('inputs_train shape:', inputs_train.shape)
print('inputs_test shape:', inputs_test.shape)
print('-')
print('queries: integer tensor of shape (samples, max_length)')
print('queries_train shape:', queries_train.shape)
print('queries_test shape:', queries_test.shape)
print('-')
print('answers: binary (1 or 0) tensor of shape (samples, vocab_size)')
print('answers_train shape:', answers_train.shape)
print('answers_test shape:', answers_test.shape)
print('-')
print('Compiling...')
# placeholders
input_sequence = Input((story_maxlen,))
question = Input((query_maxlen,))
# encoders
# embed the input sequence into a sequence of vectors
input_encoder_m = Sequential()
input_encoder_m.add(Embedding(input_dim=vocab_size,
                              output_dim=64))
input_encoder_m.add(Dropout(0.3))
# output: (samples, story_maxlen, embedding_dim)
# embed the input into a sequence of vectors of size query_maxlen
input_encoder_c = Sequential()
input_encoder_c.add(Embedding(input_dim=vocab_size,
                              output_dim=query_maxlen))
input_encoder_c.add(Dropout(0.3))
# output: (samples, story_maxlen, query_maxlen)
# embed the question into a sequence of vectors
question_encoder = Sequential()
question_encoder.add(Embedding(input_dim=vocab_size,
                               output_dim=64,
                               input_length=query_maxlen))
question_encoder.add(Dropout(0.3))
# output: (samples, query_maxlen, embedding_dim)
# encode input sequence and questions (which are indices)
# to sequences of dense vectors
input_encoded_m = input_encoder_m(input_sequence)
input_encoded_c = input_encoder_c(input_sequence)
question_encoded = question_encoder(question)
# compute a 'match' between the first input vector sequence
# and the question vector sequence
# shape: `(samples, story_maxlen, query_maxlen)`
match = dot([input_encoded_m, question_encoded], axes=(2, 2))
match = Activation('softmax')(match)
# add the match matrix with the second input vector sequence
response = add([match, input_encoded_c])  # (samples, story_maxlen, query_maxlen)
response = Permute((2, 1))(response)  # (samples, query_maxlen, story_maxlen)
# concatenate the match matrix with the question vector sequence
answer = concatenate([response, question_encoded])
# the original paper uses a matrix multiplication for this reduction step.
# we choose to use a RNN instead.
answer = LSTM(32)(answer)  # (samples, 32)
# one regularization layer -- more would probably be needed.
answer = Dropout(0.3)(answer)
answer = Dense(vocab_size)(answer)  # (samples, vocab_size)
# we output a probability distribution over the vocabulary
answer = Activation('softmax')(answer)
# build the final model
model = Model([input_sequence, question], answer)
model.compile(optimizer='rmsprop', loss='sparse_categorical_crossentropy',
              metrics=['accuracy'])
# train
model.fit([inputs_train, queries_train], answers_train,
          batch_size=32,
          epochs=120,
          validation_data=([inputs_test, queries_test], answers_test))