A library for finding knowledge neurons in pretrained transformer models.

Overview

knowledge-neurons

An open source repository replicating the 2021 paper Knowledge Neurons in Pretrained Transformers by Dai et al., and extending the technique to autoregressive models, as well as MLMs.

The Huggingface Transformers library is used as the backend, so any model you want to probe must be implemented there.

Currently integrated models:

BERT_MODELS = ["bert-base-uncased", "bert-base-multilingual-uncased"]
GPT2_MODELS = ["gpt2"]
GPT_NEO_MODELS = [
    "EleutherAI/gpt-neo-125M",
    "EleutherAI/gpt-neo-1.3B",
    "EleutherAI/gpt-neo-2.7B",
]

The technique from Dai et al. has been used to locate knowledge neurons in the huggingface bert-base-uncased model for all the head/relation/tail entities in the PARAREL dataset. Both the neurons, and more detailed results of the experiment are published at bert_base_uncased_neurons/*.json and can be replicated by running pararel_evaluate.py. More details in the Evaluations on the PARAREL dataset section.

Setup

Either clone the github, and run scripts from there:

git clone knowledge-neurons
cd knowledge-neurons

Or install as a pip package:

pip install knowledge-neurons

Usage & Examples

An example using bert-base-uncased:

from knowledge_neurons import KnowledgeNeurons, initialize_model_and_tokenizer, model_type
import random

# first initialize some hyperparameters
MODEL_NAME = "bert-base-uncased"

# to find the knowledge neurons, we need the same 'facts' expressed in multiple different ways, and a ground truth
TEXTS = [
    "Sarah was visiting [MASK], the capital of france",
    "The capital of france is [MASK]",
    "[MASK] is the capital of france",
    "France's capital [MASK] is a hotspot for romantic vacations",
    "The eiffel tower is situated in [MASK]",
    "[MASK] is the most populous city in france",
    "[MASK], france's capital, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world",
]
TEXT = TEXTS[0]
GROUND_TRUTH = "paris"

# these are some hyperparameters for the integrated gradients step
BATCH_SIZE = 20
STEPS = 20 # number of steps in the integrated grad calculation
ADAPTIVE_THRESHOLD = 0.3 # in the paper, they find the threshold value `t` by multiplying the max attribution score by some float - this is that float.
P = 0.5 # the threshold for the sharing percentage

# setup model & tokenizer
model, tokenizer = initialize_model_and_tokenizer(MODEL_NAME)

# initialize the knowledge neuron wrapper with your model, tokenizer and a string expressing the type of your model ('gpt2' / 'gpt_neo' / 'bert')
kn = KnowledgeNeurons(model, tokenizer, model_type=model_type(MODEL_NAME))

# use the integrated gradients technique to find some refined neurons for your set of prompts
refined_neurons = kn.get_refined_neurons(
    TEXTS,
    GROUND_TRUTH,
    p=P,
    batch_size=BATCH_SIZE,
    steps=STEPS,
    coarse_adaptive_threshold=ADAPTIVE_THRESHOLD,
)

# suppress the activations at the refined neurons + test the effect on a relevant prompt
# 'results_dict' is a dictionary containing the probability of the ground truth being generated before + after modification, as well as other info
# 'unpatch_fn' is a function you can use to undo the activation suppression in the model. 
# By default, the suppression is removed at the end of any function that applies a patch, but you can set 'undo_modification=False', 
# run your own experiments with the activations / weights still modified, then run 'unpatch_fn' to undo the modifications
results_dict, unpatch_fn = kn.suppress_knowledge(
    TEXT, GROUND_TRUTH, refined_neurons
)

# suppress the activations at the refined neurons + test the effect on an unrelated prompt
results_dict, unpatch_fn = kn.suppress_knowledge(
    "[MASK] is the official language of the solomon islands",
    "english",
    refined_neurons,
)

# enhance the activations at the refined neurons + test the effect on a relevant prompt
results_dict, unpatch_fn = kn.enhance_knowledge(TEXT, GROUND_TRUTH, refined_neurons)

# erase the weights of the output ff layer at the refined neurons (replacing them with zeros) + test the effect
results_dict, unpatch_fn = kn.erase_knowledge(
    TEXT, refined_neurons, target=GROUND_TRUTH, erase_value="zero"
)

# erase the weights of the output ff layer at the refined neurons (replacing them with an unk token) + test the effect
results_dict, unpatch_fn = kn.erase_knowledge(
    TEXT, refined_neurons, target=GROUND_TRUTH, erase_value="unk"
)

# edit the weights of the output ff layer at the refined neurons (replacing them with the word embedding of 'target') + test the effect
# we can make the model think the capital of france is London!
results_dict, unpatch_fn = kn.edit_knowledge(
    TEXT, target="london", neurons=refined_neurons
)

for bert models, the position where the "[MASK]" token is located is used to evaluate the knowledge neurons, (and the ground truth should be what the mask token is expected to be), but due to the nature of GPT models, the last position in the prompt is used by default, and the ground truth is expected to immediately follow.

In GPT models, due to the subword tokenization, the integrated gradients are taken n times, where n is the length of the expected ground truth in tokens, and the mean of the integrated gradients at each step is taken.

for bert models, the ground truth is currently expected to be a single token. Multi-token ground truths are on the todo list.

Evaluations on the PARAREL dataset

To ensure that the repo works correctly, figures 3 and 4 from the knowledge neurons paper are reproduced below. In general the results appear similar, except suppressing unrelated facts appears to have a little more of an affect in this repo than in the paper's original results.*

Below are Dai et al's, and our result, respectively, for suppressing the activations of the refined knowledge neurons in pararel: knowledge neuron suppression / dai et al. knowledge neuron suppression / ours

And Dai et al's, and our result, respectively, for enhancing the activations of the knowledge neurons: knowledge neuron enhancement / dai et al. knowledge neuron enhancement / ours

To find the knowledge neurons in bert-base-uncased for the PARAREL dataset, and replicate figures 3. and 4. from the paper, you can run

# find knowledge neurons + test suppression / enhancement (this will take a day or so on a decent gpu) 
# you can skip this step since the results are provided in `bert_base_uncased_neurons`
python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=NUM_GPUS_YOU_HAVE pararel_evaluate.py
# plot results 
python plot_pararel_results.py

*It's unclear where the difference comes from, but my suspicion is they made sure to only select facts with different relations, whereas in the plots below, only a different pararel UUID was selected. In retrospect, this could actually express the same fact, so I'll rerun these experiments soon.

TODO:

  • Better documentation
  • Publish PARAREL results for bert-base-multilingual-uncased
  • Publish PARAREL results for bert-large-uncased
  • Publish PARAREL results for bert-large-multilingual-uncased
  • Multiple masked tokens for bert models
  • Find good dataset for GPT-like models to evaluate knowledge neurons (PARAREL isn't applicable since the tail entities aren't always at the end of the sentence)
  • Add negative examples for getting refined neurons (i.e expressing a different fact in the same way)
  • Look into different attribution methods (cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.02695.pdf)

Citations

@article{Dai2021KnowledgeNI,
  title={Knowledge Neurons in Pretrained Transformers},
  author={Damai Dai and Li Dong and Y. Hao and Zhifang Sui and Furu Wei},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2021},
  volume={abs/2104.08696}
}
Owner
EleutherAI
EleutherAI
A linter to manage all your python exceptions and try/except blocks (limited only for those who like dinosaurs).

Manage your exceptions in Python like a PRO Currently in BETA. Inspired by this blog post. I shared the building process of this tool here. “For those

Guilherme Latrova 353 Dec 31, 2022
This is the writeup of all the challenges from Advent-of-cyber-2019 of TryHackMe

Advent-of-cyber-2019-writeup This is the writeup of all the challenges from Advent-of-cyber-2019 of TryHackMe https://tryhackme.com/shivam007/badges/c

shivam danawale 5 Jul 17, 2022
🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Pytorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.

English | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | 한국어 State-of-the-art Machine Learning for JAX, PyTorch and TensorFlow 🤗 Transformers provides thousands of pretrained models

Hugging Face 77.1k Dec 31, 2022
An easy to use, user-friendly and efficient code for extracting OpenAI CLIP (Global/Grid) features from image and text respectively.

Extracting OpenAI CLIP (Global/Grid) Features from Image and Text This repo aims at providing an easy to use and efficient code for extracting image &

Jianjie(JJ) Luo 13 Jan 06, 2023
Creating an LSTM model to generate music

Music-Generation Creating an LSTM model to generate music music-generator Used to create basic sin wave sounds music-ai Contains the functions to conv

Jerin Joseph 2 Dec 02, 2021
News-Articles-and-Essays - NLP (Topic Modeling and Clustering)

NLP T5 Project proposal Topic Modeling and Clustering of News-Articles-and-Essays Students: Nasser Alshehri Abdullah Bushnag Abdulrhman Alqurashi OVER

2 Jan 18, 2022
Accurately generate all possible forms of an English word e.g "election" --> "elect", "electoral", "electorate" etc.

Accurately generate all possible forms of an English word Word forms can accurately generate all possible forms of an English word. It can conjugate v

Dibya Chakravorty 570 Dec 31, 2022
NLP project that works with news (NER, context generation, news trend analytics)

СоАвтор СоАвтор – платформа и открытый набор инструментов для редакций и журналистов-фрилансеров, который призван сделать процесс создания контента ма

38 Jan 04, 2023
GraphNLI: A Graph-based Natural Language Inference Model for Polarity Prediction in Online Debates

GraphNLI: A Graph-based Natural Language Inference Model for Polarity Prediction in Online Debates Vibhor Agarwal, Sagar Joglekar, Anthony P. Young an

Vibhor Agarwal 2 Jun 30, 2022
WIT (Wikipedia-based Image Text) Dataset is a large multimodal multilingual dataset comprising 37M+ image-text sets with 11M+ unique images across 100+ languages.

WIT (Wikipedia-based Image Text) Dataset is a large multimodal multilingual dataset comprising 37M+ image-text sets with 11M+ unique images across 100+ languages.

Google Research Datasets 740 Dec 24, 2022
A minimal Conformer ASR implementation adapted from ESPnet.

Conformer ASR A minimal Conformer ASR implementation adapted from ESPnet. Introduction I want to use the pre-trained English ASR model provided by ESP

Niu Zhe 3 Jan 24, 2022
BERN2: an advanced neural biomedical namedentity recognition and normalization tool

BERN2 We present BERN2 (Advanced Biomedical Entity Recognition and Normalization), a tool that improves the previous neural network-based NER tool by

DMIS Laboratory - Korea University 99 Jan 06, 2023
Task-based datasets, preprocessing, and evaluation for sequence models.

SeqIO: Task-based datasets, preprocessing, and evaluation for sequence models. SeqIO is a library for processing sequential data to be fed into downst

Google 290 Dec 26, 2022
Repository for Graph2Pix: A Graph-Based Image to Image Translation Framework

Graph2Pix: A Graph-Based Image to Image Translation Framework Installation Install the dependencies in env.yml $ conda env create -f env.yml $ conda a

18 Nov 17, 2022
Source code for CsiNet and CRNet using Fully Connected Layer-Shared feedback architecture.

FCS-applications Source code for CsiNet and CRNet using the Fully Connected Layer-Shared feedback architecture. Introduction This repository contains

Boyuan Zhang 4 Oct 07, 2022
Binaural Speech Synthesis

Binaural Speech Synthesis This repository contains code to train a mono-to-binaural neural sound renderer. If you use this code or the provided datase

Facebook Research 135 Dec 18, 2022
A simple command line tool for text to image generation, using OpenAI's CLIP and a BigGAN

artificial intelligence cosmic love and attention fire in the sky a pyramid made of ice a lonely house in the woods marriage in the mountains lantern

Phil Wang 2.3k Jan 01, 2023
Implementation of COCO-LM, Correcting and Contrasting Text Sequences for Language Model Pretraining, in Pytorch

COCO LM Pretraining (wip) Implementation of COCO-LM, Correcting and Contrasting Text Sequences for Language Model Pretraining, in Pytorch. They were a

Phil Wang 44 Jul 28, 2022
Sequence-to-Sequence learning using PyTorch

Seq2Seq in PyTorch This is a complete suite for training sequence-to-sequence models in PyTorch. It consists of several models and code to both train

Elad Hoffer 514 Nov 17, 2022
Active learning for text classification in Python

Active Learning allows you to efficiently label training data in a small-data scenario.

Webis 375 Dec 28, 2022