fix conditional probabilty typo

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Varuna Jayasiri
2020-11-12 11:40:40 +05:30
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@ -5,24 +5,26 @@ This is an implementation of the paper
[Generalization through Memorization: Nearest Neighbor Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00172).
It uses k-nearest neighbors to improve perplexity of autoregressive transformer models.
An autoregressive language model estimates $p(w_t, \color{yellowgreen}{c_t})$,
An autoregressive language model estimates $p(w_t | \color{yellowgreen}{c_t})$,
where $w_t$ is the token at step $t$
and $c_t$ is the context, $\color{yellowgreen}{c_t} = (w_1, w_2, ..., w_{t-1})$.
This paper, improves $p(w_t, c_t)$ using a k-nearest neighbor search
This paper, improves $p(w_t | \color{yellowgreen}{c_t})$ using a k-nearest neighbor search
on key-value pairs $\big(f(c_i), w_i\big)$, with search key $f(\color{yellowgreen}{c_t})$.
Here $f(\color{yellowgreen}{c_t})$ is an embedding of the context $c_t$.
The paper (and this implementation) uses the *input* to the feed-forward layer of the
final layer of the transformer as $f(\color{yellowgreen}{c_t})$.
Here $f(\color{yellowgreen}{c_t})$ is an embedding of the context $\color{yellowgreen}{c_t}$.
The paper (and this implementation) uses the **input to the feed-forward layer of the
final layer of the transformer** as $f(\color{yellowgreen}{c_t})$.
We use [FAISS](https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss) to index $f(c_i)$.
### Implementation
So to run $k$NN-LM we need to:
* [Train a transformer model](train_model.html)
* [Build an index](build_index.html) of $\big(f(c_i), w_i\big)$
* [Evaluate kNN-ML](eval_knn.html) using $k$NN seach on $\big(f(c_i), w_i\big)$
with $f(c_t)$
with $f(\color{yellowgreen}{c_t})$
This experiment uses a small dataset so that we can run this without using up a few hundred giga-bytes
of disk space for the index.