THOR: Transformer with Stochastic Experts

This PyTorch package implements Taming Sparsely Activated Transformer with Stochastic Experts.

Installation

• The most convenient way to run the code is to use this docker image: tartarusz/adv-train:azure-pytorch-apex-v1.7.0. The image supports running on Microsoft Azure.
• Our implementation is based on Fairseq.

Instructions

• Download Fairseq (v1.0.0+) to the current directory.
• Run pip install -e . to install the package locally.
• To run a sample translation task on IWSLT'14 De-En, first follow the instructions here to download and tokenize the data, then use bash preprocess.sh to pre-process the tokenized data.
• Run bash run.sh to train a THOR model.

Notes

Contact Information

For personal communication related to this package, please contact Simiao Zuo ([email protected]), Xiaodong Liu ([email protected]), or Jian Jiao ([email protected]).

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