torchFastText : Efficient text classification with PyTorch

A flexible PyTorch implementation of FastText for text classification with support for categorical features.

⚠️ This repository is no longer maintained.

It has evolved into a newer, actively maintained project: torchTextClassifiers - that aims at being a more general, unified framework and a toolkit for text classification in PyTorch.

👉 Please use the updated version here: https://github.com/InseeFrLab/torchTextClassifiers

Features

• Supports text classification with FastText architecture
• Handles both text and categorical features
• N-gram tokenization
• Flexible optimizer and scheduler options
• GPU and CPU support
• Model checkpointing and early stopping
• Prediction and model explanation capabilities

Installation

pip install torchFastText

Key Components

• build(): Constructs the FastText model architecture
• train(): Trains the model with built-in callbacks and logging
• predict(): Generates class predictions
• predict_and_explain(): Provides predictions with feature attributions

Subpackages

• preprocess: To preprocess text input, using nltk and unidecode libraries.
• explainability: Simple methods to visualize feature attributions at word and letter levels, using captum library.

Run pip install torchFastText[preprocess] or pip install torchFastText[explainability] to download these optional dependencies.

Quick Start

from torchFastText import torchFastText

# Initialize the model
model = torchFastText(
    num_tokens=1000000,
    embedding_dim=100,
    min_count=5,
    min_n=3,
    max_n=6,
    len_word_ngrams=True,
    sparse=True
)

# Train the model
model.train(
    X_train=train_data,
    y_train=train_labels,
    X_val=val_data,
    y_val=val_labels,
    num_epochs=10,
    batch_size=64,
    lr=4e-3
)
# Make predictions
predictions = model.predict(test_data)

where train_data is an array of size $(N,d)$, having the text in string format in the first column, the other columns containing tokenized categorical variables in int format.

Please make sure y_train contains at least one time each possible label.

Dependencies

• PyTorch Lightning
• NumPy

Categorical features

If any, each categorical feature $i$ is associated to an embedding matrix of size (number of unique values, embedding dimension) where the latter is a hyperparameter (categorical_embedding_dims) – chosen by the user – that can take three types of values:

• None: same embedding dimension as the token embedding matrix. The categorical embeddings are then summed to the sentence-level embedding (which itself is an averaging of the token embeddings). See Figure 1.
• int: the categorical embeddings have all the same embedding dimensions, they are averaged and the resulting vector is concatenated to the sentence-level embedding (the last linear layer has an adapted input size). See Figure 2.
• list: the categorical embeddings have different embedding dimensions, all of them are concatenated without aggregation to the sentence-level embedding (the last linear layer has an adapted input size). See Figure 3.

Default is None.

Figure 1: The 'sum' architecture

Figure 2: The 'average and concatenate' architecture

Figure 3: The 'concatenate all' architecture

Documentation

For detailed usage and examples, please refer to the example notebook (notebooks/example.ipynb). Use pip install -r requirements.txt after cloning the repository to install the necessary dependencies (some are specific to the notebook).

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

MIT

References

Inspired by the original FastText paper [1] and implementation.

[1] A. Joulin, E. Grave, P. Bojanowski, T. Mikolov, Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification.