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  • Foundations
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Tokens and embeddings
    • 3. Inside LLMs
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    • 4. Text classification
    • 5. Clustering and topics
    • 6. Prompt engineering
    • 7. Advanced generation
    • 8. Semantic search
    • 9. Multimodal LLMs
  • Training
    • 10. Embedding models
    • 11. Fine-tuning BERT
    • 12. Fine-tuning generation
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    • Follow-up plan
    • 13. Local model stack
    • 14. Quantization and inference
    • 15. Serving models locally

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  • Downloading and Running An LLM
  • Comparing Trained LLM Tokenizers
  • Contextualized Word Embeddings From a Language Model (Like BERT)
  • Text Embeddings (For Sentences and Whole Documents)
  • Word Embeddings Beyond LLMs
  • Recommending songs by embeddings
  1. Foundations
  2. 2. Tokens and embeddings

Chapter 2 - Tokens and Token Embeddings

Downloading and Running An LLM

The first step is to load our model onto the GPU for faster inference. Note that we load the model and tokenizer separately and keep them as such so that we can explore them separately.

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
# Load model and tokenizer
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct",
    device_map="cuda",
    torch_dtype="auto",
    trust_remote_code=False,
    attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct")
`torch_dtype` is deprecated! Use `dtype` instead!
prompt = "Write an email apologizing to Sarah for the tragic gardening mishap. Explain how it happened.<|assistant|>"

# Tokenize the input prompt
input_ids = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").input_ids.to("cuda")

# Generate the text
generation_output = model.generate(
  input_ids=input_ids,
  max_new_tokens=50,
)

# Print the output
print(tokenizer.decode(generation_output[0]))
The attention mask is not set and cannot be inferred from input because pad token is same as eos token. As a consequence, you may observe unexpected behavior. Please pass your input's `attention_mask` to obtain reliable results.
Write an email apologizing to Sarah for the tragic gardening mishap. Explain how it happened.<|assistant|> Subject: Sincere Apologies for the Gardening Mishap


Dear Sarah,


I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to express my deepest apologies for the unfortunate incident that
print(input_ids)
tensor([[14350,   385,  4876, 27746,  5281,   304, 19235,   363,   278, 25305,
           293, 16423,   292,   286,   728,   481, 29889, 12027,  7420,   920,
           372,  9559, 29889, 32001]], device='cuda:0')
for id in input_ids[0]:
   print(tokenizer.decode(id))
Write
an
email
apolog
izing
to
Sarah
for
the
trag
ic
garden
ing
m
ish
ap
.
Exp
lain
how
it
happened
.
<|assistant|>
generation_output
tensor([[14350,   385,  4876, 27746,  5281,   304, 19235,   363,   278, 25305,
           293, 16423,   292,   286,   728,   481, 29889, 12027,  7420,   920,
           372,  9559, 29889, 32001,  3323,   622, 29901,   317,  3742,   406,
          6225, 11763,   363,   278, 19906,   292,   341,   728,   481,    13,
            13,    13, 29928,   799, 19235, 29892,    13,    13,    13, 29902,
          4966,   445,  2643, 14061,   366,  1532, 29889,   306,   626,  5007,
           304,  4653,   590,  6483,   342,  3095, 11763,   363,   278,   443,
          6477,   403, 15134,   393]], device='cuda:0')
print(tokenizer.decode(3323))
print(tokenizer.decode(622))
print(tokenizer.decode([3323, 622]))
print(tokenizer.decode(29901))
Sub
ject
Subject
:

Comparing Trained LLM Tokenizers

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

colors_list = [
    '102;194;165', '252;141;98', '141;160;203',
    '231;138;195', '166;216;84', '255;217;47'
]

def show_tokens(sentence, tokenizer_name):
    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_name)
    token_ids = tokenizer(sentence).input_ids
    for idx, t in enumerate(token_ids):
        print(
            f'\x1b[0;30;48;2;{colors_list[idx % len(colors_list)]}m' +
            tokenizer.decode(t) +
            '\x1b[0m',
            end=' '
        )
text = """
English and CAPITALIZATION
🎵 鸟
show_tokens False None elif == >= else: two tabs:"    " Three tabs: "       "
12.0*50=600
"""
show_tokens(text, "bert-base-uncased")
[CLS] english and capital ##ization [UNK] [UNK] show _ token ##s false none eli ##f = = > = else : two tab ##s : " " three tab ##s : " " 12 . 0 * 50 = 600 [SEP] 
show_tokens(text, "bert-base-cased")
[CLS] English and CA ##PI ##TA ##L ##I ##Z ##AT ##ION [UNK] [UNK] show _ token ##s F ##als ##e None el ##if = = > = else : two ta ##bs : " " Three ta ##bs : " " 12 . 0 * 50 = 600 [SEP] 
show_tokens(text, "gpt2")

 English  and  CAP ITAL IZ ATION 
 � � �  � � � 
 show _ t ok ens  False  None  el if  ==  >=  else :  two  tabs :"        "  Three  tabs :  "              " 
 12 . 0 * 50 = 600 
 
show_tokens(text, "google/flan-t5-small")
English and CA PI TAL IZ ATION  <unk>  <unk> show _ to ken s Fal s e None  e l if = = > = else : two tab s : " " Three tab s : " " 12. 0 * 50 = 600  </s> 
# The official is `tiktoken` but this the same tokenizer on the HF platform
show_tokens(text, "Xenova/gpt-4")

 English  and  CAPITAL IZATION 
 � � �  � � � 
 show _tokens  False  None  elif  ==  >=  else :  two  tabs :"      "  Three  tabs :  "         "
 12 . 0 * 50 = 600 
 
# You need to request access before being able to use this tokenizer
show_tokens(text, "bigcode/starcoder2-15b")

 English  and  CAPITAL IZATION 
 � � �   � � 
 show _ tokens  False  None  elif  ==  >=  else :  two  tabs :"      "  Three  tabs :  "         " 
 1 2 . 0 * 5 0 = 6 0 0 
 
show_tokens(text, "facebook/galactica-1.3b")

 English  and  CAP ITAL IZATION 
 � � � �  � � � 
 show _ tokens  False  None  elif   ==   > =  else :  two  t abs : "      "  Three  t abs :   "         " 
 1 2 . 0 * 5 0 = 6 0 0 
 
show_tokens(text, "microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct")
 
 English and C AP IT AL IZ ATION 
 � � � �  � � � 
 show _ to kens False None elif == >= else : two tabs :"    " Three tabs : "       " 
 1 2 . 0 * 5 0 = 6 0 0 
 

Contextualized Word Embeddings From a Language Model (Like BERT)

from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

# Load a tokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("microsoft/deberta-base")

# Load a language model
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("microsoft/deberta-v3-xsmall")

# Tokenize the sentence
tokens = tokenizer('Hello world', return_tensors='pt')

# Process the tokens
output = model(**tokens)[0]
output.shape
torch.Size([1, 4, 384])
for token in tokens['input_ids'][0]:
    print(tokenizer.decode(token))
[CLS]
Hello
 world
[SEP]
output
tensor([[[-3.4816,  0.0861, -0.1819,  ..., -0.0612, -0.3911,  0.3017],
         [ 0.1898,  0.3208, -0.2315,  ...,  0.3714,  0.2478,  0.8048],
         [ 0.2071,  0.5036, -0.0485,  ...,  1.2175, -0.2292,  0.8582],
         [-3.4278,  0.0645, -0.1427,  ...,  0.0658, -0.4367,  0.3834]]],
       grad_fn=<NativeLayerNormBackward0>)

Text Embeddings (For Sentences and Whole Documents)

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

# Load model
model = SentenceTransformer('sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2')

# Convert text to text embeddings
vector = model.encode("Best movie ever!")
vector.shape
(768,)

Word Embeddings Beyond LLMs

import gensim.downloader as api

# Download embeddings (66MB, glove, trained on wikipedia, vector size: 50)
# Other options include "word2vec-google-news-300"
# More options at https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/gensim-data
model = api.load("glove-wiki-gigaword-50")
[==================================================] 100.0% 66.0/66.0MB downloaded
model.most_similar([model['king']], topn=11)
[('king', 1.0000001192092896),
 ('prince', 0.8236179351806641),
 ('queen', 0.7839043140411377),
 ('ii', 0.7746230363845825),
 ('emperor', 0.7736247777938843),
 ('son', 0.766719400882721),
 ('uncle', 0.7627150416374207),
 ('kingdom', 0.7542161345481873),
 ('throne', 0.7539914846420288),
 ('brother', 0.7492411136627197),
 ('ruler', 0.7434253692626953)]
model.most_similar([model['queen']], topn=11)
[('queen', 1.0000001192092896),
 ('princess', 0.8515166640281677),
 ('lady', 0.8050609230995178),
 ('elizabeth', 0.7873042225837708),
 ('king', 0.7839043140411377),
 ('prince', 0.7821861505508423),
 ('coronation', 0.769277811050415),
 ('consort', 0.7626097202301025),
 ('royal', 0.7442865371704102),
 ('crown', 0.7382649183273315),
 ('victoria', 0.728577196598053)]

Recommending songs by embeddings

import pandas as pd
from urllib import request

# Get the playlist dataset file
data = request.urlopen('https://storage.googleapis.com/maps-premium/dataset/yes_complete/train.txt')

# Parse the playlist dataset file. Skip the first two lines as
# they only contain metadata
lines = data.read().decode("utf-8").split('\n')[2:]

# Remove playlists with only one song
playlists = [s.rstrip().split() for s in lines if len(s.split()) > 1]

# Load song metadata
songs_file = request.urlopen('https://storage.googleapis.com/maps-premium/dataset/yes_complete/song_hash.txt')
songs_file = songs_file.read().decode("utf-8").split('\n')
songs = [s.rstrip().split('\t') for s in songs_file]
songs_df = pd.DataFrame(data=songs, columns = ['id', 'title', 'artist'])
songs_df = songs_df.set_index('id')
songs_df.to_csv('chen_recs_songs.csv')
print( 'Playlist #1:\n ', playlists[0], '\n')
print( 'Playlist #2:\n ', playlists[1])
Playlist #1:
  ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12', '13', '14', '15', '16', '17', '18', '19', '20', '21', '22', '23', '24', '25', '26', '27', '28', '29', '30', '31', '32', '33', '34', '35', '36', '37', '38', '39', '40', '41', '2', '42', '43', '44', '45', '46', '47', '48', '20', '49', '8', '50', '51', '52', '53', '54', '55', '56', '57', '25', '58', '59', '60', '61', '62', '3', '63', '64', '65', '66', '46', '47', '67', '2', '48', '68', '69', '70', '57', '50', '71', '72', '53', '73', '25', '74', '59', '20', '46', '75', '76', '77', '59', '20', '43'] 

Playlist #2:
  ['78', '79', '80', '3', '62', '81', '14', '82', '48', '83', '84', '17', '85', '86', '87', '88', '74', '89', '90', '91', '4', '73', '62', '92', '17', '53', '59', '93', '94', '51', '50', '27', '95', '48', '96', '97', '98', '99', '100', '57', '101', '102', '25', '103', '3', '104', '105', '106', '107', '47', '108', '109', '110', '111', '112', '113', '25', '63', '62', '114', '115', '84', '116', '117', '118', '119', '120', '121', '122', '123', '50', '70', '71', '124', '17', '85', '14', '82', '48', '125', '47', '46', '72', '53', '25', '73', '4', '126', '59', '74', '20', '43', '127', '128', '129', '13', '82', '48', '130', '131', '132', '133', '134', '135', '136', '137', '59', '46', '138', '43', '20', '139', '140', '73', '57', '70', '141', '3', '1', '74', '142', '143', '144', '145', '48', '13', '25', '146', '50', '147', '126', '59', '20', '148', '149', '150', '151', '152', '56', '153', '154', '155', '156', '157', '158', '159', '160', '161', '162', '163', '164', '165', '166', '167', '168', '169', '170', '171', '172', '173', '174', '175', '60', '176', '51', '177', '178', '179', '180', '181', '182', '183', '184', '185', '57', '186', '187', '188', '189', '190', '191', '46', '192', '193', '194', '195', '196', '197', '198', '25', '199', '200', '49', '201', '100', '202', '203', '204', '205', '206', '207', '32', '208', '209', '210']
from gensim.models import Word2Vec

# Train our Word2Vec model
model = Word2Vec(
    playlists, vector_size=32, window=20, negative=50, min_count=1, workers=4
)
song_id = 2172

# Ask the model for songs similar to song #2172
model.wv.most_similar(positive=str(song_id))
[('3094', 0.9984354972839355),
 ('3167', 0.997356653213501),
 ('10105', 0.9970279335975647),
 ('3126', 0.9969783425331116),
 ('2976', 0.9967626333236694),
 ('3116', 0.9966928362846375),
 ('10084', 0.9965797066688538),
 ('6624', 0.9957831501960754),
 ('2704', 0.995732843875885),
 ('6658', 0.9954785108566284)]
print(songs_df.iloc[2172])
title     Fade To Black
artist        Metallica
Name: 2172 , dtype: object
import numpy as np

def print_recommendations(song_id):
    similar_songs = np.array(
        model.wv.most_similar(positive=str(song_id),topn=5)
    )[:,0]
    return  songs_df.iloc[similar_songs]

# Extract recommendations
print_recommendations(2172)
title artist
id
3094 Breaking The Law Judas Priest
3167 Unchained Van Halen
10105 Three Lock Box Sammy Hagar
3126 Heavy Metal Sammy Hagar
2976 I Don't Know Ozzy Osbourne
print_recommendations(2172)
title artist
id
3094 Breaking The Law Judas Priest
3167 Unchained Van Halen
10105 Three Lock Box Sammy Hagar
3126 Heavy Metal Sammy Hagar
2976 I Don't Know Ozzy Osbourne
print_recommendations(842)
title artist
id
27081 Give Me Everything (w\/ Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer) Pitbull
413 If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (w\/ Laury... Nas
18844 Murder She Wrote Chaka Demus & Pliers
211 Hypnotize The Notorious B.I.G.
34678 Run De Riddim 3 Canal
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