flair.models#

class flair.models.EntityMentionLinker(candidate_generator, preprocessor, entity_label_types, label_type, dictionary, batch_size=1024)View on GitHub #

Bases: Model[Sentence]

Entity linking model for the biomedical domain.

__init__(candidate_generator, preprocessor, entity_label_types, label_type, dictionary, batch_size=1024)View on GitHub #

Initializes an entity mention linker.

Parameters:

candidate_generator (CandidateSearchIndex) – Strategy to find matching entities for a given mention
preprocessor (EntityPreprocessor) – Pre-processing strategy to transform / clean entity mentions
entity_label_types (Union[str, Sequence[str], Dict[str, Set[str]]]) – A label type or sequence of label types of the required entities. You can also specify a label filter in a dictionary with the label type as key and the valid entity labels as values in a set. E.g. to use only ‘disease’ and ‘chemical’ labels from a NER-tagger: {‘ner’: {‘disease’, ‘chemical’}}. To use all labels from ‘ner’, pass ‘ner’
label_type (str) – The label under which the predictions of the linker should be stored
dictionary (EntityLinkingDictionary) – The dictionary listing all entities
batch_size (int) – Batch size to encode mentions/dictionary names

get_entity_label_types(entity_label_types)View on GitHub #

Find out what NER labels to extract from sentence.

Parameters:: entity_label_types (Union[str, Sequence[str], Dict[str, Set[str]]]) – A label type or sequence of label types of the required entities. You can also specify a label filter in a dictionary with the label type as key and the valid entity labels as values in a set. E.g. to use only ‘disease’ and ‘chemical’ labels from a NER-tagger: {‘ner’: {‘disease’, ‘chemical’}}. To use all labels from ‘ner’, pass ‘ner’
Return type:: Dict[str, Set[str]]

property label_type#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

property dictionary: EntityLinkingDictionary#

extract_entities_mentions(sentence, entity_label_types)View on GitHub #

Extract tagged mentions from sentences.

Return type:: List[Label]

predict(sentences, top_k=1, pred_label_type=None, entity_label_types=None, batch_size=None)View on GitHub #

Predicts the best matching top-k entity / concept identifiers of all named entities annotated with tag input_entity_annotation_layer.

Parameters:

sentences (Union[List[Sentence], Sentence]) – One or more sentences to run the prediction on
top_k (int) – Number of best-matching entity / concept identifiers
entity_label_types (Union[str, Sequence[str], Dict[str, Set[str]], None]) – A label type or sequence of label types of the required entities. You can also specify a label filter in a dictionary with the label type as key and the valid entity labels as values in a set. E.g. to use only ‘disease’ and ‘chemical’ labels from a NER-tagger: {‘ner’: {‘disease’, ‘chemical’}}. To use all labels from ‘ner’, pass ‘ner’
pred_label_type (Optional[str]) – The label under which the predictions of the linker should be stored
batch_size (Optional[int]) – Batch size to encode mentions/dictionary names

Return type:

None

_get_state_dict()View on GitHub #: Returns the state dictionary for this model.

classmethod build(model_name_or_path, label_type='link', dictionary_name_or_path=None, hybrid_search=True, batch_size=128, similarity_metric=SimilarityMetric.INNER_PRODUCT, preprocessor=None, sparse_weight=0.5, entity_type=None, dictionary=None, dataset_name=None)View on GitHub #

Builds a model for biomedical named entity normalization.

Parameters:

model_name_or_path (str) – the name to an transformer embedding model on the huggingface hub or “exact-string-match”
label_type (str) – the label-type the predictions should be assigned to
dictionary_name_or_path (Union[str, Path, None]) – the name or path to a dictionary. If the model name is a common biomedical model, the dictionary name is asigned by default. Otherwise you can pass any of “gene”, “species”, “disease”, “chemical” to get the respective biomedical dictionary.
hybrid_search (bool) – if True add a character-ngram-tfidf embedding on top of the transformer embedding model.
batch_size (int) – the batch_size used when indexing the dictionary.
similarity_metric (SimilarityMetric) – the metric used to compare similarity between two embeddings.
preprocessor (Optional[EntityPreprocessor]) – The preprocessor used to preprocess. If None is passed, it used an AD3P processor.
sparse_weight (float) – if hybrid_search is added, the sparse weight will weight the importance of the character-ngram-tfidf embedding. For the common models, this will be overwritten with a specific value.
entity_type (Optional[str]) – the entity type of the mentions
dictionary (Optional[EntityLinkingDictionary]) – the dictionary provided in memory. If None, the dictionary is loaded from dictionary_name_or_path.
dataset_name (Optional[str]) – the name to assign the dictionary for reference.

Return type:

EntityMentionLinker

forward_loss(data_points)View on GitHub #

Performs a forward pass and returns a loss tensor for backpropagation.

Implement this to enable training.

Return type:: Tuple[Tensor, int]

classmethod load(model_path)View on GitHub #

Loads the model from the given file.

Parameters:: model_path (Union[str, Path, Dict[str, Any]]) – the model file or the already loaded state dict
Return type:: EntityMentionLinker

Returns: the loaded text classifier model

evaluate(data_points, gold_label_type, out_path=None, embedding_storage_mode='none', mini_batch_size=32, main_evaluation_metric=('accuracy', 'f1-score'), exclude_labels=[], gold_label_dictionary=None, return_loss=True, k=1, **kwargs)View on GitHub #

Evaluates the model. Returns a Result object containing evaluation results and a loss value.

Implement this to enable evaluation.

Parameters:

data_points (Union[List[Sentence], Dataset]) – The labeled data_points to evaluate.
gold_label_type (str) – The label type indicating the gold labels
out_path (Union[str, Path, None]) – Optional output path to store predictions
embedding_storage_mode (str) – One of ‘none’, ‘cpu’ or ‘gpu’. ‘none’ means all embeddings are deleted and freshly recomputed, ‘cpu’ means all embeddings are stored on CPU, or ‘gpu’ means all embeddings are stored on GPU
mini_batch_size (int) – The batch_size to use for predictions
main_evaluation_metric (Tuple[str, str]) – Specify which metric to highlight as main_score
exclude_labels (List[str]) – Specify classes that won’t be considered in evaluation
gold_label_dictionary (Optional[Dictionary]) – Specify which classes should be considered, all other classes will be taken as <unk>.
return_loss (bool) – Weather to additionally compute the loss on the data-points.
**kwargs – Arguments that will be ignored.

Return type:

Result

Returns:

The evaluation results.

class flair.models.SpanClassifier(embeddings, label_dictionary, pooling_operation='first_last', label_type='nel', span_label_type=None, candidates=None, **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Bases: DefaultClassifier[Sentence, Span]

Entity Linking Model.

The model expects text/sentences with annotated entity mentions and predicts entities to these mentions. To this end a word embedding is used to embed the sentences and the embedding of the entity mention goes through a linear layer to get the actual class label. The model is able to predict ‘<unk>’ for entity mentions that the model can not confidently match to any of the known labels.

__init__(embeddings, label_dictionary, pooling_operation='first_last', label_type='nel', span_label_type=None, candidates=None, **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Initializes an SpanClassifier.

Parameters:

embeddings (TokenEmbeddings) – embeddings used to embed the tokens of the sentences.
label_dictionary (Dictionary) – dictionary that gives ids to all classes. Should contain <unk>.
pooling_operation (str) – either average, first, last or first_last. Specifies the way of how text representations of entity mentions (with more than one token) are handled. E.g. average means that as text representation we take the average of the embeddings of the token in the mention. first_last concatenates the embedding of the first and the embedding of the last token.
label_type (str) – name of the label you use.
span_label_type (Optional[str]) – name of the label you use for inputs of predictions.
candidates (Optional[CandidateGenerator]) – If provided, use a CandidateGenerator for prediction candidates.
**classifierargs – The arguments propagated to flair.nn.DefaultClassifier.__init__()

emb_first(span, embedding_names)View on GitHub #

emb_last(span, embedding_names)View on GitHub #

emb_firstAndLast(span, embedding_names)View on GitHub #

emb_mean(span, embedding_names)View on GitHub #

property label_type#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

classmethod load(model_path)View on GitHub #

Loads the model from the given file.

Parameters:: model_path (Union[str, Path, Dict[str, Any]]) – the model file or the already loaded state dict
Return type:: SpanClassifier

Returns: the loaded text classifier model

class flair.models.LanguageModel(dictionary, is_forward_lm, hidden_size, nlayers, embedding_size=100, nout=None, document_delimiter='\\n', dropout=0.1, recurrent_type='LSTM', has_decoder=True)View on GitHub #

Bases: Module

Container module with an encoder, a recurrent module, and a decoder.

init_weights()View on GitHub #

set_hidden(hidden)View on GitHub #

forward(input, hidden, ordered_sequence_lengths=None, decode=True)View on GitHub #

Define the computation performed at every call.

Should be overridden by all subclasses.

Note

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the registered hooks while the latter silently ignores them.

init_hidden(bsz)View on GitHub #

get_representation(strings, start_marker, end_marker, chars_per_chunk=512)View on GitHub #

get_output(text)View on GitHub #

repackage_hidden(h)View on GitHub #: Wraps hidden states in new Variables, to detach them from their history.

static initialize(matrix)View on GitHub #

classmethod load_language_model(model_file, has_decoder=True)View on GitHub #

classmethod load_checkpoint(model_file)View on GitHub #

save_checkpoint(file, optimizer, epoch, split, loss)View on GitHub #

save(file)View on GitHub #

generate_text(prefix='\\n', number_of_characters=1000, temperature=1.0, break_on_suffix=None)View on GitHub #

Return type:: Tuple[str, float]

calculate_perplexity(text)View on GitHub #

Return type:: float

training: bool#

class flair.models.Lemmatizer(embeddings=None, label_type='lemma', rnn_input_size=50, rnn_hidden_size=256, rnn_layers=2, encode_characters=True, char_dict='common-chars-lemmatizer', max_sequence_length_dependent_on_input=True, max_sequence_length=20, use_attention=True, beam_size=1, start_symbol_for_encoding=True, end_symbol_for_encoding=True, bidirectional_encoding=True)View on GitHub #

Bases: Classifier[Sentence]

__init__(embeddings=None, label_type='lemma', rnn_input_size=50, rnn_hidden_size=256, rnn_layers=2, encode_characters=True, char_dict='common-chars-lemmatizer', max_sequence_length_dependent_on_input=True, max_sequence_length=20, use_attention=True, beam_size=1, start_symbol_for_encoding=True, end_symbol_for_encoding=True, bidirectional_encoding=True)View on GitHub #

Initializes a Lemmatizer model.

The model consists of a decoder and an encoder. The encoder is either a RNN-cell (torch.nn.GRU) or a Token-Embedding from flair if an embedding is handed to the constructor (token_embedding). The output of the encoder is used as the initial hidden state to the decoder, which is an RNN-cell (GRU) that predicts the lemma of the given token one letter at a time. Note that one can use data in which only those words are annotated that differ from their lemma or data in which all words are annotated with a (maybe equal) lemma.

Parameters:

encode_characters (bool) – If True, use a character embedding to additionally encode tokens per character.
start_symbol_for_encoding (bool) – If True, use a start symbol for encoding characters.
end_symbol_for_encoding (bool) – If True, use an end symbol for encoding characters.
bidirectional_encoding (bool) – If True, the character encoding is bidirectional.
embeddings (Optional[TokenEmbeddings]) – Embedding used to encode sentence
rnn_input_size (int) – Input size of the RNN(‘s). Each letter of a token is represented by a hot-one-vector over the given character dictionary. This vector is transformed to a input_size vector with a linear layer.
rnn_hidden_size (int) – size of the hidden state of the RNN(‘s).
rnn_layers (int) – Number of stacked RNN cells
beam_size (int) – Number of hypothesis used when decoding the output of the RNN. Only used in prediction.
char_dict (Union[str, Dictionary]) – Dictionary of characters the model is able to process. The dictionary must contain <unk> for the handling of unknown characters. If None, a standard dictionary will be loaded. One can either hand over a path to a dictionary or the dictionary itself.
label_type (str) – Name of the gold labels to use.
max_sequence_length_dependent_on_input (bool) – If set to True, the maximum length of a decoded sequence in the prediction depends on the sentences you want to lemmatize. To be precise the maximum length is computed as the length of the longest token in the sentences plus one.
max_sequence_length (int) – If set to True and max_sequence_length_dependend_on_input is False a fixed maximum length for the decoding will be used for all sentences.
use_attention (bool) – whether to use attention. Only sensible if encoding via RNN

property label_type#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

words_to_char_indices(tokens, end_symbol=True, start_symbol=False, padding_in_front=False, seq_length=None)View on GitHub #

For a given list of strings this function creates index vectors that represent the characters of the strings.

Each string is represented by sequence_length (maximum string length + entries for special symbol) many indices representing characters in self.char_dict. One can manually set the vector length with the parameter seq_length, though the vector length is always at least maximum string length in the list.

Parameters:

seq_length – the maximum sequence length to use, if None the maximum is taken..
tokens (List[str]) – the texts of the toekens to encode
end_symbol – add self.end_index at the end of each representation
start_symbol – add self.start_index in front of each representation
padding_in_front – whether to fill up with self.dummy_index in front or in back of strings

forward_pass(sentences)View on GitHub #

decode(decoder_input_indices, initial_hidden_states, all_encoder_outputs)View on GitHub #

forward(encoder_input_indices, lengths, token_embedding_hidden)View on GitHub #

Define the computation performed at every call.

Should be overridden by all subclasses. :rtype: Tuple[Tensor, Optional[Tensor]]

Note

encode(sentences)View on GitHub #

encode_token(token)View on GitHub #

forward_loss(sentences)View on GitHub #

Performs a forward pass and returns a loss tensor for backpropagation.

Implement this to enable training.

Return type:: Tuple[Tensor, int]

predict(sentences, mini_batch_size=16, return_probabilities_for_all_classes=False, verbose=False, label_name='predicted', return_loss=False, embedding_storage_mode='none')View on GitHub #

Predict lemmas of words for a given (list of) sentence(s).

Parameters:

sentences (Union[List[Sentence], Sentence]) – sentences to predict
label_name – label name used for predicted lemmas
mini_batch_size (int) – number of tokens that are send through the RNN simultaneously, assuming batching_in_rnn is set to True
embedding_storage_mode – default is ‘none’ which is always best. Only set to ‘cpu’ or ‘gpu’ if you wish to not only predict, but also keep the generated embeddings in CPU or GPU memory respectively.
return_loss – whether to compute and return loss. Setting it to True only makes sense if labels are provided
verbose (bool) – If True, lemmatized sentences will be printed in the console.
return_probabilities_for_all_classes (bool) – unused parameter.

evaluate(*args, **kwargs)View on GitHub #

Evaluates the model. Returns a Result object containing evaluation results and a loss value.

Implement this to enable evaluation.

Parameters:

data_points – The labeled data_points to evaluate.
gold_label_type – The label type indicating the gold labels
out_path – Optional output path to store predictions
embedding_storage_mode – One of ‘none’, ‘cpu’ or ‘gpu’. ‘none’ means all embeddings are deleted and freshly recomputed, ‘cpu’ means all embeddings are stored on CPU, or ‘gpu’ means all embeddings are stored on GPU
mini_batch_size – The batch_size to use for predictions
main_evaluation_metric – Specify which metric to highlight as main_score
exclude_labels – Specify classes that won’t be considered in evaluation
gold_label_dictionary – Specify which classes should be considered, all other classes will be taken as <unk>.
return_loss – Weather to additionally compute the loss on the data-points.
**kwargs – Arguments that will be ignored.

Return type:

Result

Returns:

The evaluation results.

class flair.models.TextPairClassifier(embeddings, label_type, embed_separately=False, **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Bases: DefaultClassifier[DataPair[Sentence, Sentence], DataPair[Sentence, Sentence]]

Text Pair Classification Model for tasks such as Recognizing Textual Entailment, build upon TextClassifier.

The model takes document embeddings and puts resulting text representation(s) into a linear layer to get the actual class label. We provide two ways to embed the DataPairs: Either by embedding both DataPoints and concatenating the resulting vectors (“embed_separately=True”) or by concatenating the DataPoints and embedding the resulting vector (“embed_separately=False”).

__init__(embeddings, label_type, embed_separately=False, **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Initializes a TextPairClassifier.

Parameters:

label_type (str) – label_type: name of the label
embed_separately (bool) – if True, the sentence embeddings will be concatenated, if False both sentences will be combined and newly embedded.
embeddings (DocumentEmbeddings) – embeddings used to embed each data point
label_dictionary – dictionary of labels you want to predict
multi_label – auto-detected by default, but you can set this to True to force multi-label prediction or False to force single-label prediction
multi_label_threshold – If multi-label you can set the threshold to make predictions
loss_weights – Dictionary of weights for labels for the loss function. If any label’s weight is unspecified it will default to 1.0
**classifierargs – The arguments propagated to flair.nn.DefaultClassifier.__init__()

property label_type#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

get_used_tokens(corpus, context_length=0, respect_document_boundaries=True)View on GitHub #

Return type:: Iterable[List[str]]

class flair.models.TextTripleClassifier(embeddings, label_type, embed_separately=False, **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Bases: DefaultClassifier[DataTriple[Sentence, Sentence, Sentence], DataTriple[Sentence, Sentence, Sentence]]

Text Triple Classification Model for tasks such as Query-Ad Matching, build upon TextPairClassifier.

__init__(embeddings, label_type, embed_separately=False, **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Initializes a TextTripleClassifier.

Parameters:

label_type (str) – label_type: name of the label
embed_separately (bool) – if True, the sentence embeddings will be concatenated, if False both sentences will be combined and newly embedded.
embeddings (DocumentEmbeddings) – embeddings used to embed each data point
label_dictionary – dictionary of labels you want to predict
multi_label – auto-detected by default, but you can set this to True to force multi-label prediction or False to force single-label prediction
multi_label_threshold – If multi-label you can set the threshold to make predictions
loss_weights – Dictionary of weights for labels for the loss function. If any label’s weight is unspecified it will default to 1.0
**classifierargs – The arguments propagated to flair.nn.DefaultClassifier.__init__()

property label_type#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

get_used_tokens(corpus, context_length=0, respect_document_boundaries=True)View on GitHub #

Return type:: Iterable[List[str]]

class flair.models.TextPairRegressor(embeddings, label_type, embed_separately=False, dropout=0.0, locked_dropout=0.0, word_dropout=0.0, decoder=None)View on GitHub #

Bases: Model[DataPair[Sentence, Sentence]], ReduceTransformerVocabMixin

Text Pair Regression Model for tasks such as Semantic Textual Similarity Benchmark.

The model takes document embeddings and puts resulting text representation(s) into a linear layer to get the score. We provide two ways to embed the DataPairs: Either by embedding both DataPoints and concatenating the resulting vectors (“embed_separately=True”) or by concatenating the DataPoints and embedding the resulting vector (“embed_separately=False”).

__init__(embeddings, label_type, embed_separately=False, dropout=0.0, locked_dropout=0.0, word_dropout=0.0, decoder=None)View on GitHub #

Initialize the Text Pair Regression Model.

Parameters:

label_type (str) – name of the label
embed_separately (bool) – if True, the sentence embeddings will be concatenated, if False both sentences will be combined and newly embedded.
dropout (float) – dropout
locked_dropout (float) – locked_dropout
word_dropout (float) – word_dropout
decoder (Optional[Module]) – if provided, a that specific layer will be used as decoder, otherwise a linear layer with random parameters will be created.
embeddings (DocumentEmbeddings) – embeddings used to embed each data point

property label_type#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

get_used_tokens(corpus, context_length=0, respect_document_boundaries=True)View on GitHub #

Return type:: Iterable[List[str]]

forward_loss(pairs)View on GitHub #

Performs a forward pass and returns a loss tensor for backpropagation.

Implement this to enable training.

Return type:: Tuple[Tensor, int]

predict(pairs, mini_batch_size=32, verbose=False, label_name=None, embedding_storage_mode='none')View on GitHub #

Return type:: List[DataPair[Sentence, Sentence]]

evaluate(data_points, gold_label_type, out_path=None, embedding_storage_mode='none', mini_batch_size=32, main_evaluation_metric=('micro avg', 'f1-score'), exclude_labels=[], gold_label_dictionary=None, return_loss=True, **kwargs)View on GitHub #

Evaluates the model. Returns a Result object containing evaluation results and a loss value.

Implement this to enable evaluation.

Parameters:

data_points (Union[List[DataPair[Sentence, Sentence]], Dataset]) – The labeled data_points to evaluate.
gold_label_type (str) – The label type indicating the gold labels
out_path (Union[str, Path, None]) – Optional output path to store predictions
embedding_storage_mode (str) – One of ‘none’, ‘cpu’ or ‘gpu’. ‘none’ means all embeddings are deleted and freshly recomputed, ‘cpu’ means all embeddings are stored on CPU, or ‘gpu’ means all embeddings are stored on GPU
mini_batch_size (int) – The batch_size to use for predictions
main_evaluation_metric (Tuple[str, str]) – Specify which metric to highlight as main_score
exclude_labels (List[str]) – Specify classes that won’t be considered in evaluation
gold_label_dictionary (Optional[Dictionary]) – Specify which classes should be considered, all other classes will be taken as <unk>.
return_loss (bool) – Weather to additionally compute the loss on the data-points.
**kwargs – Arguments that will be ignored.

Return type:

Result

Returns:

The evaluation results.

class flair.models.RelationClassifier(embeddings, label_dictionary, label_type, entity_label_types, entity_pair_labels=None, entity_threshold=None, cross_augmentation=True, encoding_strategy=<flair.models.relation_classifier_model.TypedEntityMarker object>, zero_tag_value='O', allow_unk_tag=True, **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Bases: DefaultClassifier[EncodedSentence, EncodedSentence]

Relation Classifier to predict the relation between two entities.

Task#

Relation Classification (RC) is the task of identifying the semantic relation between two entities in a text. In contrast to (end-to-end) Relation Extraction (RE), RC requires pre-labelled entities.

Example:#

For the founded_by relation from ORG (head) to PER (tail) and the sentence “Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google .”, we extract the relations - founded_by(head=’Google’, tail=’Larry Page’) and - founded_by(head=’Google’, tail=’Sergey Brin’).

Architecture#

The Relation Classifier Model builds upon a text classifier. The model generates an encoded sentence for each entity pair in the cross product of all entities in the original sentence. In the encoded representation, the entities in the current entity pair are masked/marked with control tokens. (For an example, see the docstrings of different encoding strategies, e.g. TypedEntityMarker.) Then, for each encoded sentence, the model takes its document embedding and puts the resulting text representation(s) through a linear layer to get the class relation label.

The implemented encoding strategies are taken from this paper by Zhou et al.: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01373

Warning

Currently, the model has no multi-label support.

__init__(embeddings, label_dictionary, label_type, entity_label_types, entity_pair_labels=None, entity_threshold=None, cross_augmentation=True, encoding_strategy=<flair.models.relation_classifier_model.TypedEntityMarker object>, zero_tag_value='O', allow_unk_tag=True, **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Initializes a RelationClassifier.

Parameters:

embeddings (DocumentEmbeddings) – The document embeddings used to embed each sentence
label_dictionary (Dictionary) – A Dictionary containing all predictable labels from the corpus
label_type (str) – The label type which is going to be predicted, in case a corpus has multiple annotations
entity_label_types (Union[str, Sequence[str], Dict[str, Optional[Set[str]]]]) – A label type or sequence of label types of the required relation entities. You can also specify a label filter in a dictionary with the label type as key and the valid entity labels as values in a set. E.g. to use only ‘PER’ and ‘ORG’ labels from a NER-tagger: {‘ner’: {‘PER’, ‘ORG’}}. To use all labels from ‘ner’, pass ‘ner’.
entity_pair_labels (Optional[Set[Tuple[str, str]]]) – A set of valid relation entity pair combinations, used as relation candidates. Specify valid entity pairs in a set of tuples of labels (<HEAD>, <TAIL>). E.g. for the born_in relation, only relations from ‘PER’ to ‘LOC’ make sense. Here, relations from ‘PER’ to ‘PER’ are not meaningful, so it is advised to specify the entity_pair_labels as {(‘PER’, ‘ORG’)}. This setting may help to reduce the number of relation candidates. Leaving this parameter as None (default) disables the relation-candidate-filter, i.e. the model classifies the relation for each entity pair in the cross product of all entity pairs (inefficient).
entity_threshold (Optional[float]) – Only pre-labelled entities above this threshold are taken into account by the model.
cross_augmentation (bool) – If True, use cross augmentation to transform Sentence`s into `EncodedSentenece`s. When cross augmentation is enabled, the transformation functions, e.g. `transform_corpus, generate an encoded sentence for each entity pair in the cross product of all entities in the original sentence. When disabling cross augmentation, the transform functions only generate encoded sentences for each gold relation annotation in the original sentence.
encoding_strategy (EncodingStrategy) – An instance of a class conforming the EncodingStrategy protocol
zero_tag_value (str) – The label to use for out-of-class relations
allow_unk_tag (bool) – If False, removes <unk> from the passed label dictionary, otherwise do nothing.
classifierargs – The remaining parameters passed to the underlying flair.models.DefaultClassifier

_valid_entities(sentence)View on GitHub #

Yields all valid entities, filtered under the specification of entity_label_types.

Parameters:: sentence (Sentence) – A Sentence object with entity annotations
Yields:: Valid entities as _Entity
Return type:: Iterator[_Entity]

_entity_pair_permutations(sentence)View on GitHub #

Yields all valid entity pair permutations (relation candidates).

If the passed sentence contains relation annotations, the relation gold label will be yielded along with the participating entities. The permutations are constructed by a filtered cross-product under the specification of :py:meth:~`flair.models.RelationClassifier.entity_label_types` and :py:meth:~`flair.models.RelationClassifier.entity_pair_labels`.

Parameters:: sentence (Sentence) – A Sentence with entity annotations
Yields:: Tuples of (HEAD, TAIL, gold_label) – The head and tail _Entity`s have span references to the passed sentence.
Return type:: Iterator[Tuple[_Entity, _Entity, Optional[str]]]

_encode_sentence(head, tail, gold_label=None)View on GitHub #

Returns a new Sentence object with masked/marked head and tail spans according to the encoding strategy.

If provided, the encoded sentence also has the corresponding gold label annotation from label_type.

Parameters:

head (_Entity) – The head Entity
tail (_Entity) – The tail Entity
gold_label (Optional[str]) – An optional gold label of the induced relation by the head and tail entity

Return type:

EncodedSentence

Returns: The EncodedSentence with Gold Annotations

_encode_sentence_for_inference(sentence)View on GitHub #

Create Encoded Sentences and Relation pairs for Inference.

Yields encoded sentences annotated with their gold relation and the corresponding relation object in the original sentence for all valid entity pair permutations. The created encoded sentences are newly created sentences with no reference to the passed sentence.

Important properties:

Every sentence has exactly one encoded head and tail entity token. Therefore, every encoded sentence has exactly one induced relation annotation, the gold annotation or self.zero_tag_value.
The created relations have head and tail spans from the original passed sentence.

Parameters:: sentence (Sentence) – A flair Sentence object with entity annotations
Return type:: Iterator[Tuple[EncodedSentence, Relation]]

Returns: Encoded sentences annotated with their gold relation and the corresponding relation in the original sentence

_encode_sentence_for_training(sentence)View on GitHub #

Create Encoded Sentences and Relation pairs for Training.

Same as self._encode_sentence_for_inference.

with the option of disabling cross augmentation via self.cross_augmentation (and that the relation with reference to the original sentence is not returned).

Return type:: Iterator[EncodedSentence]

transform_sentence(sentences)View on GitHub #

Transforms sentences into encoded sentences specific to the RelationClassifier.

For more information on the internal sentence transformation procedure, see the flair.models.RelationClassifier architecture and the different flair.models.relation_classifier_model.EncodingStrategy variants docstrings.

Parameters:: sentences (Union[Sentence, List[Sentence]]) – sentences to transform
Return type:: List[EncodedSentence]
Returns:: A list of encoded sentences specific to the RelationClassifier

transform_dataset(dataset)View on GitHub #

Transforms a dataset into a dataset containing encoded sentences specific to the RelationClassifier.

The returned dataset is stored in memory. For more information on the internal sentence transformation procedure, see the RelationClassifier architecture and the different EncodingStrategy variants docstrings.

Parameters:: dataset (Dataset[Sentence]) – A dataset of sentences to transform
Return type:: FlairDatapointDataset[EncodedSentence]

Returns: A dataset of encoded sentences specific to the RelationClassifier

transform_corpus(corpus)View on GitHub #

Transforms a corpus into a corpus containing encoded sentences specific to the RelationClassifier.

The splits of the returned corpus are stored in memory. For more information on the internal sentence transformation procedure, see the RelationClassifier architecture and the different EncodingStrategy variants docstrings.

Parameters:: corpus (Corpus[Sentence]) – A corpus of sentences to transform
Return type:: Corpus[EncodedSentence]

Returns: A corpus of encoded sentences specific to the RelationClassifier

_get_data_points_from_sentence(sentence)View on GitHub #

Returns the encoded sentences to which labels are added.

To encode sentences, use the transform function of the RelationClassifier.

Return type:: List[EncodedSentence]

predict(sentences, mini_batch_size=32, return_probabilities_for_all_classes=False, verbose=False, label_name=None, return_loss=False, embedding_storage_mode='none')View on GitHub #

Predicts the class labels for the given sentence(s).

Standard Sentence objects and EncodedSentences specific to the RelationClassifier are allowed as input. The (relation) labels are directly added to the sentences.

Parameters:

sentences (Union[List[Sentence], List[EncodedSentence], Sentence, EncodedSentence]) – A list of (encoded) sentences.
mini_batch_size (int) – The mini batch size to use
return_probabilities_for_all_classes (bool) – Return probabilities for all classes instead of only best predicted
verbose (bool) – Set to display a progress bar
return_loss (bool) – Set to return loss
label_name (Optional[str]) – Set to change the predicted label type name
embedding_storage_mode (str) – The default is ‘none’, which is always best. Only set to ‘cpu’ or ‘gpu’ if you wish to predict and keep the generated embeddings in CPU or GPU memory, respectively.

Return type:

Optional[Tuple[Tensor, int]]

Returns: The loss and the total number of classes, if return_loss is set

property label_type: str#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

property zero_tag_value: str#

property allow_unk_tag: bool#

get_used_tokens(corpus, context_length=0, respect_document_boundaries=True)View on GitHub #

Return type:: Iterable[List[str]]

classmethod load(model_path)View on GitHub #

Loads the model from the given file.

Parameters:: model_path (Union[str, Path, Dict[str, Any]]) – the model file or the already loaded state dict
Return type:: RelationClassifier

Returns: the loaded text classifier model

class flair.models.RelationExtractor(embeddings, label_type, entity_label_type, entity_pair_filters=None, pooling_operation='first_last', train_on_gold_pairs_only=False, **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Bases: DefaultClassifier[Sentence, Relation]

__init__(embeddings, label_type, entity_label_type, entity_pair_filters=None, pooling_operation='first_last', train_on_gold_pairs_only=False, **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Initializes a RelationClassifier.

Parameters:

embeddings (TokenEmbeddings) – embeddings used to embed each data point
label_type (str) – name of the label
entity_label_type (str) – name of the labels used to represent entities
entity_pair_filters (Optional[List[Tuple[str, str]]]) – if provided, only classify pairs that apply the filter
pooling_operation (str) – either “first” or “first_last” how the embeddings of the entities should be used to create relation embeddings
train_on_gold_pairs_only (bool) – if True, relations with “O” (no relation) label will be ignored in training.
**classifierargs – The arguments propagated to flair.nn.DefaultClassifier.__init__()

property label_type#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

classmethod load(model_path)View on GitHub #

Loads the model from the given file.

Parameters:: model_path (Union[str, Path, Dict[str, Any]]) – the model file or the already loaded state dict
Return type:: RelationExtractor

Returns: the loaded text classifier model

class flair.models.RegexpTagger(mapping)View on GitHub #

Bases: object

__init__(mapping)View on GitHub #

This tagger is capable of tagging sentence objects with given regexp -> label mappings.

I.e: The tuple (r’([”'])(?:(?=(\?))2.)*?1’, ‘QUOTE’) maps every match of the regexp to a <QUOTE> labeled span and therefore labels the given sentence object with RegexpTagger.predict(). This tagger supports multilabeling so tokens can be included in multiple labeled spans. The regexp are compiled internally and an re.error will be raised if the compilation of a given regexp fails.

If a match violates (in this case overlaps) a token span, an exception is raised.

Parameters:: mapping (Union[List[Tuple[str, str]], Tuple[str, str]]) – A list of tuples or a single tuple representing a mapping as regexp -> label

property registered_labels#

register_labels(mapping)View on GitHub #

Parameters:: mapping (Union[List[Tuple[str, str]], Tuple[str, str]]) – A list of tuples or a single tuple representing a mapping as regexp -> label

remove_labels(labels)View on GitHub #

Remove a registered regexp -> label mapping given by label.

Parameters:: labels (Union[List[str], str]) – A list of labels or a single label as strings.

predict(sentences)View on GitHub #

Predict the given sentences according to the registered mappings.

Return type:: List[Sentence]

_label(sentence)View on GitHub #

This will add a complex_label to the given sentence for every match.span() for every registered_mapping.

If a match span overlaps with a token span an exception is raised.

class flair.models.SequenceTagger(embeddings, tag_dictionary, tag_type, use_rnn=True, rnn=None, rnn_type='LSTM', tag_format='BIOES', hidden_size=256, rnn_layers=1, bidirectional=True, use_crf=True, reproject_embeddings=True, dropout=0.0, word_dropout=0.05, locked_dropout=0.5, train_initial_hidden_state=False, loss_weights=None, init_from_state_dict=False, allow_unk_predictions=False)View on GitHub #

Bases: Classifier[Sentence]

__init__(embeddings, tag_dictionary, tag_type, use_rnn=True, rnn=None, rnn_type='LSTM', tag_format='BIOES', hidden_size=256, rnn_layers=1, bidirectional=True, use_crf=True, reproject_embeddings=True, dropout=0.0, word_dropout=0.05, locked_dropout=0.5, train_initial_hidden_state=False, loss_weights=None, init_from_state_dict=False, allow_unk_predictions=False)View on GitHub #

Sequence Tagger class for predicting labels for single tokens. Can be parameterized by several attributes.

In case of multitask learning, pass shared embeddings or shared rnn into respective attributes.

Parameters:

embeddings (TokenEmbeddings) – Embeddings to use during training and prediction
tag_dictionary (Dictionary) – Dictionary containing all tags from corpus which can be predicted
tag_type (str) – type of tag which is going to be predicted in case a corpus has multiple annotations
use_rnn (bool) – If true, use a RNN, else Linear layer.
rnn (Optional[RNN]) – Takes a torch.nn.Module as parameter by which you can pass a shared RNN between different tasks.
rnn_type (str) – Specifies the RNN type to use, default is ‘LSTM’, can choose between ‘GRU’ and ‘RNN’ as well.
hidden_size (int) – Hidden size of RNN layer
rnn_layers (int) – number of RNN layers
bidirectional (bool) – If True, RNN becomes bidirectional
use_crf (bool) – If True, use a Conditional Random Field for prediction, else linear map to tag space.
reproject_embeddings (bool) – If True, add a linear layer on top of embeddings, if you want to imitate fine tune non-trainable embeddings.
dropout (float) – If > 0, then use dropout.
word_dropout (float) – If > 0, then use word dropout.
locked_dropout (float) – If > 0, then use locked dropout.
train_initial_hidden_state (bool) – if True, trains initial hidden state of RNN
loss_weights (Optional[Dict[str, float]]) – Dictionary of weights for labels for the loss function. If any label’s weight is unspecified it will default to 1.0.
init_from_state_dict (bool) – Indicator whether we are loading a model from state dict since we need to transform previous models’ weights into CRF instance weights
allow_unk_predictions (bool) – If True, allows spans to predict <unk> too.
tag_format (str) – the format to encode spans as tags, either “BIO” or “BIOES”

property label_type#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

_init_loss_weights(loss_weights)View on GitHub #

Initializes the loss weights based on given dictionary.

Parameters:: loss_weights (Dict[str, float]) – dictionary - contains loss weights
Return type:: Tensor

_init_initial_hidden_state(num_directions)View on GitHub #

Initializes hidden states given the number of directions in RNN.

Parameters:: num_directions (int) – Number of directions in RNN.

static RNN(rnn_type, rnn_layers, hidden_size, bidirectional, rnn_input_dim)View on GitHub #

Static wrapper function returning an RNN instance from PyTorch.

Parameters:

rnn_type (str) – Type of RNN from torch.nn
rnn_layers (int) – number of layers to include
hidden_size (int) – hidden size of RNN cell
bidirectional (bool) – If True, RNN cell is bidirectional
rnn_input_dim (int) – Input dimension to RNN cell

Return type:

RNN

forward_loss(sentences)View on GitHub #

Performs a forward pass and returns a loss tensor for backpropagation.

Implement this to enable training.

Return type:: Tuple[Tensor, int]

forward(sentence_tensor, lengths)View on GitHub #

Forward propagation through network.

Parameters:

sentence_tensor (Tensor) – A tensor representing the batch of sentences.
lengths (LongTensor) – A IntTensor representing the lengths of the respective sentences.

static _get_scores_from_features(features, lengths)View on GitHub #

Remove paddings to get a smaller tensor.

Trims current batch tensor in shape (batch size, sequence length, tagset size) in such a way that all pads are going to be removed.

Parameters:

features (Tensor) – all features from forward propagation
lengths (Tensor) – length from each sentence in batch in order to trim padding tokens

_get_gold_labels(sentences)View on GitHub #

Extracts gold labels from each sentence.

Parameters:: sentences (List[Sentence]) – List of sentences in batch
Return type:: List[str]

predict(sentences, mini_batch_size=32, return_probabilities_for_all_classes=False, verbose=False, label_name=None, return_loss=False, embedding_storage_mode='none', force_token_predictions=False)View on GitHub #

Predicts labels for current batch with CRF or Softmax.

Parameters:

sentences (Union[List[Sentence], Sentence]) – List of sentences in batch
mini_batch_size (int) – batch size for test data
return_probabilities_for_all_classes (bool) – Whether to return probabilities for all classes
verbose (bool) – whether to use progress bar
label_name (Optional[str]) – which label to predict
return_loss – whether to return loss value
embedding_storage_mode – determines where to store embeddings - can be “gpu”, “cpu” or None.
force_token_predictions (bool) – add labels per token instead of span labels, even if self.predict_spans is True

_standard_inference(features, batch, probabilities_for_all_classes)View on GitHub #

Softmax over emission scores from forward propagation.

Parameters:

features (Tensor) – sentence tensor from forward propagation
batch (List[Sentence]) – sentences
probabilities_for_all_classes (bool) – whether to return score for each tag in tag dictionary

_all_scores_for_token(sentences, score_tensor, lengths)View on GitHub #: Returns all scores for each tag in tag dictionary.

_get_state_dict()View on GitHub #: Returns the state dictionary for this model.

push_to_hub(repo_id, token=None, private=None, commit_message='Add new SequenceTagger model.')View on GitHub #

Uploads the Sequence Tagger model to a Hugging Face Hub repository.

Parameters:

repo_id (str) – A namespace (user or an organization) and a repo name separated by a /.
token (Optional[str]) – An authentication token (See https://huggingface.co/settings/token).
private (Optional[bool]) – Whether the repository is private.
commit_message (str) – Message to commit while pushing.

Returns: The url of the repository.

classmethod load(model_path)View on GitHub #

Loads the model from the given file.

Parameters:: model_path (Union[str, Path, Dict[str, Any]]) – the model file or the already loaded state dict
Return type:: SequenceTagger

Returns: the loaded text classifier model

class flair.models.PrefixedSequenceTagger(*args, augmentation_strategy, **kwargs)View on GitHub #

Bases: SequenceTagger

classmethod load(model_path)View on GitHub #

Loads the model from the given file.

Parameters:: model_path (Union[str, Path, Dict[str, Any]]) – the model file or the already loaded state dict
Return type:: PrefixedSequenceTagger

Returns: the loaded text classifier model

forward_loss(sentences)View on GitHub #

Performs a forward pass and returns a loss tensor for backpropagation.

Implement this to enable training.

Return type:: Tuple[Tensor, int]

Predicts labels for current batch with CRF or Softmax.

Parameters:

sentences (Union[List[Sentence], Sentence, List[PrefixedSentence], PrefixedSentence]) – List of sentences in batch
mini_batch_size (int) – batch size for test data
return_probabilities_for_all_classes (bool) – Whether to return probabilities for all classes
verbose (bool) – whether to use progress bar
label_name (Optional[str]) – which label to predict
return_loss – whether to return loss value
embedding_storage_mode – determines where to store embeddings - can be “gpu”, “cpu” or None.
force_token_predictions (bool) – add labels per token instead of span labels, even if self.predict_spans is True

augment_sentences(sentences, annotation_layers=None)View on GitHub #

Return type:: List[PrefixedSentence]

class flair.models.TokenClassifier(embeddings, label_dictionary, label_type, span_encoding='BIOES', **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Bases: DefaultClassifier[Sentence, Token]

This is a simple class of models that tags individual words in text.

__init__(embeddings, label_dictionary, label_type, span_encoding='BIOES', **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Initializes a TokenClassifier.

Parameters:

embeddings (TokenEmbeddings) – word embeddings used in tagger
label_dictionary (Dictionary) – dictionary of labels or BIO/BIOES tags you want to predict
label_type (str) – string identifier for tag type
span_encoding (str) – the format to encode spans as tags, either “BIO” or “BIOES”
**classifierargs – The arguments propagated to flair.nn.DefaultClassifier.__init__()

property label_type#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

classmethod load(model_path)View on GitHub #

Loads the model from the given file.

Parameters:: model_path (Union[str, Path, Dict[str, Any]]) – the model file or the already loaded state dict
Return type:: TokenClassifier

Returns: the loaded text classifier model

class flair.models.WordTagger(embeddings, label_dictionary, label_type, span_encoding='BIOES', **classifierargs)View on GitHub #: Bases: TokenClassifier

Deprecated since version 0.12.2: The WordTagger was renamed to flair.models.TokenClassifier.

class flair.models.FewshotClassifierView on GitHub #

Bases: Classifier[Sentence], ABC

forward_loss(data_points)View on GitHub #

Performs a forward pass and returns a loss tensor for backpropagation.

Implement this to enable training.

Return type:: Tuple[Tensor, int]

property tars_embeddings#

train(mode=True)View on GitHub #

Populate label similarity map based on cosine similarity before running epoch.

If the num_negative_labels_to_sample is set to an integer value then before starting each epoch the model would create a similarity measure between the label names based on cosine distances between their BERT encoded embeddings.

_compute_label_similarity_for_current_epoch()View on GitHub #: Compute the similarity between all labels for better sampling of negatives.

get_current_label_dictionary()View on GitHub #

get_current_label_type()View on GitHub #

is_current_task_multi_label()View on GitHub #

add_and_switch_to_new_task(task_name, label_dictionary, label_type, multi_label=True, force_switch=False)View on GitHub #

Adds a new task to an existing TARS model.

Sets necessary attributes and finally ‘switches’ to the new task. Parameters are similar to the constructor except for model choice, batch size and negative sampling. This method does not store the resultant model onto disk.

Parameters:

task_name (str) – a string depicting the name of the task
label_dictionary (Union[List, Set, Dictionary, str]) – dictionary of the labels you want to predict
label_type (str) – string to identify the label type (‘ner’, ‘sentiment’, etc.)
multi_label (bool) – whether this task is a multi-label prediction problem
force_switch (bool) – if True, will overwrite existing task with same name

list_existing_tasks()View on GitHub #

Lists existing tasks in the loaded TARS model on the console.

Return type:: Set[str]

switch_to_task(task_name)View on GitHub #: Switches to a task which was previously added.

property label_type#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

predict_zero_shot(sentences, candidate_label_set, multi_label=True)View on GitHub #

Make zero shot predictions from the TARS model.

Parameters:

sentences (Union[List[Sentence], Sentence]) – input sentence objects to classify
candidate_label_set (Union[List[str], Set[str], str]) – set of candidate labels
multi_label (bool) – indicates whether multi-label or single class prediction. Defaults to True.

get_used_tokens(corpus, context_length=0, respect_document_boundaries=True)View on GitHub #

Return type:: Iterable[List[str]]

classmethod load(model_path)View on GitHub #

Loads the model from the given file.

Parameters:: model_path (Union[str, Path, Dict[str, Any]]) – the model file or the already loaded state dict
Return type:: FewshotClassifier

Returns: the loaded text classifier model

class flair.models.TARSClassifier(task_name=None, label_dictionary=None, label_type=None, embeddings='bert-base-uncased', num_negative_labels_to_sample=2, prefix=True, **tagger_args)View on GitHub #

Bases: FewshotClassifier

TARS model for text classification.

In the backend, the model uses a BERT based binary text classifier which given a <label, text> pair predicts the probability of two classes “True”, and “False”. The input data is a usual Sentence object which is inflated by the model internally before pushing it through the transformer stack of BERT.

static_label_type = 'tars_label'#

LABEL_MATCH = 'YES'#

LABEL_NO_MATCH = 'NO'#

__init__(task_name=None, label_dictionary=None, label_type=None, embeddings='bert-base-uncased', num_negative_labels_to_sample=2, prefix=True, **tagger_args)View on GitHub #

Initializes a TarsClassifier.

Parameters:

task_name (Optional[str]) – a string depicting the name of the task.
label_dictionary (Optional[Dictionary]) – dictionary of labels you want to predict.
label_type (Optional[str]) – label_type: name of the label
embeddings (Union[TransformerDocumentEmbeddings, str]) – name of the pre-trained transformer model e.g., ‘bert-base-uncased’.
num_negative_labels_to_sample (Optional[int]) – number of negative labels to sample for each positive labels against a sentence during training. Defaults to 2 negative labels for each positive label. The model would sample all the negative labels if None is passed. That slows down the training considerably.
multi_label – auto-detected by default, but you can set this to True to force multi-label predictions or False to force single-label predictions.
multi_label_threshold – If multi-label you can set the threshold to make predictions.
beta – Parameter for F-beta score for evaluation and training annealing.
prefix (bool) – if True, the label will be concatenated at the start, else on the end.
**tagger_args – The arguments propagated to FewshotClassifier.__init__()

property tars_embeddings#

Predict sentences on the Text Classification task.

Parameters:

return_probabilities_for_all_classes (bool) – if True, all classes will be added with their respective confidences.
sentences (Union[List[Sentence], Sentence]) – a Sentence or a List of Sentence
force_label (bool) – when multilabel is active, you can force to always get at least one prediction.
multi_label (Optional[bool]) – if True multiple labels can be predicted. Defaults to the setting of the configured task.
label_threshold (float) – when multi_label, specify the threshold when a class is considered as predicted.
mini_batch_size – size of the minibatch, usually bigger is more rapid but consume more memory, up to a point when it has no more effect.
all_tag_prob – True to compute the score for each tag on each token, otherwise only the score of the best tag is returned
verbose (bool) – set to True to display a progress bar
return_loss – set to True to also compute the loss
label_name (Optional[str]) – set this to change the name of the label type that is predicted
embedding_storage_mode – default is ‘none’ which doesn’t store the embeddings in RAM. Only set to ‘cpu’ or ‘gpu’ if you wish to not only predict, but also keep the generated embeddings in CPU or GPU memory respectively. ‘gpu’ to store embeddings in GPU memory.

classmethod load(model_path)View on GitHub #

Loads the model from the given file.

Parameters:: model_path (Union[str, Path, Dict[str, Any]]) – the model file or the already loaded state dict
Return type:: TARSClassifier

Returns: the loaded text classifier model

class flair.models.TARSTagger(task_name=None, label_dictionary=None, label_type=None, embeddings='bert-base-uncased', num_negative_labels_to_sample=2, prefix=True, **tagger_args)View on GitHub #

Bases: FewshotClassifier

TARS model for sequence tagging.

In the backend, the model uses a BERT based 5-class sequence labeler which given a <label, text> pair predicts the probability for each word to belong to one of the BIOES classes. The input data is a usual Sentence object which is inflated by the model internally before pushing it through the transformer stack of BERT.

static_label_type = 'tars_label'#

__init__(task_name=None, label_dictionary=None, label_type=None, embeddings='bert-base-uncased', num_negative_labels_to_sample=2, prefix=True, **tagger_args)View on GitHub #

Initializes a TarsTagger.

Parameters:

task_name (Optional[str]) – a string depicting the name of the task
label_dictionary (Optional[Dictionary]) – dictionary of labels you want to predict
label_type (Optional[str]) – label_type: name of the label
embeddings (Union[TransformerWordEmbeddings, str]) – name of the pre-trained transformer model e.g., ‘bert-base-uncased’
num_negative_labels_to_sample (Optional[int]) – number of negative labels to sample for each positive labels against a sentence during training. Defaults to 2 negative labels for each positive label. The model would sample all the negative labels if None is passed. That slows down the training considerably.
prefix (bool) – if True, the label will be concatenated at the start, else on the end.
**tagger_args – The arguments propagated to FewshotClassifier.__init__()

property tars_embeddings#

Predict sequence tags for Named Entity Recognition task.

Parameters:

sentences (Union[List[Sentence], Sentence]) – a Sentence or a List of Sentence
mini_batch_size – size of the minibatch, usually bigger is more rapid but consume more memory, up to a point when it has no more effect.
all_tag_prob – True to compute the score for each tag on each token, otherwise only the score of the best tag is returned
verbose (bool) – set to True to display a progress bar
return_loss – set to True to also compute the loss
label_name (Optional[str]) – set this to change the name of the label type that is predicted
embedding_storage_mode – default is ‘none’ which doesn’t store the embeddings in RAM. Only set to ‘cpu’ or ‘gpu’ if you wish to not only predict, but also keep the generated embeddings in CPU or GPU memory respectively. ‘gpu’ to store embeddings in GPU memory.
return_probabilities_for_all_classes (bool) – if True, all classes will be added with their respective confidences.
most_probable_first (bool) – if True, nested predictions will be removed, if False all predictions will be returned, including overlaps

classmethod load(model_path)View on GitHub #

Loads the model from the given file.

Parameters:: model_path (Union[str, Path, Dict[str, Any]]) – the model file or the already loaded state dict
Return type:: TARSTagger

Returns: the loaded text classifier model

class flair.models.TextClassifier(embeddings, label_type, **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Bases: DefaultClassifier[Sentence, Sentence]

Text Classification Model.

The model takes word embeddings, puts them into an RNN to obtain a text representation, and puts the text representation in the end into a linear layer to get the actual class label. The model can handle single and multi class data sets.

__init__(embeddings, label_type, **classifierargs)View on GitHub #

Initializes a TextClassifier.

Parameters:

embeddings (DocumentEmbeddings) – embeddings used to embed each data point
label_dictionary – dictionary of labels you want to predict
label_type (str) – string identifier for tag type
multi_label – auto-detected by default, but you can set this to True to force multi-label predictions or False to force single-label predictions.
multi_label_threshold – If multi-label you can set the threshold to make predictions
beta – Parameter for F-beta score for evaluation and training annealing
loss_weights – Dictionary of weights for labels for the loss function. If any label’s weight is unspecified it will default to 1.0
**classifierargs – The arguments propagated to flair.nn.DefaultClassifier.__init__()

property label_type#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

classmethod load(model_path)View on GitHub #

Loads the model from the given file.

Parameters:: model_path (Union[str, Path, Dict[str, Any]]) – the model file or the already loaded state dict
Return type:: TextClassifier

Returns: the loaded text classifier model

class flair.models.TextRegressor(document_embeddings, label_name='label')View on GitHub #

Bases: Model[Sentence], ReduceTransformerVocabMixin

property label_type#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

forward(*args)View on GitHub #

Define the computation performed at every call.

Should be overridden by all subclasses. :rtype: Tensor

Note

forward_loss(sentences)View on GitHub #

Performs a forward pass and returns a loss tensor for backpropagation.

Implement this to enable training.

Return type:: Tuple[Tensor, int]

predict(sentences, mini_batch_size=32, verbose=False, label_name=None, embedding_storage_mode='none')View on GitHub #

Return type:: List[Sentence]

forward_labels_and_loss(sentences)View on GitHub #

Return type:: Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]

Evaluates the model. Returns a Result object containing evaluation results and a loss value.

Implement this to enable evaluation.

Parameters:

data_points (Union[List[Sentence], Dataset]) – The labeled data_points to evaluate.
gold_label_type (str) – The label type indicating the gold labels
out_path (Union[str, Path, None]) – Optional output path to store predictions
embedding_storage_mode (str) – One of ‘none’, ‘cpu’ or ‘gpu’. ‘none’ means all embeddings are deleted and freshly recomputed, ‘cpu’ means all embeddings are stored on CPU, or ‘gpu’ means all embeddings are stored on GPU
mini_batch_size (int) – The batch_size to use for predictions
main_evaluation_metric (Tuple[str, str]) – Specify which metric to highlight as main_score
exclude_labels (List[str]) – Specify classes that won’t be considered in evaluation
gold_label_dictionary (Optional[Dictionary]) – Specify which classes should be considered, all other classes will be taken as <unk>.
return_loss (bool) – Weather to additionally compute the loss on the data-points.
**kwargs – Arguments that will be ignored.

Return type:

Result

Returns:

The evaluation results.

classmethod load(model_path)View on GitHub #

Loads the model from the given file.

Parameters:: model_path (Union[str, Path, Dict[str, Any]]) – the model file or the already loaded state dict
Return type:: TextRegressor

Returns: the loaded text classifier model

get_used_tokens(corpus, context_length=0, respect_document_boundaries=True)View on GitHub #

Return type:: Iterable[List[str]]

class flair.models.ClusteringModel(model, embeddings)View on GitHub #

Bases: object

A wrapper class to apply sklearn clustering models on DocumentEmbeddings.

__init__(model, embeddings)View on GitHub #

Instantiate the ClusteringModel.

Parameters:

model (Union[ClusterMixin, BaseEstimator]) – the clustering algorithm from sklearn this wrapper will use.
embeddings (DocumentEmbeddings) – the flair DocumentEmbedding this wrapper uses to calculate a vector for each sentence.

fit(corpus, **kwargs)View on GitHub #

Trains the model.

Parameters:

corpus (Corpus) – the flair corpus this wrapper will use for fitting the model.
**kwargs – parameters propagated to the models .fit() method.

predict(corpus)View on GitHub #

Predict labels given a list of sentences and returns the respective class indices.

Parameters:: corpus (Corpus) – the flair corpus this wrapper will use for predicting the labels.

save(model_file)View on GitHub #

Saves current model.

Parameters:: model_file (Union[str, Path]) – path where to save the model.

static load(model_file)View on GitHub #

Loads a model from a given path.

Parameters:: model_file (Union[str, Path]) – path to the file where the model is saved.

_convert_dataset(corpus, label_type=None, batch_size=32, return_label_dict=False)View on GitHub #

Makes a flair-corpus sklearn compatible.

Turns the corpora into X, y datasets as required for most sklearn clustering models. Ref.: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/classes.html#module-sklearn.cluster

evaluate(corpus, label_type)View on GitHub #

This method calculates some evaluation metrics for the clustering.

Also, the result of the evaluation is logged.

Parameters:

corpus (Corpus) – the flair corpus this wrapper will use for evaluation.
label_type (str) – the label from the sentence will be used for the evaluation.

class flair.models.MultitaskModel(models, task_ids=None, loss_factors=None, use_all_tasks=False)View on GitHub #

Bases: Classifier

Multitask Model class which acts as wrapper for creating custom multitask models.

Takes different tasks as input, parameter sharing is done by objects in flair, i.e. creating a Embedding Layer and passing it to two different Models, will result in a hard parameter-shared embedding layer. The abstract class takes care of calling the correct forward propagation and loss function of the respective model.

__init__(models, task_ids=None, loss_factors=None, use_all_tasks=False)View on GitHub #

Instantiates the MultiTaskModel.

Parameters:

models (List[Classifier]) – The child models used during multitask training.
task_ids (Optional[List[str]]) – If given, add each corresponding model a specified task id. Otherwise, tasks get the ids ‘Task_0’, ‘Task_1’, …
loss_factors (Optional[List[float]]) – If given, weight the losses of teh corresponding models during training.
use_all_tasks (bool) – If True, each sentence will be trained on all tasks parallel, otherwise each epoch 1 task will be sampled to train the sentence on.

forward(*args)View on GitHub #

Define the computation performed at every call.

Should be overridden by all subclasses. :rtype: Tensor

Note

forward_loss(sentences)View on GitHub #

Calls the respective forward loss of each model and sums them weighted by their loss factors.

Parameters:: sentences (Union[List[Sentence], Sentence]) – batch of sentences
Return type:: Tuple[Tensor, int]

Returns: loss and sample count

predict(sentences, **predictargs)View on GitHub #

Predicts the class labels for the given sentences.

The labels are directly added to the sentences.

Parameters:

sentences – list of sentences
mini_batch_size – mini batch size to use
return_probabilities_for_all_classes – return probabilities for all classes instead of only best predicted
verbose – set to True to display a progress bar
return_loss – set to True to return loss
label_name – set this to change the name of the label type that is predicted # noqa: E501
embedding_storage_mode – default is ‘none’ which is always best. Only set to ‘cpu’ or ‘gpu’ if you wish to not only predict, but also keep the generated embeddings in CPU or GPU memory respectively. ‘gpu’ to store embeddings in GPU memory. # noqa: E501

static split_batch_to_task_ids(sentences, all_tasks=False)View on GitHub #

Splits a batch of sentences to its respective model.

If single sentence is assigned to several tasks (i.e. same corpus but different tasks), then the model assignment for this batch is randomly chosen.

Parameters:

sentences (Union[List[Sentence], Sentence]) – batch of sentences
all_tasks (bool) – use all tasks of each sentence. If deactivated, a random task will be sampled

Return type:

Dict

Returns: Key-value pairs as (task_id, list of sentences ids in batch)

evaluate(data_points, gold_label_type, out_path=None, main_evaluation_metric=('micro avg', 'f1-score'), evaluate_all=True, **evalargs)View on GitHub #

Evaluates the model. Returns a Result object containing evaluation results and a loss value.

Parameters:

data_points – batch of sentences
gold_label_type (str) – if evaluate_all is False, specify the task to evaluate by the task_id.
out_path (Union[str, Path, None]) – if not None, predictions will be created and saved at the respective file.
main_evaluation_metric (Tuple[str, str]) – Specify which metric to highlight as main_score
evaluate_all (bool) – choose if all tasks should be evaluated, or a single one, depending on gold_label_type
**evalargs – arguments propagated to flair.nn.Model.evaluate()

Return type:

Result

Returns: Tuple of Result object and loss value (float)

get_used_tokens(corpus, context_length=0, respect_document_boundaries=True)View on GitHub #

Return type:: Iterable[List[str]]

_get_state_dict()View on GitHub #: Returns the state dict of the multitask model which has multiple models underneath.

classmethod _init_model_with_state_dict(state, **kwargs)View on GitHub #: Initializes the model based on given state dict.

property label_type#: Each model predicts labels of a certain type.

classmethod load(model_path)View on GitHub #

Loads the model from the given file.

Parameters:: model_path (Union[str, Path, Dict[str, Any]]) – the model file or the already loaded state dict
Return type:: MultitaskModel

Returns: the loaded text classifier model

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