# Fine-tuning BART on CNN-Dailymail summarization task ### 1) Download the CNN and Daily Mail data and preprocess it into data files with non-tokenized cased samples. Follow the instructions [here](https://github.com/abisee/cnn-dailymail) to download the original CNN and Daily Mail datasets. To preprocess the data, refer to the pointers in [this issue](https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/issues/1391) or check out the code [here](https://github.com/artmatsak/cnn-dailymail). Follow the instructions [here](https://github.com/EdinburghNLP/XSum) to download the original Extreme Summarization datasets, or check out the code [here](https://github.com/EdinburghNLP/XSum/tree/master/XSum-Dataset), Please keep the raw dataset and make sure no tokenization nor BPE on the dataset. ### 2) BPE preprocess: ```bash wget -N 'https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/gpt2_bpe/encoder.json' wget -N 'https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/gpt2_bpe/vocab.bpe' wget -N 'https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/gpt2_bpe/dict.txt' TASK=cnn_dm for SPLIT in train val do for LANG in source target do python -m examples.roberta.multiprocessing_bpe_encoder \ --encoder-json encoder.json \ --vocab-bpe vocab.bpe \ --inputs "$TASK/$SPLIT.$LANG" \ --outputs "$TASK/$SPLIT.bpe.$LANG" \ --workers 60 \ --keep-empty; done done ``` ### 3) Binarize dataset: ```bash fairseq-preprocess \ --source-lang "source" \ --target-lang "target" \ --trainpref "${TASK}/train.bpe" \ --validpref "${TASK}/val.bpe" \ --destdir "${TASK}-bin/" \ --workers 60 \ --srcdict dict.txt \ --tgtdict dict.txt; ``` ### 4) Fine-tuning on CNN-DM summarization task: Example fine-tuning CNN-DM ```bash TOTAL_NUM_UPDATES=20000 WARMUP_UPDATES=500 LR=3e-05 MAX_TOKENS=2048 UPDATE_FREQ=4 BART_PATH=/path/to/bart/model.pt CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 fairseq-train cnn_dm-bin \ --restore-file $BART_PATH \ --max-tokens $MAX_TOKENS \ --task translation \ --source-lang source --target-lang target \ --truncate-source \ --layernorm-embedding \ --share-all-embeddings \ --share-decoder-input-output-embed \ --reset-optimizer --reset-dataloader --reset-meters \ --required-batch-size-multiple 1 \ --arch bart_large \ --criterion label_smoothed_cross_entropy \ --label-smoothing 0.1 \ --dropout 0.1 --attention-dropout 0.1 \ --weight-decay 0.01 --optimizer adam --adam-betas "(0.9, 0.999)" --adam-eps 1e-08 \ --clip-norm 0.1 \ --lr-scheduler polynomial_decay --lr $LR --total-num-update $TOTAL_NUM_UPDATES --warmup-updates $WARMUP_UPDATES \ --fp16 --update-freq $UPDATE_FREQ \ --skip-invalid-size-inputs-valid-test \ --find-unused-parameters; ``` Above is expected to run on `1` node with `8 32gb-V100`. Expected training time is about `5 hours`. Training time can be reduced with distributed training on `4` nodes and `--update-freq 1`. Use TOTAL_NUM_UPDATES=15000 UPDATE_FREQ=2 for Xsum task ### Inference for CNN-DM test data using above trained checkpoint. After training the model as mentioned in previous step, you can perform inference with checkpoints in `checkpoints/` directory using `eval_cnn.py`, for example ```bash cp data-bin/cnn_dm/dict.source.txt checkpoints/ python examples/bart/summarize.py \ --model-dir checkpoints \ --model-file checkpoint_best.pt \ --src cnn_dm/test.source \ --out cnn_dm/test.hypo ``` For XSUM, which uses beam=6, lenpen=1.0, max_len_b=60, min_len=10: ```bash cp data-bin/cnn_dm/dict.source.txt checkpoints/ python examples/bart/summarize.py \ --model-dir checkpoints \ --model-file checkpoint_best.pt \ --src cnn_dm/test.source \ --out cnn_dm/test.hypo \ --xsum-kwargs ```