No documentation on how use nllb

[Suhail]

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Hey there,

I am trying to play with nllb but there isn't a basic code sample to try it.

I can download the checkpoint.pt but I am not sure what I would do afterwards.

I notice it's also not available on torch.hub

Can you provide a piece of example code to get a translation?

[huihuifan]

hi, could you take a look at the generation command example here? https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/nllb/examples/nllb/modeling thanks!

[Suhail]

hi, could you take a look at the generation command example here? https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/nllb/examples/nllb/modeling thanks!

Hi, I took a look at the README and I see notes about training but I didn't see how one might do inference to get a translation.

In other situations I see you'll use torch.hub, load it, and call translate(). Is there something similar?

Maybe I missed something?

[huihuifan]

Can you control-f "Generation/Evaluation" in the readme I linked?

We'll look into torch.hub :)

[Suhail]

Can you control-f "Generation/Evaluation" in the readme I linked?

We'll look into torch.hub :)

It's probably not hard to find but this link is broken in that section: https://github.com/facebookresearch/flores/flores200

At least for me, I found that header a little difficult to grok. I think if it were called "Get a translation" or something, it'd be more plain spoken I suppose?

Anyway, I'll try to follow the instructions!

[nicholas-entis]

@Suhail Did you manage to get an example working?

[Suhail]

@Suhail Did you manage to get an example working?

No - I decided to give up for now until someone makes something more accessible.

[314esther]

I agree. There needs to be an easy way to try out the translation feature given the checkpoint. I would like to see something of this nature: m = load_model(checkpoint_path) m.translate("Hello World", 'en', 'de') Hallo Welt

[314esther]

In addition there are hard coded paths for data files that aren't documented. For instance: "/data/nllb/nllb/flores200.en_xx_en.v4.4.256k/data_bin/shard000/dict.ace_Arab.txt" I and other users likely don't have these files (or I couldn't find them).

Please add some more accessible documentation or a simple example. There will also be a learning curve for some in using Hydra and setting up the config files - additional support or pointers will be useful to users who aren't experienced with this setup.

[pluiez]

@314esther @Suhail Hi, You can check here for a convenient script to run the model inference from the command line without having to dealing with the config files.

[314esther]

Thanks pluiez! This gives much greater beginner usability of the inference capability. I know Hydra is a very capable tool especially when training over many gpus, however it's only familiar to a handful of people and the config files can really add a barrier to entry. There was one modification that I had to make to the fairseq code (nllb branch) in order to run the shell script. I needed to add a command line interface for spm_encode in the setup.py. Leaving an issue on NLLB_inference repo with more details (https://github.com/pluiez/NLLB-inference/issues/1).

[pluiez]

Hi, sorry I didn't take this into consideration. I'm assuming these tools are all pre-installed. I will list the required steps before running the script.

[amrrs]

Thanks @pluiez for your repo. I've made a video based on it giving code credits to you.

[pluiez]

@amrrs Thank you for your sharing. Actually I hard-coded the language passed to normalize_punctuation.sh in translate.sh as zho_Hans. Although many languages share English(en) normalization under the hood, Tamil uses Hindi(hi). This has been fixed and you might want to checkout the latest version.

[amrrs]

Oh my bad I didn't notice, Thank you for sharing it @pluiez I'll check out the code

[geonm]

Hi guys. I tested NLLB using huggingface transformers.

NOTE: You should install the latest dev version using below instruction in order to use NLLB tokenizer.

$ pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git

then... test it!

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM, pipeline

# available models: 'facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M', 'facebook/nllb-200-1.3B', 'facebook/nllb-200-distilled-1.3B', 'facebook/nllb-200-3.3B'
model_name = 'facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M'

model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(model_name)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)

source = 'eng_Latn' # English
target = 'kor_Hang' # Korean
translator = pipeline('translation', model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer, src_lang=source, tgt_lang=target)

text = 'Hi, nice to meet you'

output = translator(text, max_length=400)

translated_text = output[0]['translation_text']

print(translated_text) # '안녕하세요, 반가워요'

Language code is described in FLORES-200

Update: I made the huggingface space demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Geonmo/nllb-translation-demo

[Python-37]

Hi, I am trying to train a NLLB model, but I still didn't find any doc about how to get the data_bin or data_conf yet, don't know how to format the train dataset, could you please share your training steps? Could you please list some more detailed explanations about https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/nllb/examples/nllb/modeling#filtering-and-preparing-the-data

[gordicaleksa]

@Suhail in case it's still of any use I made a short tutorial on how to run this directly in fairseq: https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/issues/5292

:)

[qaixerabbas]

hi @geonm thank you for the available model list.

# available models: 'facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M', 'facebook/nllb-200-1.3B', 'facebook/nllb-200-distilled-1.3B', 'facebook/nllb-200-3.3B'

Can you please where did you get this information? I mean names of these models. I was looking to try different models but could not find this information.