add option of using full attention for streaming model decoding (#975)

egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless/decode.py

@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ Usage:
 
 import argparse
 import logging
+import math
 from collections import defaultdict
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
@@ -138,6 +139,8 @@ from icefall.utils import (
     write_error_stats,
 )
 
+LOG_EPS = math.log(1e-10)
+
 
 def get_parser():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
@@ -288,7 +291,7 @@ def get_parser():
         "--decode-chunk-size",
         type=int,
         default=16,
-        help="The chunk size for decoding (in frames after subsampling)",
+        help="The chunk size for decoding (in frames after subsampling). Set -1 to use full attention.",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--left-context",
@@ -370,6 +373,14 @@ def decode_one_batch(
     feature_lens = supervisions["num_frames"].to(device)
 
     if params.simulate_streaming:
+        if params.decode_chunk_size > 0:
+            # except the case of using full attention
+            feature_lens += params.left_context
+            feature = torch.nn.functional.pad(
+                feature,
+                pad=(0, 0, 0, params.left_context),
+                value=LOG_EPS,
+            )
         encoder_out, encoder_out_lens, _ = model.encoder.streaming_forward(
             x=feature,
             x_lens=feature_lens,

egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/conformer.py

@@ -375,6 +375,11 @@ class Conformer(EncoderInterface):
 
             assert x.size(0) == lengths.max().item()
 
+            if chunk_size < 0:
+                # use full attention
+                chunk_size = x.size(0)
+                left_context = -1
+
             num_left_chunks = -1
             if left_context >= 0:
                 assert left_context % chunk_size == 0

egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/decode.py

@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ def get_parser():
         "--decode-chunk-size",
         type=int,
         default=16,
-        help="The chunk size for decoding (in frames after subsampling)",
+        help="The chunk size for decoding (in frames after subsampling). Set -1 to use full attention.",
     )
 
     parser.add_argument(
@@ -378,6 +378,8 @@ def decode_one_batch(
     feature_lens = supervisions["num_frames"].to(device)
 
     if params.simulate_streaming:
+        if params.decode_chunk_size > 0:
+            # except the case of using full attention
             feature_lens += params.left_context
             feature = torch.nn.functional.pad(
                 feature,

egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless3/decode.py

@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ def get_parser():
         "--decode-chunk-size",
         type=int,
         default=16,
-        help="The chunk size for decoding (in frames after subsampling)",
+        help="The chunk size for decoding (in frames after subsampling). Set -1 to use full attention.",
     )
 
     parser.add_argument(
@@ -508,6 +508,8 @@ def decode_one_batch(
     feature_lens = supervisions["num_frames"].to(device)
 
     if params.simulate_streaming:
+        if params.decode_chunk_size > 0:
+            # except the case of using full attention
             feature_lens += params.left_context
             feature = torch.nn.functional.pad(
                 feature,

egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless4/decode.py

@@ -326,14 +326,14 @@ def get_parser():
         "--decode-chunk-size",
         type=int,
         default=16,
-        help="The chunk size for decoding (in frames after subsampling)",
+        help="The chunk size for decoding (in frames after subsampling). Set -1 to use full attention.",
     )
 
     parser.add_argument(
         "--left-context",
         type=int,
         default=64,
-        help="left context can be seen during decoding (in frames after subsampling)",  # noqa
+        help="""Left context can be seen during decoding (in frames after subsampling). """,  # noqa
     )
 
     parser.add_argument(
@@ -409,6 +409,8 @@ def decode_one_batch(
     feature_lens = supervisions["num_frames"].to(device)
 
     if params.simulate_streaming:
+        if params.decode_chunk_size > 0:
+            # except the case of using full attention
             feature_lens += params.left_context
             feature = torch.nn.functional.pad(
                 feature,

egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/decode.py

@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ def get_parser():
         "--decode-chunk-size",
         type=int,
         default=16,
-        help="The chunk size for decoding (in frames after subsampling)",
+        help="The chunk size for decoding (in frames after subsampling). Set -1 to use full attention.",
     )
 
     parser.add_argument(
@@ -470,6 +470,8 @@ def decode_one_batch(
     feature_lens = supervisions["num_frames"].to(device)
 
     if params.simulate_streaming:
+        if params.decode_chunk_size > 0:
+            # except the case of using full attention
             feature_lens += params.left_context
             feature = torch.nn.functional.pad(
                 feature,

egs/librispeech/ASR/transducer_stateless/conformer.py

@@ -358,6 +358,11 @@ class Conformer(Transformer):
 
             assert x.size(0) == lengths.max().item()
 
+            if chunk_size < 0:
+                # use full attention
+                chunk_size = x.size(0)
+                left_context = -1
+
             num_left_chunks = -1
             if left_context >= 0:
                 assert left_context % chunk_size == 0