Increase the size of the context in the RNN-T decoder. (#153)

.github/workflows/run-pretrained-transducer-stateless.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+# Copyright      2021  Fangjun Kuang (csukuangfj@gmail.com)
+
+# See ../../LICENSE for clarification regarding multiple authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+name: run-pre-trained-tranducer-stateless
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+    types: [labeled]
+
+jobs:
+  run_pre_trained_transducer_stateless:
+    if: github.event.label.name == 'ready' || github.event_name == 'push'
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-18.04]
+        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9]
+        torch: ["1.10.0"]
+        torchaudio: ["0.10.0"]
+        k2-version: ["1.9.dev20211101"]
+
+      fail-fast: false
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v1
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: |
+          python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip pytest
+          # numpy 1.20.x does not support python 3.6
+          pip install numpy==1.19
+          pip install torch==${{ matrix.torch }}+cpu torchaudio==${{ matrix.torchaudio }}+cpu -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torch_stable.html
+          pip install k2==${{ matrix.k2-version }}+cpu.torch${{ matrix.torch }} -f https://k2-fsa.org/nightly/
+
+          python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/lhotse-speech/lhotse
+          python3 -m pip install kaldifeat
+          # We are in ./icefall and there is a file: requirements.txt in it
+          pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+      - name: Install graphviz
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          python3 -m pip install -qq graphviz
+          sudo apt-get -qq install graphviz
+
+      - name: Download pre-trained model
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get -qq install git-lfs tree sox
+          cd egs/librispeech/ASR
+          mkdir tmp
+          cd tmp
+          git lfs install
+          git clone https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/icefall-asr-librispeech-transducer-stateless-bpe-500-2021-12-22
+          cd ..
+          tree tmp
+          soxi tmp/icefall-asr-librispeech-transducer-stateless-bpe-500-2021-12-22/test_wavs/*.wav
+          ls -lh tmp/icefall-asr-librispeech-transducer-stateless-bpe-500-2021-12-22/test_wavs/*.wav
+
+      - name: Run greedy search decoding
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          export PYTHONPATH=$PWD:PYTHONPATH
+          cd egs/librispeech/ASR
+          ./transducer_stateless/pretrained.py \
+            --method greedy_search \
+            --checkpoint ./tmp/icefall-asr-librispeech-transducer-stateless-bpe-500-2021-12-22/exp/pretrained.pt \
+            --bpe-model ./tmp/icefall-asr-librispeech-transducer-stateless-bpe-500-2021-12-22/data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model \
+            ./tmp/icefall-asr-librispeech-transducer-stateless-bpe-500-2021-12-22/test_wavs/1089-134686-0001.wav \
+            ./tmp/icefall-asr-librispeech-transducer-stateless-bpe-500-2021-12-22/test_wavs/1221-135766-0001.wav \
+            ./tmp/icefall-asr-librispeech-transducer-stateless-bpe-500-2021-12-22/test_wavs/1221-135766-0002.wav
+
+      - name: Run beam search decoding
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          export PYTHONPATH=$PWD:$PYTHONPATH
+          cd egs/librispeech/ASR
+          ./transducer_stateless/pretrained.py \
+            --method beam_search \
+            --beam-size 4 \
+            --checkpoint ./tmp/icefall-asr-librispeech-transducer-stateless-bpe-500-2021-12-22/exp/pretrained.pt \
+            --bpe-model ./tmp/icefall-asr-librispeech-transducer-stateless-bpe-500-2021-12-22/data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model \
+            ./tmp/icefall-asr-librispeech-transducer-stateless-bpe-500-2021-12-22/test_wavs/1089-134686-0001.wav \
+            ./tmp/icefall-asr-librispeech-transducer-stateless-bpe-500-2021-12-22/test_wavs/1221-135766-0001.wav \
+            ./tmp/icefall-asr-librispeech-transducer-stateless-bpe-500-2021-12-22/test_wavs/1221-135766-0002.wav

.github/workflows/run-pretrained.yml

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-18.04]
-        python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9]
+        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9]
         torch: ["1.10.0"]
         torchaudio: ["0.10.0"]
         k2-version: ["1.9.dev20211101"]

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
         # os: [ubuntu-18.04, macos-10.15]
         # disable macOS test for now.
         os: [ubuntu-18.04]
-        python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9]
+        python-version: [3.7, 3.8]
         torch: ["1.8.0", "1.10.0"]
         torchaudio: ["0.8.0", "0.10.0"]
         k2-version: ["1.9.dev20211101"]
@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@ jobs:
           if [[ ${{ matrix.torchaudio }} == "0.10.0" ]]; then
             cd ../transducer
             pytest -v -s
+
+            cd ../transducer_stateless
+            pytest -v -s
+
+            cd ../transducer_lstm
+            pytest -v -s
           fi
 
       - name: Run tests
@@ -125,4 +131,10 @@ jobs:
           if [[ ${{ matrix.torchaudio }} == "0.10.0" ]]; then
             cd ../transducer
             pytest -v -s
+
+            cd ../transducer_stateless
+            pytest -v -s
+
+            cd ../transducer_lstm
+            pytest -v -s
           fi

README.md

@@ -34,11 +34,12 @@ We do provide a Colab notebook for this recipe.
 
 ### LibriSpeech
 
-We provide 3 models for this recipe:
+We provide 4 models for this recipe:
 
 - [conformer CTC model][LibriSpeech_conformer_ctc]
 - [TDNN LSTM CTC model][LibriSpeech_tdnn_lstm_ctc]
-- [RNN-T Conformer model][LibriSpeech_transducer]
+- [Transducer: Conformer encoder + LSTM decoder][LibriSpeech_transducer]
+- [Transducer: Conformer encoder + Embedding decoder][LibriSpeech_transducer_stateless]
 
 #### Conformer CTC Model
 
@@ -62,9 +63,9 @@ The WER for this model is:
 We provide a Colab notebook to run a pre-trained TDNN LSTM CTC model:  [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1kNmDXNMwREi0rZGAOIAOJo93REBuOTcd?usp=sharing)
 
 
-#### RNN-T Conformer model
+#### Transducer: Conformer encoder + LSTM decoder
 
-Using Conformer as encoder.
+Using Conformer as encoder and LSTM as decoder.
 
 The best WER with greedy search is:
 
@@ -74,6 +75,21 @@ The best WER with greedy search is:
 
 We provide a Colab notebook to run a pre-trained RNN-T conformer model: [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1_u6yK9jDkPwG_NLrZMN2XK7Aeq4suMO2?usp=sharing)
 
+#### Transducer: Conformer encoder + Embedding decoder
+
+Using Conformer as encoder. The decoder consists of 1 embedding layer
+and 1 convolutional layer.
+
+The best WER using beam search with beam size 4 is:
+
+|     | test-clean | test-other |
+|-----|------------|------------|
+| WER | 2.92       | 7.37       |
+
+Note: No auxiliary losses are used in the training and no LMs are used
+in the decoding.
+
+We provide a Colab notebook to run a pre-trained transducer conformer + stateless decoder model: [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Lm37sNajIpkV4HTzMDF7sn9l0JpfmekN?usp=sharing)
 
 ### Aishell
 
@@ -143,6 +159,7 @@ Please see: [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-bad
 [LibriSpeech_tdnn_lstm_ctc]: egs/librispeech/ASR/tdnn_lstm_ctc
 [LibriSpeech_conformer_ctc]: egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc
 [LibriSpeech_transducer]: egs/librispeech/ASR/transducer
+[LibriSpeech_transducer_stateless]: egs/librispeech/ASR/transducer_stateless
 [Aishell_tdnn_lstm_ctc]: egs/aishell/ASR/tdnn_lstm_ctc
 [Aishell_conformer_ctc]: egs/aishell/ASR/conformer_ctc
 [TIMIT_tdnn_lstm_ctc]: egs/timit/ASR/tdnn_lstm_ctc

egs/librispeech/ASR/README.md

@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
 
+# Introduction
+
 Please refer to <https://icefall.readthedocs.io/en/latest/recipes/librispeech.html>
 for how to run models in this recipe.
+
+# Transducers
+
+There are various folders containing the name `transducer` in this folder.
+The following table lists the differences among them.
+
+|                        | Encoder   | Decoder            |
+|------------------------|-----------|--------------------|
+| `transducer`           | Conformer | LSTM               |
+| `transducer_stateless` | Conformer | Embedding + Conv1d |
+| `transducer_lstm     ` | LSTM      | LSTM               |
+
+The decoder in `transducer_stateless` is modified from the paper
+[Rnn-Transducer with Stateless Prediction Network](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9054419/).
+We place an additional Conv1d layer right after the input embedding layer.

egs/librispeech/ASR/RESULTS.md

@@ -1,10 +1,69 @@
 ## Results
 
-### LibriSpeech BPE training results (RNN-T)
+### LibriSpeech BPE training results (Transducer)
+
+#### 2021-12-22
+Conformer encoder + non-current decoder. The decoder
+contains only an embedding layer and a Conv1d (with kernel size 2).
+
+The WERs are
+
+|                           | test-clean | test-other | comment                                  |
+|---------------------------|------------|------------|------------------------------------------|
+| greedy search             | 2.99       | 7.52       | --epoch 20, --avg 10, --max-duration 100 |
+| beam search (beam size 2) | 2.95       | 7.43       |                                          |
+| beam search (beam size 3) | 2.94       | 7.37       |                                          |
+| beam search (beam size 4) | 2.92       | 7.37       |                                          |
+| beam search (beam size 5) | 2.93       | 7.38       |                                          |
+| beam search (beam size 8) | 2.92       | 7.38       |                                          |
+
+The training command for reproducing is given below:
+
+```
+export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0,1,2,3"
+
+./transducer_stateless/train.py \
+  --world-size 4 \
+  --num-epochs 30 \
+  --start-epoch 0 \
+  --exp-dir transducer_stateless/exp-full \
+  --full-libri 1 \
+  --max-duration 250 \
+  --lr-factor 3
+```
+
+The tensorboard training log can be found at
+<https://tensorboard.dev/experiment/PsJ3LgkEQfOmzedAlYfVeg/#scalars&_smoothingWeight=0>
+
+The decoding command is:
+```
+epoch=20
+avg=10
+
+## greedy search
+./transducer_stateless/decode.py \
+  --epoch $epoch \
+  --avg $avg \
+  --exp-dir transducer_stateless/exp-full \
+  --bpe-model ./data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model \
+  --max-duration 100
+
+## beam search
+./transducer_stateless/decode.py \
+  --epoch $epoch \
+  --avg $avg \
+  --exp-dir transducer_stateless/exp-full \
+  --bpe-model ./data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model \
+  --max-duration 100 \
+  --decoding-method beam_search \
+  --beam-size 4
+```
+
 
 #### 2021-12-17
+Using commit `cb04c8a7509425ab45fae888b0ca71bbbd23f0de`.
 
-RNN-T + Conformer encoder
+Conformer encoder + LSTM decoder.
 
 The best WER is
 
@@ -12,7 +71,7 @@ The best WER is
 |-----|------------|------------|
 | WER | 3.16       | 7.71       |
 
-using `--epoch 26 --avg 12` during decoding with greedy search.
+using `--epoch 26 --avg 12` with **greedy search**.
 
 The training command to reproduce the above WER is:
 

egs/librispeech/ASR/transducer/model.py

@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ from encoder_interface import EncoderInterface
 
 from icefall.utils import add_sos
 
-assert hasattr(torchaudio.functional, "rnnt_loss"), (
-    f"Current torchaudio version: {torchaudio.__version__}\n"
-    "Please install a version >= 0.10.0"
-)
-
 
 class Transducer(nn.Module):
     """It implements https://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.3711.pdf
@@ -115,6 +110,11 @@ class Transducer(nn.Module):
         # Note: y does not start with SOS
         y_padded = y.pad(mode="constant", padding_value=0)
 
+        assert hasattr(torchaudio.functional, "rnnt_loss"), (
+            f"Current torchaudio version: {torchaudio.__version__}\n"
+            "Please install a version >= 0.10.0"
+        )
+
         loss = torchaudio.functional.rnnt_loss(
             logits=logits,
             targets=y_padded,

egs/librispeech/ASR/transducer_lstm/model.py

@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ from encoder_interface import EncoderInterface
 
 from icefall.utils import add_sos
 
-assert hasattr(torchaudio.functional, "rnnt_loss"), (
-    f"Current torchaudio version: {torchaudio.__version__}\n"
-    "Please install a version >= 0.10.0"
-)
-
 
 class Transducer(nn.Module):
     """It implements https://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.3711.pdf
@@ -115,6 +110,11 @@ class Transducer(nn.Module):
         # Note: y does not start with SOS
         y_padded = y.pad(mode="constant", padding_value=0)
 
+        assert hasattr(torchaudio.functional, "rnnt_loss"), (
+            f"Current torchaudio version: {torchaudio.__version__}\n"
+            "Please install a version >= 0.10.0"
+        )
+
         loss = torchaudio.functional.rnnt_loss(
             logits=logits,
             targets=y_padded,

egs/librispeech/ASR/transducer_stateless/beam_search.py

@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 from dataclasses import dataclass
-from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional
 
+import numpy as np
 import torch
 from model import Transducer
 
@@ -35,21 +36,35 @@ def greedy_search(model: Transducer, encoder_out: torch.Tensor) -> List[int]:
 
     # support only batch_size == 1 for now
     assert encoder_out.size(0) == 1, encoder_out.size(0)
+
     blank_id = model.decoder.blank_id
+    context_size = model.decoder.context_size
+
     device = model.device
 
-    sos = torch.tensor([blank_id], device=device).reshape(1, 1)
+    decoder_input = torch.tensor(
-    decoder_out = model.decoder(sos)
+        [blank_id] * context_size, device=device
+    ).reshape(1, context_size)
+
+    decoder_out = model.decoder(decoder_input, need_pad=False)
+
     T = encoder_out.size(1)
     t = 0
-    hyp = []
+    hyp = [blank_id] * context_size
-
-    sym_per_frame = 0
-    sym_per_utt = 0
 
+    # Maximum symbols per utterance.
     max_sym_per_utt = 1000
+
+    # If at frame t, it decodes more than this number of symbols,
+    # it will move to the next step t+1
     max_sym_per_frame = 3
 
+    # symbols per frame
+    sym_per_frame = 0
+
+    # symbols per utterance decoded so far
+    sym_per_utt = 0
+
     while t < T and sym_per_utt < max_sym_per_utt:
         # fmt: off
         current_encoder_out = encoder_out[:, t:t+1, :]
@@ -57,14 +72,14 @@ def greedy_search(model: Transducer, encoder_out: torch.Tensor) -> List[int]:
         logits = model.joiner(current_encoder_out, decoder_out)
         # logits is (1, 1, 1, vocab_size)
 
-        log_prob = logits.log_softmax(dim=-1)
+        y = logits.argmax().item()
-        # log_prob is (1, 1, 1, vocab_size)
-        # TODO: Use logits.argmax()
-        y = log_prob.argmax()
         if y != blank_id:
-            hyp.append(y.item())
+            hyp.append(y)
-            y = y.reshape(1, 1)
+            decoder_input = torch.tensor(
-            decoder_out = model.decoder(y)
+                [hyp[-context_size:]], device=device
+            ).reshape(1, context_size)
+
+            decoder_out = model.decoder(decoder_input, need_pad=False)
 
             sym_per_utt += 1
             sym_per_frame += 1
@@ -72,24 +87,135 @@ def greedy_search(model: Transducer, encoder_out: torch.Tensor) -> List[int]:
         if y == blank_id or sym_per_frame > max_sym_per_frame:
             sym_per_frame = 0
             t += 1
+    hyp = hyp[context_size:]  # remove blanks
 
     return hyp
 
 
 @dataclass
 class Hypothesis:
-    ys: List[int]  # the predicted sequences so far
+    # The predicted tokens so far.
-    log_prob: float  # The log prob of ys
+    # Newly predicted tokens are appended to `ys`.
+    ys: List[int]
 
-    # Optional decoder state. We assume it is LSTM for now,
+    # The log prob of ys
-    # so the state is a tuple (h, c)
+    log_prob: float
-    decoder_state: Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]] = None
+
+    @property
+    def key(self) -> str:
+        """Return a string representation of self.ys"""
+        return "_".join(map(str, self.ys))
+
+
+class HypothesisList(object):
+    def __init__(self, data: Optional[Dict[str, Hypothesis]] = None):
+        """
+        Args:
+          data:
+            A dict of Hypotheses. Its key is its `value.key`.
+        """
+        if data is None:
+            self._data = {}
+        else:
+            self._data = data
+
+    @property
+    def data(self):
+        return self._data
+
+    #  def add(self, ys: List[int], log_prob: float):
+    def add(self, hyp: Hypothesis):
+        """Add a Hypothesis to `self`.
+
+        If `hyp` already exists in `self`, its probability is updated using
+        `log-sum-exp` with the existed one.
+
+        Args:
+          hyp:
+            The hypothesis to be added.
+        """
+        key = hyp.key
+        if key in self:
+            old_hyp = self._data[key]
+            old_hyp.log_prob = np.logaddexp(old_hyp.log_prob, hyp.log_prob)
+        else:
+            self._data[key] = hyp
+
+    def get_most_probable(self, length_norm: bool = False) -> Hypothesis:
+        """Get the most probable hypothesis, i.e., the one with
+        the largest `log_prob`.
+
+        Args:
+          length_norm:
+            If True, the `log_prob` of a hypothesis is normalized by the
+            number of tokens in it.
+
+        """
+        if length_norm:
+            return max(
+                self._data.values(), key=lambda hyp: hyp.log_prob / len(hyp.ys)
+            )
+        else:
+            return max(self._data.values(), key=lambda hyp: hyp.log_prob)
+
+    def remove(self, hyp: Hypothesis) -> None:
+        """Remove a given hypothesis.
+
+        Args:
+          hyp:
+            The hypothesis to be removed from `self`.
+            Note: It must be contained in `self`. Otherwise,
+            an exception is raised.
+        """
+        key = hyp.key
+        assert key in self, f"{key} does not exist"
+        del self._data[key]
+
+    def filter(self, threshold: float) -> "HypothesisList":
+        """Remove all Hypotheses whose log_prob is less than threshold.
+
+        Caution:
+          `self` is not modified. Instead, a new HypothesisList is returned.
+
+        Returns:
+          Return a new HypothesisList containing all hypotheses from `self`
+          that have `log_prob` being greater than the given `threshold`.
+        """
+        ans = HypothesisList()
+        for key, hyp in self._data.items():
+            if hyp.log_prob > threshold:
+                ans.add(hyp)  # shallow copy
+        return ans
+
+    def topk(self, k: int) -> "HypothesisList":
+        """Return the top-k hypothesis."""
+        hyps = list(self._data.items())
+
+        hyps = sorted(hyps, key=lambda h: h[1].log_prob, reverse=True)[:k]
+
+        ans = HypothesisList(dict(hyps))
+        return ans
+
+    def __contains__(self, key: str):
+        return key in self._data
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return iter(self._data.values())
+
+    def __len__(self) -> int:
+        return len(self._data)
+
+    def __str__(self) -> str:
+        s = []
+        for key in self:
+            s.append(key)
+        return ", ".join(s)
 
 
 def beam_search(
     model: Transducer,
     encoder_out: torch.Tensor,
-    beam: int = 5,
+    beam: int = 4,
 ) -> List[int]:
     """
     It implements Algorithm 1 in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.3711.pdf
@@ -111,110 +237,98 @@ def beam_search(
     # support only batch_size == 1 for now
     assert encoder_out.size(0) == 1, encoder_out.size(0)
     blank_id = model.decoder.blank_id
-    sos_id = model.decoder.sos_id
+    context_size = model.decoder.context_size
+
     device = model.device
 
-    sos = torch.tensor([blank_id], device=device).reshape(1, 1)
+    decoder_input = torch.tensor(
-    decoder_out, (h, c) = model.decoder(sos)
+        [blank_id] * context_size, device=device
+    ).reshape(1, context_size)
+
+    decoder_out = model.decoder(decoder_input, need_pad=False)
+
     T = encoder_out.size(1)
     t = 0
-    B = [Hypothesis(ys=[blank_id], log_prob=0.0, decoder_state=None)]
-    max_u = 20000  # terminate after this number of steps
-    u = 0
 
-    cache: Dict[
+    B = HypothesisList()
-        str, Tuple[torch.Tensor, Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]]
+    B.add(Hypothesis(ys=[blank_id] * context_size, log_prob=0.0))
-    ] = {}
 
-    while t < T and u < max_u:
+    max_sym_per_utt = 20000
+
+    sym_per_utt = 0
+
+    decoder_cache: Dict[str, torch.Tensor] = {}
+
+    while t < T and sym_per_utt < max_sym_per_utt:
         # fmt: off
         current_encoder_out = encoder_out[:, t:t+1, :]
         # fmt: on
         A = B
-        B = []
+        B = HypothesisList()
-        #  for hyp in A:
-        #      for h in A:
-        #          if h.ys == hyp.ys[:-1]:
-        #              # update the score of hyp
-        #              decoder_input = torch.tensor(
-        #                  [h.ys[-1]], device=device
-        #              ).reshape(1, 1)
-        #              decoder_out, _ = model.decoder(
-        #                  decoder_input, h.decoder_state
-        #              )
-        #              logits = model.joiner(current_encoder_out, decoder_out)
-        #              log_prob = logits.log_softmax(dim=-1)
-        #              log_prob = log_prob.squeeze()
-        #              hyp.log_prob += h.log_prob + log_prob[hyp.ys[-1]].item()
 
-        while u < max_u:
+        joint_cache: Dict[str, torch.Tensor] = {}
-            y_star = max(A, key=lambda hyp: hyp.log_prob)
+
+        # TODO(fangjun): Implement prefix search to update the `log_prob`
+        # of hypotheses in A
+
+        while True:
+            y_star = A.get_most_probable()
             A.remove(y_star)
 
-            # Note: y_star.ys is unhashable, i.e., cannot be used
+            cached_key = y_star.key
-            # as a key into a dict
-            cached_key = "_".join(map(str, y_star.ys))
 
-            if cached_key not in cache:
+            if cached_key not in decoder_cache:
                 decoder_input = torch.tensor(
-                    [y_star.ys[-1]], device=device
+                    [y_star.ys[-context_size:]], device=device
-                ).reshape(1, 1)
+                ).reshape(1, context_size)
 
-                decoder_out, decoder_state = model.decoder(
+                decoder_out = model.decoder(decoder_input, need_pad=False)
-                    decoder_input,
+                decoder_cache[cached_key] = decoder_out
-                    y_star.decoder_state,
-                )
-                cache[cached_key] = (decoder_out, decoder_state)
             else:
-                decoder_out, decoder_state = cache[cached_key]
+                decoder_out = decoder_cache[cached_key]
 
+            cached_key += f"-t-{t}"
+            if cached_key not in joint_cache:
                 logits = model.joiner(current_encoder_out, decoder_out)
+
+                # TODO(fangjun): Ccale the blank posterior
+
                 log_prob = logits.log_softmax(dim=-1)
                 # log_prob is (1, 1, 1, vocab_size)
                 log_prob = log_prob.squeeze()
                 # Now log_prob is (vocab_size,)
+                joint_cache[cached_key] = log_prob
+            else:
+                log_prob = joint_cache[cached_key]
 
-            # If we choose blank here, add the new hypothesis to B.
+            # First, process the blank symbol
-            # Otherwise, add the new hypothesis to A
-
-            # First, choose blank
             skip_log_prob = log_prob[blank_id]
             new_y_star_log_prob = y_star.log_prob + skip_log_prob.item()
 
             # ys[:] returns a copy of ys
-            new_y_star = Hypothesis(
+            B.add(Hypothesis(ys=y_star.ys[:], log_prob=new_y_star_log_prob))
-                ys=y_star.ys[:],
-                log_prob=new_y_star_log_prob,
-                # Caution: Use y_star.decoder_state here
-                decoder_state=y_star.decoder_state,
-            )
-            B.append(new_y_star)
 
-            # Second, choose other labels
+            # Second, process other non-blank labels
-            for i, v in enumerate(log_prob.tolist()):
+            values, indices = log_prob.topk(beam + 1)
-                if i in (blank_id, sos_id):
+            for i, v in zip(indices.tolist(), values.tolist()):
+                if i == blank_id:
                     continue
                 new_ys = y_star.ys + [i]
                 new_log_prob = y_star.log_prob + v
-                new_hyp = Hypothesis(
+                A.add(Hypothesis(ys=new_ys, log_prob=new_log_prob))
-                    ys=new_ys,
+
-                    log_prob=new_log_prob,
+            # Check whether B contains more than "beam" elements more probable
-                    decoder_state=decoder_state,
-                )
-                A.append(new_hyp)
-            u += 1
-            # check whether B contains more than "beam" elements more probable
             # than the most probable in A
-            A_most_probable = max(A, key=lambda hyp: hyp.log_prob)
+            A_most_probable = A.get_most_probable()
-            B = sorted(
+
-                [hyp for hyp in B if hyp.log_prob > A_most_probable.log_prob],
+            kept_B = B.filter(A_most_probable.log_prob)
-                key=lambda hyp: hyp.log_prob,
+
-                reverse=True,
+            if len(kept_B) >= beam:
-            )
+                B = kept_B.topk(beam)
-            if len(B) >= beam:
-                B = B[:beam]
                 break
+
         t += 1
-    best_hyp = max(B, key=lambda hyp: hyp.log_prob / len(hyp.ys[1:]))
+
-    ys = best_hyp.ys[1:]  # [1:] to remove the blank
+    best_hyp = B.get_most_probable(length_norm=True)
+    ys = best_hyp.ys[context_size:]  # [context_size:] to remove blanks
     return ys

egs/librispeech/ASR/transducer_stateless/decode.py

@@ -24,15 +24,15 @@ Usage:
         --exp-dir ./transducer_stateless/exp \
         --max-duration 100 \
         --decoding-method greedy_search
-(2) beam search
 
+(2) beam search
 ./transducer_stateless/decode.py \
         --epoch 14 \
         --avg 7 \
         --exp-dir ./transducer_stateless/exp \
         --max-duration 100 \
         --decoding-method beam_search \
-        --beam-size 8
+        --beam-size 4
 """
 
 
@@ -70,14 +70,14 @@ def get_parser():
     parser.add_argument(
         "--epoch",
         type=int,
-        default=77,
+        default=20,
         help="It specifies the checkpoint to use for decoding."
         "Note: Epoch counts from 0.",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--avg",
         type=int,
-        default=55,
+        default=10,
         help="Number of checkpoints to average. Automatically select "
         "consecutive checkpoints before the checkpoint specified by "
         "'--epoch'. ",
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ def get_parser():
     parser.add_argument(
         "--beam-size",
         type=int,
-        default=5,
+        default=4,
         help="Used only when --decoding-method is beam_search",
     )
 
@@ -130,7 +130,8 @@ def get_params() -> AttributeDict:
             "num_encoder_layers": 12,
             "vgg_frontend": False,
             "use_feat_batchnorm": True,
-            # decoder params
+            # parameters for decoder
+            "context_size": 2,  # tri-gram
             "env_info": get_env_info(),
         }
     )
@@ -158,6 +159,7 @@ def get_decoder_model(params: AttributeDict):
         vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
         embedding_dim=params.encoder_out_dim,
         blank_id=params.blank_id,
+        context_size=params.context_size,
     )
     return decoder
 
@@ -392,9 +394,8 @@ def main():
     sp = spm.SentencePieceProcessor()
     sp.load(params.bpe_model)
 
-    # <blk> and <sos/eos> are defined in local/train_bpe_model.py
+    # <blk> is defined in local/train_bpe_model.py
     params.blank_id = sp.piece_to_id("<blk>")
-    params.sos_id = sp.piece_to_id("<sos/eos>")
     params.vocab_size = sp.get_piece_size()
 
     logging.info(params)

egs/librispeech/ASR/transducer_stateless/decoder.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
 
 
 class Decoder(nn.Module):
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ class Decoder(nn.Module):
         vocab_size: int,
         embedding_dim: int,
         blank_id: int,
+        context_size: int,
     ):
         """
         Args:
@@ -44,6 +46,9 @@ class Decoder(nn.Module):
             Dimension of the input embedding.
           blank_id:
             The ID of the blank symbol.
+          context_size:
+            Number of previous words to use to predict the next word.
+            1 means bigram; 2 means trigram. n means (n+1)-gram.
         """
         super().__init__()
         self.embedding = nn.Embedding(
@@ -53,13 +58,40 @@ class Decoder(nn.Module):
         )
         self.blank_id = blank_id
 
-    def forward(self, y: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        assert context_size >= 1, context_size
+        self.context_size = context_size
+        if context_size > 1:
+            self.conv = nn.Conv1d(
+                in_channels=embedding_dim,
+                out_channels=embedding_dim,
+                kernel_size=context_size,
+                padding=0,
+                groups=embedding_dim,
+                bias=False,
+            )
+
+    def forward(self, y: torch.Tensor, need_pad: bool = True) -> torch.Tensor:
         """
         Args:
           y:
             A 2-D tensor of shape (N, U) with blank prepended.
+          need_pad:
+            True to left pad the input. Should be True during training.
+            False to not pad the input. Should be False during inference.
         Returns:
           Return a tensor of shape (N, U, embedding_dim).
         """
         embeding_out = self.embedding(y)
+        if self.context_size > 1:
+            embeding_out = embeding_out.permute(0, 2, 1)
+            if need_pad is True:
+                embeding_out = F.pad(
+                    embeding_out, pad=(self.context_size - 1, 0)
+                )
+            else:
+                # During inference time, there is no need to do extra padding
+                # as we only need one output
+                assert embeding_out.size(-1) == self.context_size
+            embeding_out = self.conv(embeding_out)
+            embeding_out = embeding_out.permute(0, 2, 1)
         return embeding_out

egs/librispeech/ASR/transducer_stateless/export.py

@@ -0,0 +1,244 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# Copyright 2021 Xiaomi Corporation (Author: Fangjun Kuang)
+#
+# See ../../../../LICENSE for clarification regarding multiple authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# This script converts several saved checkpoints
+# to a single one using model averaging.
+"""
+Usage:
+./transducer_stateless/export.py \
+  --exp-dir ./transducer_stateless/exp \
+  --bpe-model data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model \
+  --epoch 20 \
+  --avg 10
+
+It will generate a file exp_dir/pretrained.pt
+
+To use the generated file with `transducer_stateless/decode.py`, you can do:
+
+    cd /path/to/exp_dir
+    ln -s pretrained.pt epoch-9999.pt
+
+    cd /path/to/egs/librispeech/ASR
+    ./transducer_stateless/decode.py \
+        --exp-dir ./transducer_stateless/exp \
+        --epoch 9999 \
+        --avg 1 \
+        --max-duration 1 \
+        --bpe-model data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import sentencepiece as spm
+import torch
+from conformer import Conformer
+from decoder import Decoder
+from joiner import Joiner
+from model import Transducer
+
+from icefall.checkpoint import average_checkpoints, load_checkpoint
+from icefall.env import get_env_info
+from icefall.utils import AttributeDict, str2bool
+
+
+def get_parser():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--epoch",
+        type=int,
+        default=20,
+        help="It specifies the checkpoint to use for decoding."
+        "Note: Epoch counts from 0.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--avg",
+        type=int,
+        default=10,
+        help="Number of checkpoints to average. Automatically select "
+        "consecutive checkpoints before the checkpoint specified by "
+        "'--epoch'. ",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--exp-dir",
+        type=str,
+        default="transducer_stateless/exp",
+        help="""It specifies the directory where all training related
+        files, e.g., checkpoints, log, etc, are saved
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--bpe-model",
+        type=str,
+        default="data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model",
+        help="Path to the BPE model",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--jit",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="""True to save a model after applying torch.jit.script.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    return parser
+
+
+def get_params() -> AttributeDict:
+    params = AttributeDict(
+        {
+            # parameters for conformer
+            "feature_dim": 80,
+            "encoder_out_dim": 512,
+            "subsampling_factor": 4,
+            "attention_dim": 512,
+            "nhead": 8,
+            "dim_feedforward": 2048,
+            "num_encoder_layers": 12,
+            "vgg_frontend": False,
+            "use_feat_batchnorm": True,
+            # parameters for decoder
+            "context_size": 2,  # tri-gram
+            "env_info": get_env_info(),
+        }
+    )
+    return params
+
+
+def get_encoder_model(params: AttributeDict):
+    encoder = Conformer(
+        num_features=params.feature_dim,
+        output_dim=params.encoder_out_dim,
+        subsampling_factor=params.subsampling_factor,
+        d_model=params.attention_dim,
+        nhead=params.nhead,
+        dim_feedforward=params.dim_feedforward,
+        num_encoder_layers=params.num_encoder_layers,
+        vgg_frontend=params.vgg_frontend,
+        use_feat_batchnorm=params.use_feat_batchnorm,
+    )
+    return encoder
+
+
+def get_decoder_model(params: AttributeDict):
+    decoder = Decoder(
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+        embedding_dim=params.encoder_out_dim,
+        blank_id=params.blank_id,
+        context_size=params.context_size,
+    )
+    return decoder
+
+
+def get_joiner_model(params: AttributeDict):
+    joiner = Joiner(
+        input_dim=params.encoder_out_dim,
+        output_dim=params.vocab_size,
+    )
+    return joiner
+
+
+def get_transducer_model(params: AttributeDict):
+    encoder = get_encoder_model(params)
+    decoder = get_decoder_model(params)
+    joiner = get_joiner_model(params)
+
+    model = Transducer(
+        encoder=encoder,
+        decoder=decoder,
+        joiner=joiner,
+    )
+    return model
+
+
+def main():
+    args = get_parser().parse_args()
+    args.exp_dir = Path(args.exp_dir)
+
+    assert args.jit is False, "Support torchscript will be added later"
+
+    params = get_params()
+    params.update(vars(args))
+
+    device = torch.device("cpu")
+    if torch.cuda.is_available():
+        device = torch.device("cuda", 0)
+
+    logging.info(f"device: {device}")
+
+    sp = spm.SentencePieceProcessor()
+    sp.load(params.bpe_model)
+
+    # <blk> is defined in local/train_bpe_model.py
+    params.blank_id = sp.piece_to_id("<blk>")
+    params.vocab_size = sp.get_piece_size()
+
+    logging.info(params)
+
+    logging.info("About to create model")
+    model = get_transducer_model(params)
+
+    model.to(device)
+
+    if params.avg == 1:
+        load_checkpoint(f"{params.exp_dir}/epoch-{params.epoch}.pt", model)
+    else:
+        start = params.epoch - params.avg + 1
+        filenames = []
+        for i in range(start, params.epoch + 1):
+            if start >= 0:
+                filenames.append(f"{params.exp_dir}/epoch-{i}.pt")
+        logging.info(f"averaging {filenames}")
+        model.to(device)
+        model.load_state_dict(average_checkpoints(filenames, device=device))
+
+    model.eval()
+
+    model.to("cpu")
+    model.eval()
+
+    if params.jit:
+        logging.info("Using torch.jit.script")
+        model = torch.jit.script(model)
+        filename = params.exp_dir / "cpu_jit.pt"
+        model.save(str(filename))
+        logging.info(f"Saved to {filename}")
+    else:
+        logging.info("Not using torch.jit.script")
+        # Save it using a format so that it can be loaded
+        # by :func:`load_checkpoint`
+        filename = params.exp_dir / "pretrained.pt"
+        torch.save({"model": model.state_dict()}, str(filename))
+        logging.info(f"Saved to {filename}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    formatter = (
+        "%(asctime)s %(levelname)s [%(filename)s:%(lineno)d] %(message)s"
+    )
+
+    logging.basicConfig(format=formatter, level=logging.INFO)
+    main()

egs/librispeech/ASR/transducer_stateless/model.py

@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ from encoder_interface import EncoderInterface
 
 from icefall.utils import add_sos
 
-assert hasattr(torchaudio.functional, "rnnt_loss"), (
-    f"Current torchaudio version: {torchaudio.__version__}\n"
-    "Please install a version >= 0.10.0"
-)
-
 
 class Transducer(nn.Module):
     """It implements https://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.3711.pdf
@@ -113,6 +108,11 @@ class Transducer(nn.Module):
         # Note: y does not start with SOS
         y_padded = y.pad(mode="constant", padding_value=0)
 
+        assert hasattr(torchaudio.functional, "rnnt_loss"), (
+            f"Current torchaudio version: {torchaudio.__version__}\n"
+            "Please install a version >= 0.10.0"
+        )
+
         loss = torchaudio.functional.rnnt_loss(
             logits=logits,
             targets=y_padded,

egs/librispeech/ASR/transducer_stateless/pretrained.py

@@ -0,0 +1,307 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright      2021  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang)
+#
+# See ../../../../LICENSE for clarification regarding multiple authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+"""
+Usage:
+
+(1) greedy search
+./transducer_stateless/pretrained.py \
+        --checkpoint ./transducer_stateless/exp/pretrained.pt \
+        --bpe-model ./data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model \
+        --method greedy_search \
+        /path/to/foo.wav \
+        /path/to/bar.wav \
+
+(1) beam search
+./transducer_stateless/pretrained.py \
+        --checkpoint ./transducer_stateless/exp/pretrained.pt \
+        --bpe-model ./data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model \
+        --method beam_search \
+        --beam-size 4 \
+        /path/to/foo.wav \
+        /path/to/bar.wav \
+
+You can also use `./transducer_stateless/exp/epoch-xx.pt`.
+
+Note: ./transducer_stateless/exp/pretrained.pt is generated by
+./transducer_stateless/export.py
+"""
+
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+import math
+from typing import List
+
+import kaldifeat
+import sentencepiece as spm
+import torch
+import torchaudio
+from beam_search import beam_search, greedy_search
+from conformer import Conformer
+from decoder import Decoder
+from joiner import Joiner
+from model import Transducer
+from torch.nn.utils.rnn import pad_sequence
+
+from icefall.env import get_env_info
+from icefall.utils import AttributeDict
+
+
+def get_parser():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--checkpoint",
+        type=str,
+        required=True,
+        help="Path to the checkpoint. "
+        "The checkpoint is assumed to be saved by "
+        "icefall.checkpoint.save_checkpoint().",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--bpe-model",
+        type=str,
+        help="""Path to bpe.model.
+        Used only when method is ctc-decoding.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--method",
+        type=str,
+        default="greedy_search",
+        help="""Possible values are:
+          - greedy_search
+          - beam_search
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "sound_files",
+        type=str,
+        nargs="+",
+        help="The input sound file(s) to transcribe. "
+        "Supported formats are those supported by torchaudio.load(). "
+        "For example, wav and flac are supported. "
+        "The sample rate has to be 16kHz.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--beam-size",
+        type=int,
+        default=4,
+        help="Used only when --method is beam_search",
+    )
+
+    return parser
+
+
+def get_params() -> AttributeDict:
+    params = AttributeDict(
+        {
+            "sample_rate": 16000,
+            # parameters for conformer
+            "feature_dim": 80,
+            "encoder_out_dim": 512,
+            "subsampling_factor": 4,
+            "attention_dim": 512,
+            "nhead": 8,
+            "dim_feedforward": 2048,
+            "num_encoder_layers": 12,
+            "vgg_frontend": False,
+            "use_feat_batchnorm": True,
+            # parameters for decoder
+            "context_size": 2,  # tri-gram
+            "env_info": get_env_info(),
+        }
+    )
+    return params
+
+
+def get_encoder_model(params: AttributeDict):
+    encoder = Conformer(
+        num_features=params.feature_dim,
+        output_dim=params.encoder_out_dim,
+        subsampling_factor=params.subsampling_factor,
+        d_model=params.attention_dim,
+        nhead=params.nhead,
+        dim_feedforward=params.dim_feedforward,
+        num_encoder_layers=params.num_encoder_layers,
+        vgg_frontend=params.vgg_frontend,
+        use_feat_batchnorm=params.use_feat_batchnorm,
+    )
+    return encoder
+
+
+def get_decoder_model(params: AttributeDict):
+    decoder = Decoder(
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+        embedding_dim=params.encoder_out_dim,
+        blank_id=params.blank_id,
+        context_size=params.context_size,
+    )
+    return decoder
+
+
+def get_joiner_model(params: AttributeDict):
+    joiner = Joiner(
+        input_dim=params.encoder_out_dim,
+        output_dim=params.vocab_size,
+    )
+    return joiner
+
+
+def get_transducer_model(params: AttributeDict):
+    encoder = get_encoder_model(params)
+    decoder = get_decoder_model(params)
+    joiner = get_joiner_model(params)
+
+    model = Transducer(
+        encoder=encoder,
+        decoder=decoder,
+        joiner=joiner,
+    )
+    return model
+
+
+def read_sound_files(
+    filenames: List[str], expected_sample_rate: float
+) -> List[torch.Tensor]:
+    """Read a list of sound files into a list 1-D float32 torch tensors.
+    Args:
+      filenames:
+        A list of sound filenames.
+      expected_sample_rate:
+        The expected sample rate of the sound files.
+    Returns:
+      Return a list of 1-D float32 torch tensors.
+    """
+    ans = []
+    for f in filenames:
+        wave, sample_rate = torchaudio.load(f)
+        assert sample_rate == expected_sample_rate, (
+            f"expected sample rate: {expected_sample_rate}. "
+            f"Given: {sample_rate}"
+        )
+        # We use only the first channel
+        ans.append(wave[0])
+    return ans
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = get_parser()
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    params = get_params()
+
+    params.update(vars(args))
+
+    sp = spm.SentencePieceProcessor()
+    sp.load(params.bpe_model)
+
+    # <blk> is defined in local/train_bpe_model.py
+    params.blank_id = sp.piece_to_id("<blk>")
+    params.vocab_size = sp.get_piece_size()
+
+    logging.info(f"{params}")
+
+    device = torch.device("cpu")
+    if torch.cuda.is_available():
+        device = torch.device("cuda", 0)
+
+    logging.info(f"device: {device}")
+
+    logging.info("Creating model")
+    model = get_transducer_model(params)
+
+    checkpoint = torch.load(args.checkpoint, map_location="cpu")
+    model.load_state_dict(checkpoint["model"], strict=False)
+    model.to(device)
+    model.eval()
+    model.device = device
+
+    logging.info("Constructing Fbank computer")
+    opts = kaldifeat.FbankOptions()
+    opts.device = device
+    opts.frame_opts.dither = 0
+    opts.frame_opts.snip_edges = False
+    opts.frame_opts.samp_freq = params.sample_rate
+    opts.mel_opts.num_bins = params.feature_dim
+
+    fbank = kaldifeat.Fbank(opts)
+
+    logging.info(f"Reading sound files: {params.sound_files}")
+    waves = read_sound_files(
+        filenames=params.sound_files, expected_sample_rate=params.sample_rate
+    )
+    waves = [w.to(device) for w in waves]
+
+    logging.info("Decoding started")
+    features = fbank(waves)
+    feature_lengths = [f.size(0) for f in features]
+
+    features = pad_sequence(
+        features, batch_first=True, padding_value=math.log(1e-10)
+    )
+
+    feature_lengths = torch.tensor(feature_lengths, device=device)
+
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        encoder_out, encoder_out_lens = model.encoder(
+            x=features, x_lens=feature_lengths
+        )
+
+    num_waves = encoder_out.size(0)
+    hyps = []
+    msg = f"Using {params.method}"
+    if params.method == "beam_search":
+        msg += f" with beam size {params.beam_size}"
+    logging.info(msg)
+    for i in range(num_waves):
+        # fmt: off
+        encoder_out_i = encoder_out[i:i+1, :encoder_out_lens[i]]
+        # fmt: on
+        if params.method == "greedy_search":
+            hyp = greedy_search(model=model, encoder_out=encoder_out_i)
+        elif params.method == "beam_search":
+            hyp = beam_search(
+                model=model, encoder_out=encoder_out_i, beam=params.beam_size
+            )
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"Unsupported method: {params.method}")
+
+        hyps.append(sp.decode(hyp).split())
+
+    s = "\n"
+    for filename, hyp in zip(params.sound_files, hyps):
+        words = " ".join(hyp)
+        s += f"{filename}:\n{words}\n\n"
+    logging.info(s)
+
+    logging.info("Decoding Done")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    formatter = (
+        "%(asctime)s %(levelname)s [%(filename)s:%(lineno)d] %(message)s"
+    )
+
+    logging.basicConfig(format=formatter, level=logging.INFO)
+    main()

egs/librispeech/ASR/transducer_stateless/test_decoder.py

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2021  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang)
+#
+# See ../../../../LICENSE for clarification regarding multiple authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""
+To run this file, do:
+
+    cd icefall/egs/librispeech/ASR
+    python ./transducer_stateless/test_decoder.py
+"""
+
+import torch
+from decoder import Decoder
+
+
+def test_decoder():
+    vocab_size = 3
+    blank_id = 0
+    embedding_dim = 128
+    context_size = 4
+
+    decoder = Decoder(
+        vocab_size=vocab_size,
+        embedding_dim=embedding_dim,
+        blank_id=blank_id,
+        context_size=context_size,
+    )
+    N = 100
+    U = 20
+    x = torch.randint(low=0, high=vocab_size, size=(N, U))
+    y = decoder(x)
+    assert y.shape == (N, U, embedding_dim)
+
+    # for inference
+    x = torch.randint(low=0, high=vocab_size, size=(N, context_size))
+    y = decoder(x, need_pad=False)
+    assert y.shape == (N, 1, embedding_dim)
+
+
+def main():
+    test_decoder()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

egs/librispeech/ASR/transducer_stateless/train.py

@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def get_parser():
     parser.add_argument(
         "--num-epochs",
         type=int,
-        default=78,
+        default=30,
         help="Number of epochs to train.",
     )
 
@@ -202,6 +202,8 @@ def get_params() -> AttributeDict:
             "num_encoder_layers": 12,
             "vgg_frontend": False,
             "use_feat_batchnorm": True,
+            # parameters for decoder
+            "context_size": 2,  # tri-gram
             # parameters for Noam
             "weight_decay": 1e-6,
             "warm_step": 80000,  # For the 100h subset, use 8k
@@ -233,6 +235,7 @@ def get_decoder_model(params: AttributeDict):
         vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
         embedding_dim=params.encoder_out_dim,
         blank_id=params.blank_id,
+        context_size=params.context_size,
     )
     return decoder