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FATAL: NegLogDiff

LukeCarmichael - 25 Sep 2012 - 17:21

Hello, I run this sequence of commands with the following output.

home$ ngramcounts a.far > a.cnts
home$  ngrammake --v=4 --method=katz a.cnts > katz.mod
INFO: FstImpl::ReadHeader: source: a.cnts, fst_type: vector, arc_type: standard, version: 2, flags: 3
Count bin   Katz Discounts (1-grams/2-grams/3-grams)
Count = 1   -nan/0.253709/-0.343723
Count = 2   -nan/1.26571/1.19095
Count = 3   -nan/0.467797/-0.532465
Count = 4   -nan/1.29438/1.18879
Count = 5   -nan/0.0740557/-0.489831
Count > 5   1/1/1
FATAL: NegLogDiff: undefined -10.2649 -10.2651
Other methods work fine.

How can I diagnose this problem?

Thanks, Luke

BrianRoark - 26 Sep 2012 - 13:12

Hi Luke,

this is basically a floating point precision issue, the system is trying to subtract two approximately equal numbers (while calculating backoff weights). The new version of the library coming out in a month or so has much improved floating point precision, which will help. In the meantime, you can get this to work by modifying a constant value in src/include/ngram/ngram-model.h which will allow these two numbers to be judged to be approximately equal. Look for: static const double kNormEps = 0.000001; near the top of that file. Change to 0.0001, then recompile.

This sort of problem usually comes up when you train a model with a relatively small vocabulary (like a phone or POS-tag model) and a relatively large corpus. The n-gram counts end up not following Good-Turing assumptions about what the distribution should look like (hence the odd discount values). In those cases, you're probably better off with Witten-Bell smoothing with the --witten_bell_k=15 or something like that. Or even trying an unsmoothed model.

And stay tuned for the next release, which deals more gracefully with some of these small vocabulary scenarios.

Brian

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FATAL: NGramModel: bad ngram model topology

BenoitFavre - 10 Sep 2012 - 09:18

I generated an ngram model from a .arpa file with the following command:

ngramread --ARPA lm.arpa > lm.model

ngramread does not complain, but ngraminfo and trying to load the model from C++ code generate the following error:

FATAL: NGramModel: bad ngram model topology

How can I troubleshoot the problem?

BenoitFavre - 10 Sep 2012 - 09:27

Adding verbosity results in more mystery...

ngraminfo --v=2 lm.model INFO: FstImpl::ReadHeader: source: lm.model, fst_type: vector, arc_type: standard, version: 2, flags: 3 INFO: Incomplete # of ascending n-grams: 1377525 FATAL: NGramModel: bad ngram model topology

BrianRoark - 11 Sep 2012 - 10:33

Hi,

that error is coming from a sanity check that verifies that every state in the language model (other than the start and unigram states) is reached by exactly one 'ascending' arc, that goes from a lower order to a higher order state. ARPA format models can diverge from this, by, for example, having 'holes' (e.g., bigrams pruned but trigrams with that bigram as a suffix retained). But ngramread should plug all of those. maybe duplication? I'll email you about this.

BrianRoark - 18 Sep 2012 - 10:50

Benoit found a case where certain 'holes' from a pruned ARPA model were not being filled appropriately in the conversion. The sanity check routines on loading the model ensured that this anomaly was caught (causing the errors he mentioned), and we were able to find the cases where this was occurring and update the code. The updated conversion functions will be in the forthcoming version update release of the library, within the next month or two. In the meantime, if anyone encounters this problem, let me know and I can provide a workaround.
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