基于对抗训练策略的语言模型数据增强技术

张一珂; 张鹏远; 颜永红

doi:10.16383/j.aas.2018.c170464

基于对抗训练策略的语言模型数据增强技术

doi: 10.16383/j.aas.2018.c170464

张一珂^1,2,,
张鹏远^1,2, ,,
颜永红^1,2,3,

1.
中国科学院声学研究所语言声学与内容理解重点实验室北京 100190
2.
中国科学院大学北京 100049
3.
中国科学院新疆理化技术研究所新疆民族语音语言信息处理实验室乌鲁木齐 830011

基金项目:

国家自然科学基金 11461141004

国家重点研发计划 2016YFB0801200

国家自然科学基金 11504406

新疆维吾尔自治区科技重大专项 2016A03007-1

国家自然科学基金 11590770-4

国家自然科学基金 U1536117

国家重点研发计划 2016YFB0801203

详细信息

作者简介:
张一珂中国科学院声学研究所博士研究生.2014年获得西北工业大学学士学位.主要研究方向为自动语音识别, 自然语言处理.E-mail:zhangyike@hccl.ioa.ac.cn

颜永红中国科学院语言声学与内容理解重点实验室研究员.1990年获得清华大学学士学位, 1995年获得俄勒冈理工博士学位.主要研究方向为语音信号处理, 语音识别, 说话人/语种识别, 人机交互.E-mail:yanyonghong@hccl.ioa.ac.cn

通讯作者:
张鹏远中国科学院语言声学与内容理解重点实验室研究员.2007年获得中国科学院声学研究所博士学位.主要研究方向为自动语音识别.本文通信作者.E-mail:zhangpengyuan@hccl.ioa.ac.cn

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- 收稿日期: 2017-08-28
- 录用日期: 2018-01-14
- 刊出日期: 2018-05-20

Data Augmentation for Language Models via Adversarial Training

ZHANG Yi-Ke^{1,2
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ZHANG Peng-Yuan^{1,2
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YAN Yong-Hong^{1,2,3
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Key Laboratory of Speech Acoustics and Content Understanding, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
3.
Xinjiang Laboratory of Minority Speech and Language Information Processing, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumchi 830011

Funds:

National Natural Science Foundation of China 11461141004

National Key Research and Development Plan 2016YFB0801200

National Natural Science Foundation of China 11504406

Key Science and Technology Project of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region 2016A03007-1

National Natural Science Foundation of China 11590770-4

National Natural Science Foundation of China U1536117

National Key Research and Development Plan 2016YFB0801203

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Author Bio:
Ph. D. candidate at the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his bachelor degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2014. His research interest covers automatic speech recognition and natural language processing

Professor at the Key Laboratory of Speech Acoustics and Content Understanding, the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his bachelor degree from Tsinghua University in 1990, and Ph. D. degree from Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI), USA in 1995. His research interest covers speech processing and recognition, language/speaker recognition, and human computer interface

Corresponding author: ZHANG Peng-Yuan Professor at the Key Laboratory of Speech Acoustics and Content Understanding, the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph. D. degree from the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. His research interest covers spontaneous speech recognition. Corresponding author of this paper

摘要

摘要: 基于最大似然估计（Maximum likelihood estimation，MLE）的语言模型（Language model，LM）数据增强方法由于存在暴露偏差问题而无法生成具有长时语义信息的采样数据.本文提出了一种基于对抗训练策略的语言模型数据增强的方法，通过一个辅助的卷积神经网络判别模型判断生成数据的真伪，从而引导递归神经网络生成模型学习真实数据的分布.语言模型的数据增强问题实质上是离散序列的生成问题.当生成模型的输出为离散值时，来自判别模型的误差无法通过反向传播算法回传到生成模型.为了解决此问题，本文将离散序列生成问题表示为强化学习问题，利用判别模型的输出作为奖励对生成模型进行优化，此外，由于判别模型只能对完整的生成序列进行评价，本文采用蒙特卡洛搜索算法对生成序列的中间状态进行评价.语音识别多候选重估实验表明，在有限文本数据条件下，随着训练数据量的增加，本文提出的方法可以进一步降低识别字错误率（Character error rate，CER），且始终优于基于MLE的数据增强方法.当训练数据达到6M词规模时，本文提出的方法使THCHS30数据集的CER相对基线系统下降5.0%，AISHELL数据集的CER相对下降7.1%.
- 数据增强 /
- 语言模型 /
- 生成对抗网络 /
- 强化学习 /
- 语音识别
Abstract: The conventional approach to data augmentation for language models based on maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) causes the exposure bias problem, which leads to generated text lacking of long-term semantics. We propose a novel data augmentation approach via adversarial training, which uses a convolutional neural network as a discriminator to guide the training of a recurrent neural network based generative model. The matter of augmentation for language models can be regarded as discrete sequential data generation. When outputs of the generative model are discrete, backforward propagation algorithm fails to update the generative model via the gradient of discriminator errors. To deal with this problem, we treat the generative model as a stochastic policy in reinforcement learning and optimize it by rewards from the discriminator. Since the discriminator can only judge completed sequences, we evaluate intermediate states by Monte Carlo search. Experiments on rescoring the n-best lists of speech recognition outputs show that with the increase of training corpus, the proposed approach achieves a lower character error rate (CER) and always outperforms the MLE-based approach. When training corpus reaches 6 million tokens, the proposed approach provides a relative 5.0% CER reduction on THCHS30 dataset and a relative 7.1% CER reduction on AISHELL dataset compared with the baseline.
- Data augmentation /
- language modeling /
- generative adversarial nets (GAN) /
- reinforcement learning /
- speech recognition
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图 1 序列生成对抗网络训练过程

Fig. 1 Training procedure of the sequential generative adversarial network

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图 2 不同超参数条件下序列对抗生成网络训练误差

Fig. 2 Training errors of sequential generative adversarial networks with different hyper-parameters

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图 3 序列生成对抗网络在不同数据集上的性能

Fig. 3 Performance of sequential generative adversarial networks on different datasets

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图 4 训练数据规模对两种数据增强技术性能的影响

Fig. 4 The effect of the size of training data on two augmentation approaches

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图 5 不同采样数据的分布图

Fig. 5 Distribution of sentences sampled from different sources

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表 1 不同数据增强技术对识别字错误率的影响(%)

Table 1 Character error rates of different methods (%)

	THCHS 30	AISHELL
基线系统	42.5	16.9
最大似然估计	40.8	16.0
对抗训练策略	40.4	15.7

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表 2 相同历史信息条件下不同生成模型生成的文本对比

Table 2 Sentences generated by different models given the same context

序号	模型	采样文本/真实文本
	真实数据	华北北部旱情仍未解除的地区, 宁肯让夏玉米种子下地等雨也不要迟播
样例1	MLE	存在一些安全隐患
	GAN	为加快稳定粮食生产市场平稳监管
	真实数据	至于业已结婚成家的人员可以不考虑农转非, 因为这些人农转非已无实际意义
样例2	MLE	下降7个城市房价将面临顺利明显上涨
	GAN	保障房建设力度确实有限
	真实数据	1993年台湾茶饮料销售额达5亿美元, 是各类饮料中增幅最快的产品
样例3	MLE	股票分红地价约60亿价加速
	GAN	同比增长至31.6
	真实数据	工信部就十二五时期的宽带建设, 已进行全面规划
样例4	MLE	重点在科技创新方面
	GAN	所以我当时可以做规划

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