// lat/lattice-functions.h // Copyright 2009-2012 Saarland University (author: Arnab Ghoshal) // 2012-2013 Johns Hopkins University (Author: Daniel Povey); // Bagher BabaAli // 2014 Guoguo Chen // See ../../COPYING 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 // // THIS CODE IS PROVIDED *AS IS* BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY // KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED // WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF TITLE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, // MERCHANTABLITY OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. // See the Apache 2 License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. #ifndef KALDI_LAT_LATTICE_FUNCTIONS_H_ #define KALDI_LAT_LATTICE_FUNCTIONS_H_ #include #include #include "base/kaldi-common.h" #include "hmm/posterior.h" #include "fstext/fstext-lib.h" #include "hmm/transition-model.h" #include "lat/kaldi-lattice.h" #include "itf/decodable-itf.h" namespace kaldi { /** This function extracts the per-frame log likelihoods from a linear lattice (which we refer to as an 'nbest' lattice elsewhere in Kaldi code). The dimension of *per_frame_loglikes will be set to the number of input symbols in 'nbest'. The elements of '*per_frame_loglikes' will be set to the .Value2() elements of the lattice weights, which represent the acoustic costs; you may want to scale this vector afterward by -1/acoustic_scale to get the original loglikes. If there are acoustic costs on input-epsilon arcs or the final-prob in 'nbest' (and this should not normally be the case in situations where it makes sense to call this function), they will be included to the cost of the preceding input symbol, or the following input symbol for input-epsilons encountered prior to any input symbol. If 'nbest' has no input symbols, 'per_frame_loglikes' will be set to the empty vector. **/ void GetPerFrameAcousticCosts(const Lattice &nbest, Vector *per_frame_loglikes); /// This function iterates over the states of a topologically sorted lattice and /// counts the time instance corresponding to each state. The times are returned /// in a vector of integers 'times' which is resized to have a size equal to the /// number of states in the lattice. The function also returns the maximum time /// in the lattice (this will equal the number of frames in the file). int32 LatticeStateTimes(const Lattice &lat, std::vector *times); /// As LatticeStateTimes, but in the CompactLattice format. Note: must /// be topologically sorted. Returns length of the utterance in frames, which /// might not be the same as the maximum time in the lattice, due to frames /// in the final-prob. int32 CompactLatticeStateTimes(const CompactLattice &clat, std::vector *times); /// This function does the forward-backward over lattices and computes the /// posterior probabilities of the arcs. It returns the total log-probability /// of the lattice. The Posterior quantities contain pairs of (transition-id, weight) /// on each frame. /// If the pointer "acoustic_like_sum" is provided, this value is set to /// the sum over the arcs, of the posterior of the arc times the /// acoustic likelihood [i.e. negated acoustic score] on that link. /// This is used in combination with other quantities to work out /// the objective function in MMI discriminative training. BaseFloat LatticeForwardBackward(const Lattice &lat, Posterior *arc_post, double *acoustic_like_sum = NULL); // This function is something similar to LatticeForwardBackward(), but it is on // the CompactLattice lattice format. Also we only need the alpha in the forward // path, not the posteriors. bool ComputeCompactLatticeAlphas(const CompactLattice &lat, std::vector *alpha); // A sibling of the function CompactLatticeAlphas()... We compute the beta from // the backward path here. bool ComputeCompactLatticeBetas(const CompactLattice &lat, std::vector *beta); // Computes (normal or Viterbi) alphas and betas; returns (total-prob, or // best-path negated cost) Note: in either case, the alphas and betas are // negated costs. Requires that lat be topologically sorted. This code // will work for either CompactLattice or Latice. template double ComputeLatticeAlphasAndBetas(const LatticeType &lat, bool viterbi, std::vector *alpha, std::vector *beta); /// Topologically sort the compact lattice if not already topologically sorted. /// Will crash if the lattice cannot be topologically sorted. void TopSortCompactLatticeIfNeeded(CompactLattice *clat); /// Topologically sort the lattice if not already topologically sorted. /// Will crash if lattice cannot be topologically sorted. void TopSortLatticeIfNeeded(Lattice *clat); /// Returns the depth of the lattice, defined as the average number of arcs (or /// final-prob strings) crossing any given frame. Returns 1 for empty lattices. /// Requires that clat is topologically sorted! BaseFloat CompactLatticeDepth(const CompactLattice &clat, int32 *num_frames = NULL); /// This function returns, for each frame, the number of arcs crossing that /// frame. void CompactLatticeDepthPerFrame(const CompactLattice &clat, std::vector *depth_per_frame); /// This function limits the depth of the lattice, per frame: that means, it /// does not allow more than a specified number of arcs active on any given /// frame. This can be used to reduce the size of the "very deep" portions of /// the lattice. void CompactLatticeLimitDepth(int32 max_arcs_per_frame, CompactLattice *clat); /// Given a lattice, and a transition model to map pdf-ids to phones, /// outputs for each frame the set of phones active on that frame. If /// sil_phones (which must be sorted and uniq) is nonempty, it excludes /// phones in this list. void LatticeActivePhones(const Lattice &lat, const TransitionModel &trans, const std::vector &sil_phones, std::vector > *active_phones); /// Given a lattice, and a transition model to map pdf-ids to phones, /// replace the output symbols (presumably words), with phones; we /// use the TransitionModel to work out the phone sequence. Note /// that the phone labels are not exactly aligned with the phone /// boundaries. We put a phone label to coincide with any transition /// to the final, nonemitting state of a phone (this state always exists, /// we ensure this in HmmTopology::Check()). This would be the last /// transition-id in the phone if reordering is not done (but typically /// we do reorder). /// Also see PhoneAlignLattice, in phone-align-lattice.h. void ConvertLatticeToPhones(const TransitionModel &trans_model, Lattice *lat); /// Prunes a lattice or compact lattice. Returns true on success, false if /// there was some kind of failure. template bool PruneLattice(BaseFloat beam, LatticeType *lat); /// Given a lattice, and a transition model to map pdf-ids to phones, /// replace the sequences of transition-ids with sequences of phones. /// Note that this is different from ConvertLatticeToPhones, in that /// we replace the transition-ids not the words. void ConvertCompactLatticeToPhones(const TransitionModel &trans_model, CompactLattice *clat); /// Boosts LM probabilities by b * [number of frame errors]; equivalently, adds /// -b*[number of frame errors] to the graph-component of the cost of each arc/path. /// There is a frame error if a particular transition-id on a particular frame /// corresponds to a phone not matching transcription's alignment for that frame. /// This is used in "margin-inspired" discriminative training, esp. Boosted MMI. /// The TransitionModel is used to map transition-ids in the lattice /// input-side to phones; the phones appearing in /// "silence_phones" are treated specially in that we replace the frame error f /// (either zero or 1) for a frame, with the minimum of f or max_silence_error. /// For the normal recipe, max_silence_error would be zero. /// Returns true on success, false if there was some kind of mismatch. /// At input, silence_phones must be sorted and unique. bool LatticeBoost(const TransitionModel &trans, const std::vector &alignment, const std::vector &silence_phones, BaseFloat b, BaseFloat max_silence_error, Lattice *lat); /** This function implements either the MPFE (minimum phone frame error) or SMBR (state-level minimum bayes risk) forward-backward, depending on whether "criterion" is "mpfe" or "smbr". It returns the MPFE criterion of SMBR criterion for this utterance, and outputs the posteriors (which may be positive or negative) into "post". @param [in] trans The transition model. Used to map the transition-ids to phones or pdfs. @param [in] silence_phones A list of integer ids of silence phones. The silence frames i.e. the frames where num_ali corresponds to a silence phones are treated specially. The behavior is determined by 'one_silence_class' being false (traditional behavior) or true. Usually in our setup, several phones including the silence, vocalized noise, non-spoken noise and unk are treated as "silence phones" @param [in] lat The denominator lattice @param [in] num_ali The numerator alignment @param [in] criterion The objective function. Must be "mpfe" or "smbr" for MPFE (minimum phone frame error) or sMBR (state minimum bayes risk) training. @param [in] one_silence_class Determines how the silence frames are treated. Setting this to false gives the old traditional behavior, where the silence frames (according to num_ali) are treated as incorrect. However, this means that the insertions are not penalized by the objective. Setting this to true gives the new behaviour, where we treat silence as any other phone, except that all pdfs of silence phones are collapsed into a single class for the frame-error computation. This can possible reduce the insertions in the trained model. This is closer to the WER metric that we actually care about, since WER is generally computed after filtering out noises, but does penalize insertions. @param [out] post The "MBR posteriors" i.e. derivatives w.r.t to the pseudo log-likelihoods of states at each frame. */ BaseFloat LatticeForwardBackwardMpeVariants( const TransitionModel &trans, const std::vector &silence_phones, const Lattice &lat, const std::vector &num_ali, std::string criterion, bool one_silence_class, Posterior *post); /** This function can be used to compute posteriors for MMI, with a positive contribution for the numerator and a negative one for the denominator. This function is not actually used in our normal MMI training recipes, where it's instead done using various command line programs that each do a part of the job. This function was written for use in neural-net MMI training. @param [in] trans The transition model. Used to map the transition-ids to phones or pdfs. @param [in] lat The denominator lattice @param [in] num_ali The numerator alignment @param [in] drop_frames If "drop_frames" is true, it will not compute any posteriors on frames where the num and den have disjoint pdf-ids. @param [in] convert_to_pdf_ids If "convert_to_pdfs_ids" is true, it will convert the output to be at the level of pdf-ids, not transition-ids. @param [in] cancel If "cancel" is true, it will cancel out any positive and negative parts from the same transition-id (or pdf-id, if convert_to_pdf_ids == true). @param [out] arc_post The output MMI posteriors of transition-ids (or pdf-ids if convert_to_pdf_ids == true) at each frame i.e. the difference between the numerator and denominator posteriors. It returns the forward-backward likelihood of the lattice. */ BaseFloat LatticeForwardBackwardMmi( const TransitionModel &trans, const Lattice &lat, const std::vector &num_ali, bool drop_frames, bool convert_to_pdf_ids, bool cancel, Posterior *arc_post); /// This function takes a CompactLattice that should only contain a single /// linear sequence (e.g. derived from lattice-1best), and that should have been /// processed so that the arcs in the CompactLattice align correctly with the /// word boundaries (e.g. by lattice-align-words). It outputs 3 vectors of the /// same size, which give, for each word in the lattice (in sequence), the word /// label and the begin time and length in frames. This is done even for zero /// (epsilon) words, generally corresponding to optional silence-- if you don't /// want them, just ignore them in the output. /// This function will print a warning and return false, if the lattice /// did not have the correct format (e.g. if it is empty or it is not /// linear). bool CompactLatticeToWordAlignment(const CompactLattice &clat, std::vector *words, std::vector *begin_times, std::vector *lengths); /// This function takes a CompactLattice that should only contain a single /// linear sequence (e.g. derived from lattice-1best), and that should have been /// processed so that the arcs in the CompactLattice align correctly with the /// word boundaries (e.g. by lattice-align-words). It outputs 4 vectors of the /// same size, which give, for each word in the lattice (in sequence), the word /// label, the begin time and length in frames, and the pronunciation (sequence /// of phones). This is done even for zero words, corresponding to optional /// silences -- if you don't want them, just ignore them in the output. /// This function will print a warning and return false, if the lattice /// did not have the correct format (e.g. if it is empty or it is not /// linear). bool CompactLatticeToWordProns( const TransitionModel &tmodel, const CompactLattice &clat, std::vector *words, std::vector *begin_times, std::vector *lengths, std::vector > *prons, std::vector > *phone_lengths); /// A form of the shortest-path/best-path algorithm that's specially coded for /// CompactLattice. Requires that clat be acyclic. void CompactLatticeShortestPath(const CompactLattice &clat, CompactLattice *shortest_path); /// This function add the word insertion penalty to graph score of each word /// in the compact lattice void AddWordInsPenToCompactLattice(BaseFloat word_ins_penalty, CompactLattice *clat); /// This function *adds* the negated scores obtained from the Decodable object, /// to the acoustic scores on the arcs. If you want to replace them, you should /// use ScaleCompactLattice to first set the acoustic scores to zero. Returns /// true on success, false on error (typically some kind of mismatched inputs). bool RescoreCompactLattice(DecodableInterface *decodable, CompactLattice *clat); /// This function returns the number of words in the longest sentence in a /// CompactLattice (i.e. the the maximum of any path, of the count of /// olabels on that path). int32 LongestSentenceLength(const Lattice &lat); /// This function returns the number of words in the longest sentence in a /// CompactLattice, i.e. the the maximum of any path, of the count of /// labels on that path... note, in CompactLattice, the ilabels and olabels /// are identical because it is an acceptor. int32 LongestSentenceLength(const CompactLattice &lat); /// This function is like RescoreCompactLattice, but it is modified to avoid /// computing probabilities on most frames where all the pdf-ids are the same. /// (it needs the transition-model to work out whether two transition-ids map to /// the same pdf-id, and it assumes that the lattice has transition-ids on it). /// The naive thing would be to just set all probabilities to zero on frames /// where all the pdf-ids are the same (because this value won't affect the /// lattice posterior). But this would become confusing when we compute /// corpus-level diagnostics such as the MMI objective function. Instead, /// imagine speedup_factor = 100 (it must be >= 1.0)... with probability (1.0 / /// speedup_factor) we compute those likelihoods and multiply them by /// speedup_factor; otherwise we set them to zero. This gives the right /// expected probability so our corpus-level diagnostics will be about right. bool RescoreCompactLatticeSpeedup( const TransitionModel &tmodel, BaseFloat speedup_factor, DecodableInterface *decodable, CompactLattice *clat); /// This function *adds* the negated scores obtained from the Decodable object, /// to the acoustic scores on the arcs. If you want to replace them, you should /// use ScaleCompactLattice to first set the acoustic scores to zero. Returns /// true on success, false on error (e.g. some kind of mismatched inputs). /// The input labels, if nonzero, are interpreted as transition-ids or whatever /// other index the Decodable object expects. bool RescoreLattice(DecodableInterface *decodable, Lattice *lat); /// This function Composes a CompactLattice format lattice with a /// DeterministicOnDemandFst format fst, and outputs another /// CompactLattice format lattice. The first element (the one that corresponds /// to LM weight) in CompactLatticeWeight is used for composition. /// /// Note that the DeterministicOnDemandFst interface is not "const", therefore /// we cannot use "const" for . void ComposeCompactLatticeDeterministic( const CompactLattice& clat, fst::DeterministicOnDemandFst* det_fst, CompactLattice* composed_clat); /// This function computes the mapping from the pair /// (frame-index, transition-id) to the pair /// (sum-of-acoustic-scores, num-of-occurences) over all occurences of the /// transition-id in that frame. /// frame-index in the lattice. /// This function is useful for retaining the acoustic scores in a /// non-compact lattice after a process like determinization where the /// frame-level acoustic scores are typically lost. /// The function ReplaceAcousticScoresFromMap is used to restore the /// acoustic scores computed by this function. /// /// @param [in] lat Input lattice. Expected to be top-sorted. Otherwise the /// function will crash. /// @param [out] acoustic_scores /// Pointer to a map from the pair (frame-index, /// transition-id) to a pair (sum-of-acoustic-scores, /// num-of-occurences). /// Usually the acoustic scores for a pdf-id (and hence /// transition-id) on a frame will be the same for all the /// occurences of the pdf-id in that frame. /// But if not, we will take the average of the acoustic /// scores. Hence, we store both the sum-of-acoustic-scores /// and the num-of-occurences of the transition-id in that /// frame. void ComputeAcousticScoresMap( const Lattice &lat, unordered_map, std::pair, PairHasher > *acoustic_scores); /// This function restores acoustic scores computed using the function /// ComputeAcousticScoresMap into the lattice. /// /// @param [in] acoustic_scores /// A map from the pair (frame-index, transition-id) to a /// pair (sum-of-acoustic-scores, num-of-occurences) of /// the occurences of the transition-id in that frame. /// See the comments for ComputeAcousticScoresMap for /// details. /// @param [out] lat Pointer to the output lattice. void ReplaceAcousticScoresFromMap( const unordered_map, std::pair, PairHasher > &acoustic_scores, Lattice *lat); } // namespace kaldi #endif // KALDI_LAT_LATTICE_FUNCTIONS_H_