[TFT5, Cache] Add cache to TFT5 (#3772)

* correct gpt2 test inputs

* make style

* delete modeling_gpt2 change in test file

* translate from pytorch

* correct tests

* fix conflicts

* fix conflicts

* fix conflicts

* fix conflicts

* make tensorflow t5 caching work

* make style

* clean reorder cache

* remove unnecessary spaces

* fix test

src/transformers/modeling_t5.py

@@ -351,12 +351,11 @@ class T5Attention(nn.Module):
             else:
                 k, v = past_key_value_state
 
-        if self.is_decoder and use_cache:
+        if self.is_decoder and use_cache is True:
             present_key_value_state = ((k, v),)
         else:
             present_key_value_state = (None,)
 
-        # q = q / math.sqrt(dim_per_head)                                     # No scaling in T5
         scores = torch.einsum("bnqd,bnkd->bnqk", q, k)  # (bs, n_heads, qlen, klen)
 
         if position_bias is None:
@@ -486,11 +485,15 @@ class T5Block(nn.Module):
 
         if past_key_value_state is not None:
             assert self.is_decoder, "Only decoder can use `past_key_value_states`"
-            assert (
+            expected_num_past_key_value_states = 2 if encoder_hidden_states is None else 4
-                len(past_key_value_state) == 4
+
-            ), "The should be 4 past states. 2 (past / key) for self attention. 2 (past / key) for cross attention. Got {} past key / value states".format(
+            error_message = "There should be {} past states. 2 (past / key) for self attention.{} Got {} past key / value states".format(
-                len(past_key_value_state)
+                expected_num_past_key_value_states,
+                "2 (past / key) for cross attention" if expected_num_past_key_value_states == 4 else "",
+                len(past_key_value_state),
             )
+            assert len(past_key_value_state) == expected_num_past_key_value_states, error_message
+
             self_attn_past_key_value_state = past_key_value_state[:2]
             cross_attn_past_key_value_state = past_key_value_state[2:]
         else:
@@ -507,7 +510,7 @@ class T5Block(nn.Module):
         hidden_states, present_key_value_state = self_attention_outputs[:2]
         attention_outputs = self_attention_outputs[2:]  # Keep self-attention outputs and relative position weights
 
-        if self.is_decoder:
+        if self.is_decoder and encoder_hidden_states is not None:
             # the actual query length is unknown for cross attention
             # if using past key value states. Need to inject it here
             if present_key_value_state is not None:
@@ -691,7 +694,6 @@ class T5Stack(T5PreTrainedModel):
         if past_key_value_states is None:
             past_key_value_states = [None] * len(self.block)
 
-        # We can provide a self-attention mask of dimensions [batch_size, from_seq_length, to_seq_length]
         # ourselves in which case we just need to make it broadcastable to all heads.
         extended_attention_mask = self.get_extended_attention_mask(attention_mask, input_shape, self.device)
 
@@ -732,7 +734,7 @@ class T5Stack(T5PreTrainedModel):
                 # We share the position biases between the layers - the first layer store them
                 # layer_outputs = hidden-states, key-value-states (self-attention weights), (self-attention position bias), (cross-attention weights), (cross-attention position bias)
                 position_bias = layer_outputs[3 if self.output_attentions else 2]
-                if self.is_decoder:
+                if self.is_decoder and encoder_hidden_states is not None:
                     encoder_decoder_position_bias = layer_outputs[4 if self.output_attentions else 3]
             # append next layer key value states
             present_key_value_states = present_key_value_states + (present_key_value_state,)

src/transformers/modeling_tf_t5.py

@@ -185,16 +185,39 @@ class TFT5Attention(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
         return values
 
     def call(
-        self, input, mask=None, kv=None, position_bias=None, cache=None, head_mask=None, training=False,
+        self,
+        input,
+        mask=None,
+        kv=None,
+        position_bias=None,
+        cache=None,
+        past_key_value_state=None,
+        head_mask=None,
+        query_length=None,
+        use_cache=False,
+        training=False,
     ):
         """
         Self-attention (if kv is None) or attention over source sentence (provided by kv).
         """
         # Input is (bs, qlen, dim)
         # Mask is (bs, klen) (non-causal) or (bs, klen, klen)
+        # past_key_value_state[0] is (bs, n_heads, q_len - 1, dim_per_head)
         bs, qlen, dim = shape_list(input)
+
+        if past_key_value_state is not None:
+            assert self.is_decoder is True, "Encoder cannot cache past key value states"
+            assert (
+                len(past_key_value_state) == 2
+            ), "past_key_value_state should have 2 past states: keys and values. Got {} past states".format(
+                len(past_key_value_state)
+            )
+            real_qlen = qlen + shape_list(past_key_value_state[0])[2] if query_length is None else query_length
+        else:
+            real_qlen = qlen
+
         if kv is None:
-            klen = qlen if cache is None else cache["slen"] + qlen
+            klen = real_qlen
         else:
             klen = shape_list(kv)[1]
 
@@ -207,36 +230,51 @@ class TFT5Attention(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
             return tf.reshape(tf.transpose(x, perm=(0, 2, 1, 3)), (bs, -1, self.inner_dim))
 
         q = shape(self.q(input))  # (bs, n_heads, qlen, dim_per_head)
+
         if kv is None:
             k = shape(self.k(input))  # (bs, n_heads, qlen, dim_per_head)
             v = shape(self.v(input))  # (bs, n_heads, qlen, dim_per_head)
-        elif cache is None or self.layer_id not in cache:
+        elif past_key_value_state is None:
             k = v = kv
             k = shape(self.k(k))  # (bs, n_heads, qlen, dim_per_head)
             v = shape(self.v(v))  # (bs, n_heads, qlen, dim_per_head)
 
-        if cache is not None:
+        if past_key_value_state is not None:
-            if self.layer_id in cache:
             if kv is None:
-                    k_, v_ = cache[self.layer_id]
+                k_, v_ = past_key_value_state
                 k = tf.concat([k_, k], axis=2)  # (bs, n_heads, klen, dim_per_head)
                 v = tf.concat([v_, v], axis=2)  # (bs, n_heads, klen, dim_per_head)
             else:
-                    k, v = cache[self.layer_id]
+                k, v = past_key_value_state
-            cache[self.layer_id] = (k, v)
+
+        # to cope with keras serialization
+        # we need to cast `use_cache` to correct bool
+        # if it is a tensor
+        if tf.is_tensor(use_cache):
+            if hasattr(use_cache, "numpy"):
+                use_cache = bool(use_cache.numpy())
+            else:
+                use_cache = True
+
+        if self.is_decoder and use_cache is True:
+            present_key_value_state = ((k, v),)
+        else:
+            present_key_value_state = (None,)
 
-        # q = q / math.sqrt(dim_per_head)                                     # No scaling in T5
-        # scores = tf.matmul(q, k, transpose_b=True)                            # (bs, n_heads, qlen, klen)
         scores = tf.einsum("bnqd,bnkd->bnqk", q, k)  # (bs, n_heads, qlen, klen)
 
         if position_bias is None:
             if not self.has_relative_attention_bias:
                 raise ValueError("No position_bias provided and no weights to compute position_bias")
-            position_bias = self.compute_bias(qlen, klen)
+            position_bias = self.compute_bias(real_qlen, klen)
+
+            # if key and values are already calculated
+            # we want only the last query position bias
+            if past_key_value_state is not None:
+                position_bias = position_bias[:, :, -1:, :]
+
             if mask is not None:
-                position_bias = position_bias + mask
+                position_bias = position_bias + mask  # (bs, n_heads, qlen, klen)
-                # mask = (mask == 0).expand_as(scores)                              # (bs, n_heads, qlen, klen)
-                # scores.masked_fill_(mask, -float('inf'))                          # (bs, n_heads, qlen, klen)
 
         scores += position_bias
         weights = tf.nn.softmax(scores, axis=-1)  # (bs, n_heads, qlen, klen)
@@ -251,7 +289,8 @@ class TFT5Attention(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
 
         context = self.o(context)
 
-        outputs = (context,)
+        outputs = (context,) + present_key_value_state
+
         if self.output_attentions:
             outputs = outputs + (weights,)
         if self.has_relative_attention_bias:
@@ -269,11 +308,24 @@ class TFT5LayerSelfAttention(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
         self.dropout = tf.keras.layers.Dropout(config.dropout_rate)
 
     def call(
-        self, hidden_states, attention_mask=None, position_bias=None, head_mask=None, training=False,
+        self,
+        hidden_states,
+        attention_mask=None,
+        position_bias=None,
+        head_mask=None,
+        past_key_value_state=None,
+        use_cache=False,
+        training=False,
     ):
         norm_x = self.layer_norm(hidden_states)
         attention_output = self.SelfAttention(
-            norm_x, mask=attention_mask, position_bias=position_bias, head_mask=head_mask, training=training,
+            norm_x,
+            mask=attention_mask,
+            position_bias=position_bias,
+            head_mask=head_mask,
+            past_key_value_state=past_key_value_state,
+            use_cache=use_cache,
+            training=training,
         )
         y = attention_output[0]
         layer_output = hidden_states + self.dropout(y, training=training)
@@ -291,11 +343,28 @@ class TFT5LayerCrossAttention(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
         self.dropout = tf.keras.layers.Dropout(config.dropout_rate)
 
     def call(
-        self, hidden_states, kv, attention_mask=None, position_bias=None, head_mask=None, training=False,
+        self,
+        hidden_states,
+        kv,
+        attention_mask=None,
+        position_bias=None,
+        head_mask=None,
+        past_key_value_state=None,
+        query_length=None,
+        use_cache=False,
+        training=False,
     ):
         norm_x = self.layer_norm(hidden_states)
         attention_output = self.EncDecAttention(
-            norm_x, mask=attention_mask, kv=kv, position_bias=position_bias, head_mask=head_mask, training=training,
+            norm_x,
+            mask=attention_mask,
+            kv=kv,
+            position_bias=position_bias,
+            head_mask=head_mask,
+            past_key_value_state=past_key_value_state,
+            query_length=query_length,
+            use_cache=use_cache,
+            training=training,
         )
         y = attention_output[0]
         layer_output = hidden_states + self.dropout(y, training=training)
@@ -317,9 +386,8 @@ class TFT5Block(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
                     config, has_relative_attention_bias=has_relative_attention_bias, name="layer_._1",
                 )
             )
-            self.layer.append(TFT5LayerFF(config, name="layer_._2"))
+
-        else:
+        self.layer.append(TFT5LayerFF(config, name="layer_._{}".format(len(self.layer))))
-            self.layer.append(TFT5LayerFF(config, name="layer_._1"))
 
     def call(
         self,
@@ -330,35 +398,73 @@ class TFT5Block(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
         encoder_attention_mask=None,
         encoder_decoder_position_bias=None,
         head_mask=None,
+        past_key_value_state=None,
+        use_cache=False,
         training=False,
     ):
+
+        if past_key_value_state is not None:
+            assert self.is_decoder, "Only decoder can use `past_key_value_states`"
+            expected_num_past_key_value_states = 2 if encoder_hidden_states is None else 4
+
+            error_message = "There should be {} past states. 2 (past / key) for self attention.{} Got {} past key / value states".format(
+                expected_num_past_key_value_states,
+                "2 (past / key) for cross attention" if expected_num_past_key_value_states == 4 else "",
+                len(past_key_value_state),
+            )
+            assert len(past_key_value_state) == expected_num_past_key_value_states, error_message
+
+            self_attn_past_key_value_state = past_key_value_state[:2]
+            cross_attn_past_key_value_state = past_key_value_state[2:]
+        else:
+            self_attn_past_key_value_state, cross_attn_past_key_value_state = None, None
+
         self_attention_outputs = self.layer[0](
             hidden_states,
             attention_mask=attention_mask,
             position_bias=position_bias,
             head_mask=head_mask,
+            past_key_value_state=self_attn_past_key_value_state,
+            use_cache=use_cache,
             training=training,
         )
-        hidden_states = self_attention_outputs[0]
+        hidden_states, present_key_value_state = self_attention_outputs[:2]
-        outputs = self_attention_outputs[1:]
+        attention_outputs = self_attention_outputs[2:]  # Keep self-attention outputs and relative position weights
 
-        if not self.is_decoder:
+        if self.is_decoder and encoder_hidden_states is not None:
-            hidden_states = self.layer[1](hidden_states, training=training)
+            # the actual query length is unknown for cross attention
+            # if using past key value states. Need to inject it here
+            if present_key_value_state is not None:
+                query_length = shape_list(present_key_value_state[0])[2]
             else:
+                query_length = None
+
             cross_attention_outputs = self.layer[1](
                 hidden_states,
                 kv=encoder_hidden_states,
                 attention_mask=encoder_attention_mask,
                 position_bias=encoder_decoder_position_bias,
                 head_mask=head_mask,
+                past_key_value_state=cross_attn_past_key_value_state,
+                query_length=query_length,
+                use_cache=use_cache,
                 training=training,
             )
             hidden_states = cross_attention_outputs[0]
-            outputs = outputs + cross_attention_outputs[1:]
+            # Combine self attn and cross attn key value states
-            hidden_states = self.layer[2](hidden_states, training=training)
+            if present_key_value_state is not None:
+                present_key_value_state = present_key_value_state + cross_attention_outputs[1]
 
-        outputs = (hidden_states,) + outputs  # add attentions if we output them
+            # Keep cross-attention outputs and relative position weights
-        return outputs  # hidden-states, (self-attention weights), (self-attention position bias), (cross-attention weights), (cross-attention position bias)
+            attention_outputs = attention_outputs + cross_attention_outputs[2:]
+
+        # Apply Feed Forward layer
+        hidden_states = self.layer[-1](hidden_states, training=training)
+        outputs = (hidden_states,)
+
+        # Add attentions if we output them
+        outputs = outputs + (present_key_value_state,) + attention_outputs
+        return outputs  # hidden-states, present_key_value_states, (self-attention weights), (self-attention position bias), (cross-attention weights), (cross-attention position bias)
 
 
 class _NoLayerEmbedTokens(object):
@@ -437,6 +543,8 @@ class TFT5MainLayer(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
         encoder_attention_mask=None,
         inputs_embeds=None,
         head_mask=None,
+        past_key_value_states=None,
+        use_cache=False,
         training=False,
     ):
 
@@ -456,12 +564,26 @@ class TFT5MainLayer(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
 
         batch_size, seq_length = input_shape
 
+        if past_key_value_states is not None:
+            assert seq_length == 1, "Input shape is {}, but should be {} when using past_key_value_sates".format(
+                input_shape, (batch_size, 1)
+            )
+            # required mask seq length can be calculated via length of past
+            # key value states and seq_length = 1 for the last token
+            mask_seq_length = shape_list(past_key_value_states[0][0])[2] + seq_length
+        else:
+            mask_seq_length = seq_length
+
         if attention_mask is None:
-            attention_mask = tf.fill((batch_size, seq_length), 1)
+            attention_mask = tf.fill((batch_size, mask_seq_length), 1)
-        if self.is_decoder and encoder_attention_mask is None:
+        if self.is_decoder and encoder_attention_mask is None and encoder_hidden_states is not None:
-            encoder_seq_length = encoder_hidden_states.shape[1]
+            encoder_seq_length = shape_list(encoder_hidden_states)[1]
             encoder_attention_mask = tf.fill((batch_size, encoder_seq_length), 1)
 
+        # initialize past_key_value_states with `None` if past does not exist
+        if past_key_value_states is None:
+            past_key_value_states = [None] * len(self.block)
+
         # We can provide a self-attention mask of dimensions [batch_size, from_seq_length, to_seq_length]
         # ourselves in which case we just need to make it broadcastable to all heads.
         attention_mask = tf.cast(attention_mask, dtype=tf.float32)
@@ -469,16 +591,18 @@ class TFT5MainLayer(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
         if num_dims_attention_mask == 3:
             extended_attention_mask = attention_mask[:, None, :, :]
         elif num_dims_attention_mask == 2:
-            # Provided a padding mask of dimensions [batch_size, seq_length]
+            # Provided a padding mask of dimensions [batch_size, mask_seq_length]
             # - if the model is a decoder, apply a causal mask in addition to the padding mask
-            # - if the model is an encoder, make the mask broadcastable to [batch_size, num_heads, seq_length, seq_length]
+            # - if the model is an encoder, make the mask broadcastable to [batch_size, num_heads, mask_seq_length, mask_seq_length]
-            if self.config.is_decoder:
+            if self.is_decoder:
-                seq_ids = tf.range(seq_length)
+                seq_ids = tf.range(mask_seq_length)
                 causal_mask = tf.less_equal(
-                    tf.tile(seq_ids[None, None, :], (batch_size, seq_length, 1)), seq_ids[None, :, None],
+                    tf.tile(seq_ids[None, None, :], (batch_size, mask_seq_length, 1)), seq_ids[None, :, None],
                 )
                 causal_mask = tf.cast(causal_mask, dtype=tf.float32)
                 extended_attention_mask = causal_mask[:, None, :, :] * attention_mask[:, None, None, :]
+                if past_key_value_states[0] is not None:
+                    extended_attention_mask = extended_attention_mask[:, :, -1:, :]
             else:
                 extended_attention_mask = attention_mask[:, None, None, :]
 
@@ -495,8 +619,9 @@ class TFT5MainLayer(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
 
         extended_attention_mask = (1.0 - extended_attention_mask) * -1e9
 
-        if self.is_decoder:
+        if self.is_decoder and encoder_attention_mask is not None:
             # If a 2D ou 3D attention mask is provided for the cross-attention
+            # we need to make broadcastabe to [batch_size, num_heads, mask_seq_length, mask_seq_length]
             # we need to make broadcastabe to [batch_size, num_heads, seq_length, seq_length]
             encoder_attention_mask = tf.cast(encoder_attention_mask, dtype=tf.float32)
             num_dims_encoder_attention_mask = len(shape_list(encoder_attention_mask))
@@ -525,13 +650,15 @@ class TFT5MainLayer(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
             head_mask = [None] * self.num_hidden_layers
             # head_mask = tf.constant([0] * self.num_hidden_layers)
 
+        present_key_value_states = ()
         all_hidden_states = ()
         all_attentions = ()
         position_bias = None
         encoder_decoder_position_bias = None
 
-        hidden_states = inputs_embeds
+        hidden_states = self.dropout(inputs_embeds, training=training)
-        for i, layer_module in enumerate(self.block):
+
+        for i, (layer_module, past_key_value_state) in enumerate(zip(self.block, past_key_value_states)):
             if self.output_hidden_states:
                 all_hidden_states = all_hidden_states + (hidden_states,)
 
@@ -543,18 +670,24 @@ class TFT5MainLayer(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
                 encoder_attention_mask=encoder_extended_attention_mask,
                 encoder_decoder_position_bias=encoder_decoder_position_bias,
                 head_mask=head_mask[i],
+                past_key_value_state=past_key_value_state,
+                use_cache=use_cache,
                 training=training,
             )
-            hidden_states = layer_outputs[0]
+            # layer_outputs is a tuple with:
+            # hidden-states, key-value-states, (self-attention weights), (self-attention position bias), (cross-attention weights), (cross-attention position bias)
+            hidden_states, present_key_value_state = layer_outputs[:2]
             if i == 0:
                 # We share the position biases between the layers - the first layer store them
                 # layer_outputs = hidden-states, (self-attention weights), (self-attention position bias), (cross-attention weights), (cross-attention position bias)
-                position_bias = layer_outputs[2 if self.output_attentions else 1]
+                position_bias = layer_outputs[3 if self.output_attentions else 2]
-                if self.is_decoder:
+                if self.is_decoder and encoder_hidden_states is not None:
-                    encoder_decoder_position_bias = layer_outputs[4 if self.output_attentions else 2]
+                    encoder_decoder_position_bias = layer_outputs[4 if self.output_attentions else 3]
+            # append next layer key value states
+            present_key_value_states = present_key_value_states + (present_key_value_state,)
 
             if self.output_attentions:
-                all_attentions = all_attentions + (layer_outputs[1],)
+                all_attentions = all_attentions + (layer_outputs[2],)
 
         hidden_states = self.final_layer_norm(hidden_states)
         hidden_states = self.dropout(hidden_states, training=training)
@@ -564,6 +697,9 @@ class TFT5MainLayer(tf.keras.layers.Layer):
             all_hidden_states = all_hidden_states + (hidden_states,)
 
         outputs = (hidden_states,)
+        if use_cache is True:
+            assert self.is_decoder, "`use_cache` can only be set to `True` if {} is used as a decoder".format(self)
+            outputs = outputs + (present_key_value_states,)
         if self.output_hidden_states:
             outputs = outputs + (all_hidden_states,)
         if self.output_attentions:
@@ -650,6 +786,7 @@ T5_INPUTS_DOCSTRING = r"""
             :func:`transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids` for details.
         decoder_input_ids (:obj:`tf.Tensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size, target_sequence_length)`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
             Provide for sequence to sequence training. T5 uses the pad_token_id as the starting token for decoder_input_ids generation.
+            If `decoder_past_key_value_states` is used, optionally only the last `decoder_input_ids` have to be input (see `decoder_past_key_value_states`).
         attention_mask (:obj:`tf.Tensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size, sequence_length)`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
             Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices.
             Mask values selected in ``[0, 1]``:
@@ -660,6 +797,13 @@ T5_INPUTS_DOCSTRING = r"""
             Used in the cross-attention of the decoder.
         decoder_attention_mask (:obj:`tf.Tensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size, tgt_seq_len)`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
             Default behavior: generate a tensor that ignores pad tokens in decoder_input_ids. Causal mask will also be used by default.
+        decoder_past_key_value_states (:obj:`tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor))` of length :obj:`config.n_layers` with each tuple having 4 tensors of shape :obj:`(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length - 1, embed_size_per_head)`):
+            Contains pre-computed key and value hidden-states of the attention blocks.
+            Can be used to speed up decoding.
+            If `decoder_past_key_value_states` are used, the user can optionally input only the last `decoder_input_ids`
+            (those that don't have their past key value states given to this model) of shape :obj:`(batch_size, 1)`
+        use_cache (:obj:`bool`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`True`):
+            If `use_cache` is True, `decoder_past_key_value_states` are returned and can be used to speed up decoding (see `decoder_past_key_value_states`).
         inputs_embeds (:obj:`tf.Tensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
             Optionally, instead of passing :obj:`input_ids` you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation.
             This is useful if you want more control over how to convert `input_ids` indices into associated vectors
@@ -705,6 +849,12 @@ class TFT5Model(TFT5PreTrainedModel):
     def get_output_embeddings(self):
         return self.shared
 
+    def get_encoder(self):
+        return self.encoder
+
+    def get_decoder(self):
+        return self.decoder
+
     @add_start_docstrings_to_callable(T5_INPUTS_DOCSTRING)
     def call(self, inputs, **kwargs):
         r"""
@@ -712,6 +862,11 @@ class TFT5Model(TFT5PreTrainedModel):
         :obj:`tuple(tf.Tensor)` comprising various elements depending on the configuration (:class:`~transformers.T5Config`) and inputs.
         last_hidden_state (:obj:`tf.Tensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`):
             Sequence of hidden-states at the output of the last layer of the model.
+            If `decoder_past_key_value_states` is used only the last hidden-state of the sequences of shape :obj:`(batch_size, 1, hidden_size)` is output.
+        decoder_past_key_value_states (:obj:`tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor))` of length :obj:`config.n_layers` with each tuple having 4 tensors of shape :obj:`(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, embed_size_per_head)`, `optional`, returned when ``use_cache=True``):
+            Contains pre-computed key and value hidden-states of the attention blocks.
+            Can be used to speed up sequential decoding (see `decoder_past_key_value_states` input).
+            Note that when using `decoder_past_key_value_states`, the model only outputs the last `hidden-state` of the sequence of shape :obj:`(batch_size, 1, config.vocab_size)`.
         hidden_states (:obj:`tuple(tf.Tensor)`, `optional`, returned when ``config.output_hidden_states=True``):
             Tuple of :obj:`tf.Tensor` (one for the output of the embeddings + one for the output of each layer)
             of shape :obj:`(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`.
@@ -743,12 +898,14 @@ class TFT5Model(TFT5PreTrainedModel):
 
         # retrieve arguments
         input_ids = kwargs.get("inputs", None)
-        decoder_input_ids = kwargs.get("decoder_input_ids", None)
+        inputs_embeds = kwargs.get("inputs_embeds", None)
         attention_mask = kwargs.get("attention_mask", None)
         encoder_outputs = kwargs.get("encoder_outputs", None)
+        decoder_input_ids = kwargs.get("decoder_input_ids", None)
         decoder_attention_mask = kwargs.get("decoder_attention_mask", None)
-        inputs_embeds = kwargs.get("inputs_embeds", None)
         decoder_inputs_embeds = kwargs.get("decoder_inputs_embeds", None)
+        decoder_past_key_value_states = kwargs.get("decoder_past_key_value_states", None)
+        use_cache = kwargs.get("use_cache", True)
         head_mask = kwargs.get("head_mask", None)
 
         # Encode if needed (training, first prediction pass)
@@ -759,16 +916,30 @@ class TFT5Model(TFT5PreTrainedModel):
 
         hidden_states = encoder_outputs[0]
 
+        # If decoding with past key value states, only the last tokens
+        # should be given as an input
+        if decoder_past_key_value_states is not None:
+            if decoder_input_ids is not None:
+                decoder_input_ids = decoder_input_ids[:, -1:]
+            if decoder_inputs_embeds is not None:
+                decoder_inputs_embeds = decoder_inputs_embeds[:, -1:]
+
         # Decode
         decoder_outputs = self.decoder(
             decoder_input_ids,
             attention_mask=decoder_attention_mask,
             inputs_embeds=decoder_inputs_embeds,
+            past_key_value_states=decoder_past_key_value_states,
             encoder_hidden_states=hidden_states,
             encoder_attention_mask=attention_mask,
             head_mask=head_mask,
+            use_cache=use_cache,
         )
 
+        if use_cache is True:
+            past = ((encoder_outputs, decoder_outputs[1]),)
+            decoder_outputs = decoder_outputs[:1] + past + decoder_outputs[2:]
+
         return decoder_outputs + encoder_outputs
 
 
@@ -802,6 +973,9 @@ class TFT5ForConditionalGeneration(TFT5PreTrainedModel):
     def get_encoder(self):
         return self.encoder
 
+    def get_decoder(self):
+        return self.decoder
+
     @add_start_docstrings_to_callable(T5_INPUTS_DOCSTRING)
     def call(self, inputs, **kwargs):
         r"""
@@ -811,6 +985,10 @@ class TFT5ForConditionalGeneration(TFT5PreTrainedModel):
             Classification loss (cross entropy).
         prediction_scores (:obj:`tf.Tensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size, sequence_length, config.vocab_size)`)
             Prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax).
+        decoder_past_key_value_states (:obj:`tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor))` of length :obj:`config.n_layers` with each tuple having 4 tensors of shape :obj:`(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, embed_size_per_head)`, `optional`, returned when ``use_cache=True``):
+            Contains pre-computed key and value hidden-states of the attention blocks.
+            Can be used to speed up sequential decoding (see `decoder_past_key_value_states` input).
+            Note that when using `decoder_past_key_value_states`, the model only outputs the last `prediction_score` of the sequence of shape :obj:`(batch_size, 1, config.vocab_size)`.
         hidden_states (:obj:`tuple(tf.Tensor)`, `optional`, returned when ``config.output_hidden_states=True``):
             Tuple of :obj:`tf.Tensor` (one for the output of the embeddings + one for the output of each layer)
             of shape :obj:`(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`.
@@ -850,6 +1028,8 @@ class TFT5ForConditionalGeneration(TFT5PreTrainedModel):
         attention_mask = kwargs.get("attention_mask", None)
         encoder_outputs = kwargs.get("encoder_outputs", None)
         decoder_attention_mask = kwargs.get("decoder_attention_mask", None)
+        decoder_past_key_value_states = kwargs.get("decoder_past_key_value_states", None)
+        use_cache = kwargs.get("use_cache", True)
         inputs_embeds = kwargs.get("inputs_embeds", None)
         decoder_inputs_embeds = kwargs.get("decoder_inputs_embeds", None)
         head_mask = kwargs.get("head_mask", None)
@@ -863,16 +1043,32 @@ class TFT5ForConditionalGeneration(TFT5PreTrainedModel):
 
         hidden_states = encoder_outputs[0]
 
+        # If decoding with past key value states, only the last tokens
+        # should be given as an input
+        if decoder_past_key_value_states is not None:
+            if decoder_input_ids is not None:
+                decoder_input_ids = decoder_input_ids[:, -1:]
+            if decoder_inputs_embeds is not None:
+                decoder_inputs_embeds = decoder_inputs_embeds[:, -1:]
+
         # Decode
         decoder_outputs = self.decoder(
             decoder_input_ids,
             attention_mask=decoder_attention_mask,
             inputs_embeds=decoder_inputs_embeds,
+            past_key_value_states=decoder_past_key_value_states,
             encoder_hidden_states=hidden_states,
             encoder_attention_mask=attention_mask,
             head_mask=head_mask,
+            use_cache=use_cache,
         )
 
+        # insert decoder past at right place
+        # to speed up decoding
+        if use_cache is True:
+            past = ((encoder_outputs, decoder_outputs[1]),)
+            decoder_outputs = decoder_outputs[:1] + past + decoder_outputs[2:]
+
         sequence_output = decoder_outputs[0] * (self.model_dim ** -0.5)
         embed_tokens = self.get_output_embeddings()
         lm_logits = embed_tokens(sequence_output, mode="linear")
@@ -880,22 +1076,46 @@ class TFT5ForConditionalGeneration(TFT5PreTrainedModel):
 
         return decoder_outputs + encoder_outputs
 
-    def prepare_inputs_for_generation(self, input_ids, past, attention_mask, **kwargs):
+    def prepare_inputs_for_generation(self, input_ids, past, attention_mask, use_cache, **kwargs):
         assert past is not None, "past has to be defined for encoder_outputs"
 
         # first step
-        if type(past) is tuple:
+        if len(past) < 2:
-            encoder_outputs = past
+            encoder_outputs, decoder_past_key_value_states = past, None
         else:
-            encoder_outputs = (past,)
+            encoder_outputs, decoder_past_key_value_states = past[0], past[1]
 
         return {
             "inputs": None,  # inputs don't have to be defined, but still need to be passed to make Keras.layer.__call__ happy
             "decoder_input_ids": input_ids,  # input_ids are the decoder_input_ids
+            "decoder_past_key_value_states": decoder_past_key_value_states,
             "encoder_outputs": encoder_outputs,
             "attention_mask": attention_mask,
+            "use_cache": use_cache,
         }
 
     def _reorder_cache(self, past, beam_idx):
-        # past does not have to be re-ordered for T5.
+        # if decoder past is not included in output
+        # speedy decoding is disabled and no need to reorder
+
+        if len(past) < 2:
+            logger.warning("You might want to consider setting `use_cache=True` to speed up decoding")
             return past
+
+        decoder_past = past[1]
+        past = (past[0],)
+        reordered_decoder_past = ()
+
+        for layer_past_states in decoder_past:
+            # get the correct batch idx from layer past batch dim
+            # batch dim of `past` is at 2nd position
+            reordered_layer_past_states = ()
+            for layer_past_state in layer_past_states:
+                # need to set correct `past` for each of the four key / value states
+                reordered_layer_past_states = reordered_layer_past_states + (tf.gather(layer_past_state, beam_idx),)
+
+            assert shape_list(reordered_layer_past_states[0]) == shape_list(layer_past_states[0])
+            assert len(reordered_layer_past_states) == len(layer_past_states)
+
+            reordered_decoder_past = reordered_decoder_past + (reordered_layer_past_states,)
+        return past + (reordered_decoder_past,)

src/transformers/modeling_tf_utils.py

@@ -1299,17 +1299,7 @@ class TFPreTrainedModel(tf.keras.Model, TFModelUtilsMixin):
 
     @staticmethod
     def _reorder_cache(past, beam_idx):
-        reordered_past = []
+        return tuple(tf.gather(layer_past, beam_idx, axis=1) for layer_past in past)
-        for layer_past in past:
-            # get the correct batch idx from layer past batch dim
-            # batch dim of `past` and `mems` is at 2nd position
-            reordered_layer_past = [tf.identity(tf.expand_dims(layer_past[:, i], 1)) for i in beam_idx]
-            reordered_layer_past = tf.concat(reordered_layer_past, axis=1)
-            # check that shape matches
-            assert shape_list(reordered_layer_past) == shape_list(layer_past)
-            reordered_past.append(reordered_layer_past)
-        past = tuple(reordered_past)
-        return past
 
 
 def _create_next_token_logits_penalties(input_ids, logits, repetition_penalty):

tests/test_modeling_t5.py

@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ class T5ModelTest(ModelTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
             output_from_past_slice = output_from_past[:, 0, random_slice_idx].detach()
 
             # test that outputs are equal for slice
-            self.parent.assertTrue(torch.allclose(output_from_past_slice, output_from_no_past_slice, atol=1e-3))
+            self.parent.assertTrue(torch.allclose(output_from_past_slice, output_from_no_past_slice, atol=1e-6))
 
         def create_and_check_t5_decoder_model_attention_mask_past(
             self, config, input_ids, decoder_input_ids, attention_mask, decoder_attention_mask, lm_labels,
@@ -293,7 +293,6 @@ class T5ModelTest(ModelTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
         def create_t5_and_check_t5_generate_with_past_key_value_states(
             self, config, input_ids, decoder_input_ids, attention_mask, decoder_attention_mask, lm_labels,
         ):
-            config.num_layers = 1
             model = T5ForConditionalGeneration(config=config)
             model.to(torch_device)
             model.eval()

tests/test_modeling_tf_gpt2.py

@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ class TFGPT2ModelTest(TFModelTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
             output_from_past_slice = output_from_past[:, 0, random_slice_idx]
 
             # test that outputs are equal for slice
-            tf.debugging.assert_near(output_from_past_slice, output_from_no_past_slice, rtol=1e-12)
+            tf.debugging.assert_near(output_from_past_slice, output_from_no_past_slice, rtol=1e-6)
 
         def create_and_check_gpt2_model_attention_mask_past(
             self, config, input_ids, input_mask, head_mask, token_type_ids, *args

tests/test_modeling_tf_t5.py

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ from .utils import CACHE_DIR, require_tf, slow
 
 
 if is_tf_available():
+    import tensorflow as tf
     from transformers import TFT5Model, TFT5ForConditionalGeneration, T5Tokenizer
 
 
@@ -111,14 +112,14 @@ class TFT5ModelTest(TFModelTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
                 "decoder_input_ids": input_ids,
                 "decoder_attention_mask": input_mask,
             }
-            encoder_output, decoder_output = model(inputs)
+            decoder_output, decoder_past, encoder_output = model(inputs)
 
-            encoder_output, decoder_output = model(
+            decoder_output, decoder_past, encoder_output = model(
                 input_ids, decoder_attention_mask=input_mask, decoder_input_ids=input_ids
             )
-
             result = {
                 "encoder_output": encoder_output.numpy(),
+                "decoder_past": decoder_past,
                 "decoder_output": decoder_output.numpy(),
             }
             self.parent.assertListEqual(
@@ -127,6 +128,13 @@ class TFT5ModelTest(TFModelTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
             self.parent.assertListEqual(
                 list(result["decoder_output"].shape), [self.batch_size, self.seq_length, self.hidden_size]
             )
+            self.parent.assertEqual(len(decoder_past), 2)
+            # decoder_past[0] should correspond to encoder output
+            self.parent.assertTrue(tf.reduce_all(tf.math.equal(decoder_past[0][0], encoder_output)))
+            # There should be `num_layers` key value embeddings stored in decoder_past[1]
+            self.parent.assertEqual(len(decoder_past[1]), config.num_layers)
+            # There should be a self attn key, a self attn value, a cross attn key and a cross attn value stored in each decoder_past[1] tuple
+            self.parent.assertEqual(len(decoder_past[1][0]), 4)
 
         def create_and_check_t5_with_lm_head(self, config, input_ids, input_mask, token_labels):
             model = TFT5ForConditionalGeneration(config=config)
@@ -136,7 +144,7 @@ class TFT5ModelTest(TFModelTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
                 "decoder_attention_mask": input_mask,
             }
 
-            prediction_scores, decoder_output = model(inputs_dict)
+            prediction_scores, _, _ = model(inputs_dict)
 
             result = {
                 "prediction_scores": prediction_scores.numpy(),
@@ -145,6 +153,76 @@ class TFT5ModelTest(TFModelTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
                 list(result["prediction_scores"].shape), [self.batch_size, self.seq_length, self.vocab_size]
             )
 
+        def create_and_check_t5_decoder_model_past(self, config, input_ids, decoder_input_ids, attention_mask):
+            model = TFT5Model(config=config).get_decoder()
+
+            input_ids = input_ids[:1, :]
+            self.batch_size = 1
+
+            # first forward pass
+            _, past_key_value_states = model(input_ids, use_cache=True)
+
+            # create hypothetical next token and extent to next_input_ids
+            next_tokens = ids_tensor((self.batch_size, 1), config.vocab_size)
+
+            # append to next input_ids and
+            next_input_ids = tf.concat([input_ids, next_tokens], axis=-1)
+
+            output_from_no_past = model(next_input_ids)[0]
+            output_from_past = model(next_tokens, past_key_value_states=past_key_value_states)[0]
+
+            # select random slice
+            random_slice_idx = int(ids_tensor((1,), output_from_past.shape[-1]))
+            output_from_no_past_slice = output_from_no_past[:, -1, random_slice_idx]
+            output_from_past_slice = output_from_past[:, 0, random_slice_idx]
+
+            # test that outputs are equal for slice
+            tf.debugging.assert_near(output_from_past_slice, output_from_no_past_slice, rtol=1e-6)
+
+        def create_and_check_t5_decoder_model_attention_mask_past(
+            self, config, input_ids, decoder_input_ids, attention_mask
+        ):
+            model = TFT5Model(config=config).get_decoder()
+
+            # create attention mask
+            half_seq_length = self.seq_length // 2
+            attn_mask_begin = tf.ones((self.batch_size, half_seq_length), dtype=tf.int32)
+            attn_mask_end = tf.zeros((self.batch_size, self.seq_length - half_seq_length), dtype=tf.int32)
+            attn_mask = tf.concat([attn_mask_begin, attn_mask_end], axis=1)
+
+            # first forward pass
+            _, past_key_value_states = model(input_ids, attention_mask=attn_mask, use_cache=True)
+
+            # create hypothetical next token and extent to next_input_ids
+            next_tokens = ids_tensor((self.batch_size, 1), config.vocab_size)
+
+            # change a random masked slice from input_ids
+            random_seq_idx_to_change = ids_tensor((1,), half_seq_length).numpy() + 1
+            random_other_next_tokens = ids_tensor((self.batch_size, self.seq_length), config.vocab_size)
+            vector_condition = tf.range(self.seq_length) == (self.seq_length - random_seq_idx_to_change)
+            condition = tf.transpose(
+                tf.broadcast_to(tf.expand_dims(vector_condition, -1), (self.seq_length, self.batch_size))
+            )
+            input_ids = tf.where(condition, random_other_next_tokens, input_ids)
+
+            # append to next input_ids and attn_mask
+            next_input_ids = tf.concat([input_ids, next_tokens], axis=-1)
+            attn_mask = tf.concat([attn_mask, tf.ones((attn_mask.shape[0], 1), dtype=tf.int32)], axis=1,)
+
+            # get two different outputs
+            output_from_no_past = model(next_input_ids, attention_mask=attn_mask)[0]
+            output_from_past = model(
+                next_tokens, past_key_value_states=past_key_value_states, attention_mask=attn_mask
+            )[0]
+
+            # select random slice
+            random_slice_idx = ids_tensor((1,), output_from_past.shape[-1]).numpy().item()
+            output_from_no_past_slice = output_from_no_past[:, -1, random_slice_idx]
+            output_from_past_slice = output_from_past[:, 0, random_slice_idx]
+
+            # test that outputs are equal for slice
+            tf.debugging.assert_near(output_from_past_slice, output_from_no_past_slice, rtol=1e-6)
+
         def prepare_config_and_inputs_for_common(self):
             config_and_inputs = self.prepare_config_and_inputs()
             (config, input_ids, input_mask, token_labels) = config_and_inputs
@@ -152,6 +230,7 @@ class TFT5ModelTest(TFModelTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
                 "inputs": input_ids,
                 "decoder_input_ids": input_ids,
                 "decoder_attention_mask": input_mask,
+                "use_cache": tf.convert_to_tensor([False]),
             }
             return config, inputs_dict
 
@@ -170,6 +249,14 @@ class TFT5ModelTest(TFModelTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
         config_and_inputs = self.model_tester.prepare_config_and_inputs()
         self.model_tester.create_and_check_t5_with_lm_head(*config_and_inputs)
 
+    def test_t5_decoder_model_past(self):
+        config_and_inputs = self.model_tester.prepare_config_and_inputs()
+        self.model_tester.create_and_check_t5_decoder_model_past(*config_and_inputs)
+
+    def test_t5_decoder_model_past_with_attn_mask(self):
+        config_and_inputs = self.model_tester.prepare_config_and_inputs()
+        self.model_tester.create_and_check_t5_decoder_model_attention_mask_past(*config_and_inputs)
+
     @slow
     def test_model_from_pretrained(self):
         for model_name in ["t5-small"]: