Category: pytorch

It’s strange but i sometimes want to give the mathematical models (created by the neural nets) names. I think of them as having personalities like Bob or Eliza or Abnor Malo or Isa Phren, and i want to know them by name, because names convey spirit and character. Names encompass (or tolerate) the eerie uncanny simulacrum personality evoked by lines that seem real.

these things are

long reflecting gray

like pleasure to love the river hard

people are sketched through the streets

and it is all so green

in the impartial spiral

a cloud of art

a light of lovers

to speak of the education of salt

And if these lines can be written by a machine (that has read many lines written by humans) I wonder if existence is not just an extended copy machine. Maybe  personality is also programmed, programmable; and the sweet radiant wonderful gift of human creativity is just a reflection of evolution, a glint in the universe’s code.

or the skull whose form is of the secret truth

and in that tender place gets still

Tonight

I decided to try another model from the most recent PyTorch for Poetry Generation. Model: “2017-02-15T11-07-50/model-LSTM-emsize-512-nhid_512-nlayers_2-batch_size_20-epoch_15-loss_6.50-ppl_664.33.pt”

dream-racked love-squinting

ground where the onion and musk is lost

I drink you across the gardens ford

I worked as it played so there are several moments in the screengrab where my interface interrupts for a second. Then I showered. Then I lay on the couch, twisting the screen to face me, in my housecoat under a quilt, watching the poems scroll by.

though the body opened with silence

the skeletons of trees filled with poison

Each of the poems is an ephemeral vision, a house seen from the window of a train, partially glimpsed then gone, blurred, a flock of birds, a boy under the autumn mantle star with its deep shadow threshing the luckless dead.

to be hurt and will not

i push a step and begin to come alone, back from it, after winter

i did not wear the beat of my fingers

i knew where the peace loves me at last

I do not know what to call this model but i do know it speaks:

The soul is Woven view

The body of a life with words

View the 2 hour run at

Read it all here.

PyTorch word-language-model poetry is more stable and sane than Wavenet. PyTorch is regal, educated, less prone to misspellings or massive neologisms. Wavenet is edgy, erratic, clumped, — its visual dilation more contrite.

Yet reading each of these films is like witnessing a collage of avalanched literary modes and moods drift by, icons, tropes, techniques, incandescent, eerie, somnolent and deranged.

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Warning: Vocabularies archive ideological debris. Monotheist, racist, and misogynist terms clot like toxic ore amid iridescent love proclamations, stoic iron, clouds that marry the ocean.

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17000 lines output into a single text file

Promising results that reflect the limits of a machine without empathy, skilled as a mimic of pattern, lacking longterm memory, emulating cadence and inflections, yet indifferent to context, experience and continuity.

Code: github.com/jhave/pytorch-poetry-generation

60 minutes of poetry output below the break :

A LAND IN SEASON 

 so much a child is up, 
 so much what he cannot feel 
 has found no knowledg more 
 of age, or of much friends 
 
 which, nothing thinks himself. spok'n 
 not knowing what is being 
 
 doing? or else wanting as 
 that 

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My dream of an immaculate mesmerizing machine to replace all human imagination and absorb it into an engaging perpetual torrent of linguistic cleverness dissipated.

Yesterday, I let the GPU run overnight, expecting to return to 120 epochs and a stunning result.

Instead, on waking the computer in the morning:

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| end of epoch  40 | time: 452.85s 
| valid loss  5.84 | valid ppl   344.72
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SAVING: models/2017-02-06T17-39-04/model-LSTM-epoch_40-loss_5.84-ppl_344.72.pt
Killed

The simulacrum had miscarried. The entire thread had been killed (automatically? by what clause?). Considering the results in glum melancholy, I realized it had been killed because 5 epochs had passed without improvement.

Yet, after dusting off the 40 models that existed, many intriguing gems emerged, spliced they suggest a latent lucidity:

without regret,
 played with a smooth
 raid of soiled petals, the color
 of rage and blood away--
 pinched your nose

the unwavering wind brushed the crystal edge from the stack,
 it came in the mirror adam's--
 eleven miles from the unholy relic

 and i set off
 into the absence of old themes,
 ... looking for the wreck of the rare summers

dark silks and soft blonde feather

on pink sky that hid a blue sun
 where it became dwelling pointing dead
 its lip rattled its green pride, thread-bare

Code on Github: https://github.com/jhave/pytorch-poetry-generation

Read the entire UNEDITED batch of 40 generated poems of 111 words after the break:

Continue reading “PyTorch LSTM Day 2 : Killed (after only 40 epochs)”