model comments, docstrings

notepredictor/notepredictor/model.py

@@ -81,7 +81,19 @@ def forward(self, x):
 #         return self.net(x)
 
 class ModalityTransformer(nn.Module):
-    """Model joint distribution of modalities autoregressively with random permutations"""
+    """
+    Model joint distribution of note modalities (e.g. pitch, time, velocity).
+
+    This is an autoregressive Transformer model for the *internal* structure of notes.
+    It is *not* autoregressive in time, but in modality.
+    At training time, it executes in parallel over all timesteps and modalities, with
+    time dependencies provided via the RNN backbone.
+
+    At sampling time it is called serially, one modality at a time, 
+    repeatedly at each time step.
+
+    Inspired by XLNet: http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08237
+    """
     def __init__(self, input_size, hidden_size, heads=4, layers=1):
         super().__init__()
         self.net = nn.TransformerDecoder(
@@ -95,13 +107,11 @@ def forward(self, ctx, h_ctx, h_tgt):
             ctx: list of Tensor[batch x time x input_size], length note_dim-1
                 these are the embedded ground truth values
             h_ctx: Tensor[batch x time x input_size]
-                (need something to attend to when ctx is empty)
+                projection of RNN state (need something to attend to when ctx is empty)
             h_tgt: list of Tensor[batch x time x input_size], length note_dim
-                these are projections of the RNN state
+                these are projections of the RNN state for each target,
+                which the Transformer will map to distribution parameters.
         """
-        # h_tgt = list(h_tgt)
-        # ctx = list(ctx)
-
         # explicitly broadcast
         h_ctx, *ctx = torch.broadcast_tensors(h_ctx, *ctx)
         h_ctx, *h_tgt = torch.broadcast_tensors(h_ctx, *h_tgt)
@@ -122,6 +132,7 @@ def forward(self, ctx, h_ctx, h_tgt):
 
         # generate a mask
         # this is both the target and memory mask
+        # masking is such that each target can only depend on "previous" context
         n = len(h_tgt)
         mask = ~tgt.new_ones((n,n), dtype=bool).tril()
 
@@ -254,7 +265,7 @@ def embeddings(self):
 
     def forward(self, pitches, times, velocities, validation=False):
         """
-        teacher-forced probabilistic loss and diagnostics for training
+        teacher-forced probabilistic loss and diagnostics for training.
 
         Args:
             pitches: LongTensor[batch, time]
@@ -263,33 +274,41 @@ def forward(self, pitches, times, velocities, validation=False):
         """
         batch_size, batch_len = pitches.shape
 
+        # embed data to input vectors
         pitch_emb = self.pitch_emb(pitches) # batch, time, emb_size
         time_emb = self.time_emb(times) # batch, time, emb_size
         vel_emb = self.vel_emb(velocities) # batch, time, emb_size
 
         embs = (pitch_emb, time_emb, vel_emb)
 
+        # feed to RNN backbone
         x = torch.cat(embs, -1)[:,:-1] # skip last time position
         ## broadcast initial state to batch size
         initial_state = tuple(
             t.expand(self.rnn.num_layers, x.shape[0], -1).contiguous() # 1 x batch x hidden
             for t in self.initial_state)
         h, _ = self.rnn(x, initial_state) #batch, time, hidden_size
 
-        # fit all note factorizations at once.
+        # fit all note factorizations (e.g. pitch->time->vel vs vel->time->pitch)
         # TODO: perm each batch item independently?
+        # get a random ordering for note modalities:
         perm = torch.randperm(self.note_dim)
+        # chunk RNN state into Transformer inputs
         hs = list(self.h_proj(h).chunk(self.note_dim+1, -1))
         h_ctx = hs[0]
         h_tgt = [hs[i+1] for i in perm]
+        # embed ground truth values for teacher-forcing
         embs = [embs[i][:,1:] for i in perm[:-1]]
+        # run through Transformer to conditional hidden states
         mode_hs = self.xformer(embs, h_ctx, h_tgt)
+        # permute back to canonical order
         mode_hs = [mode_hs[i] for i in perm.argsort()]
 
+        # final projections to raw distribution parameters
         pitch_params, time_params, vel_params = [
             proj(h) for proj,h in zip(self.projections, mode_hs)]
 
-        # get likelihoods
+        # get likelihoods of data for each modality
         pitch_logits = F.log_softmax(pitch_params, -1)
         pitch_targets = pitches[:,1:,None] #batch, time, 1
         pitch_log_probs = pitch_logits.gather(-1, pitch_targets)[...,0]
@@ -309,6 +328,8 @@ def forward(self, pitches, times, velocities, validation=False):
             **{'time_'+k:v for k,v in time_result.items()},
             **{'velocity_'+k:v for k,v in vel_result.items()}
         }
+        # this just computes some extra diagnostics which are inconvenient to do in the
+        # training script. should be turned off during training for performance.
         if validation:
             with torch.no_grad():
                 r['time_acc_30ms'] = (