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-rwxr-xr-xpro-train/dist-pro.pl45
-rw-r--r--pro-train/mr_pro_reduce.cc8
-rwxr-xr-xvest/parallelize.pl2
3 files changed, 26 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/pro-train/dist-pro.pl b/pro-train/dist-pro.pl
index 4bc9cfe3..6332563f 100755
--- a/pro-train/dist-pro.pl
+++ b/pro-train/dist-pro.pl
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ my $cpbin=1;
# regularization strength
my $tune_regularizer = 0;
-my $reg = 10;
-my $reg_previous = 0;
+my $reg = 500;
+my $reg_previous = 5000;
# Process command-line options
Getopt::Long::Configure("no_auto_abbrev");
@@ -547,16 +547,12 @@ sub enseg {
sub print_help {
my $executable = check_output("basename $0"); chomp $executable;
- print << "Help";
+ print << "Help";
Usage: $executable [options] <ini file>
$executable [options] <ini file>
- Runs a complete MERT optimization and test set decoding, using
- the decoder configuration in ini file. Note that many of the
- options have default values that are inferred automatically
- based on certain conventions. For details, refer to descriptions
- of the options --decoder, --weights, and --workdir.
+ Runs a complete PRO optimization using the ini file specified.
Required:
@@ -576,6 +572,10 @@ General options:
--local
Run the decoder and optimizer locally with a single thread.
+ --use-make <I>
+ Use make -j <I> to run the optimizer commands (useful on large
+ shared-memory machines where qsub is unavailable).
+
--decode-nodes <I>
Number of decoder processes to run in parallel. [default=15]
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ General options:
--max-iterations <M>
Maximum number of iterations to run. If not specified, defaults
- to 10.
+ to 30.
--metric <method>
Metric to optimize.
@@ -597,10 +597,6 @@ General options:
--pmem <N>
Amount of physical memory requested for parallel decoding jobs.
- --use-make <I>
- Use make -j <I> to run the optimizer commands (useful on large
- shared-memory machines where qsub is unavailable).
-
--workdir <dir>
Directory for intermediate and output files. If not specified, the
name is derived from the ini filename. Assuming that the ini
@@ -611,21 +607,22 @@ General options:
Regularization options:
- --interpolate-with-weights <F>
- [deprecated] At each iteration the resulting weights are
- interpolated with the weights from the previous iteration, with
- this factor.
-
- --tune-regularizer
- Hold out one third of the tuning data and used this to tune the
- regularization parameter. [this doesn't work well]
-
--reg <F>
- l2 regularization strength
+ l2 regularization strength [default=500]. The greater this value,
+ the closer to zero the weights will be.
--reg-previous <F>
l2 penalty for moving away from the weights from the previous
- iteration.
+ iteration. [default=5000]. The greater this value, the closer
+ to the previous iteration's weights the next iteration's weights
+ will be.
+
+Deprecated options:
+
+ --interpolate-with-weights <F>
+ [deprecated] At each iteration the resulting weights are
+ interpolated with the weights from the previous iteration, with
+ this factor. [default=1.0, i.e., no effect]
Help
}
diff --git a/pro-train/mr_pro_reduce.cc b/pro-train/mr_pro_reduce.cc
index 98cddba2..6362ce47 100644
--- a/pro-train/mr_pro_reduce.cc
+++ b/pro-train/mr_pro_reduce.cc
@@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ void InitCommandLine(int argc, char** argv, po::variables_map* conf) {
po::options_description opts("Configuration options");
opts.add_options()
("weights,w", po::value<string>(), "Weights from previous iteration (used as initialization and interpolation")
- ("regularize_to_weights,y",po::value<double>()->default_value(0.0), "Differences in learned weights to previous weights are penalized with an l2 penalty with this strength; 0.0 = no effect")
- ("interpolate_with_weights,p",po::value<double>()->default_value(1.0), "Output weights are p*w + (1-p)*w_prev; 1.0 = no effect")
- ("memory_buffers,m",po::value<unsigned>()->default_value(200), "Number of memory buffers (LBFGS)")
- ("regularization_strength,C",po::value<double>()->default_value(1.0), "l2 regularization strength")
+ ("regularization_strength,C",po::value<double>()->default_value(500.0), "l2 regularization strength")
+ ("regularize_to_weights,y",po::value<double>()->default_value(5000.0), "Differences in learned weights to previous weights are penalized with an l2 penalty with this strength; 0.0 = no effect")
+ ("memory_buffers,m",po::value<unsigned>()->default_value(100), "Number of memory buffers (LBFGS)")
("min_reg,r",po::value<double>()->default_value(0.01), "When tuning (-T) regularization strength, minimum regularization strenght")
("max_reg,R",po::value<double>()->default_value(1e6), "When tuning (-T) regularization strength, maximum regularization strenght")
("testset,t",po::value<string>(), "Optional held-out test set")
("tune_regularizer,T", "Use the held out test set (-t) to tune the regularization strength")
+ ("interpolate_with_weights,p",po::value<double>()->default_value(1.0), "[deprecated] Output weights are p*w + (1-p)*w_prev; 1.0 = no effect")
("help,h", "Help");
po::options_description dcmdline_options;
dcmdline_options.add(opts);
diff --git a/vest/parallelize.pl b/vest/parallelize.pl
index 869f430b..7d0365cc 100755
--- a/vest/parallelize.pl
+++ b/vest/parallelize.pl
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ usage: $name [options]
options:
- --fork
+ --use-fork
Instead of using qsub, use fork.
-e, --error-dir <dir>