The original script is here. It has the following message regarding speed:
At least 20 epochs are required before the generated text starts sounding coherent. It is recommended to run this script on GPU, as recurrent networks are quite computationally intensive. If you try this script on new data, make sure your corpus has at least ~100k characters. ~1M is better.
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# Imports
from __future__ import print_function
from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers import Dense, Activation, Dropout
from keras.layers import LSTM
from keras.utils.data_utils import get_file
import numpy as np
import random
import sys
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# Get the data
path = get_file('nietzsche.txt', origin="https://s3.amazonaws.com/text-datasets/nietzsche.txt")
text = open(path).read().lower()
print('corpus length:', len(text))
chars = set(text)
print('total chars:', len(chars))
char_indices = dict((c, i) for i, c in enumerate(chars))
indices_char = dict((i, c) for i, c in enumerate(chars))
# cut the text in semi-redundant sequences of maxlen characters
maxlen = 40
step = 3
sentences = []
next_chars = []
for i in range(0, len(text) - maxlen, step):
sentences.append(text[i: i + maxlen])
next_chars.append(text[i + maxlen])
print('nb sequences:', len(sentences))
print('Vectorization...')
X = np.zeros((len(sentences), maxlen, len(chars)), dtype=np.bool)
y = np.zeros((len(sentences), len(chars)), dtype=np.bool)
for i, sentence in enumerate(sentences):
for t, char in enumerate(sentence):
X[i, t, char_indices[char]] = 1
y[i, char_indices[next_chars[i]]] = 1
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# build the model: 2 stacked LSTM
print('Build model...')
model = Sequential()
model.add(LSTM(512, return_sequences=True, input_shape=(maxlen, len(chars))))
model.add(Dropout(0.2))
model.add(LSTM(512, return_sequences=False))
model.add(Dropout(0.2))
model.add(Dense(len(chars)))
model.add(Activation('softmax'))
model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer='rmsprop')
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def sample(a, temperature=1.0):
# helper function to sample an index from a probability array
a = np.log(a) / temperature
a = np.exp(a) / np.sum(np.exp(a))
return np.argmax(np.random.multinomial(1, a, 1))
# train the model, output generated text after each iteration
for iteration in range(1, 60):
print()
print('-' * 50)
print('Iteration', iteration)
model.fit(X, y, batch_size=128, nb_epoch=1)
start_index = random.randint(0, len(text) - maxlen - 1)
for diversity in [0.2, 0.5, 1.0, 1.2]:
print()
print('----- diversity:', diversity)
generated = ''
sentence = text[start_index: start_index + maxlen]
generated += sentence
print('----- Generating with seed: "' + sentence + '"')
sys.stdout.write(generated)
for i in range(400):
x = np.zeros((1, maxlen, len(chars)))
for t, char in enumerate(sentence):
x[0, t, char_indices[char]] = 1.
preds = model.predict(x, verbose=0)[0]
next_index = sample(preds, diversity)
next_char = indices_char[next_index]
generated += next_char
sentence = sentence[1:] + next_char
sys.stdout.write(next_char)
sys.stdout.flush()
print()
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