TV Script Generation

In this project, you'll generate your own Seinfeld TV scripts using RNNs. You'll be using part of the Seinfeld dataset of scripts from 9 seasons. The Neural Network you'll build will generate a new ,"fake" TV script, based on patterns it recognizes in this training data.

Get the Data

The data is already provided for you in ./data/Seinfeld_Scripts.txt and you're encouraged to open that file and look at the text.

• As a first step, we'll load in this data and look at some samples.

• Then, you'll be tasked with defining and training an RNN to generate a new script!

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# load in data
import helper
data_dir = './data/Seinfeld_Scripts.txt'
text = helper.load_data(data_dir)

Explore the Data

Play around with view_line_range to view different parts of the data. This will give you a sense of the data you'll be working with. You can see, for example, that it is all lowercase text, and each new line of dialogue is separated by a newline character \n.

view_line_range = (0, 10)

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import numpy as np

print('Dataset Stats')
print('Roughly the number of unique words: {}'.format(len({word: None for word in text.split()})))

lines = text.split('\n')
print('Number of lines: {}'.format(len(lines)))
word_count_line = [len(line.split()) for line in lines]
print('Average number of words in each line: {}'.format(np.average(word_count_line)))

print('The lines {} to {}:'.format(*view_line_range))
print('\n'.join(text.split('\n')[view_line_range[0]:view_line_range[1]]))

Dataset Stats
Roughly the number of unique words: 46367
Number of lines: 109233
Average number of words in each line: 5.544240293684143
The lines 0 to 10:
jerry: do you know what this is all about? do you know, why were here? to be out, this is out...and out is one of the single most enjoyable experiences of life. people...did you ever hear people talking about we should go out? this is what theyre talking about...this whole thing, were all out now, no one is home. not one person here is home, were all out! there are people trying to find us, they dont know where we are. (on an imaginary phone) did you ring?, i cant find him. where did he go? he didnt tell me where he was going. he must have gone out. you wanna go out you get ready, you pick out the clothes, right? you take the shower, you get all ready, get the cash, get your friends, the car, the spot, the reservation...then youre standing around, what do you do? you go we gotta be getting back. once youre out, you wanna get back! you wanna go to sleep, you wanna get up, you wanna go out again tomorrow, right? where ever you are in life, its my feeling, youve gotta go. 

jerry: (pointing at georges shirt) see, to me, that button is in the worst possible spot. the second button literally makes or breaks the shirt, look at it. its too high! its in no-mans-land. you look like you live with your mother. 

george: are you through? 

jerry: you do of course try on, when you buy? 

george: yes, it was purple, i liked it, i dont actually recall considering the buttons. 

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Implement Pre-processing Functions

The first thing to do to any dataset is pre-processing. Implement the following pre-processing functions below:

• Lookup Table
• Tokenize Punctuation

Lookup Table

To create a word embedding, you first need to transform the words to ids. In this function, create two dictionaries:

• Dictionary to go from the words to an id, we'll call vocab_to_int
• Dictionary to go from the id to word, we'll call int_to_vocab

Return these dictionaries in the following tuple (vocab_to_int, int_to_vocab)

import problem_unittests as tests
from collections import Counter

def create_lookup_tables(text):
    """
    Create lookup tables for vocabulary
    :param text: The text of tv scripts split into words
    :return: A tuple of dicts (vocab_to_int, int_to_vocab)
    """
    # TODO: Implement Function
    word_counts = Counter(text)
    vocab_to_int = {word: idx for idx, (word, count) in enumerate(word_counts.most_common())}
    int_to_vocab = {idx: word for word, idx in vocab_to_int.items()}
    # return tuple
    return (vocab_to_int, int_to_vocab)


"""
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tests.test_create_lookup_tables(create_lookup_tables)

Tests Passed

Tokenize Punctuation

We'll be splitting the script into a word array using spaces as delimiters. However, punctuations like periods and exclamation marks can create multiple ids for the same word. For example, "bye" and "bye!" would generate two different word ids.

Implement the function token_lookup to return a dict that will be used to tokenize symbols like "!" into "||Exclamation_Mark||". Create a dictionary for the following symbols where the symbol is the key and value is the token:

• Period ( . )
• Comma ( , )
• Quotation Mark ( " )
• Semicolon ( ; )
• Exclamation mark ( ! )
• Question mark ( ? )
• Left Parentheses ( ( )
• Right Parentheses ( ) )
• Dash ( - )
• Return ( \n )

This dictionary will be used to tokenize the symbols and add the delimiter (space) around it. This separates each symbols as its own word, making it easier for the neural network to predict the next word. Make sure you don't use a value that could be confused as a word; for example, instead of using the value "dash", try using something like "||dash||".

def token_lookup():
    """
    Generate a dict to turn punctuation into a token.
    :return: Tokenized dictionary where the key is the punctuation and the value is the token
    """
    # TODO: Implement Function
    token_dict = {'.': '||period||',
                 ',': '||comma||',
                 '"': '||double_quote||',
                 ';': '||semi_colon||',
                 '!': '||exclaim||',
                 '?': '||question||',
                 '(': '||open_parentheses||',
                 ')': '||close_parentheses||',
                 '-': '||dash||',
                 '\n': '||return||'}
    return token_dict

"""
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tests.test_tokenize(token_lookup)

Tests Passed

Pre-process all the data and save it

Running the code cell below will pre-process all the data and save it to file. You're encouraged to look at the code for preprocess_and_save_data in the helpers.py file to see what it's doing in detail, but you do not need to change this code.

"""
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# pre-process training data
helper.preprocess_and_save_data(data_dir, token_lookup, create_lookup_tables)

Check Point

This is your first checkpoint. If you ever decide to come back to this notebook or have to restart the notebook, you can start from here. The preprocessed data has been saved to disk.

"""
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import helper
import problem_unittests as tests

int_text, vocab_to_int, int_to_vocab, token_dict = helper.load_preprocess()

Build the Neural Network

In this section, you'll build the components necessary to build an RNN by implementing the RNN Module and forward and backpropagation functions.

Check Access to GPU

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import torch

# Check for a GPU
train_on_gpu = torch.cuda.is_available()
if not train_on_gpu:
    print('No GPU found. Please use a GPU to train your neural network.')

Input

Let's start with the preprocessed input data. We'll use TensorDataset to provide a known format to our dataset; in combination with DataLoader, it will handle batching, shuffling, and other dataset iteration functions.

You can create data with TensorDataset by passing in feature and target tensors. Then create a DataLoader as usual.

data = TensorDataset(feature_tensors, target_tensors)
data_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(data, 
                                          batch_size=batch_size)

Batching

Implement the batch_data function to batch words data into chunks of size batch_size using the TensorDataset and DataLoader classes.

You can batch words using the DataLoader, but it will be up to you to create feature_tensors and target_tensors of the correct size and content for a given sequence_length.

For example, say we have these as input:

words = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
sequence_length = 4

Your first feature_tensor should contain the values:

[1, 2, 3, 4]

And the corresponding target_tensor should just be the next "word"/tokenized word value:

5

This should continue with the second feature_tensor, target_tensor being:

[2, 3, 4, 5]  # features
6             # target

from torch.utils.data import TensorDataset, DataLoader


def batch_data(words, sequence_length, batch_size):
    """
    Batch the neural network data using DataLoader
    :param words: The word ids of the TV scripts
    :param sequence_length: The sequence length of each batch
    :param batch_size: The size of each batch; the number of sequences in a batch
    :return: DataLoader with batched data
    """
    # TODO: Implement function
    
    # get number of targets we can make
    n_targets = len(words) - sequence_length
    
    # initialize feature and target 
    feature, target = [], []
    
    # loop through all targets we can make
    for i in range(n_targets):
        
        x = words[i:i+sequence_length]      # get some words from the given list
        y = words[i+sequence_length] # get the next word to be the target
        feature.append(x)
        target.append(y)
        
    feature_tensor = torch.from_numpy(np.array(feature))
    target_tensor = torch.from_numpy(np.array(target))
    
    # create data
    data = TensorDataset(feature_tensor, target_tensor)
    
    # create dataloader
    data_loader = DataLoader(data, shuffle=True, batch_size=batch_size)
    
    return data_loader

# there is no test for this function, but you are encouraged to create
# print statements and tests of your own

Test your dataloader

You'll have to modify this code to test a batching function, but it should look fairly similar.

Below, we're generating some test text data and defining a dataloader using the function you defined, above. Then, we are getting some sample batch of inputs sample_x and targets sample_y from our dataloader.

Your code should return something like the following (likely in a different order, if you shuffled your data):

torch.Size([10, 5])
tensor([[ 28,  29,  30,  31,  32],
        [ 21,  22,  23,  24,  25],
        [ 17,  18,  19,  20,  21],
        [ 34,  35,  36,  37,  38],
        [ 11,  12,  13,  14,  15],
        [ 23,  24,  25,  26,  27],
        [  6,   7,   8,   9,  10],
        [ 38,  39,  40,  41,  42],
        [ 25,  26,  27,  28,  29],
        [  7,   8,   9,  10,  11]])

torch.Size([10])
tensor([ 33,  26,  22,  39,  16,  28,  11,  43,  30,  12])

Sizes

Your sample_x should be of size (batch_size, sequence_length) or (10, 5) in this case and sample_y should just have one dimension: batch_size (10).

Values

You should also notice that the targets, sample_y, are the next value in the ordered test_text data. So, for an input sequence [ 28, 29, 30, 31, 32] that ends with the value 32, the corresponding output should be 33.

# test dataloader

test_text = range(50)
t_loader = batch_data(test_text, sequence_length=5, batch_size=10)

data_iter = iter(t_loader)
sample_x, sample_y = data_iter.next()

print(sample_x.shape)
print(sample_x)
print()
print(sample_y.shape)
print(sample_y)

torch.Size([10, 5])
tensor([[15, 16, 17, 18, 19],
        [10, 11, 12, 13, 14],
        [38, 39, 40, 41, 42],
        [24, 25, 26, 27, 28],
        [35, 36, 37, 38, 39],
        [39, 40, 41, 42, 43],
        [14, 15, 16, 17, 18],
        [20, 21, 22, 23, 24],
        [43, 44, 45, 46, 47],
        [29, 30, 31, 32, 33]], dtype=torch.int32)

torch.Size([10])
tensor([20, 15, 43, 29, 40, 44, 19, 25, 48, 34], dtype=torch.int32)

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Build the Neural Network

Implement an RNN using PyTorch's Module class. You may choose to use a GRU or an LSTM. To complete the RNN, you'll have to implement the following functions for the class:

• __init__ - The initialize function.
• init_hidden - The initialization function for an LSTM/GRU hidden state
• forward - Forward propagation function.

The initialize function should create the layers of the neural network and save them to the class. The forward propagation function will use these layers to run forward propagation and generate an output and a hidden state.

The output of this model should be the last batch of word scores after a complete sequence has been processed. That is, for each input sequence of words, we only want to output the word scores for a single, most likely, next word.

Hints

1. Make sure to stack the outputs of the lstm to pass to your fully-connected layer, you can do this with lstm_output = lstm_output.contiguous().view(-1, self.hidden_dim)
2. You can get the last batch of word scores by shaping the output of the final, fully-connected layer like so:

# reshape into (batch_size, seq_length, output_size)
output = output.view(batch_size, -1, self.output_size)
# get last batch
out = output[:, -1]

import torch.nn as nn

class RNN(nn.Module):
    
    def __init__(self, vocab_size, output_size, embedding_dim, hidden_dim, n_layers, dropout=0.5):
        """
        Initialize the PyTorch RNN Module
        :param vocab_size: The number of input dimensions of the neural network (the size of the vocabulary)
        :param output_size: The number of output dimensions of the neural network
        :param embedding_dim: The size of embeddings, should you choose to use them        
        :param hidden_dim: The size of the hidden layer outputs
        :param dropout: dropout to add in between LSTM/GRU layers
        """
        super(RNN, self).__init__()
        # TODO: Implement function
        
        # set class variables
        
        self.vocab_size = vocab_size
        self.output_size = output_size
        self.embedding_dim = embedding_dim
        self.hidden_dim = hidden_dim
        self.n_layers = n_layers
        
        # define model layers
        
        self.embed_in = nn.Embedding(num_embeddings=vocab_size, embedding_dim=embedding_dim)
        self.lstm = nn.LSTM(input_size=embedding_dim, hidden_size=hidden_dim, num_layers=n_layers, batch_first=True, dropout=dropout)
        self.fc = nn.Linear(hidden_dim, vocab_size)
    
    def forward(self, nn_input, hidden):
        """
        Forward propagation of the neural network
        :param nn_input: The input to the neural network
        :param hidden: The hidden state        
        :return: Two Tensors, the output of the neural network and the latest hidden state
        """
        # TODO: Implement function
        batch_size = nn_input.size(0)
        x = self.embed_in(nn_input)
        lstm_out, hidden = self.lstm(x, hidden)
        # stacking up the lstm output
        lstm_out = lstm_out.contiguous().view(-1, self.hidden_dim)
        output = self.fc(lstm_out)
        # return one batch of output word scores and the hidden state
        # reshape into (batch_size, seq_length, output_size)
        output = output.view(batch_size, -1, self.output_size)
        # get last batch
        out = output[:, -1]
        
        return out, hidden
    
    
    def init_hidden(self, batch_size):
        '''
        Initialize the hidden state of an LSTM/GRU
        :param batch_size: The batch_size of the hidden state
        :return: hidden state of dims (n_layers, batch_size, hidden_dim)
        '''
        # Implement function
        
        # initialize hidden state with zero weights, and move to GPU if available
        
        weight = next(self.parameters()).data
        #################################
        # hidden state has to be a tuple
        #################################
        if (train_on_gpu):
            hidden_state = tuple([weight.new(self.n_layers, batch_size, self.hidden_dim).zero_().cuda(),
                                 weight.new(self.n_layers, batch_size, self.hidden_dim).zero_().cuda()])
        else:
            hidden_state = tuple([weight.new(self.n_layers, batch_size, self.hidden_dim).zero_(),
                                 weight.new(self.n_layers, batch_size, self.hidden_dim).zero_()])
            
        return hidden_state

"""
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tests.test_rnn(RNN, train_on_gpu)

Tests Passed

Define forward and backpropagation

Use the RNN class you implemented to apply forward and back propagation. This function will be called, iteratively, in the training loop as follows:

loss = forward_back_prop(decoder, decoder_optimizer, criterion, inp, target)

And it should return the average loss over a batch and the hidden state returned by a call to RNN(inp, hidden). Recall that you can get this loss by computing it, as usual, and calling loss.item().

If a GPU is available, you should move your data to that GPU device, here.

def forward_back_prop(rnn, optimizer, criterion, inp, target, hidden):
    """
    Forward and backward propagation on the neural network
    :param rnn: The PyTorch Module that holds the neural network
    :param optimizer: The PyTorch optimizer for the neural network
    :param criterion: The PyTorch loss function
    :param inp: A batch of input to the neural network
    :param target: The target output for the batch of input
    :return: The loss and the latest hidden state Tensor
    """
    
    # TODO: Implement Function
    
    # move data to GPU, if available
    
    if train_on_gpu:
        inp, target = inp.cuda(), target.cuda()
    
    rnn.train()
    
    rnn.zero_grad()
    
    #############################################
    # hidden is still connceted for propagation
    # need to detach
    #############################################
    hidden = tuple([each.data for each in hidden])
    
    output, hidden = rnn(inp, hidden)
    
    target = target.long()
    
    loss = criterion(output, target)
    
    # perform backpropagation and optimization
    
    loss.backward()
    
    nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(rnn.parameters(), 5)
    
    optimizer.step()

    # return the loss over a batch and the hidden state produced by our model
    loss = loss.item()
    
    return loss, hidden

# Note that these tests aren't completely extensive.
# they are here to act as general checks on the expected outputs of your functions
"""
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tests.test_forward_back_prop(RNN, forward_back_prop, train_on_gpu)

Tests Passed

Neural Network Training

With the structure of the network complete and data ready to be fed in the neural network, it's time to train it.

Train Loop

The training loop is implemented for you in the train_decoder function. This function will train the network over all the batches for the number of epochs given. The model progress will be shown every number of batches. This number is set with the show_every_n_batches parameter. You'll set this parameter along with other parameters in the next section.

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def train_rnn(rnn, batch_size, optimizer, criterion, n_epochs, show_every_n_batches=100):
    batch_losses = []
    
    rnn.train()

    print("Training for %d epoch(s)..." % n_epochs)
    for epoch_i in range(1, n_epochs + 1):
        
        # initialize hidden state
        hidden = rnn.init_hidden(batch_size)
        
        for batch_i, (inputs, labels) in enumerate(train_loader, 1):
            
            # make sure you iterate over completely full batches, only
            n_batches = len(train_loader.dataset)//batch_size
            if(batch_i > n_batches):
                break
            # forward, back prop
            loss, hidden = forward_back_prop(rnn, optimizer, criterion, inputs, labels, hidden)          
            # record loss
            batch_losses.append(loss)

            # printing loss stats
            if batch_i % show_every_n_batches == 0:
                print('Epoch: {:>4}/{:<4}  Loss: {}\n'.format(
                    epoch_i, n_epochs, np.average(batch_losses)))
                batch_losses = []

    # returns a trained rnn
    return rnn

Hyperparameters

Set and train the neural network with the following parameters:

• Set sequence_length to the length of a sequence.
• Set batch_size to the batch size.
• Set num_epochs to the number of epochs to train for.
• Set learning_rate to the learning rate for an Adam optimizer.
• Set vocab_size to the number of unique tokens in our vocabulary.
• Set output_size to the desired size of the output.
• Set embedding_dim to the embedding dimension; smaller than the vocab_size.
• Set hidden_dim to the hidden dimension of your RNN.
• Set n_layers to the number of layers/cells in your RNN.
• Set show_every_n_batches to the number of batches at which the neural network should print progress.

If the network isn't getting the desired results, tweak these parameters and/or the layers in the RNN class.

# Data params
# Sequence Length
sequence_length = 15  # of words in a sequence
# Batch Size
batch_size = 128

# data loader - do not change
train_loader = batch_data(int_text, sequence_length, batch_size)

# Training parameters
# Number of Epochs
num_epochs = 5
# Learning Rate
learning_rate = 0.001

# Model parameters
# Vocab size
vocab_size = len(vocab_to_int)
# Output size
output_size = vocab_size
# Embedding Dimension
embedding_dim = 200
# Hidden Dimension
hidden_dim = 512
# Number of RNN Layers
n_layers = 2

# Show stats for every n number of batches
show_every_n_batches = 2000

Train

In the next cell, you'll train the neural network on the pre-processed data. If you have a hard time getting a good loss, you may consider changing your hyperparameters. In general, you may get better results with larger hidden and n_layer dimensions, but larger models take a longer time to train.

You should aim for a loss less than 3.5.

You should also experiment with different sequence lengths, which determine the size of the long range dependencies that a model can learn.

"""
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# create model and move to gpu if available
rnn = RNN(vocab_size, output_size, embedding_dim, hidden_dim, n_layers, dropout=0.5)
if train_on_gpu:
    rnn.cuda()

# defining loss and optimization functions for training
optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(rnn.parameters(), lr=learning_rate)
criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()

# training the model
trained_rnn = train_rnn(rnn, batch_size, optimizer, criterion, num_epochs, show_every_n_batches)

# saving the trained model
helper.save_model('./save/trained_rnn', trained_rnn)
print('Model Trained and Saved')

Training for 5 epoch(s)...
Epoch:    1/5     Loss: 4.762506700992584

Epoch:    1/5     Loss: 4.274913699865341

Epoch:    1/5     Loss: 4.118919184446335

Epoch:    2/5     Loss: 3.908740226408977

Epoch:    2/5     Loss: 3.823742162823677

Epoch:    2/5     Loss: 3.808058934211731

Epoch:    3/5     Loss: 3.6618280964854915

Epoch:    3/5     Loss: 3.609038880586624

Epoch:    3/5     Loss: 3.618223637223244

Epoch:    4/5     Loss: 3.4761369064545624

Epoch:    4/5     Loss: 3.4494112951755524

Epoch:    4/5     Loss: 3.480311173081398

Epoch:    5/5     Loss: 3.3431312859600424

Epoch:    5/5     Loss: 3.3223876802921297

Epoch:    5/5     Loss: 3.3612008963823317

Model Trained and Saved

Question: How did you decide on your model hyperparameters?

For example, did you try different sequence_lengths and find that one size made the model converge faster? What about your hidden_dim and n_layers; how did you decide on those?

Answer:

• sequence length
  • On average, sentences today range from 15 to 20 words
  • The average words per line in the TV script is 5 something
  • 6 words as base case
  • 10 words allowed slightly lower loss
  • 15 words got us close to < 3.5 loss
• batch_size
  • should not be too big even if we have infinite GPU memory
  • large values cause sparse and scrambled result
    • this may be due to
      • gradient steps are too big
    • batch_size of 128 dominates over 1024
• hidden_dim should be 2 raised to the power of some number, we chose one from [128, 256, 512]
  • 128 base case
  • 256 reduced loss
  • 512 reduced loss (chosen)
• learning rate (holding others constant)
  • 0.0001 cannot converge below 3.9
  • 0.001 converged faster but not below 3.7
  • 0.01 cannot converge below 4.5
• number of layers
  • using 3 instead of 2 gave minimal improvement

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Checkpoint

After running the above training cell, your model will be saved by name, trained_rnn, and if you save your notebook progress, you can pause here and come back to this code at another time. You can resume your progress by running the next cell, which will load in our word:id dictionaries and load in your saved model by name!

"""
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import torch
import helper
import problem_unittests as tests

_, vocab_to_int, int_to_vocab, token_dict = helper.load_preprocess()
trained_rnn = helper.load_model('./save/trained_rnn')

Generate TV Script

With the network trained and saved, you'll use it to generate a new, "fake" Seinfeld TV script in this section.

Generate Text

To generate the text, the network needs to start with a single word and repeat its predictions until it reaches a set length. You'll be using the generate function to do this. It takes a word id to start with, prime_id, and generates a set length of text, predict_len. Also note that it uses topk sampling to introduce some randomness in choosing the most likely next word, given an output set of word scores!

"""
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import torch.nn.functional as F

def generate(rnn, prime_id, int_to_vocab, token_dict, pad_value, predict_len=100):
    """
    Generate text using the neural network
    :param decoder: The PyTorch Module that holds the trained neural network
    :param prime_id: The word id to start the first prediction
    :param int_to_vocab: Dict of word id keys to word values
    :param token_dict: Dict of puncuation tokens keys to puncuation values
    :param pad_value: The value used to pad a sequence
    :param predict_len: The length of text to generate
    :return: The generated text
    """
    rnn.eval()
    
    # create a sequence (batch_size=1) with the prime_id
    current_seq = np.full((1, sequence_length), pad_value)
    current_seq[-1][-1] = prime_id
    predicted = [int_to_vocab[prime_id]]
    
    for _ in range(predict_len):
        if train_on_gpu:
            current_seq = torch.LongTensor(current_seq).cuda()
        else:
            current_seq = torch.LongTensor(current_seq)
        
        # initialize the hidden state
        hidden = rnn.init_hidden(current_seq.size(0))
        
        # get the output of the rnn
        output, _ = rnn(current_seq, hidden)
        
        # get the next word probabilities
        p = F.softmax(output, dim=1).data
        if(train_on_gpu):
            p = p.cpu() # move to cpu
         
        # use top_k sampling to get the index of the next word
        top_k = 5
        p, top_i = p.topk(top_k)
        top_i = top_i.numpy().squeeze()
        
        # select the likely next word index with some element of randomness
        p = p.numpy().squeeze()
        word_i = np.random.choice(top_i, p=p/p.sum())
        
        # retrieve that word from the dictionary
        word = int_to_vocab[word_i]
        predicted.append(word)     
        
        # the generated word becomes the next "current sequence" and the cycle can continue
        if train_on_gpu:
            current_seq = current_seq.cpu()
        current_seq = np.roll(current_seq, -1, 1)
        current_seq[-1][-1] = word_i
    
    gen_sentences = ' '.join(predicted)
    
    # Replace punctuation tokens
    for key, token in token_dict.items():
        ending = ' ' if key in ['\n', '(', '"'] else ''
        gen_sentences = gen_sentences.replace(' ' + token.lower(), key)
    gen_sentences = gen_sentences.replace('\n ', '\n')
    gen_sentences = gen_sentences.replace('( ', '(')
    
    # return all the sentences
    return gen_sentences

Generate a New Script

It's time to generate the text. Set gen_length to the length of TV script you want to generate and set prime_word to one of the following to start the prediction:

• "jerry"
• "elaine"
• "george"
• "kramer"

You can set the prime word to any word in our dictionary, but it's best to start with a name for generating a TV script. (You can also start with any other names you find in the original text file!)

# run the cell multiple times to get different results!
gen_length = 400 # modify the length to your preference
prime_word = 'jerry' # name for starting the script

"""
DON'T MODIFY ANYTHING IN THIS CELL THAT IS BELOW THIS LINE
"""
pad_word = helper.SPECIAL_WORDS['PADDING']
generated_script = generate(trained_rnn, vocab_to_int[prime_word + ':'], int_to_vocab, token_dict, vocab_to_int[pad_word], gen_length)
print(generated_script)

jerry:.........

jerry: what?

elaine: i know, i don't know.

jerry: yeah, but you don't want to be a good one.

george: i thought you were talking about.

elaine: well, he wants to get a big job, so we can get together early.

george:(to george) so i was a little bit.

george: i don't know.

kramer: yeah, yeah. i got it.

jerry: i don't know.

elaine: well, it's a very good thing about the other.

jerry: i don't think so.

elaine: i think i'm going to be right in a little bit.

kramer: oh, yeah, yeah, i got a little too big.(elaine looks offended and sees the table)

jerry: oh, i can't believe this is my idea.

elaine: i think it's a very interesting person.

jerry: yeah, but, i don't know what you want.

kramer: yeah.. yeah...

jerry: what are those?!

elaine: what are you gonna tell her?

jerry: well, i was going out with a woman, i don't know where the hell outlets you are.

jerry: well you think you're better, you know.

elaine: well, it's a little bit.

jerry: oh, no! that's a good idea.

elaine: well, it's a big mistake.

jerry: yeah, i guess i was just wondering...

elaine:(cont'd) you don't want it?(george enters.)

elaine: i know, you know, i am.

george:(looking up) you got it!

jerry: i got a big fight.

kramer: hey, hey, hey!

jerry: hi.

elaine:(quietly, relieved) oh!!

kramer: well......

Save your favorite scripts

Once you have a script that you like (or find interesting), save it to a text file!

# save script to a text file
f =  open("generated_script_1.txt","w")
f.write(generated_script)
f.close()

The TV Script is Not Perfect

It's ok if the TV script doesn't make perfect sense. It should look like alternating lines of dialogue, here is one such example of a few generated lines.

Example generated script

jerry: what about me?

jerry: i don't have to wait.

kramer:(to the sales table)

elaine:(to jerry) hey, look at this, i'm a good doctor.

newman:(to elaine) you think i have no idea of this...

elaine: oh, you better take the phone, and he was a little nervous.

kramer:(to the phone) hey, hey, jerry, i don't want to be a little bit.(to kramer and jerry) you can't.

jerry: oh, yeah. i don't even know, i know.

jerry:(to the phone) oh, i know.

kramer:(laughing) you know...(to jerry) you don't know.

You can see that there are multiple characters that say (somewhat) complete sentences, but it doesn't have to be perfect! It takes quite a while to get good results, and often, you'll have to use a smaller vocabulary (and discard uncommon words), or get more data. The Seinfeld dataset is about 3.4 MB, which is big enough for our purposes; for script generation you'll want more than 1 MB of text, generally.

Submitting This Project

When submitting this project, make sure to run all the cells before saving the notebook. Save the notebook file as "dlnd_tv_script_generation.ipynb" and save another copy as an HTML file by clicking "File" -> "Download as.."->"html". Include the "helper.py" and "problem_unittests.py" files in your submission. Once you download these files, compress them into one zip file for submission.