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+# coding=utf-8
+# Copyright 2018 The Tensor2Tensor Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""TextCNN model from "Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentence Classification".
+"""
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+from tensor2tensor.layers import common_hparams
+from tensor2tensor.layers import common_layers
+from tensor2tensor.utils import registry
+from tensor2tensor.utils import t2t_model
+
+import tensorflow as tf
+
+@registry.register_model
+class TextCNN(t2t_model.T2TModel):
+  """Text CNN."""
+
+  def body(self, features):
+    """TextCNN main model_fn.
+    Args:
+      features: Map of features to the model. Should contain the following:
+          "inputs": Text inputs.
+              [batch_size, input_length, 1, hidden_dim].
+          "targets": Target encoder outputs.
+              [batch_size, 1, 1, hidden_dim]
+    Returns:
+      Final encoder representation. [batch_size, 1, 1, hidden_dim]
+    """
+    hparams = self._hparams
+    inputs = features["inputs"]
+
+    xshape = common_layers.shape_list(inputs)
+
+    vocab_size = xshape[3]
+    inputs = tf.reshape(inputs, [xshape[0], xshape[1], xshape[3], xshape[2]])
+
+    pooled_outputs = []
+    for _, filter_size in enumerate(hparams.filter_sizes):
+      with tf.name_scope("conv-maxpool-%s" % filter_size):
+        filter_shape = [filter_size, vocab_size, 1, hparams.num_filters]
+        filter_var = tf.Variable(tf.truncated_normal(filter_shape, stddev=0.1), name="W")
+        filter_bias = tf.Variable(tf.constant(0.1, shape=[hparams.num_filters]), name="b")
+        conv = tf.nn.conv2d(
+            inputs,
+            filter_var,
+            strides=[1, 1, 1, 1],
+            padding="VALID",
+            name="conv")
+        conv_outputs = tf.nn.relu(tf.nn.bias_add(conv, filter_bias), name="relu")
+        pooled = tf.math.reduce_max(conv_outputs, axis=1, keepdims=True, name="max")
+        pooled_outputs.append(pooled)
+
+    num_filters_total = hparams.num_filters * len(hparams.filter_sizes)
+    h_pool = tf.concat(pooled_outputs, 3)
+    h_pool_flat = tf.reshape(h_pool, [-1, num_filters_total])
+
+    # Add dropout
+    output = tf.nn.dropout(h_pool_flat, 1 - hparams.output_dropout)
+    output = tf.reshape(output, [-1, 1, 1, num_filters_total])
+
+    return output
+
+@registry.register_hparams
+def text_cnn_base():
+  """Set of hyperparameters."""
+  hparams = common_hparams.basic_params1()
+  hparams.batch_size = 4096
+  hparams.max_length = 256
+  hparams.clip_grad_norm = 0.  # i.e. no gradient clipping
+  hparams.optimizer_adam_epsilon = 1e-9
+  hparams.learning_rate_schedule = "legacy"
+  hparams.learning_rate_decay_scheme = "noam"
+  hparams.learning_rate = 0.1
+  hparams.learning_rate_warmup_steps = 4000
+  hparams.initializer_gain = 1.0
+  hparams.num_hidden_layers = 6
+  hparams.initializer = "uniform_unit_scaling"
+  hparams.weight_decay = 0.0
+  hparams.optimizer_adam_beta1 = 0.9
+  hparams.optimizer_adam_beta2 = 0.98
+  hparams.num_sampled_classes = 0
+  hparams.label_smoothing = 0.1
+  hparams.shared_embedding_and_softmax_weights = True
+  hparams.symbol_modality_num_shards = 16
+
+  # Add new ones like this.
+  hparams.add_hparam("filter_sizes", [2, 3, 4, 5])
+  hparams.add_hparam("num_filters", 128)
+  hparams.add_hparam("output_dropout", 0.4)
+  return hparams