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@@ -1,3 +1,48 @@
+# Location of the input files 
+
+This [GCS location](https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/pkanwar-bert) contains the following.
+* TensorFlow checkpoint (bert_model.ckpt) containing the pre-trained weights (which is actually 3 files).
+* Vocab file (vocab.txt) to map WordPiece to word id.
+* Config file (bert_config.json) which specifies the hyperparameters of the model.
+
+# Download and preprocess datasets
+
+Download the [wikipedia dump](https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20200101/enwiki-20200101-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2) and extract the pages
+The wikipedia dump can be downloaded from this link in this directory, and should contain the following file:
+enwiki-20200101-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2
+
+Run [WikiExtractor.py](https://github.com/attardi/wikiextractor) to extract the wiki pages from the XML
+The generated wiki pages file will be stored as <data dir>/LL/wiki_nn; for example <data dir>/AA/wiki_00. Each file is ~1MB, and each sub directory has 100 files from wiki_00 to wiki_99, except the last sub directory. For the 20200101 dump, the last file is FE/wiki_17.
+
+Clean up
+The clean up scripts (some references here) are in the scripts directory.
+The following command will run the clean up steps, and put the results in ./results
+./process_wiki.sh '<data dir>/*/wiki_??'
+
+
+After running the process_wiki.sh script, for the 20200101 wiki dump, there will be 500 files, named part-00xxx-of-00500 in the ./results directory.
+
+# Generate the BERT input dataset
+
+The create_pretraining_data.py script duplicates the input plain text, replaces different sets of words with masks for each duplication, and serializes the output into the TFRecord file format. 
+
+```shell
+python3 create_pretraining_data.py \
+   --input_file=<path to ./results of previous step>/part-XX-of-00500 \
+   --output_file=<tfrecord dir>/part-XX-of-00500 \
+   --vocab_file=<path to vocab.txt> \
+   --do_lower_case=True \
+   --max_seq_length=512 \
+   --max_predictions_per_seq=76 \
+   --masked_lm_prob=0.15 \
+   --random_seed=12345 \
+   --dupe_factor=10
+```
+
+The generated tfrecord has 500 parts, totalling to ~365GB.
+
+# Running the model
+
 To run this model, use the following command.
 
 ```shell
@@ -5,10 +50,11 @@ To run this model, use the following command.
 python run_pretraining.py \
   --bert_config_file=./bert_config.json \
   --output_dir=/tmp/output/ \
-  --input_file="./uncased_seq_512/wikipedia.tfrecord*,./uncased_seq_512/books.tfrecord*" \
+  --input_file="./uncased_seq_512/wikipedia.tfrecord*" \
   --nodo_eval \
   --do_train \
   --eval_batch_size=8 \
+  --learning_rate=4e-05 \
   --init_checkpoint=./checkpoint/model.ckpt-7037 \
   --iterations_per_loop=1000 \
   --max_predictions_per_seq=76 \
@@ -18,4 +64,36 @@ python run_pretraining.py \
   --optimizer=lamb \
   --save_checkpoints_steps=1000 \
   --start_warmup_step=0 \
+   --num_gpus=8 \
   --train_batch_size=24/
+
+```
+
+The above parameters are for a machine with 8 V100 GPUs with 16GB memory each; the hyper parameters (learning rate, warm up steps, etc.) are for testing only. The training script won’t print out the masked_lm_accuracy; in order to get masked_lm_accuracy, a separately invocation of run_pretraining.py with the following command with a V100 GPU with 16 GB memory:
+
+```shell
+
+python3 run_pretraining.py \
+  --bert_config_file=./bert_config.json \
+  --output_dir=/tmp/output/ \
+  --input_file="<tfrecord dir>/part-*" \
+  --do_eval \
+  --nodo_train \
+  --eval_batch_size=8 \
+  --init_checkpoint=./checkpoint/model.ckpt-7037 \
+  --iterations_per_loop=1000 \
+  --learning_rate=4e-05 \
+  --max_eval_steps=1250 \
+  --max_predictions_per_seq=76 \
+  --max_seq_length=512 \
+  --num_gpus=1 \
+  --num_train_steps=1365333333 \
+  --num_warmup_steps=3125 \
+  --optimizer=lamb \
+  --save_checkpoints_steps=1000 \
+  --start_warmup_step=0 \
+  --train_batch_size=24 \
+  --nouse_tpu
+   
+```
+