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//- 💫 DOCS > API > PIPE

include ../_includes/_mixins

//- This page can be used as a template for all other classes that inherit
//-  from `Pipe`.

if subclass
    +infobox
        |  This class is a subclass of #[+api("pipe") #[code Pipe]] and
        |  follows the same API. The pipeline component is available in the
        |  #[+a("/usage/processing-pipelines") processing pipeline] via the ID
        |  #[code "#{pipeline_id}"].

else
    p
        |  This class is not instantiated directly. Components inherit from it,
        |  and it defines the interface that components should follow to
        |  function as components in a spaCy analysis pipeline.

- CLASSNAME = subclass || 'Pipe'
- VARNAME = short || CLASSNAME.toLowerCase()


+h(2, "model") #{CLASSNAME}.Model
    +tag classmethod

p
    |  Initialise a model for the pipe. The model should implement the
    |  #[code thinc.neural.Model] API. Wrappers are under development for
    |  most major machine learning libraries.

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code **kwargs]
        +cell -
        +cell Parameters for initialising the model

    +row("foot")
        +cell returns
        +cell object
        +cell The initialised model.

+h(2, "init") #{CLASSNAME}.__init__
    +tag method

p Create a new pipeline instance.

+aside-code("Example").
    from spacy.pipeline import #{CLASSNAME}
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    #{VARNAME}.from_disk('/path/to/model')

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code vocab]
        +cell #[code Vocab]
        +cell The shared vocabulary.

    +row
        +cell #[code model]
        +cell #[code thinc.neural.Model] or #[code True]
        +cell
            |  The model powering the pipeline component. If no model is
            |  supplied, the model is created when you call
            |  #[code begin_training], #[code from_disk] or #[code from_bytes].

    +row
        +cell #[code **cfg]
        +cell -
        +cell Configuration parameters.

    +row("foot")
        +cell returns
        +cell #[code=CLASSNAME]
        +cell The newly constructed object.

+h(2, "call") #{CLASSNAME}.__call__
    +tag method

p
    |  Apply the pipe to one document. The document is modified in place, and
    |  returned. Both #[code #{CLASSNAME}.__call__] and
    |  #[code #{CLASSNAME}.pipe] should delegate to the
    |  #[code #{CLASSNAME}.predict] and #[code #{CLASSNAME}.set_annotations]
    |  methods.

+aside-code("Example").
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    doc = nlp(u"This is a sentence.")
    processed = #{VARNAME}(doc)

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code doc]
        +cell #[code Doc]
        +cell The document to process.

    +row("foot")
        +cell returns
        +cell #[code Doc]
        +cell The processed document.

+h(2, "pipe") #{CLASSNAME}.pipe
    +tag method

p
    |  Apply the pipe to a stream of documents. Both
    |  #[code #{CLASSNAME}.__call__] and #[code #{CLASSNAME}.pipe] should
    |  delegate to the #[code #{CLASSNAME}.predict] and
    |  #[code #{CLASSNAME}.set_annotations] methods.

+aside-code("Example").
    texts = [u'One doc', u'...', u'Lots of docs']
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    for doc in #{VARNAME}.pipe(texts, batch_size=50):
        pass

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code stream]
        +cell iterable
        +cell A stream of documents.

    +row
        +cell #[code batch_size]
        +cell int
        +cell The number of texts to buffer. Defaults to #[code 128].

    +row
        +cell #[code n_threads]
        +cell int
        +cell
            |  The number of worker threads to use. If #[code -1], OpenMP will
            |  decide how many to use at run time. Default is #[code -1].

    +row("foot")
        +cell yields
        +cell #[code Doc]
        +cell Processed documents in the order of the original text.

+h(2, "predict") #{CLASSNAME}.predict
    +tag method

p
    |  Apply the pipeline's model to a batch of docs, without modifying them.

+aside-code("Example").
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    scores = #{VARNAME}.predict([doc1, doc2])

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code docs]
        +cell iterable
        +cell The documents to predict.

    +row("foot")
        +cell returns
        +cell -
        +cell Scores from the model.

+h(2, "set_annotations") #{CLASSNAME}.set_annotations
    +tag method

p
    |  Modify a batch of documents, using pre-computed scores.

+aside-code("Example").
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    scores = #{VARNAME}.predict([doc1, doc2])
    #{VARNAME}.set_annotations([doc1, doc2], scores)

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code docs]
        +cell iterable
        +cell The documents to modify.

    +row
        +cell #[code scores]
        +cell -
        +cell The scores to set, produced by #[code #{CLASSNAME}.predict].

+h(2, "update") #{CLASSNAME}.update
    +tag method

p
    |  Learn from a batch of documents and gold-standard information, updating
    |  the pipe's model. Delegates to #[code #{CLASSNAME}.predict] and
    |  #[code #{CLASSNAME}.get_loss].

+aside-code("Example").
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    losses = {}
    optimizer = nlp.begin_training()
    #{VARNAME}.update([doc1, doc2], [gold1, gold2], losses=losses, sgd=optimizer)

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code docs]
        +cell iterable
        +cell A batch of documents to learn from.

    +row
        +cell #[code golds]
        +cell iterable
        +cell The gold-standard data. Must have the same length as #[code docs].

    +row
        +cell #[code drop]
        +cell int
        +cell The dropout rate.

    +row
        +cell #[code sgd]
        +cell callable
        +cell
            |  The optimizer. Should take two arguments #[code weights] and
            |  #[code gradient], and an optional ID.

    +row
        +cell #[code losses]
        +cell dict
        +cell
            |  Optional record of the loss during training. The value keyed by
            |  the model's name is updated.

+h(2, "get_loss") #{CLASSNAME}.get_loss
    +tag method

p
    |  Find the loss and gradient of loss for the batch of documents and their
    |  predicted scores.

+aside-code("Example").
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    scores = #{VARNAME}.predict([doc1, doc2])
    loss, d_loss = #{VARNAME}.get_loss([doc1, doc2], [gold1, gold2], scores)

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code docs]
        +cell iterable
        +cell The batch of documents.

    +row
        +cell #[code golds]
        +cell iterable
        +cell The gold-standard data. Must have the same length as #[code docs].

    +row
        +cell #[code scores]
        +cell -
        +cell Scores representing the model's predictions.

    +row("foot")
        +cell returns
        +cell tuple
        +cell The loss and the gradient, i.e. #[code (loss, gradient)].

+h(2, "begin_training") #{CLASSNAME}.begin_training
    +tag method

p
    |  Initialise the pipe for training, using data exampes if available. If no
    |  model has been initialised yet, the model is added.

+aside-code("Example").
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    nlp.pipeline.append(#{VARNAME})
    optimizer = #{VARNAME}.begin_training(pipeline=nlp.pipeline)

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code gold_tuples]
        +cell iterable
        +cell
            |  Optional gold-standard annotations from which to construct
            |  #[+api("goldparse") #[code GoldParse]] objects.

    +row
        +cell #[code pipeline]
        +cell list
        +cell
            |  Optional list of #[+api("pipe") #[code Pipe]] components that
            |  this component is part of.

    +row
        +cell #[code sgd]
        +cell callable
        +cell
            |  An optional optimizer. Should take two arguments #[code weights]
            |  and #[code gradient], and an optional ID. Will be created via
            |  #[+api(CLASSNAME.toLowerCase() + "#create_optimizer") #[code create_optimizer]]
            |  if not set.

    +row("foot")
        +cell returns
        +cell callable
        +cell An optimizer.

+h(2, "create_optimizer") #{CLASSNAME}.create_optimizer
    +tag method

p
    |  Create an optmizer for the pipeline component.

+aside-code("Example").
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    optimizer = #{VARNAME}.create_optimizer()

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row("foot")
        +cell returns
        +cell callable
        +cell The optimizer.

+h(2, "use_params") #{CLASSNAME}.use_params
    +tag method
    +tag contextmanager

p Modify the pipe's model, to use the given parameter values.

+aside-code("Example").
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    with #{VARNAME}.use_params():
        #{VARNAME}.to_disk('/best_model')

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code params]
        +cell -
        +cell
            |  The parameter values to use in the model. At the end of the
            |  context, the original parameters are restored.

+h(2, "add_label") #{CLASSNAME}.add_label
    +tag method

p Add a new label to the pipe.

if CLASSNAME == "Tagger"
    +aside-code("Example").
        #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
        #{VARNAME}.add_label('MY_LABEL', {POS: 'NOUN'})
else
    +aside-code("Example").
        #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
        #{VARNAME}.add_label('MY_LABEL')

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code label]
        +cell unicode
        +cell The label to add.

    if CLASSNAME == "Tagger"
        +row
            +cell #[code values]
            +cell dict
            +cell
                |  Optional values to map to the label, e.g. a tag map
                |  dictionary.

+h(2, "to_disk") #{CLASSNAME}.to_disk
    +tag method

p Serialize the pipe to disk.

+aside-code("Example").
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    #{VARNAME}.to_disk('/path/to/#{VARNAME}')

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code path]
        +cell unicode or #[code Path]
        +cell
            |  A path to a directory, which will be created if it doesn't exist.
            |  Paths may be either strings or #[code Path]-like objects.

+h(2, "from_disk") #{CLASSNAME}.from_disk
    +tag method

p Load the pipe from disk. Modifies the object in place and returns it.

+aside-code("Example").
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    #{VARNAME}.from_disk('/path/to/#{VARNAME}')

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code path]
        +cell unicode or #[code Path]
        +cell
            |  A path to a directory. Paths may be either strings or
            |  #[code Path]-like objects.

    +row("foot")
        +cell returns
        +cell #[code=CLASSNAME]
        +cell The modified #[code=CLASSNAME] object.

+h(2, "to_bytes") #{CLASSNAME}.to_bytes
    +tag method

+aside-code("example").
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    #{VARNAME}_bytes = #{VARNAME}.to_bytes()

p Serialize the pipe to a bytestring.

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code **exclude]
        +cell -
        +cell Named attributes to prevent from being serialized.

    +row("foot")
        +cell returns
        +cell bytes
        +cell The serialized form of the #[code=CLASSNAME] object.

+h(2, "from_bytes") #{CLASSNAME}.from_bytes
    +tag method

p Load the pipe from a bytestring. Modifies the object in place and returns it.

+aside-code("Example").
    #{VARNAME}_bytes = #{VARNAME}.to_bytes()
    #{VARNAME} = #{CLASSNAME}(nlp.vocab)
    #{VARNAME}.from_bytes(#{VARNAME}_bytes)

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description"])
    +row
        +cell #[code bytes_data]
        +cell bytes
        +cell The data to load from.

    +row
        +cell #[code **exclude]
        +cell -
        +cell Named attributes to prevent from being loaded.

    +row("foot")
        +cell returns
        +cell #[code=CLASSNAME]
        +cell The #[code=CLASSNAME] object.