readme: ---
  tags:
  - seq2seq
  - character-level
  - machine translation
  
  ---
  ## Tensorflow Keras Implementation of Character-level Recurrent Sequence-to-Sequence Model
  
  This repo contains code using the model. [Character-level recurrent sequence-to-sequence model](https://keras.io/examples/nlp/lstm_seq2seq/).
  
  Credits: [fchollet](https://twitter.com/fchollet) - Original Author
  
  HF Contribution: [Rishav Chandra Varma](https://huggingface.co/reichenbach)  
  
  ## Background Information
  
  ### Introduction
  
  This example demonstrates how to implement a basic character-level recurrent sequence-to-sequence model. We apply it to translating short English sentences into short French sentences, character-by-character. Note that it is fairly unusual to do character-level machine translation, as word-level models are more common in this domain.
  
  ### Summary of the algorithm
  
  * We start with input sequences from a domain (e.g. English sentences) and corresponding target sequences from another domain (e.g. French sentences).
  * An encoder LSTM turns input sequences to 2 state vectors (we keep the last LSTM state and discard the outputs).
  * A decoder LSTM is trained to turn the target sequences into the same sequence but offset by one timestep in the future, a training process called "teacher forcing" in this context. It uses as initial state the state vectors from the encoder. Effectively, the decoder learns to generate targets[t+1...] given targets[...t], conditioned on the input sequence.
  * In inference mode, when we want to decode unknown input sequences, we: - Encode the input sequence into state vectors - Start with a target sequence of size 1 (just the start-of-sequence character) - Feed the state vectors and 1-char target sequence to the decoder to produce predictions for the next character - Sample the next character using these predictions (we simply use argmax). - Append the sampled character to the target sequence - Repeat until we generate the end-of-sequence character or we hit the character limit.
  