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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Copyright 2021  Johns Hopkins University (Author: Ruizhe Huang)
#
# See ../../../../LICENSE for clarification regarding multiple 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.
"""
Usage:
./ngram_entropy_pruning.py \
    -threshold 1e-8 \
    -lm download/lm/4gram.arpa \
    -write-lm download/lm/4gram_pruned_1e8.arpa

This file is from Kaldi `egs/wsj/s5/utils/lang/ngram_entropy_pruning.py`.
This is an implementation of ``Entropy-based Pruning of Backoff Language Models''
in the same way as SRILM.
"""


import argparse
import gzip
import logging
import math
import re
from collections import OrderedDict, defaultdict
from enum import Enum, unique
from io import StringIO

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
    description="""
    Prune an n-gram language model based on the relative entropy 
    between the original and the pruned model, based on Andreas Stolcke's paper.
    An n-gram entry is removed, if the removal causes (training set) perplexity 
    of the model to increase by less than threshold relative.
    
    The command takes an arpa file and a pruning threshold as input, 
    and outputs a pruned arpa file.
    """
)
parser.add_argument("-threshold", type=float, default=1e-6, help="Order of n-gram")
parser.add_argument("-lm", type=str, default=None, help="Path to the input arpa file")
parser.add_argument(
    "-write-lm", type=str, default=None, help="Path to output arpa file after pruning"
)
parser.add_argument(
    "-minorder",
    type=int,
    default=1,
    help="The minorder parameter limits pruning to ngrams of that length and above.",
)
parser.add_argument(
    "-encoding", type=str, default="utf-8", help="Encoding of the arpa file"
)
parser.add_argument(
    "-verbose",
    type=int,
    default=2,
    choices=[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
    help="Verbose level, where 0 is most noisy; 5 is most silent",
)
args = parser.parse_args()

default_encoding = args.encoding
logging.basicConfig(
    format="%(asctime)s — %(levelname)s — %(funcName)s:%(lineno)d — %(message)s",
    level=args.verbose * 10,
)


class Context(dict):
    """
    This class stores data for a context h.
    It behaves like a python dict object, except that it has several
    additional attributes.
    """

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.log_bo = None


class Arpa:
    """
    This is a class that implement the data structure of an APRA LM.
    It (as well as some other classes) is modified based on the library
    by Stefan Fischer:
    https://github.com/sfischer13/python-arpa
    """

    UNK = "<unk>"
    SOS = "<s>"
    EOS = "</s>"
    FLOAT_NDIGITS = 7
    base = 10

    @staticmethod
    def _check_input(my_input):
        if not my_input:
            raise ValueError
        elif isinstance(my_input, tuple):
            return my_input
        elif isinstance(my_input, list):
            return tuple(my_input)
        elif isinstance(my_input, str):
            return tuple(my_input.strip().split(" "))
        else:
            raise ValueError

    @staticmethod
    def _check_word(input_word):
        if not isinstance(input_word, str):
            raise ValueError
        if " " in input_word:
            raise ValueError

    def _replace_unks(self, words):
        return tuple((w if w in self else self._unk) for w in words)

    def __init__(self, path=None, encoding=None, unk=None):
        self._counts = OrderedDict()
        self._ngrams = (
            OrderedDict()
        )  # Use self._ngrams[len(h)][h][w] for saving the entry of (h,w)
        self._vocabulary = set()
        if unk is None:
            self._unk = self.UNK

        if path is not None:
            self.loadf(path, encoding)

    def __contains__(self, ngram):
        h = ngram[:-1]  # h is a tuple
        w = ngram[-1]  # w is a string/word
        return h in self._ngrams[len(h)] and w in self._ngrams[len(h)][h]

    def contains_word(self, word):
        self._check_word(word)
        return word in self._vocabulary

    def add_count(self, order, count):
        self._counts[order] = count
        self._ngrams[order - 1] = defaultdict(Context)

    def update_counts(self):
        for order in range(1, self.order() + 1):
            count = sum([len(wlist) for _, wlist in self._ngrams[order - 1].items()])
            if count > 0:
                self._counts[order] = count

    def add_entry(self, ngram, p, bo=None, order=None):
        # Note: ngram is a tuple of strings, e.g. ("w1", "w2", "w3")
        h = ngram[:-1]  # h is a tuple
        w = ngram[-1]  # w is a string/word

        # Note that p and bo here are in fact in the log domain (self.base = 10)
        h_context = self._ngrams[len(h)][h]
        h_context[w] = p
        if bo is not None:
            self._ngrams[len(ngram)][ngram].log_bo = bo

        for word in ngram:
            self._vocabulary.add(word)

    def counts(self):
        return sorted(self._counts.items())

    def order(self):
        return max(self._counts.keys(), default=None)

    def vocabulary(self, sort=True):
        if sort:
            return sorted(self._vocabulary)
        else:
            return self._vocabulary

    def _entries(self, order):
        return (
            self._entry(h, w)
            for h, wlist in self._ngrams[order - 1].items()
            for w in wlist
        )

    def _entry(self, h, w):
        # return the entry for the ngram (h, w)
        ngram = h + (w,)
        log_p = self._ngrams[len(h)][h][w]
        log_bo = self._log_bo(ngram)
        if log_bo is not None:
            return (
                round(log_p, self.FLOAT_NDIGITS),
                ngram,
                round(log_bo, self.FLOAT_NDIGITS),
            )
        else:
            return round(log_p, self.FLOAT_NDIGITS), ngram

    def _log_bo(self, ngram):
        if len(ngram) in self._ngrams and ngram in self._ngrams[len(ngram)]:
            return self._ngrams[len(ngram)][ngram].log_bo
        else:
            return None

    def _log_p(self, ngram):
        h = ngram[:-1]  # h is a tuple
        w = ngram[-1]  # w is a string/word
        if h in self._ngrams[len(h)] and w in self._ngrams[len(h)][h]:
            return self._ngrams[len(h)][h][w]
        else:
            return None

    def log_p_raw(self, ngram):
        log_p = self._log_p(ngram)
        if log_p is not None:
            return log_p
        else:
            if len(ngram) == 1:
                raise KeyError
            else:
                log_bo = self._log_bo(ngram[:-1])
                if log_bo is None:
                    log_bo = 0
                return log_bo + self.log_p_raw(ngram[1:])

    def log_joint_prob(self, sequence):
        # Compute the joint prob of the sequence based on the chain rule
        # Note that sequence should be a tuple of strings
        #
        # Reference:
        # https://github.com/BitSpeech/SRILM/blob/d571a4424fb0cf08b29fbfccfddd092ea969eae3/lm/src/LM.cc#L527

        log_joint_p = 0
        seq = sequence
        while len(seq) > 0:
            log_joint_p += self.log_p_raw(seq)
            seq = seq[:-1]

            # If we're computing the marginal probability of the unigram
            # <s> context we have to look up </s> instead since the former
            # has prob = 0.
            if len(seq) == 1 and seq[0] == self.SOS:
                seq = (self.EOS,)

        return log_joint_p

    def set_new_context(self, h):
        old_context = self._ngrams[len(h)][h]
        self._ngrams[len(h)][h] = Context()
        return old_context

    def log_p(self, ngram):
        words = self._check_input(ngram)
        if self._unk:
            words = self._replace_unks(words)
        return self.log_p_raw(words)

    def log_s(self, sentence, sos=SOS, eos=EOS):
        words = self._check_input(sentence)
        if self._unk:
            words = self._replace_unks(words)
        if sos:
            words = (sos,) + words
        if eos:
            words = words + (eos,)
        result = sum(self.log_p_raw(words[:i]) for i in range(1, len(words) + 1))
        if sos:
            result = result - self.log_p_raw(words[:1])
        return result

    def p(self, ngram):
        return self.base ** self.log_p(ngram)

    def s(self, sentence):
        return self.base ** self.log_s(sentence)

    def write(self, fp):
        fp.write("\n\\data\\\n")
        for order, count in self.counts():
            fp.write("ngram {}={}\n".format(order, count))
        fp.write("\n")
        for order, _ in self.counts():
            fp.write("\\{}-grams:\n".format(order))
            for e in self._entries(order):
                prob = e[0]
                ngram = " ".join(e[1])
                if len(e) == 2:
                    fp.write("{}\t{}\n".format(prob, ngram))
                elif len(e) == 3:
                    backoff = e[2]
                    fp.write("{}\t{}\t{}\n".format(prob, ngram, backoff))
                else:
                    raise ValueError
            fp.write("\n")
        fp.write("\\end\\\n")


class ArpaParser:
    """
    This is a class that implement a parser of an arpa file
    """

    @unique
    class State(Enum):
        DATA = 1
        COUNT = 2
        HEADER = 3
        ENTRY = 4

    re_count = re.compile(r"^ngram (\d+)=(\d+)$")
    re_header = re.compile(r"^\\(\d+)-grams:$")
    re_entry = re.compile(
        "^(-?\\d+(\\.\\d+)?([eE]-?\\d+)?)"
        "\t"
        "(\\S+( \\S+)*)"
        "(\t((-?\\d+(\\.\\d+)?)([eE]-?\\d+)?))?$"
    )

    def _parse(self, fp):
        self._result = []
        self._state = self.State.DATA
        self._tmp_model = None
        self._tmp_order = None
        for line in fp:
            line = line.strip()
            if self._state == self.State.DATA:
                self._data(line)
            elif self._state == self.State.COUNT:
                self._count(line)
            elif self._state == self.State.HEADER:
                self._header(line)
            elif self._state == self.State.ENTRY:
                self._entry(line)
        if self._state != self.State.DATA:
            raise Exception(line)
        return self._result

    def _data(self, line):
        if line == "\\data\\":
            self._state = self.State.COUNT
            self._tmp_model = Arpa()
        else:
            pass  # skip comment line

    def _count(self, line):
        match = self.re_count.match(line)
        if match:
            order = match.group(1)
            count = match.group(2)
            self._tmp_model.add_count(int(order), int(count))
        elif not line:
            self._state = self.State.HEADER  # there are no counts
        else:
            raise Exception(line)

    def _header(self, line):
        match = self.re_header.match(line)
        if match:
            self._state = self.State.ENTRY
            self._tmp_order = int(match.group(1))
        elif line == "\\end\\":
            self._result.append(self._tmp_model)
            self._state = self.State.DATA
            self._tmp_model = None
            self._tmp_order = None
        elif not line:
            pass  # skip empty line
        else:
            raise Exception(line)

    def _entry(self, line):
        match = self.re_entry.match(line)
        if match:
            p = self._float_or_int(match.group(1))
            ngram = tuple(match.group(4).split(" "))
            bo_match = match.group(7)
            bo = self._float_or_int(bo_match) if bo_match else None
            self._tmp_model.add_entry(ngram, p, bo, self._tmp_order)
        elif not line:
            self._state = self.State.HEADER  # last entry
        else:
            raise Exception(line)

    @staticmethod
    def _float_or_int(s):
        f = float(s)
        i = int(f)
        if str(i) == s:  # don't drop trailing ".0"
            return i
        else:
            return f

    def load(self, fp):
        """Deserialize fp (a file-like object) to a Python object."""
        return self._parse(fp)

    def loadf(self, path, encoding=None):
        """Deserialize path (.arpa, .gz) to a Python object."""
        path = str(path)
        if path.endswith(".gz"):
            with gzip.open(path, mode="rt", encoding=encoding) as f:
                return self.load(f)
        else:
            with open(path, mode="rt", encoding=encoding) as f:
                return self.load(f)

    def loads(self, s):
        """Deserialize s (a str) to a Python object."""
        with StringIO(s) as f:
            return self.load(f)

    def dump(self, obj, fp):
        """Serialize obj to fp (a file-like object) in ARPA format."""
        obj.write(fp)

    def dumpf(self, obj, path, encoding=None):
        """Serialize obj to path in ARPA format (.arpa, .gz)."""
        path = str(path)
        if path.endswith(".gz"):
            with gzip.open(path, mode="wt", encoding=encoding) as f:
                return self.dump(obj, f)
        else:
            with open(path, mode="wt", encoding=encoding) as f:
                self.dump(obj, f)

    def dumps(self, obj):
        """Serialize obj to an ARPA formatted str."""
        with StringIO() as f:
            self.dump(obj, f)
            return f.getvalue()


def add_log_p(prev_log_sum, log_p, base):
    return math.log(base**log_p + base**prev_log_sum, base)


def compute_numerator_denominator(lm, h):
    log_sum_seen_h = -math.inf
    log_sum_seen_h_lower = -math.inf
    base = lm.base
    for w, log_p in lm._ngrams[len(h)][h].items():
        log_sum_seen_h = add_log_p(log_sum_seen_h, log_p, base)

        ngram = h + (w,)
        log_p_lower = lm.log_p_raw(ngram[1:])
        log_sum_seen_h_lower = add_log_p(log_sum_seen_h_lower, log_p_lower, base)

    numerator = 1.0 - base**log_sum_seen_h
    denominator = 1.0 - base**log_sum_seen_h_lower
    return numerator, denominator


def prune(lm, threshold, minorder):
    # Reference:
    # https://github.com/BitSpeech/SRILM/blob/d571a4424fb0cf08b29fbfccfddd092ea969eae3/lm/src/NgramLM.cc#L2330

    for i in range(
        lm.order(), max(minorder - 1, 1), -1
    ):  # i is the order of the ngram (h, w)
        logging.info("processing %d-grams ..." % i)
        count_pruned_ngrams = 0

        h_dict = lm._ngrams[i - 1]
        for h in list(h_dict.keys()):
            # old backoff weight, BOW(h)
            log_bow = lm._log_bo(h)
            if log_bow is None:
                log_bow = 0

            # Compute numerator and denominator of the backoff weight,
            # so that we can quickly compute the BOW adjustment due to
            # leaving out one prob.
            numerator, denominator = compute_numerator_denominator(lm, h)

            # assert abs(math.log(numerator, lm.base) - math.log(denominator, lm.base) - h_dict[h].log_bo) < 1e-5

            # Compute the marginal probability of the context, P(h)
            h_log_p = lm.log_joint_prob(h)

            all_pruned = True
            pruned_w_set = set()

            for w, log_p in h_dict[h].items():
                ngram = h + (w,)

                # lower-order estimate for ngramProb, P(w|h')
                backoff_prob = lm.log_p_raw(ngram[1:])

                # Compute BOW after removing ngram, BOW'(h)
                new_log_bow = math.log(
                    numerator + lm.base**log_p, lm.base
                ) - math.log(denominator + lm.base**backoff_prob, lm.base)

                # Compute change in entropy due to removal of ngram
                delta_prob = backoff_prob + new_log_bow - log_p
                delta_entropy = -(lm.base**h_log_p) * (
                    (lm.base**log_p) * delta_prob
                    + numerator * (new_log_bow - log_bow)
                )

                # compute relative change in model (training set) perplexity
                perp_change = lm.base**delta_entropy - 1.0

                pruned = threshold > 0 and perp_change < threshold

                # Make sure we don't prune ngrams whose backoff nodes are needed
                if (
                    pruned
                    and len(ngram) in lm._ngrams
                    and len(lm._ngrams[len(ngram)][ngram]) > 0
                ):
                    pruned = False

                logging.debug(
                    "CONTEXT "
                    + str(h)
                    + " WORD "
                    + w
                    + " CONTEXTPROB %f " % h_log_p
                    + " OLDPROB %f " % log_p
                    + " NEWPROB %f " % (backoff_prob + new_log_bow)
                    + " DELTA-H %f " % delta_entropy
                    + " DELTA-LOGP %f " % delta_prob
                    + " PPL-CHANGE %f " % perp_change
                    + " PRUNED "
                    + str(pruned)
                )

                if pruned:
                    pruned_w_set.add(w)
                    count_pruned_ngrams += 1
                else:
                    all_pruned = False

            # If we removed all ngrams for this context we can
            # remove the context itself, but only if the present
            # context is not a prefix to a longer one.
            if all_pruned and len(pruned_w_set) == len(h_dict[h]):
                del h_dict[
                    h
                ]  # this context h is no longer needed, as its ngram prob is stored at its own context h'
            elif len(pruned_w_set) > 0:
                # The pruning for this context h is actually done here
                old_context = lm.set_new_context(h)

                for w, p_w in old_context.items():
                    if w not in pruned_w_set:
                        lm.add_entry(
                            h + (w,), p_w
                        )  # the entry hw is stored at the context h

                # We need to recompute the back-off weight, but
                # this can only be done after completing the pruning
                # of the lower-order ngrams.
                # Reference:
                # https://github.com/BitSpeech/SRILM/blob/d571a4424fb0cf08b29fbfccfddd092ea969eae3/flm/src/FNgramLM.cc#L2124

        logging.info("pruned %d %d-grams" % (count_pruned_ngrams, i))

    # recompute backoff weights
    for i in range(
        max(minorder - 1, 1) + 1, lm.order() + 1
    ):  # be careful of this order: from low- to high-order
        for h in lm._ngrams[i - 1]:
            numerator, denominator = compute_numerator_denominator(lm, h)
            new_log_bow = math.log(numerator, lm.base) - math.log(denominator, lm.base)
            lm._ngrams[len(h)][h].log_bo = new_log_bow

    # update counts
    lm.update_counts()

    return


def check_h_is_valid(lm, h):
    sum_under_h = sum(
        [lm.base ** lm.log_p_raw(h + (w,)) for w in lm.vocabulary(sort=False)]
    )
    if abs(sum_under_h - 1.0) > 1e-6:
        logging.info("warning: %s %f" % (str(h), sum_under_h))
        return False
    else:
        return True


def validate_lm(lm):
    # sanity check if the conditional probability sums to one under each context h
    for i in range(lm.order(), 0, -1):  # i is the order of the ngram (h, w)
        logging.info("validating %d-grams ..." % i)
        h_dict = lm._ngrams[i - 1]
        for h in h_dict.keys():
            check_h_is_valid(lm, h)


def compare_two_apras(path1, path2):
    pass


if __name__ == "__main__":
    # load an arpa file
    logging.info("Loading the arpa file from %s" % args.lm)
    parser = ArpaParser()
    models = parser.loadf(args.lm, encoding=default_encoding)
    lm = models[0]  # ARPA files may contain several models.
    logging.info("Stats before pruning:")
    for i, cnt in lm.counts():
        logging.info("ngram %d=%d" % (i, cnt))

    # prune it, the language model will be modified in-place
    logging.info("Start pruning the model with threshold=%.3E..." % args.threshold)
    prune(lm, args.threshold, args.minorder)

    # validate_lm(lm)

    # write the arpa language model to a file
    logging.info("Stats after pruning:")
    for i, cnt in lm.counts():
        logging.info("ngram %d=%d" % (i, cnt))
    logging.info("Saving the pruned arpa file to %s" % args.write_lm)
    parser.dumpf(lm, args.write_lm, encoding=default_encoding)
    logging.info("Done.")