add learned padding tokens, same strategy as dalle1, for diffusion prior, and get rid of masking in causal transformer

dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py

@@ -782,17 +782,13 @@ class CausalTransformer(nn.Module):
         self.norm = LayerNorm(dim) if norm_out else nn.Identity()  # unclear in paper whether they projected after the classic layer norm for the final denoised image embedding, or just had the transformer output it directly: plan on offering both options
         self.project_out = nn.Linear(dim, dim, bias = False) if final_proj else nn.Identity()
 
-    def forward(
-        self,
-        x,
-        mask = None    # we will need a mask here, due to variable length of the text encodings - also offer dalle1 strategy with padding token embeddings
-    ):
+    def forward(self, x):
         n, device = x.shape[1], x.device
 
         attn_bias = self.rel_pos_bias(n, n + 1, device = device)
 
         for attn, ff in self.layers:
-            x = attn(x, mask = mask, attn_bias = attn_bias) + x
+            x = attn(x, attn_bias = attn_bias) + x
             x = ff(x) + x
 
         out = self.norm(x)
@@ -806,7 +802,7 @@ class DiffusionPriorNetwork(nn.Module):
         num_time_embeds = 1,
         num_image_embeds = 1,
         num_text_embeds = 1,
-        attend_all_text_encodings = True,
+        max_text_len = 256,
         **kwargs
     ):
         super().__init__()
@@ -832,7 +828,10 @@ class DiffusionPriorNetwork(nn.Module):
         self.learned_query = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(dim))
         self.causal_transformer = CausalTransformer(dim = dim, **kwargs)
 
-        self.attend_all_text_encodings = attend_all_text_encodings
+        # dalle1 learned padding strategy
+
+        self.max_text_len = max_text_len
+        self.null_text_embed = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(1, max_text_len, dim))
 
     def forward_with_cond_scale(
         self,
@@ -872,11 +871,28 @@ class DiffusionPriorNetwork(nn.Module):
 
         if not exists(text_encodings):
             text_encodings = torch.empty((batch, 0, dim), device = device, dtype = dtype)
+    
+        mask = torch.any(text_encodings != 0., dim = -1)
 
-        if self.attend_all_text_encodings:
-            mask = torch.ones((batch, text_encodings.shape[-2]), device = device, dtype = torch.bool)
-        else:
-            mask = torch.any(text_encodings != 0., dim = -1)
+        # replace any padding in the text encodings with learned padding tokens unique across position
+
+        text_encodings = text_encodings[:, :self.max_text_len]
+        mask = mask[:, :self.max_text_len]
+
+        text_len = text_encodings.shape[-2]
+        remainder = self.max_text_len - text_len
+
+        if remainder > 0:
+            text_encodings = F.pad(text_encodings, (0, 0, 0, remainder), value = 0.)
+            mask = F.pad(mask, (0, remainder), value = False)
+
+        null_text_embeds = self.null_text_embed.to(text_encodings.dtype)
+
+        text_encodings = torch.where(
+            rearrange(mask, 'b n -> b n 1'),
+            text_encodings,
+            null_text_embeds
+        )
 
         # classifier free guidance
 
@@ -910,7 +926,7 @@ class DiffusionPriorNetwork(nn.Module):
 
         # attend
 
-        tokens = self.causal_transformer(tokens, mask = mask)
+        tokens = self.causal_transformer(tokens)
 
         # get learned query, which should predict the image embedding (per DDPM timestep)