spaCy’s tagger, parser, text categorizer and many other components are powered by statistical models. Every “decision” these components make – for example, which part-of-speech tag to assign, or whether a word is a named entity – is a prediction based on the model’s current weight values. The weight values are estimated based on examples the model has seen during training. To train a model, you first need training data – examples of text, and the labels you want the model to predict. This could be a part-of-speech tag, a named entity or any other information.

Training is an iterative process in which the model’s predictions are compared against the reference annotations in order to estimate the gradient of the loss. The gradient of the loss is then used to calculate the gradient of the weights through backpropagation. The gradients indicate how the weight values should be changed so that the model’s predictions become more similar to the reference labels over time.

When training a model, we don’t just want it to memorize our examples – we want it to come up with a theory that can be generalized across unseen data. After all, we don’t just want the model to learn that this one instance of “Amazon” right here is a company – we want it to learn that “Amazon”, in contexts like this, is most likely a company. That’s why the training data should always be representative of the data we want to process. A model trained on Wikipedia, where sentences in the first person are extremely rare, will likely perform badly on Twitter. Similarly, a model trained on romantic novels will likely perform badly on legal text.

This also means that in order to know how the model is performing, and whether it’s learning the right things, you don’t only need training data – you’ll also need evaluation data. If you only test the model with the data it was trained on, you’ll have no idea how well it’s generalizing. If you want to train a model from scratch, you usually need at least a few hundred examples for both training and evaluation.

Quickstart new

The recommended way to train your spaCy pipelines is via the spacy train command on the command line. It only needs a single config.cfg configuration file that includes all settings and hyperparameters. You can optionally overwrite settings on the command line, and load in a Python file to register custom functions and architectures. This quickstart widget helps you generate a starter config with the recommended settings for your specific use case. It’s also available in spaCy as the init config command.

# This is an auto-generated partial config. To use it with 'spacy train'
# you can run spacy init fill-config to auto-fill all default settings:
# python -m spacy init fill-config ./base_config.cfg ./config.cfg
[paths]
train = null
dev = null
vectors = null
[system]
gpu_allocator = null

[nlp]
lang = "en"
pipeline = []
batch_size = 1000

[components]

[corpora]

[corpora.train]
@readers = "spacy.Corpus.v1"
path = ${paths.train}
max_length = 0

[corpora.dev]
@readers = "spacy.Corpus.v1"
path = ${paths.dev}
max_length = 0

[training]
dev_corpus = "corpora.dev"
train_corpus = "corpora.train"

[training.optimizer]
@optimizers = "Adam.v1"

[training.batcher]
@batchers = "spacy.batch_by_words.v1"
discard_oversize = false
tolerance = 0.2

[training.batcher.size]
@schedules = "compounding.v1"
start = 100
stop = 1000
compound = 1.001

[initialize]
vectors = ${paths.vectors}

After you’ve saved the starter config to a file base_config.cfg, you can use the init fill-config command to fill in the remaining defaults. Training configs should always be complete and without hidden defaults, to keep your experiments reproducible.

Instead of exporting your starter config from the quickstart widget and auto-filling it, you can also use the init config command and specify your requirement and settings as CLI arguments. You can now add your data and run train with your config. See the convert command for details on how to convert your data to spaCy’s binary .spacy format. You can either include the data paths in the [paths] section of your config, or pass them in via the command line.

Training config system

Training config files include all settings and hyperparameters for training your pipeline. Instead of providing lots of arguments on the command line, you only need to pass your config.cfg file to spacy train. Under the hood, the training config uses the configuration system provided by our machine learning library Thinc. This also makes it easy to integrate custom models and architectures, written in your framework of choice. Some of the main advantages and features of spaCy’s training config are:

• Structured sections. The config is grouped into sections, and nested sections are defined using the . notation. For example, [components.ner] defines the settings for the pipeline’s named entity recognizer. The config can be loaded as a Python dict.
• References to registered functions. Sections can refer to registered functions like model architectures, optimizers or schedules and define arguments that are passed into them. You can also register your own functions to define custom architectures or methods, reference them in your config and tweak their parameters.
• Interpolation. If you have hyperparameters or other settings used by multiple components, define them once and reference them as variables.
• Reproducibility with no hidden defaults. The config file is the “single source of truth” and includes all settings.
• Automated checks and validation. When you load a config, spaCy checks if the settings are complete and if all values have the correct types. This lets you catch potential mistakes early. In your custom architectures, you can use Python type hints to tell the config which types of data to expect.

explosion/spaCy/master/spacy/default_config.cfg

Under the hood, the config is parsed into a dictionary. It’s divided into sections and subsections, indicated by the square brackets and dot notation. For example, [training] is a section and [training.batcher] a subsection. Subsections can define values, just like a dictionary, or use the @ syntax to refer to registered functions. This allows the config to not just define static settings, but also construct objects like architectures, schedules, optimizers or any other custom components. The main top-level sections of a config file are:

Config lifecycle at runtime and training

A pipeline’s config.cfg is considered the “single source of truth”, both at training and runtime. Under the hood, Language.from_config takes care of constructing the nlp object using the settings defined in the config. An nlp object’s config is available as nlp.config and it includes all information about the pipeline, as well as the settings used to train and initialize it.

At runtime spaCy will only use the [nlp] and [components] blocks of the config and load all data, including tokenization rules, model weights and other resources from the pipeline directory. The [training] block contains the settings for training the model and is only used during training. Similarly, the [initialize] block defines how the initial nlp object should be set up before training and whether it should be initialized with vectors or pretrained tok2vec weights, or any other data needed by the components.

The initialization settings are only loaded and used when nlp.initialize is called (typically right before training). This allows you to set up your pipeline using local data resources and custom functions, and preserve the information in your config – but without requiring it to be available at runtime. You can also use this mechanism to provide data paths to custom pipeline components and custom tokenizers – see the section on custom initialization for details.

Overwriting config settings on the command line

The config system means that you can define all settings in one place and in a consistent format. There are no command-line arguments that need to be set, and no hidden defaults. However, there can still be scenarios where you may want to override config settings when you run spacy train. This includes file paths to vectors or other resources that shouldn’t be hard-coded in a config file, or system-dependent settings.

For cases like this, you can set additional command-line options starting with -- that correspond to the config section and value to override. For example, --paths.train ./corpus/train.spacy sets the train value in the [paths] block.

Only existing sections and values in the config can be overwritten. At the end of the training, the final filled config.cfg is exported with your pipeline, so you’ll always have a record of the settings that were used, including your overrides. Overrides are added before variables are resolved, by the way – so if you need to use a value in multiple places, reference it across your config and override it on the CLI once.

Adding overrides via environment variables

Instead of defining the overrides as CLI arguments, you can also use the SPACY_CONFIG_OVERRIDES environment variable using the same argument syntax. This is especially useful if you’re training models as part of an automated process. Environment variables take precedence over CLI overrides and values defined in the config file.

Reading from standard input

Setting the config path to - on the command line lets you read the config from standard input and pipe it forward from a different process, like init config or your own custom script. This is especially useful for quick experiments, as it lets you generate a config on the fly without having to save to and load from disk.

Using variable interpolation

Another very useful feature of the config system is that it supports variable interpolation for both values and sections. This means that you only need to define a setting once and can reference it across your config using the ${section.value} syntax. In this example, the value of seed is reused within the [training] block, and the whole block of [training.optimizer] is reused in [pretraining] and will become pretraining.optimizer.

config.cfg (excerpt)

You can also use variables inside strings. In that case, it works just like f-strings in Python. If the value of a variable is not a string, it’s converted to a string.

Preparing Training Data

Training data for NLP projects comes in many different formats. For some common formats such as CoNLL, spaCy provides converters you can use from the command line. In other cases you’ll have to prepare the training data yourself.

When converting training data for use in spaCy, the main thing is to create Doc objects just like the results you want as output from the pipeline. For example, if you’re creating an NER pipeline, loading your annotations and setting them as the .ents property on a Doc is all you need to worry about. On disk the annotations will be saved as a DocBin in the .spacy format, but the details of that are handled automatically.

Here’s an example of creating a .spacy file from some NER annotations.

preprocess.py

For more examples of how to convert training data from a wide variety of formats for use with spaCy, look at the preprocessing steps in the tutorial projects.

Customizing the pipeline and training

Defining pipeline components

You typically train a pipeline of one or more components. The [components] block in the config defines the available pipeline components and how they should be created – either by a built-in or custom factory, or sourced from an existing trained pipeline. For example, [components.parser] defines the component named "parser" in the pipeline. There are different ways you might want to treat your components during training, and the most common scenarios are:

1. Train a new component from scratch on your data.
2. Update an existing trained component with more examples.
3. Include an existing trained component without updating it.
4. Include a non-trainable component, like a rule-based EntityRuler or Sentencizer, or a fully custom component.

If a component block defines a factory, spaCy will look it up in the built-in or custom components and create a new component from scratch. All settings defined in the config block will be passed to the component factory as arguments. This lets you configure the model settings and hyperparameters. If a component block defines a source, the component will be copied over from an existing trained pipeline, with its existing weights. This lets you include an already trained component in your pipeline, or update a trained component with more data specific to your use case.

config.cfg (excerpt)

The pipeline setting in the [nlp] block defines the pipeline components added to the pipeline, in order. For example, "parser" here references [components.parser]. By default, spaCy will update all components that can be updated. Trainable components that are created from scratch are initialized with random weights. For sourced components, spaCy will keep the existing weights and resume training.

If you don’t want a component to be updated, you can freeze it by adding it to the frozen_components list in the [training] block. Frozen components are not updated during training and are included in the final trained pipeline as-is. They are also excluded when calling nlp.initialize.

Using predictions from preceding components v3.1

By default, components are updated in isolation during training, which means that they don’t see the predictions of any earlier components in the pipeline. A component receives Example.predicted as input and compares its predictions to Example.reference without saving its annotations in the predicted doc.

Instead, if certain components should set their annotations during training, use the setting annotating_components in the [training] block to specify a list of components. For example, the feature DEP from the parser could be used as a tagger feature by including DEP in the tok2vec attrs and including parser in annotating_components:

config.cfg (excerpt)

Any component in the pipeline can be included as an annotating component, including frozen components. Frozen components can set annotations during training just as they would set annotations during evaluation or when the final pipeline is run. The config excerpt below shows how a frozen ner component and a sentencizer can provide the required doc.sents and doc.ents for the entity linker during training:

config.cfg (excerpt)

Similarly, a pretrained tok2vec layer can be frozen and specified in the list of annotating_components to ensure that a downstream component can use the embedding layer without updating it.

Using registered functions

The training configuration defined in the config file doesn’t have to only consist of static values. Some settings can also be functions. For instance, the batch size can be a number that doesn’t change, or a schedule, like a sequence of compounding values, which has shown to be an effective trick (see Smith et al., 2017).

With static value

To refer to a function instead, you can make [training.batcher.size] its own section and use the @ syntax to specify the function and its arguments – in this case compounding.v1 defined in the function registry. All other values defined in the block are passed to the function as keyword arguments when it’s initialized. You can also use this mechanism to register custom implementations and architectures and reference them from your configs.

With registered function

Model architectures

A model architecture is a function that wires up a Thinc Model instance, which you can then use in a component or as a layer of a larger network. You can use Thinc as a thin wrapper around frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow or MXNet, or you can implement your logic in Thinc directly. For more details and examples, see the usage guide on layers and architectures.

spaCy’s built-in components will never construct their Model instances themselves, so you won’t have to subclass the component to change its model architecture. You can just update the config so that it refers to a different registered function. Once the component has been created, its Model instance has already been assigned, so you cannot change its model architecture. The architecture is like a recipe for the network, and you can’t change the recipe once the dish has already been prepared. You have to make a new one. spaCy includes a variety of built-in architectures for different tasks. For example:

Metrics, training output and weighted scores

When you train a pipeline using the spacy train command, you’ll see a table showing the metrics after each pass over the data. The available metrics depend on the pipeline components. Pipeline components also define which scores are shown and how they should be weighted in the final score that decides about the best model.

The training.score_weights setting in your config.cfg lets you customize the scores shown in the table and how they should be weighted. In this example, the labeled dependency accuracy and NER F-score count towards the final score with 40% each and the tagging accuracy makes up the remaining 20%. The tokenization accuracy and speed are both shown in the table, but not counted towards the score.

The score_weights don’t have to sum to 1.0 – but it’s recommended. When you generate a config for a given pipeline, the score weights are generated by combining and normalizing the default score weights of the pipeline components. The default score weights are defined by each pipeline component via the default_score_weights setting on the @Language.factory decorator. By default, all pipeline components are weighted equally. If a score weight is set to null, it will be excluded from the logs and the score won’t be weighted.

Custom functions

Registered functions in the training config files can refer to built-in implementations, but you can also plug in fully custom implementations. All you need to do is register your function using the @spacy.registry decorator with the name of the respective registry, e.g. @spacy.registry.architectures, and a string name to assign to your function. Registering custom functions allows you to plug in models defined in PyTorch or TensorFlow, make custom modifications to the nlp object, create custom optimizers or schedules, or stream in data and preprocess it on the fly while training.

Each custom function can have any number of arguments that are passed in via the config, just the built-in functions. If your function defines default argument values, spaCy is able to auto-fill your config when you run init fill-config. If you want to make sure that a given parameter is always explicitly set in the config, avoid setting a default value for it.

Training with custom code

The spacy train recipe lets you specify an optional argument --code that points to a Python file. The file is imported before training and allows you to add custom functions and architectures to the function registry that can then be referenced from your config.cfg. This lets you train spaCy pipelines with custom components, without having to re-implement the whole training workflow. When you package your trained pipeline later using spacy package, you can provide one or more Python files to be included in the package and imported in its __init__.py. This means that any custom architectures, functions or components will be shipped with your pipeline and registered when it’s loaded. See the documentation on saving and loading pipelines for details.

Example: Modifying the nlp object

For many use cases, you don’t necessarily want to implement the whole Language subclass and language data from scratch – it’s often enough to make a few small modifications, like adjusting the tokenization rules or language defaults like stop words. The config lets you provide five optional callback functions that give you access to the language class and nlp object at different points of the lifecycle:

The @spacy.registry.callbacks decorator lets you register your custom function in the callbacks registry under a given name. You can then reference the function in a config block using the @callbacks key. If a block contains a key starting with an @, it’s interpreted as a reference to a function. Because you’ve registered the function, spaCy knows how to create it when you reference "customize_language_data" in your config. Here’s an example of a callback that runs before the nlp object is created and adds a custom stop word to the defaults:

functions.py

Any registered function – in this case create_callback – can also take arguments that can be set by the config. This lets you implement and keep track of different configurations, without having to hack at your code. You can choose any arguments that make sense for your use case. In this example, we’re adding the arguments extra_stop_words (a list of strings) and debug (boolean) for printing additional info when the function runs.

functions.py

With your functions.py defining additional code and the updated config.cfg, you can now run spacy train and point the argument --code to your Python file. Before loading the config, spaCy will import the functions.py module and your custom functions will be registered.

Example: Modifying tokenizer settings

Use the initialize.before_init callback to modify the tokenizer settings when training a new pipeline. Write a registered callback that modifies the tokenizer settings and specify this callback in your config:

functions.py

When training, provide the function above with the --code option:

Because this callback is only called in the one-time initialization step before training, the callback code does not need to be packaged with the final pipeline package. However, to make it easier for others to replicate your training setup, you can choose to package the initialization callbacks with the pipeline package or to publish them separately.

Example: Custom logging function

During training, the results of each step are passed to a logger function. By default, these results are written to the console with the ConsoleLogger. There is also built-in support for writing the log files to Weights & Biases with the WandbLogger. On each step, the logger function receives a dictionary with the following keys:

You can easily implement and plug in your own logger that records the training results in a custom way, or sends them to an experiment management tracker of your choice. In this example, the function my_custom_logger.v1 writes the tabular results to a file:

functions.py

Example: Custom batch size schedule

You can also implement your own batch size schedule to use during training. The @spacy.registry.schedules decorator lets you register that function in the schedules registry and assign it a string name:

functions.py

In your config, you can now reference the schedule in the [training.batcher.size] block via @schedules. If a block contains a key starting with an @, it’s interpreted as a reference to a function. All other settings in the block will be passed to the function as keyword arguments. Keep in mind that the config shouldn’t have any hidden defaults and all arguments on the functions need to be represented in the config.

config.cfg (excerpt)

Defining custom architectures

Built-in pipeline components such as the tagger or named entity recognizer are constructed with default neural network models. You can change the model architecture entirely by implementing your own custom models and providing those in the config when creating the pipeline component. See the documentation on layers and model architectures for more details.

functions.py

Customizing the initialization

When you start training a new model from scratch, spacy train will call nlp.initialize to initialize the pipeline and load the required data. All settings for this are defined in the [initialize] block of the config, so you can keep track of how the initial nlp object was created. The initialization process typically includes the following:

1. Load in data resources defined in the [initialize] config, including word vectors and pretrained tok2vec weights.
2. Call the initialize methods of the tokenizer (if implemented, e.g. for Chinese) and pipeline components with a callback to access the training data, the current nlp object and any custom arguments defined in the [initialize] config.
3. In pipeline components: if needed, use the data to infer missing shapes and set up the label scheme if no labels are provided. Components may also load other data like lookup tables or dictionaries.

The initialization step allows the config to define all settings required for the pipeline, while keeping a separation between settings and functions that should only be used before training to set up the initial pipeline, and logic and configuration that needs to be available at runtime. Without that separation, it would be very difficult to use the same, reproducible config file because the component settings required for training (load data from an external file) wouldn’t match the component settings required at runtime (load what’s included with the saved nlp object and don’t depend on external file).

Initializing labels

Built-in pipeline components like the EntityRecognizer or DependencyParser need to know their available labels and associated internal meta information to initialize their model weights. Using the get_examples callback provided on initialization, they’re able to read the labels off the training data automatically, which is very convenient – but it can also slow down the training process to compute this information on every run.

The init labels command lets you auto-generate JSON files containing the label data for all supported components. You can then pass in the labels in the [initialize] settings for the respective components to allow them to initialize faster.

Under the hood, the command delegates to the label_data property of the pipeline components, for instance EntityRecognizer.label_data.

Data utilities

spaCy includes various features and utilities to make it easy to train models using your own data, manage training and evaluation corpora, convert existing annotations and configure data augmentation strategies for more robust models.

Converting existing corpora and annotations

If you have training data in a standard format like .conll or .conllu, the easiest way to convert it for use with spaCy is to run spacy convert and pass it a file and an output directory. By default, the command will pick the converter based on the file extension.

The binary .spacy format is a serialized DocBin containing one or more Doc objects. It’s extremely efficient in storage, especially when packing multiple documents together. You can also create Doc objects manually, so you can write your own custom logic to convert and store existing annotations for use in spaCy.

Training data from Doc objects

Working with corpora

The [corpora] block in your config lets you define data resources to use for training, evaluation, pretraining or any other custom workflows. corpora.train and corpora.dev are used as conventions within spaCy’s default configs, but you can also define any other custom blocks. Each section in the corpora config should resolve to a Corpus – for example, using spaCy’s built-in corpus reader that takes a path to a binary .spacy file. The train_corpus and dev_corpus fields in the [training] block specify where to find the corpus in your config. This makes it easy to swap out different corpora by only changing a single config setting.

Instead of making [corpora] a block with multiple subsections for each portion of the data, you can also use a single function that returns a dictionary of corpora, keyed by corpus name, e.g. "train" and "dev". This can be especially useful if you need to split a single file into corpora for training and evaluation, without loading the same file twice.

By default, the training data is loaded into memory and shuffled before each epoch. If the corpus is too large to fit into memory during training, stream the corpus using a custom reader as described in the next section.

Custom data reading and batching

Some use-cases require streaming in data or manipulating datasets on the fly, rather than generating all data beforehand and storing it to disk. Instead of using the built-in Corpus reader, which uses static file paths, you can create and register a custom function that generates Example objects.

In the following example we assume a custom function read_custom_data which loads or generates texts with relevant text classification annotations. Then, small lexical variations of the input text are created before generating the final Example objects. The @spacy.registry.readers decorator lets you register the function creating the custom reader in the readers registry and assign it a string name, so it can be used in your config. All arguments on the registered function become available as config settings – in this case, source.

functions.py

If the corpus is too large to load into memory or the corpus reader is an infinite generator, use the setting max_epochs = -1 to indicate that the train corpus should be streamed. With this setting the train corpus is merely streamed and batched, not shuffled, so any shuffling needs to be implemented in the corpus reader itself. In the example below, a corpus reader that generates sentences containing even or odd numbers is used with an unlimited number of examples for the train corpus and a limited number of examples for the dev corpus. The dev corpus should always be finite and fit in memory during the evaluation step. max_steps and/or patience are used to determine when the training should stop.

functions.py

If the train corpus is streamed, the initialize step peeks at the first 100 examples in the corpus to find the labels for each component. If this isn’t sufficient, you’ll need to provide the labels for each component in the [initialize] block. init labels can be used to generate JSON files in the correct format, which you can extend with the full label set.

We can also customize the batching strategy by registering a new batcher function in the batchers registry. A batcher turns a stream of items into a stream of batches. spaCy has several useful built-in batching strategies with customizable sizes, but it’s also easy to implement your own. For instance, the following function takes the stream of generated Example objects, and removes those which have the same underlying raw text, to avoid duplicates within each batch. Note that in a more realistic implementation, you’d also want to check whether the annotations are the same.

functions.py

Data augmentation

Data augmentation is the process of applying small modifications to the training data. It can be especially useful for punctuation and case replacement – for example, if your corpus only uses smart quotes and you want to include variations using regular quotes, or to make the model less sensitive to capitalization by including a mix of capitalized and lowercase examples.

The easiest way to use data augmentation during training is to provide an augmenter to the training corpus, e.g. in the [corpora.train] section of your config. The built-in orth_variants augmenter creates a data augmentation callback that uses orth-variant replacement.

config.cfg (excerpt)

The orth_variants argument lets you pass in a dictionary of replacement rules, typically loaded from a JSON file. There are two types of orth variant rules: "single" for single tokens that should be replaced (e.g. hyphens) and "paired" for pairs of tokens (e.g. quotes).

orth_variants.json

explosion/spacy-lookups-data/master/spacy_lookups_data/data/en_orth_variants.json

explosion/spacy-lookups-data/master/spacy_lookups_data/data/de_orth_variants.json

Writing custom data augmenters

Using the @spacy.augmenters registry, you can also register your own data augmentation callbacks. The callback should be a function that takes the current nlp object and a training Example and yields Example objects. Keep in mind that the augmenter should yield all examples you want to use in your corpus, not only the augmented examples (unless you want to augment all examples).

Here’a an example of a custom augmentation callback that produces text variants in “SpOnGeBoB cAsE”. The registered function takes one argument randomize that can be set via the config and decides whether the uppercase/lowercase transformation is applied randomly or not. The augmenter yields two Example objects: the original example and the augmented example.

An easy way to create modified Example objects is to use the Example.from_dict method with a new reference Doc created from the modified text. In this case, only the capitalization changes, so only the ORTH values of the tokens will be different between the original and augmented examples.

Note that if your data augmentation strategy involves changing the tokenization (for instance, removing or adding tokens) and your training examples include token-based annotations like the dependency parse or entity labels, you’ll need to take care to adjust the Example object so its annotations match and remain valid.

Internal training API

Training from a Python script v3.2

If you want to run the training from a Python script instead of using the spacy train CLI command, you can call into the train helper function directly. It takes the path to the config file, an optional output directory and an optional dictionary of config overrides.

Internal training loop API

The Example object contains annotated training data, also called the gold standard. It’s initialized with a Doc object that will hold the predictions, and another Doc object that holds the gold-standard annotations. It also includes the alignment between those two documents if they differ in tokenization. The Example class ensures that spaCy can rely on one standardized format that’s passed through the pipeline. For instance, let’s say we want to define gold-standard part-of-speech tags:

As this is quite verbose, there’s an alternative way to create the reference Doc with the gold-standard annotations. The function Example.from_dict takes a dictionary with keyword arguments specifying the annotations, like tags or entities. Using the resulting Example object and its gold-standard annotations, the model can be updated to learn a sentence of three words with their assigned part-of-speech tags.

Here’s another example that shows how to define gold-standard named entities. The letters added before the labels refer to the tags of the BILUO scheme – O is a token outside an entity, U a single entity unit, B the beginning of an entity, I a token inside an entity and L the last token of an entity.

Of course, it’s not enough to only show a model a single example once. Especially if you only have few examples, you’ll want to train for a number of iterations. At each iteration, the training data is shuffled to ensure the model doesn’t make any generalizations based on the order of examples. Another technique to improve the learning results is to set a dropout rate, a rate at which to randomly “drop” individual features and representations. This makes it harder for the model to memorize the training data. For example, a 0.25 dropout means that each feature or internal representation has a 1/4 likelihood of being dropped.

Example training loop

The nlp.update method takes the following arguments: