Implement context biasing with a Aho Corasick automata (#145)

* Implement context graph

* Modify the interface to support context biasing

* Support context biasing in modified beam search; add python wrapper

* Support context biasing in python api example

* Minor fixes

* Fix context graph

* Minor fixes

* Fix tests

* Fix style

* Fix style

* Fix comments

* Minor fixes

* Add missing header

* Replace std::shared_ptr with std::unique_ptr for effciency

* Build graph in constructor

* Fix comments

* Minor fixes

* Fix docs

.github/workflows/run-python-test.yaml

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Python dependencies
         shell: bash
         run: |
-          python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip numpy
+          python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip numpy sentencepiece==0.1.96
 
       - name: Install sherpa-onnx
         shell: bash

python-api-examples/offline-decode-files.py

@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ import argparse
 import time
 import wave
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Tuple
+from typing import List, Tuple
 
 import numpy as np
+import sentencepiece as spm
 import sherpa_onnx
 
 
@@ -60,6 +61,47 @@ def get_args():
         help="Path to tokens.txt",
     )
 
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--bpe-model",
+        type=str,
+        default="",
+        help="""
+        Path to bpe.model,
+        Used only when --decoding-method=modified_beam_search
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--modeling-unit",
+        type=str,
+        default="char",
+        help="""
+        The type of modeling unit.
+        Valid values are bpe, bpe+char, char.
+        Note: the char here means characters in CJK languages.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--contexts",
+        type=str,
+        default="",
+        help="""
+        The context list, it is a string containing some words/phrases separated
+        with /, for example, 'HELLO WORLD/I LOVE YOU/GO AWAY".
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--context-score",
+        type=float,
+        default=1.5,
+        help="""
+        The context score of each token for biasing word/phrase. Used only if
+        --contexts is given.
+        """,
+    )
+
     parser.add_argument(
         "--encoder",
         default="",
@@ -153,6 +195,24 @@ def assert_file_exists(filename: str):
     )
 
 
+def encode_contexts(args, contexts: List[str]) -> List[List[int]]:
+    sp = None
+    if "bpe" in args.modeling_unit:
+        assert_file_exists(args.bpe_model)
+        sp = spm.SentencePieceProcessor()
+        sp.load(args.bpe_model)
+    tokens = {}
+    with open(args.tokens, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        for line in f:
+            toks = line.strip().split()
+            assert len(toks) == 2, len(toks)
+            assert toks[0] not in tokens, f"Duplicate token: {toks} "
+            tokens[toks[0]] = int(toks[1])
+    return sherpa_onnx.encode_contexts(
+        modeling_unit=args.modeling_unit, contexts=contexts, sp=sp, tokens_table=tokens
+    )
+
+
 def read_wave(wave_filename: str) -> Tuple[np.ndarray, int]:
     """
     Args:
@@ -182,10 +242,17 @@ def main():
     args = get_args()
     assert_file_exists(args.tokens)
     assert args.num_threads > 0, args.num_threads
+
+    contexts_list = []
     if args.encoder:
         assert len(args.paraformer) == 0, args.paraformer
         assert len(args.nemo_ctc) == 0, args.nemo_ctc
 
+        contexts = [x.strip().upper() for x in args.contexts.split("/") if x.strip()]
+        if contexts:
+            print(f"Contexts list: {contexts}")
+            contexts_list = encode_contexts(args, contexts)
+
         assert_file_exists(args.encoder)
         assert_file_exists(args.decoder)
         assert_file_exists(args.joiner)
@@ -199,6 +266,7 @@ def main():
             sample_rate=args.sample_rate,
             feature_dim=args.feature_dim,
             decoding_method=args.decoding_method,
+            context_score=args.context_score,
             debug=args.debug,
         )
     elif args.paraformer:
@@ -238,8 +306,12 @@ def main():
         samples, sample_rate = read_wave(wave_filename)
         duration = len(samples) / sample_rate
         total_duration += duration
-
+        if contexts_list:
-        s = recognizer.create_stream()
+            assert len(args.paraformer) == 0, args.paraformer
+            assert len(args.nemo_ctc) == 0, args.nemo_ctc
+            s = recognizer.create_stream(contexts_list=contexts_list)
+        else:
+            s = recognizer.create_stream()
         s.accept_waveform(sample_rate, samples)
 
         streams.append(s)

setup.py

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ with open("sherpa-onnx/python/sherpa_onnx/__init__.py", "a") as f:
 
 install_requires = [
     "numpy",
+    "sentencepiece==0.1.96",
 ]
 
 

sherpa-onnx/csrc/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ endif()
 
 set(sources
   cat.cc
+  context-graph.cc
   endpoint.cc
   features.cc
   file-utils.cc
@@ -248,6 +249,7 @@ endif()
 if(SHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_TESTS)
   set(sherpa_onnx_test_srcs
     cat-test.cc
+    context-graph-test.cc
     packed-sequence-test.cc
     pad-sequence-test.cc
     slice-test.cc

sherpa-onnx/csrc/context-graph-test.cc

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+// sherpa-onnx/csrc/context-graph-test.cc
+//
+// Copyright (c)  2023  Xiaomi Corporation
+
+#include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/context-graph.h"
+
+#include <map>
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "gtest/gtest.h"
+
+namespace sherpa_onnx {
+
+TEST(ContextGraph, TestBasic) {
+  std::vector<std::string> contexts_str(
+      {"S", "HE", "SHE", "SHELL", "HIS", "HERS", "HELLO", "THIS", "THEM"});
+  std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> contexts;
+  for (int32_t i = 0; i < contexts_str.size(); ++i) {
+    contexts.emplace_back(contexts_str[i].begin(), contexts_str[i].end());
+  }
+  auto context_graph = ContextGraph(contexts, 1);
+
+  auto queries = std::map<std::string, float>{
+      {"HEHERSHE", 14}, {"HERSHE", 12}, {"HISHE", 9},   {"SHED", 6},
+      {"HELL", 2},      {"HELLO", 7},   {"DHRHISQ", 4}, {"THEN", 2}};
+
+  for (const auto &iter : queries) {
+    float total_scores = 0;
+    auto state = context_graph.Root();
+    for (auto q : iter.first) {
+      auto res = context_graph.ForwardOneStep(state, q);
+      total_scores += res.first;
+      state = res.second;
+    }
+    auto res = context_graph.Finalize(state);
+    EXPECT_EQ(res.second->token, -1);
+    total_scores += res.first;
+    EXPECT_EQ(total_scores, iter.second);
+  }
+}
+
+}  // namespace sherpa_onnx

sherpa-onnx/csrc/context-graph.cc

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+// sherpa-onnx/csrc/context-graph.cc
+//
+// Copyright (c)  2023  Xiaomi Corporation
+
+#include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/context-graph.h"
+
+#include <cassert>
+#include <queue>
+#include <utility>
+
+namespace sherpa_onnx {
+void ContextGraph::Build(
+    const std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> &token_ids) const {
+  for (int32_t i = 0; i < token_ids.size(); ++i) {
+    auto node = root_.get();
+    for (int32_t j = 0; j < token_ids[i].size(); ++j) {
+      int32_t token = token_ids[i][j];
+      if (0 == node->next.count(token)) {
+        bool is_end = j == token_ids[i].size() - 1;
+        node->next[token] = std::make_unique<ContextState>(
+            token, context_score_, node->node_score + context_score_,
+            is_end ? 0 : node->local_node_score + context_score_, is_end);
+      }
+      node = node->next[token].get();
+    }
+  }
+  FillFailOutput();
+}
+
+std::pair<float, const ContextState *> ContextGraph::ForwardOneStep(
+    const ContextState *state, int32_t token) const {
+  const ContextState *node;
+  float score;
+  if (1 == state->next.count(token)) {
+    node = state->next.at(token).get();
+    score = node->token_score;
+    if (state->is_end) score += state->node_score;
+  } else {
+    node = state->fail;
+    while (0 == node->next.count(token)) {
+      node = node->fail;
+      if (-1 == node->token) break;  // root
+    }
+    if (1 == node->next.count(token)) {
+      node = node->next.at(token).get();
+    }
+    score = node->node_score - state->local_node_score;
+  }
+  SHERPA_ONNX_CHECK(nullptr != node);
+  float matched_score = 0;
+  auto output = node->output;
+  while (nullptr != output) {
+    matched_score += output->node_score;
+    output = output->output;
+  }
+  return std::make_pair(score + matched_score, node);
+}
+
+std::pair<float, const ContextState *> ContextGraph::Finalize(
+    const ContextState *state) const {
+  float score = -state->node_score;
+  if (state->is_end) {
+    score = 0;
+  }
+  return std::make_pair(score, root_.get());
+}
+
+void ContextGraph::FillFailOutput() const {
+  std::queue<const ContextState *> node_queue;
+  for (auto &kv : root_->next) {
+    kv.second->fail = root_.get();
+    node_queue.push(kv.second.get());
+  }
+  while (!node_queue.empty()) {
+    auto current_node = node_queue.front();
+    node_queue.pop();
+    for (auto &kv : current_node->next) {
+      auto fail = current_node->fail;
+      if (1 == fail->next.count(kv.first)) {
+        fail = fail->next.at(kv.first).get();
+      } else {
+        fail = fail->fail;
+        while (0 == fail->next.count(kv.first)) {
+          fail = fail->fail;
+          if (-1 == fail->token) break;
+        }
+        if (1 == fail->next.count(kv.first))
+          fail = fail->next.at(kv.first).get();
+      }
+      kv.second->fail = fail;
+      // fill the output arc
+      auto output = fail;
+      while (!output->is_end) {
+        output = output->fail;
+        if (-1 == output->token) {
+          output = nullptr;
+          break;
+        }
+      }
+      kv.second->output = output;
+      node_queue.push(kv.second.get());
+    }
+  }
+}
+}  // namespace sherpa_onnx

sherpa-onnx/csrc/context-graph.h

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+// sherpa-onnx/csrc/context-graph.h
+//
+// Copyright (c)  2023  Xiaomi Corporation
+
+#ifndef SHERPA_ONNX_CSRC_CONTEXT_GRAPH_H_
+#define SHERPA_ONNX_CSRC_CONTEXT_GRAPH_H_
+
+#include <memory>
+#include <unordered_map>
+#include <utility>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/log.h"
+
+namespace sherpa_onnx {
+
+class ContextGraph;
+using ContextGraphPtr = std::shared_ptr<ContextGraph>;
+
+struct ContextState {
+  int32_t token;
+  float token_score;
+  float node_score;
+  float local_node_score;
+  bool is_end;
+  std::unordered_map<int32_t, std::unique_ptr<ContextState>> next;
+  const ContextState *fail = nullptr;
+  const ContextState *output = nullptr;
+
+  ContextState() = default;
+  ContextState(int32_t token, float token_score, float node_score,
+               float local_node_score, bool is_end)
+      : token(token),
+        token_score(token_score),
+        node_score(node_score),
+        local_node_score(local_node_score),
+        is_end(is_end) {}
+};
+
+class ContextGraph {
+ public:
+  ContextGraph() = default;
+  ContextGraph(const std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> &token_ids,
+               float context_score)
+      : context_score_(context_score) {
+    root_ = std::make_unique<ContextState>(-1, 0, 0, 0, false);
+    root_->fail = root_.get();
+    Build(token_ids);
+  }
+
+  std::pair<float, const ContextState *> ForwardOneStep(
+      const ContextState *state, int32_t token_id) const;
+  std::pair<float, const ContextState *> Finalize(
+      const ContextState *state) const;
+
+  const ContextState *Root() const { return root_.get(); }
+
+ private:
+  float context_score_;
+  std::unique_ptr<ContextState> root_;
+  void Build(const std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> &token_ids) const;
+  void FillFailOutput() const;
+};
+
+}  // namespace sherpa_onnx
+#endif  // SHERPA_ONNX_CSRC_CONTEXT_GRAPH_H_

sherpa-onnx/csrc/hypothesis.h

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <vector>
 
 #include "onnxruntime_cxx_api.h"  // NOLINT
+#include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/context-graph.h"
 #include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/math.h"
 #include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/onnx-utils.h"
 
@@ -39,11 +40,18 @@ struct Hypothesis {
   // the nn lm states
   std::vector<CopyableOrtValue> nn_lm_states;
 
+  const ContextState *context_state;
+
+  // TODO(fangjun): Make it configurable
+  // the minimum of tokens in a chunk for streaming RNN LM
+  int32_t lm_rescore_min_chunk = 2;  // a const
+
   int32_t num_trailing_blanks = 0;
 
   Hypothesis() = default;
-  Hypothesis(const std::vector<int64_t> &ys, double log_prob)
+  Hypothesis(const std::vector<int64_t> &ys, double log_prob,
-      : ys(ys), log_prob(log_prob) {}
+             const ContextState *context_state = nullptr)
+      : ys(ys), log_prob(log_prob), context_state(context_state) {}
 
   double TotalLogProb() const { return log_prob + lm_log_prob; }
 

sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-recognizer-impl.h

@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
 #define SHERPA_ONNX_CSRC_OFFLINE_RECOGNIZER_IMPL_H_
 
 #include <memory>
+#include <vector>
 
+#include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/macros.h"
 #include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-recognizer.h"
 #include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-stream.h"
 
@@ -19,6 +21,12 @@ class OfflineRecognizerImpl {
 
   virtual ~OfflineRecognizerImpl() = default;
 
+  virtual std::unique_ptr<OfflineStream> CreateStream(
+      const std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> &context_list) const {
+    SHERPA_ONNX_LOGE("Only transducer models support contextual biasing.");
+    exit(-1);
+  }
+
   virtual std::unique_ptr<OfflineStream> CreateStream() const = 0;
 
   virtual void DecodeStreams(OfflineStream **ss, int32_t n) const = 0;

sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-recognizer-transducer-impl.h

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <utility>
 #include <vector>
 
+#include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/context-graph.h"
 #include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/macros.h"
 #include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-recognizer-impl.h"
 #include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-recognizer.h"
@@ -72,6 +73,16 @@ class OfflineRecognizerTransducerImpl : public OfflineRecognizerImpl {
     }
   }
 
+  std::unique_ptr<OfflineStream> CreateStream(
+      const std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> &context_list) const override {
+    // We create context_graph at this level, because we might have default
+    // context_graph(will be added later if needed) that belongs to the whole
+    // model rather than each stream.
+    auto context_graph =
+        std::make_shared<ContextGraph>(context_list, config_.context_score);
+    return std::make_unique<OfflineStream>(config_.feat_config, context_graph);
+  }
+
   std::unique_ptr<OfflineStream> CreateStream() const override {
     return std::make_unique<OfflineStream>(config_.feat_config);
   }
@@ -117,7 +128,8 @@ class OfflineRecognizerTransducerImpl : public OfflineRecognizerImpl {
                                -23.025850929940457f);
 
     auto t = model_->RunEncoder(std::move(x), std::move(x_length));
-    auto results = decoder_->Decode(std::move(t.first), std::move(t.second));
+    auto results =
+        decoder_->Decode(std::move(t.first), std::move(t.second), ss, n);
 
     int32_t frame_shift_ms = 10;
     for (int32_t i = 0; i != n; ++i) {

sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-recognizer.cc

@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ void OfflineRecognizerConfig::Register(ParseOptions *po) {
 
   po->Register("max-active-paths", &max_active_paths,
                "Used only when decoding_method is modified_beam_search");
+  po->Register("context-score", &context_score,
+               "The bonus score for each token in context word/phrase. "
+               "Used only when decoding_method is modified_beam_search");
 }
 
 bool OfflineRecognizerConfig::Validate() const {
@@ -49,7 +52,8 @@ std::string OfflineRecognizerConfig::ToString() const {
   os << "model_config=" << model_config.ToString() << ", ";
   os << "lm_config=" << lm_config.ToString() << ", ";
   os << "decoding_method=\"" << decoding_method << "\", ";
-  os << "max_active_paths=" << max_active_paths << ")";
+  os << "max_active_paths=" << max_active_paths << ", ";
+  os << "context_score=" << context_score << ")";
 
   return os.str();
 }
@@ -59,6 +63,11 @@ OfflineRecognizer::OfflineRecognizer(const OfflineRecognizerConfig &config)
 
 OfflineRecognizer::~OfflineRecognizer() = default;
 
+std::unique_ptr<OfflineStream> OfflineRecognizer::CreateStream(
+    const std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> &context_list) const {
+  return impl_->CreateStream(context_list);
+}
+
 std::unique_ptr<OfflineStream> OfflineRecognizer::CreateStream() const {
   return impl_->CreateStream();
 }

sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-recognizer.h

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ struct OfflineRecognizerConfig {
 
   std::string decoding_method = "greedy_search";
   int32_t max_active_paths = 4;
+  float context_score = 1.5;
   // only greedy_search is implemented
   // TODO(fangjun): Implement modified_beam_search
 
@@ -34,12 +35,13 @@ struct OfflineRecognizerConfig {
                           const OfflineModelConfig &model_config,
                           const OfflineLMConfig &lm_config,
                           const std::string &decoding_method,
-                          int32_t max_active_paths)
+                          int32_t max_active_paths, float context_score)
       : feat_config(feat_config),
         model_config(model_config),
         lm_config(lm_config),
         decoding_method(decoding_method),
-        max_active_paths(max_active_paths) {}
+        max_active_paths(max_active_paths),
+        context_score(context_score) {}
 
   void Register(ParseOptions *po);
   bool Validate() const;
@@ -58,6 +60,10 @@ class OfflineRecognizer {
   /// Create a stream for decoding.
   std::unique_ptr<OfflineStream> CreateStream() const;
 
+  /// Create a stream for decoding.
+  std::unique_ptr<OfflineStream> CreateStream(
+      const std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> &context_list) const;
+
   /** Decode a single stream
    *
    * @param s The stream to decode.

sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-stream.cc

@@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ std::string OfflineFeatureExtractorConfig::ToString() const {
 
 class OfflineStream::Impl {
  public:
-  explicit Impl(const OfflineFeatureExtractorConfig &config) : config_(config) {
+  explicit Impl(const OfflineFeatureExtractorConfig &config,
+                ContextGraphPtr context_graph)
+      : config_(config), context_graph_(context_graph) {
     opts_.frame_opts.dither = 0;
     opts_.frame_opts.snip_edges = false;
     opts_.frame_opts.samp_freq = config.sampling_rate;
@@ -152,6 +154,8 @@ class OfflineStream::Impl {
 
   const OfflineRecognitionResult &GetResult() const { return r_; }
 
+  const ContextGraphPtr &GetContextGraph() const { return context_graph_; }
+
  private:
   void NemoNormalizeFeatures(float *p, int32_t num_frames,
                              int32_t feature_dim) const {
@@ -189,11 +193,13 @@ class OfflineStream::Impl {
   std::unique_ptr<knf::OnlineFbank> fbank_;
   knf::FbankOptions opts_;
   OfflineRecognitionResult r_;
+  ContextGraphPtr context_graph_;
 };
 
 OfflineStream::OfflineStream(
-    const OfflineFeatureExtractorConfig &config /*= {}*/)
+    const OfflineFeatureExtractorConfig &config /*= {}*/,
-    : impl_(std::make_unique<Impl>(config)) {}
+    ContextGraphPtr context_graph /*= nullptr*/)
+    : impl_(std::make_unique<Impl>(config, context_graph)) {}
 
 OfflineStream::~OfflineStream() = default;
 
@@ -212,6 +218,10 @@ void OfflineStream::SetResult(const OfflineRecognitionResult &r) {
   impl_->SetResult(r);
 }
 
+const ContextGraphPtr &OfflineStream::GetContextGraph() const {
+  return impl_->GetContextGraph();
+}
+
 const OfflineRecognitionResult &OfflineStream::GetResult() const {
   return impl_->GetResult();
 }

sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-stream.h

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>
 
+#include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/context-graph.h"
 #include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/parse-options.h"
 
 namespace sherpa_onnx {
@@ -66,7 +67,8 @@ struct OfflineFeatureExtractorConfig {
 
 class OfflineStream {
  public:
-  explicit OfflineStream(const OfflineFeatureExtractorConfig &config = {});
+  explicit OfflineStream(const OfflineFeatureExtractorConfig &config = {},
+                         ContextGraphPtr context_graph = nullptr);
   ~OfflineStream();
 
   /**
@@ -96,6 +98,9 @@ class OfflineStream {
   /** Get the recognition result of this stream */
   const OfflineRecognitionResult &GetResult() const;
 
+  /** Get the ContextGraph of this stream */
+  const ContextGraphPtr &GetContextGraph() const;
+
  private:
   class Impl;
   std::unique_ptr<Impl> impl_;

sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-transducer-decoder.h

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <vector>
 
 #include "onnxruntime_cxx_api.h"  // NOLINT
+#include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-stream.h"
 
 namespace sherpa_onnx {
 
@@ -33,7 +34,8 @@ class OfflineTransducerDecoder {
    * @return Return a vector of size `N` containing the decoded results.
    */
   virtual std::vector<OfflineTransducerDecoderResult> Decode(
-      Ort::Value encoder_out, Ort::Value encoder_out_length) = 0;
+      Ort::Value encoder_out, Ort::Value encoder_out_length,
+      OfflineStream **ss = nullptr, int32_t n = 0) = 0;
 };
 
 }  // namespace sherpa_onnx

sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-transducer-greedy-search-decoder.cc

@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ namespace sherpa_onnx {
 
 std::vector<OfflineTransducerDecoderResult>
 OfflineTransducerGreedySearchDecoder::Decode(Ort::Value encoder_out,
-                                             Ort::Value encoder_out_length) {
+                                             Ort::Value encoder_out_length,
+                                             OfflineStream **ss /*= nullptr*/,
+                                             int32_t n /*= 0*/) {
   PackedSequence packed_encoder_out = PackPaddedSequence(
       model_->Allocator(), &encoder_out, &encoder_out_length);
 

sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-transducer-greedy-search-decoder.h

@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ class OfflineTransducerGreedySearchDecoder : public OfflineTransducerDecoder {
       : model_(model) {}
 
   std::vector<OfflineTransducerDecoderResult> Decode(
-      Ort::Value encoder_out, Ort::Value encoder_out_length) override;
+      Ort::Value encoder_out, Ort::Value encoder_out_length,
+      OfflineStream **ss = nullptr, int32_t n = 0) override;
 
  private:
   OfflineTransducerModel *model_;  // Not owned

sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-transducer-modified-beam-search-decoder.cc

@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
 #include <utility>
 #include <vector>
 
+#include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/context-graph.h"
 #include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/hypothesis.h"
+#include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/log.h"
 #include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/onnx-utils.h"
 #include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/packed-sequence.h"
 #include "sherpa-onnx/csrc/slice.h"
@@ -17,23 +19,39 @@ namespace sherpa_onnx {
 
 std::vector<OfflineTransducerDecoderResult>
 OfflineTransducerModifiedBeamSearchDecoder::Decode(
-    Ort::Value encoder_out, Ort::Value encoder_out_length) {
+    Ort::Value encoder_out, Ort::Value encoder_out_length,
+    OfflineStream **ss /*=nullptr */, int32_t n /*= 0*/) {
   PackedSequence packed_encoder_out = PackPaddedSequence(
       model_->Allocator(), &encoder_out, &encoder_out_length);
 
   int32_t batch_size =
       static_cast<int32_t>(packed_encoder_out.sorted_indexes.size());
 
+  if (ss != nullptr) SHERPA_ONNX_CHECK_EQ(batch_size, n);
+
   int32_t vocab_size = model_->VocabSize();
   int32_t context_size = model_->ContextSize();
 
   std::vector<int64_t> blanks(context_size, 0);
-  Hypotheses blank_hyp({{blanks, 0}});
 
   std::deque<Hypotheses> finalized;
-  std::vector<Hypotheses> cur(batch_size, blank_hyp);
+  std::vector<Hypotheses> cur;
   std::vector<Hypothesis> prev;
 
+  std::vector<ContextGraphPtr> context_graphs(batch_size, nullptr);
+
+  for (int32_t i = 0; i < batch_size; ++i) {
+    const ContextState *context_state;
+    if (ss != nullptr) {
+      context_graphs[i] =
+          ss[packed_encoder_out.sorted_indexes[i]]->GetContextGraph();
+      if (context_graphs[i] != nullptr)
+        context_state = context_graphs[i]->Root();
+    }
+    Hypotheses blank_hyp({{blanks, 0, context_state}});
+    cur.emplace_back(std::move(blank_hyp));
+  }
+
   int32_t start = 0;
   int32_t t = 0;
   for (auto n : packed_encoder_out.batch_sizes) {
@@ -106,13 +124,21 @@ OfflineTransducerModifiedBeamSearchDecoder::Decode(
         int32_t new_token = k % vocab_size;
         Hypothesis new_hyp = prev[hyp_index];
 
+        float context_score = 0;
+        auto context_state = new_hyp.context_state;
         if (new_token != 0) {
           // blank id is fixed to 0
           new_hyp.ys.push_back(new_token);
           new_hyp.timestamps.push_back(t);
+          if (context_graphs[i] != nullptr) {
+            auto context_res =
+                context_graphs[i]->ForwardOneStep(context_state, new_token);
+            context_score = context_res.first;
+            new_hyp.context_state = context_res.second;
+          }
         }
 
-        new_hyp.log_prob = p_logprob[k];
+        new_hyp.log_prob = p_logprob[k] + context_score;
         hyps.Add(std::move(new_hyp));
       }  // for (auto k : topk)
       p_logprob += (end - start) * vocab_size;
@@ -126,6 +152,18 @@ OfflineTransducerModifiedBeamSearchDecoder::Decode(
     cur.push_back(std::move(h));
   }
 
+  // Finalize context biasing matching..
+  for (int32_t i = 0; i < cur.size(); ++i) {
+    for (auto iter = cur[i].begin(); iter != cur[i].end(); ++iter) {
+      if (context_graphs[i] != nullptr) {
+        auto context_res =
+            context_graphs[i]->Finalize(iter->second.context_state);
+        iter->second.log_prob += context_res.first;
+        iter->second.context_state = context_res.second;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   if (lm_) {
     // use LM for rescoring
     lm_->ComputeLMScore(lm_scale_, context_size, &cur);

sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-transducer-modified-beam-search-decoder.h

@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ class OfflineTransducerModifiedBeamSearchDecoder
         lm_scale_(lm_scale) {}
 
   std::vector<OfflineTransducerDecoderResult> Decode(
-      Ort::Value encoder_out, Ort::Value encoder_out_length) override;
+      Ort::Value encoder_out, Ort::Value encoder_out_length,
+      OfflineStream **ss = nullptr, int32_t n = 0) override;
 
  private:
   OfflineTransducerModel *model_;  // Not owned

sherpa-onnx/python/csrc/offline-recognizer.cc

@@ -16,16 +16,17 @@ static void PybindOfflineRecognizerConfig(py::module *m) {
   py::class_<PyClass>(*m, "OfflineRecognizerConfig")
       .def(py::init<const OfflineFeatureExtractorConfig &,
                     const OfflineModelConfig &, const OfflineLMConfig &,
-                    const std::string &, int32_t>(),
+                    const std::string &, int32_t, float>(),
            py::arg("feat_config"), py::arg("model_config"),
            py::arg("lm_config") = OfflineLMConfig(),
            py::arg("decoding_method") = "greedy_search",
-           py::arg("max_active_paths") = 4)
+           py::arg("max_active_paths") = 4, py::arg("context_score") = 1.5)
       .def_readwrite("feat_config", &PyClass::feat_config)
       .def_readwrite("model_config", &PyClass::model_config)
       .def_readwrite("lm_config", &PyClass::lm_config)
       .def_readwrite("decoding_method", &PyClass::decoding_method)
       .def_readwrite("max_active_paths", &PyClass::max_active_paths)
+      .def_readwrite("context_score", &PyClass::context_score)
       .def("__str__", &PyClass::ToString);
 }
 
@@ -35,10 +36,18 @@ void PybindOfflineRecognizer(py::module *m) {
   using PyClass = OfflineRecognizer;
   py::class_<PyClass>(*m, "OfflineRecognizer")
       .def(py::init<const OfflineRecognizerConfig &>(), py::arg("config"))
-      .def("create_stream", &PyClass::CreateStream)
+      .def("create_stream",
+           [](const PyClass &self) { return self.CreateStream(); })
+      .def(
+          "create_stream",
+          [](PyClass &self,
+             const std::vector<std::vector<int32_t>> &contexts_list) {
+            return self.CreateStream(contexts_list);
+          },
+          py::arg("contexts_list"))
       .def("decode_stream", &PyClass::DecodeStream)
       .def("decode_streams",
-           [](PyClass &self, std::vector<OfflineStream *> ss) {
+           [](const PyClass &self, std::vector<OfflineStream *> ss) {
              self.DecodeStreams(ss.data(), ss.size());
            });
 }

sherpa-onnx/python/sherpa_onnx/__init__.py

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional
+
 from _sherpa_onnx import Display
 
 from .online_recognizer import OnlineRecognizer
 from .online_recognizer import OnlineStream
 from .offline_recognizer import OfflineRecognizer
+
+from .utils import encode_contexts
+
+
+

sherpa-onnx/python/sherpa_onnx/offline_recognizer.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c)  2023 by manyeyes
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import List
+from typing import List, Optional
 
 from _sherpa_onnx import (
     OfflineFeatureExtractorConfig,
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ class OfflineRecognizer(object):
         sample_rate: int = 16000,
         feature_dim: int = 80,
         decoding_method: str = "greedy_search",
+        context_score: float = 1.5,
         debug: bool = False,
         provider: str = "cpu",
     ):
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ class OfflineRecognizer(object):
             feat_config=feat_config,
             model_config=model_config,
             decoding_method=decoding_method,
+            context_score=context_score,
         )
         self.recognizer = _Recognizer(recognizer_config)
         return self
@@ -216,8 +218,11 @@ class OfflineRecognizer(object):
         self.recognizer = _Recognizer(recognizer_config)
         return self
 
-    def create_stream(self):
+    def create_stream(self, contexts_list: Optional[List[List[int]]] = None):
-        return self.recognizer.create_stream()
+        if contexts_list is None:
+            return self.recognizer.create_stream()
+        else:
+            return self.recognizer.create_stream(contexts_list)
 
     def decode_stream(self, s: OfflineStream):
         self.recognizer.decode_stream(s)

sherpa-onnx/python/sherpa_onnx/utils.py

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional
+
+
+def encode_contexts(
+    modeling_unit: str,
+    contexts: List[str],
+    sp: Optional["SentencePieceProcessor"] = None,
+    tokens_table: Optional[Dict[str, int]] = None,
+) -> List[List[int]]:
+    """
+    Encode the given contexts (a list of string) to a list of a list of token ids.
+
+    Args:
+      modeling_unit:
+        The valid values are bpe, char, bpe+char.
+        Note: char here means characters in CJK languages, not English like languages.
+      contexts:
+        The given contexts list (a list of string).
+      sp:
+        An instance of SentencePieceProcessor.
+      tokens_table:
+        The tokens_table containing the tokens and the corresponding ids.
+    Returns:
+      Return the contexts_list, it is a list of a list of token ids.
+    """
+    contexts_list = []
+    if "bpe" in modeling_unit:
+        assert sp is not None
+    if "char" in modeling_unit:
+        assert tokens_table is not None
+        assert len(tokens_table) > 0, len(tokens_table)
+
+    if "char" == modeling_unit:
+        for context in contexts:
+            assert ' ' not in context
+            ids = [
+                tokens_table[txt] if txt in tokens_table else tokens_table["<unk>"]
+                for txt in context
+            ]
+            contexts_list.append(ids)
+    elif "bpe" == modeling_unit:
+        contexts_list = sp.encode(contexts, out_type=int)
+    else:
+        assert modeling_unit == "bpe+char", modeling_unit
+
+        # CJK(China Japan Korea) unicode range is [U+4E00, U+9FFF], ref:
+        # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs_(Unicode_block)
+        pattern = re.compile(r"([\u4e00-\u9fff])")
+        for context in contexts:
+            # Example:
+            #   txt   = "你好 ITS'S OKAY 的"
+            #   chars = ["你", "好", " ITS'S OKAY ", "的"]
+            chars = pattern.split(context.upper())
+            mix_chars = [w for w in chars if len(w.strip()) > 0]
+            ids = []
+            for ch_or_w in mix_chars:
+                # ch_or_w is a single CJK charater(i.e., "你"), do nothing.
+                if pattern.fullmatch(ch_or_w) is not None:
+                    ids.append(
+                        tokens_table[ch_or_w]
+                        if ch_or_w in tokens_table
+                        else tokens_table["<unk>"]
+                    )
+                # ch_or_w contains non-CJK charaters(i.e., " IT'S OKAY "),
+                # encode ch_or_w using bpe_model.
+                else:
+                    for p in sp.encode_as_pieces(ch_or_w):
+                        ids.append(
+                            tokens_table[p]
+                            if p in tokens_table
+                            else tokens_table["<unk>"]
+                        )
+        contexts_list.append(ids)
+    return contexts_list