Install

Install the server and client via pip. They can be installed separately or even on different machines:

# server
git clone https://github.com/duongkstn/albert-vi-as-service.git
cd albert-vi-as-service/server
pip install albert-vi-serving-server  
python setup.py install

#client
pip install bert-serving-client==1.10.0  # client, independent of `albert-vi-as-service`

Getting Started

1. Download a Pre-trained ALBERT_VI Model

Download a model of albert_vi, remember to download sentence piece model

2. Start the ALBERT_VI service

After installing the server, you should be able to use albert-vi-serving-start CLI as follows:

albert-vi-serving-start -model_dir albert_vi_model/ -spm_model_file albertvi_30k-clean.model -config_name albert_config.json -ckpt_name model.ckpt-1015000

At client side, your code should be similar to original bert-as-service repos

It is noted that you can still use bert-serving-start command independently