text_dataset_from_directory: Generates a 'tf.data.Dataset' from text files in a directory.

In keras3: R Interface to 'Keras'

Generates a tf.data.Dataset from text files in a directory.

Description

If your directory structure is:

main_directory/
...class_a/
......a_text_1.txt
......a_text_2.txt
...class_b/
......b_text_1.txt
......b_text_2.txt

Then calling text_dataset_from_directory(main_directory, labels='inferred') will return a tf.data.Dataset that yields batches of texts from the subdirectories class_a and class_b, together with labels 0 and 1 (0 corresponding to class_a and 1 corresponding to class_b).

Only .txt files are supported at this time.

Usage

text_dataset_from_directory(
  directory,
  labels = "inferred",
  label_mode = "int",
  class_names = NULL,
  batch_size = 32L,
  max_length = NULL,
  shuffle = TRUE,
  seed = NULL,
  validation_split = NULL,
  subset = NULL,
  follow_links = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

directory	Directory where the data is located. If labels is "inferred", it should contain subdirectories, each containing text files for a class. Otherwise, the directory structure is ignored.
labels	Either "inferred" (labels are generated from the directory structure), NULL (no labels), or a list/tuple of integer labels of the same size as the number of text files found in the directory. Labels should be sorted according to the alphanumeric order of the text file paths (obtained via os.walk(directory) in Python).
label_mode	String describing the encoding of labels. Options are: "int": means that the labels are encoded as integers (e.g. for sparse_categorical_crossentropy loss). "categorical" means that the labels are encoded as a categorical vector (e.g. for categorical_crossentropy loss). "binary" means that the labels (there can be only 2) are encoded as float32 scalars with values 0 or 1 (e.g. for binary_crossentropy). NULL (no labels).
class_names	Only valid if "labels" is "inferred". This is the explicit list of class names (must match names of subdirectories). Used to control the order of the classes (otherwise alphanumerical order is used).
batch_size	Size of the batches of data. If NULL, the data will not be batched (the dataset will yield individual samples). Defaults to 32.
max_length	Maximum size of a text string. Texts longer than this will be truncated to max_length.
shuffle	Whether to shuffle the data. If set to FALSE, sorts the data in alphanumeric order. Defaults to TRUE.
seed	Optional random seed for shuffling and transformations.
validation_split	Optional float between 0 and 1, fraction of data to reserve for validation.
subset	Subset of the data to return. One of "training", "validation" or "both". Only used if validation_split is set. When subset="both", the utility returns a tuple of two datasets (the training and validation datasets respectively).
follow_links	Whether to visits subdirectories pointed to by symlinks. Defaults to FALSE.
verbose	Whether to display number information on classes and number of files found. Defaults to TRUE.

Value

A tf.data.Dataset object.

• If label_mode is NULL, it yields string tensors of shape ⁠(batch_size,)⁠, containing the contents of a batch of text files.

• Otherwise, it yields a tuple ⁠(texts, labels)⁠, where texts has shape ⁠(batch_size,)⁠ and labels follows the format described below.

Rules regarding labels format:

• if label_mode is int, the labels are an int32 tensor of shape ⁠(batch_size,)⁠.

• if label_mode is binary, the labels are a float32 tensor of 1s and 0s of shape ⁠(batch_size, 1)⁠.

• if label_mode is categorical, the labels are a float32 tensor of shape ⁠(batch_size, num_classes)⁠, representing a one-hot encoding of the class index.

See Also

• https://keras.io/api/data_loading/text#textdatasetfromdirectory-function

Other dataset utils:
audio_dataset_from_directory()
image_dataset_from_directory()
split_dataset()
timeseries_dataset_from_array()

Other utils:
audio_dataset_from_directory()
clear_session()
config_disable_interactive_logging()
config_disable_traceback_filtering()
config_enable_interactive_logging()
config_enable_traceback_filtering()
config_is_interactive_logging_enabled()
config_is_traceback_filtering_enabled()
get_file()
get_source_inputs()
image_array_save()
image_dataset_from_directory()
image_from_array()
image_load()
image_smart_resize()
image_to_array()
layer_feature_space()
normalize()
pad_sequences()
set_random_seed()
split_dataset()
timeseries_dataset_from_array()
to_categorical()
zip_lists()

Other preprocessing:
image_dataset_from_directory()
image_smart_resize()
timeseries_dataset_from_array()

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