The newest Tensorflow api about seq2seq model has included scheduled sampling:
https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/contrib/seq2seq/ScheduledEmbeddingTrainingHelper https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/contrib/seq2seq/ScheduledOutputTrainingHelper
The original paper of scheduled sampling can be found here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03099
I read the paper but I cannot understand the difference between ScheduledEmbeddingTrainingHelper and ScheduledOutputTrainingHelper. The documentation only says ScheduledEmbeddingTrainingHelper is a training helper that adds scheduled sampling while ScheduledOutputTrainingHelper is a training helper that adds scheduled sampling directly to outputs.
I wonder what's the difference between these two helpers?
I contacted the engineer behind this, and he responded:
The output sampler either emits the raw rnn output or the raw ground truth at that time step. The embedding sampler treats the rnn output as logits of a distribution and either emits the embedding lookup of a sampled id from that categorical distribution or the raw ground truth at that time step.