Practical overview
When it fits
Use it to explore or build a Chinese couplet-generation workflow when you can supply a dataset and configure the documented Python training and serving scripts.
Who it is for
- People exploring deep-learning approaches to Chinese couplet generation.
- Developers who want to train a couplet model and configure its documented web-service entry point.
Documented uses
- Train a seq2seq model using couplet data.
- Configure a trained model to serve couplet-generation requests.
- Try the linked hosted couplet demo.
Requirements & limits
- The documented prerequisites are Python 3.6, TensorFlow and a dataset.
- Training is configured through file locations and hyperparameters in couplet.py.
- The README says training outputs loss and BLEU score in TensorBoard.
- Serving requires configuring the vocabulary file and model directory.
- The project lists an AGPL-3.0 license.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Train and serve a couplet model
Configure and train the model, then set up its documented web-service entry point.
Before you start
- Python 3.6
- TensorFlow
- A dataset; the README links to a couplet dataset project
- Vocabulary file and model directory for serving
Steps
Edit couplet.py to configure file locations and hyperparameters, then run python couplet.py to train.
For a custom dataset, add and as the first two lines of the vocabulary file.
After training, configure vocab_file and model_dir in server.py, then run python server.py to start the web service.
Alternatively, build the image with the repository Dockerfile and run it with Docker, mounting the correct model file paths into the container.
Expected outcome
A trained couplet model and a configured web service intended to generate couplets.
Guide limitations
- The README does not provide detailed installation instructions or specify an API.
- The README reports one training example on an Nvidia GTX-1080 taking about four days; this is not a runtime guarantee.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 14 October 2026
- Original website title
- wb14123/seq2seq-couplet · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

