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language: en
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# longformer-base-4096-extra.pos.embd.only

This model is similar to `longformer-base-4096` but it was pretrained to preserve RoBERTa weights by freezing all RoBERTa weights and only train the additional position embeddings. 


### Citing

If you use `Longformer` in your research, please cite [Longformer: The Long-Document Transformer](https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05150).
```
@article{Beltagy2020Longformer,
  title={Longformer: The Long-Document Transformer},
  author={Iz Beltagy and Matthew E. Peters and Arman Cohan},
  journal={arXiv:2004.05150},
  year={2020},
}
```

`Longformer` is an open-source project developed by [the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)](http://www.allenai.org).
AI2 is a non-profit institute with the mission to contribute to humanity through high-impact AI research and engineering.