---
language: en
license: cc-by-4.0
base_model: google/flan-t5-xl
tags:
- question-answering
- flan
- flan-t5
- squad
- squad_v2
datasets:
- squad_v2
- squad
model-index:
- name: deepset/flan-t5-xl-squad2
results:
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squad_v2
type: squad_v2
config: squad_v2
split: validation
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 88.790
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 91.617
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squad
type: squad
config: plain_text
split: validation
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 90.331
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 95.722
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: adversarial_qa
type: adversarial_qa
config: adversarialQA
split: validation
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 54.367
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 68.055
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squad_adversarial
type: squad_adversarial
config: AddOneSent
split: validation
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 87.241
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 92.894
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squadshifts amazon
type: squadshifts
config: amazon
split: test
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 77.602
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 90.426
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squadshifts new_wiki
type: squadshifts
config: new_wiki
split: test
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 85.639
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 93.974
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squadshifts nyt
type: squadshifts
config: nyt
split: test
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 87.392
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 94.579
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squadshifts reddit
type: squadshifts
config: reddit
split: test
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 79.323
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 90.083
name: F1
---
# flan-t5-xl for Extractive QA
This is the [flan-t5-xl](https://huggingface.co/google/flan-t5-xl) model, fine-tuned using the [SQuAD2.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/squad_v2) dataset. It's been trained on question-answer pairs, including unanswerable questions, for the task of Extractive Question Answering.
## Overview
**Language model:** flan-t5-xl
**Language:** English
**Downstream-task:** Extractive QA
**Training data:** SQuAD 2.0
**Eval data:** SQuAD 2.0
**Code:** See [an example QA pipeline on Haystack](https://haystack.deepset.ai/tutorials/first-qa-system)
## Hyperparameters
```
learning_rate: 1e-05
train_batch_size: 4
eval_batch_size: 8
seed: 42
gradient_accumulation_steps: 16
total_train_batch_size: 64
optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
lr_scheduler_type: linear
lr_scheduler_warmup_ratio: 0.1
num_epochs: 4.0
```
## Usage
### In Haystack
Haystack is an NLP framework by deepset. You can use this model in a Haystack pipeline to do extractive question answering at scale (over many documents). To load the model in [Haystack](https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/):
```python
# NOTE: This only works with Haystack v2.0!
reader = ExtractiveReader("deepset/flan-t5-xl-squad2")
```
### In Transformers
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForQuestionAnswering, AutoTokenizer, pipeline
model_name = "deepset/flan-t5-xl-squad2"
# a) Get predictions
nlp = pipeline('question-answering', model=model_name, tokenizer=model_name)
QA_input = {
'question': 'Why is model conversion important?',
'context': 'The option to convert models between FARM and transformers gives freedom to the user and let people easily switch between frameworks.'
}
res = nlp(QA_input)
# b) Load model & tokenizer
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained(model_name)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
```
## Authors
**Sebastian Husch Lee:** sebastian.huschlee [at] deepset.ai
## About us
[deepset](http://deepset.ai/) is the company behind the open-source NLP framework [Haystack](https://haystack.deepset.ai/) which is designed to help you build production ready NLP systems that use: Question answering, summarization, ranking etc.
## Get in touch and join the Haystack community
For more info on Haystack, visit our GitHub repo and Documentation.
We also have a Discord community open to everyone!
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