README.md

---
language: en
license: cc-by-4.0
datasets:
- squad_v2
model-index:
- name: deepset/roberta-base-squad2
  results:
  - task:
      type: question-answering
      name: Question Answering
    dataset:
      name: squad_v2
      type: squad_v2
      config: squad_v2
      split: validation
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  - task:
      type: question-answering
      name: Question Answering
    dataset:
      name: squad
      type: squad
      config: plain_text
      split: validation
    metrics:
    - type: exact_match
      value: 85.289
      name: Exact Match
    - type: f1
      value: 91.841
      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: 29.5
      name: Exact Match
    - type: f1
      value: 40.367
      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: 78.567
      name: Exact Match
    - type: f1
      value: 84.469
      name: F1
  - task:
      type: question-answering
      name: Question Answering
    dataset:
      name: squadshifts amazon
      type: squadshifts
      config: amazon
      split: test
    metrics:
    - type: exact_match
      value: 69.924
      name: Exact Match
    - type: f1
      value: 83.284
      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: 81.204
      name: Exact Match
    - type: f1
      value: 90.595
      name: F1
  - task:
      type: question-answering
      name: Question Answering
    dataset:
      name: squadshifts nyt
      type: squadshifts
      config: nyt
      split: test
    metrics:
    - type: exact_match
      value: 82.931
      name: Exact Match
    - type: f1
      value: 90.756
      name: F1
  - task:
      type: question-answering
      name: Question Answering
    dataset:
      name: squadshifts reddit
      type: squadshifts
      config: reddit
      split: test
    metrics:
    - type: exact_match
      value: 71.55
      name: Exact Match
    - type: f1
      value: 82.939
      name: F1
base_model:
- FacebookAI/roberta-base
---

# roberta-base for Extractive QA 

This is the [roberta-base](https://huggingface.co/roberta-base) 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. 
We have also released a distilled version of this model called [deepset/tinyroberta-squad2](https://huggingface.co/deepset/tinyroberta-squad2). It has a comparable prediction quality and runs at twice the speed of [deepset/roberta-base-squad2](https://huggingface.co/deepset/roberta-base-squad2).


## Overview
**Language model:** roberta-base  
**Language:** English  
**Downstream-task:** Extractive QA  
**Training data:** SQuAD 2.0  
**Eval data:** SQuAD 2.0  
**Code:**  See [an example extractive QA pipeline built with Haystack](https://haystack.deepset.ai/tutorials/34_extractive_qa_pipeline)  
**Infrastructure**: 4x Tesla v100

## Hyperparameters

```
batch_size = 96
n_epochs = 2
base_LM_model = "roberta-base"
max_seq_len = 386
learning_rate = 3e-5
lr_schedule = LinearWarmup
warmup_proportion = 0.2
doc_stride=128
max_query_length=64
``` 

## Usage

### In Haystack
Haystack is an AI orchestration framework to build customizable, production-ready LLM applications. You can use this model in Haystack to do extractive question answering on documents. 
To load and run the model with [Haystack](https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/):
```python
# After running pip install haystack-ai "transformers[torch,sentencepiece]"

from haystack import Document
from haystack.components.readers import ExtractiveReader

docs = [
    Document(content="Python is a popular programming language"),
    Document(content="python ist eine beliebte Programmiersprache"),
]

reader = ExtractiveReader(model="deepset/roberta-base-squad2")
reader.warm_up()

question = "What is a popular programming language?"
result = reader.run(query=question, documents=docs)
# {'answers': [ExtractedAnswer(query='What is a popular programming language?', score=0.5740374326705933, data='python', document=Document(id=..., content: '...'), context=None, document_offset=ExtractedAnswer.Span(start=0, end=6),...)]}
```
For a complete example with an extractive question answering pipeline that scales over many documents, check out the [corresponding Haystack tutorial](https://haystack.deepset.ai/tutorials/34_extractive_qa_pipeline).

### In Transformers
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForQuestionAnswering, AutoTokenizer, pipeline

model_name = "deepset/roberta-base-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)
```

## Performance
Evaluated on the SQuAD 2.0 dev set with the [official eval script](https://worksheets.codalab.org/rest/bundles/0x6b567e1cf2e041ec80d7098f031c5c9e/contents/blob/).

```
"exact": 79.87029394424324,
"f1": 82.91251169582613,

"total": 11873,
"HasAns_exact": 77.93522267206478,
"HasAns_f1": 84.02838248389763,
"HasAns_total": 5928,
"NoAns_exact": 81.79983179142137,
"NoAns_f1": 81.79983179142137,
"NoAns_total": 5945
```

## Authors
**Branden Chan:** branden.chan@deepset.ai  
**Timo Möller:** timo.moeller@deepset.ai  
**Malte Pietsch:** malte.pietsch@deepset.ai  
**Tanay Soni:**  tanay.soni@deepset.ai 

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