---
language: en
datasets:
- squad_v2
license: cc-by-4.0
---

# roberta-base for 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 Question Answering. 


## 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 QA pipeline on Haystack](https://haystack.deepset.ai/tutorials/first-qa-system)  
**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
``` 

## Using a distilled model instead
Please note that we have also released a distilled version of this model called [deepset/tinyroberta-squad2](https://huggingface.co/deepset/tinyroberta-squad2). The distilled model has a comparable prediction quality and runs at twice the speed of the base model.

## Usage

### In Haystack
Haystack is an NLP framework by deepset. You can use this model in a Hasytack pipeline to do question answering at scale (over many documents). To load the model in [Haystack](https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/):
```python
reader = FARMReader(model_name_or_path="deepset/roberta-base-squad2")
# or 
reader = TransformersReader(model_name_or_path="deepset/roberta-base-squad2",tokenizer="deepset/roberta-base-squad2")
```
For a complete example of ``roberta-base-squad2`` being used for  Question Answering, check out the [Tutorials in Haystack Documentation](https://haystack.deepset.ai/tutorials/first-qa-system)

### 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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Some of our other work: 
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