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Utilities for Generation

This page lists all the utility functions used by generate(), greedy_search(), sample(), beam_search(), beam_sample(), group_beam_search(), and constrained_beam_search().

Most of those are only useful if you are studying the code of the generate methods in the library.

Generate Outputs

The output of generate() is an instance of a subclass of ModelOutput. This output is a data structure containing all the information returned by generate(), but that can also be used as tuple or dictionary.

Here’s an example:

from transformers import GPT2Tokenizer, GPT2LMHeadModel

tokenizer = GPT2Tokenizer.from_pretrained("gpt2")
model = GPT2LMHeadModel.from_pretrained("gpt2")

inputs = tokenizer("Hello, my dog is cute and ", return_tensors="pt")
generation_output = model.generate(**inputs, return_dict_in_generate=True, output_scores=True)

The generation_output object is a GreedySearchDecoderOnlyOutput, as we can see in the documentation of that class below, it means it has the following attributes:

  • sequences: the generated sequences of tokens
  • scores (optional): the prediction scores of the language modelling head, for each generation step
  • hidden_states (optional): the hidden states of the model, for each generation step
  • attentions (optional): the attention weights of the model, for each generation step

Here we have the scores since we passed along output_scores=True, but we don’t have hidden_states and attentions because we didn’t pass output_hidden_states=True or output_attentions=True.

You can access each attribute as you would usually do, and if that attribute has not been returned by the model, you will get None. Here for instance generation_output.scores are all the generated prediction scores of the language modeling head, and generation_output.attentions is None.

When using our generation_output object as a tuple, it only keeps the attributes that don’t have None values. Here, for instance, it has two elements, loss then logits, so

generation_output[:2]

will return the tuple (generation_output.sequences, generation_output.scores) for instance.

When using our generation_output object as a dictionary, it only keeps the attributes that don’t have None values. Here, for instance, it has two keys that are sequences and scores.

We document here all output types.

GreedySearchOutput

class transformers.generation_utils.GreedySearchDecoderOnlyOutput

< >

( sequences: LongTensor = None scores: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None hidden_states: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None )

Parameters

  • sequences (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — The generated sequences. The second dimension (sequence_length) is either equal to max_length or shorter if all batches finished early due to the eos_token_id.
  • scores (tuple(torch.FloatTensor) optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Processed prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax) at each generation step. Tuple of torch.FloatTensor with up to max_new_tokens elements (one element for each generated token), with each tensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size).
  • attentions (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_heads, generated_length, sequence_length).
  • hidden_states (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, generated_length, hidden_size).

Base class for outputs of decoder-only generation models using greedy search.

class transformers.generation_utils.GreedySearchEncoderDecoderOutput

< >

( sequences: LongTensor = None scores: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None encoder_attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None encoder_hidden_states: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None decoder_attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None cross_attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None decoder_hidden_states: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None )

Parameters

  • sequences (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — The generated sequences. The second dimension (sequence_length) is either equal to max_length or shorter if all batches finished early due to the eos_token_id.
  • scores (tuple(torch.FloatTensor) optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Processed prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax) at each generation step. Tuple of torch.FloatTensor with up to max_new_tokens elements (one element for each generated token), with each tensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size).
  • encoder_attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer of the decoder) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).
  • encoder_hidden_states (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for the output of the embeddings + one for the output of each layer) of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size).
  • decoder_attentions (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_heads, generated_length, sequence_length).
  • cross_attentions (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_heads, generated_length, sequence_length).
  • decoder_hidden_states (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, generated_length, hidden_size).

Base class for outputs of encoder-decoder generation models using greedy search. Hidden states and attention weights of the decoder (respectively the encoder) can be accessed via the encoder_attentions and the encoder_hidden_states attributes (respectively the decoder_attentions and the decoder_hidden_states attributes)

class transformers.generation_flax_utils.FlaxGreedySearchOutput

< >

( sequences: ndarray = None )

Parameters

  • sequences (jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, max_length)) — The generated sequences.

Flax Base class for outputs of decoder-only generation models using greedy search.

replace

< >

( **updates )

“Returns a new object replacing the specified fields with new values.

SampleOutput

class transformers.generation_utils.SampleDecoderOnlyOutput

< >

( sequences: LongTensor = None scores: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None hidden_states: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None )

Parameters

  • sequences (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, sequence_length)) — The generated sequences. The second dimension (sequence_length) is either equal to max_length or shorter if all batches finished early due to the eos_token_id.
  • scores (tuple(torch.FloatTensor) optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Processed prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax) at each generation step. Tuple of torch.FloatTensor with up to max_new_tokens elements (one element for each generated token), with each tensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, config.vocab_size).
  • attentions (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (num_return_sequences*batch_size, num_heads, generated_length, sequence_length).
  • hidden_states (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (num_return_sequences*batch_size, generated_length, hidden_size).

Base class for outputs of decoder-only generation models using sampling.

class transformers.generation_utils.SampleEncoderDecoderOutput

< >

( sequences: LongTensor = None scores: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None encoder_attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None encoder_hidden_states: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None decoder_attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None cross_attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None decoder_hidden_states: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None )

Parameters

  • sequences (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, sequence_length)) — The generated sequences. The second dimension (sequence_length) is either equal to max_length or shorter if all batches finished early due to the eos_token_id.
  • scores (tuple(torch.FloatTensor) optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Processed prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax) at each generation step. Tuple of torch.FloatTensor with up to max_new_tokens elements (one element for each generated token), with each tensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, config.vocab_size).
  • encoder_attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer of the decoder) of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).
  • encoder_hidden_states (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for the output of the embeddings + one for the output of each layer) of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, sequence_length, hidden_size).
  • decoder_attentions (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, num_heads, generated_length, sequence_length).
  • cross_attentions (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_heads, generated_length, sequence_length).
  • decoder_hidden_states (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, generated_length, hidden_size).

Base class for outputs of encoder-decoder generation models using sampling. Hidden states and attention weights of the decoder (respectively the encoder) can be accessed via the encoder_attentions and the encoder_hidden_states attributes (respectively the decoder_attentions and the decoder_hidden_states attributes)

class transformers.generation_flax_utils.FlaxSampleOutput

< >

( sequences: ndarray = None )

Parameters

  • sequences (jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, max_length)) — The generated sequences.

Flax Base class for outputs of decoder-only generation models using sampling.

replace

< >

( **updates )

“Returns a new object replacing the specified fields with new values.

BeamSearchOutput

class transformers.generation_utils.BeamSearchDecoderOnlyOutput

< >

( sequences: LongTensor = None sequences_scores: typing.Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None scores: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None beam_indices: typing.Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None hidden_states: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None )

Parameters

  • sequences (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, sequence_length)) — The generated sequences. The second dimension (sequence_length) is either equal to max_length or shorter if all batches finished early due to the eos_token_id.
  • sequences_scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences), optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Final beam scores of the generated sequences.
  • scores (tuple(torch.FloatTensor) optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Beam transition scores for each vocabulary token at each generation step. Beam transition scores consisting of log probabilities of tokens conditioned on log softmax of previously generated tokens in this beam. Tuple of torch.FloatTensor with up to max_new_tokens elements (one element for each generated token), with each tensor of shape (batch_size*num_beams*num_return_sequences, config.vocab_size).
  • beam_indices (tuple(tuple(torch.LongTensor)), optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Beam indices of generated token id at each generation step. torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, input_ids.shape[-1]).
  • attentions (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size*num_beams, num_heads, generated_length, sequence_length).
  • hidden_states (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size*num_beams*num_return_sequences, generated_length, hidden_size).

Base class for outputs of decoder-only generation models using beam search.

class transformers.generation_utils.BeamSearchEncoderDecoderOutput

< >

( sequences: LongTensor = None sequences_scores: typing.Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None scores: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None beam_indices: typing.Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None encoder_attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None encoder_hidden_states: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None decoder_attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None cross_attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None decoder_hidden_states: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None )

Parameters

  • sequences (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, sequence_length)) — The generated sequences. The second dimension (sequence_length) is either equal to max_length or shorter if all batches finished early due to the eos_token_id.
  • sequences_scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences), optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Final beam scores of the generated sequences.
  • scores (tuple(torch.FloatTensor) optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Beam transition scores for each vocabulary token at each generation step. Beam transition scores consisting of log probabilities of tokens conditioned on log softmax of previously generated tokens in this beam. Tuple of torch.FloatTensor with up to max_new_tokens elements (one element for each generated token), with each tensor of shape (batch_size*num_beams, config.vocab_size).
  • beam_indices (tuple(tuple(torch.LongTensor)), optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Beam indices of generated token id at each generation step. torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, max_length-1).
  • attentions (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) —
  • encoder_attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer of the decoder) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).
  • encoder_hidden_states (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for the output of the embeddings + one for the output of each layer) of shape (batch_size*num_beams*num_return_sequences, sequence_length, hidden_size).
  • decoder_attentions (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size*num_beams*num_return_sequences, num_heads, generated_length, sequence_length).
  • cross_attentions (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_heads, generated_length, sequence_length).
  • decoder_hidden_states (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size*num_beams*num_return_sequences, generated_length, hidden_size).

Base class for outputs of encoder-decoder generation models using beam search. Hidden states and attention weights of the decoder (respectively the encoder) can be accessed via the encoder_attentions and the encoder_hidden_states attributes (respectively the decoder_attentions and the decoder_hidden_states attributes)

BeamSampleOutput

class transformers.generation_utils.BeamSampleDecoderOnlyOutput

< >

( sequences: LongTensor = None sequences_scores: typing.Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None scores: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None beam_indices: typing.Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None hidden_states: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None )

Parameters

  • sequences (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, sequence_length)) — The generated sequences. The second dimension (sequence_length) is either equal to max_length or shorter if all batches finished early due to the eos_token_id.
  • sequences_scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size * num_return_sequence), optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Final beam scores of the generated sequences.
  • scores (tuple(torch.FloatTensor) optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Beam transition scores for each vocabulary token at each generation step. Beam transition scores consisting of log probabilities of tokens conditioned on log softmax of previously generated tokens in this beam. Tuple of torch.FloatTensor with up to max_new_tokens elements (one element for each generated token), with each tensor of shape (batch_size*num_beams*num_return_sequences, config.vocab_size).
  • beam_indices (tuple(tuple(torch.LongTensor)), optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Beam indices of generated token id at each generation step. torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, input_ids.shape[-1]).
  • attentions (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size*num_beams, num_heads, generated_length, sequence_length).
  • hidden_states (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size*num_beams, generated_length, hidden_size).

Base class for outputs of decoder-only generation models using beam sample.

class transformers.generation_utils.BeamSampleEncoderDecoderOutput

< >

( sequences: LongTensor = None sequences_scores: typing.Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None scores: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None beam_indices: typing.Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None encoder_attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None encoder_hidden_states: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None decoder_attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None cross_attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None decoder_hidden_states: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]]] = None )

Parameters

  • sequences (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size*num_beams, sequence_length)) — The generated sequences. The second dimension (sequence_length) is either equal to max_length or shorter if all batches finished early due to the eos_token_id.
  • sequences_scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size * num_return_sequence), optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Final beam scores of the generated sequences.
  • scores (tuple(torch.FloatTensor) optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Beam transition scores for each vocabulary token at each generation step. Beam transition scores consisting of log probabilities of tokens conditioned on log softmax of previously generated tokens in this beam. Tuple of torch.FloatTensor with up to max_new_tokens elements (one element for each generated token), with each tensor of shape (batch_size*num_beams, config.vocab_size)).
  • beam_indices (torch.LongTensor, optional, returned when output_scores=True is passed or when config.output_scores=True) — Beam indices of generated token id at each generation step. torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size*num_return_sequences, max_length-1).
  • encoder_attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer of the decoder) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).
  • encoder_hidden_states (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for the output of the embeddings + one for the output of each layer) of shape (batch_size*num_beams, sequence_length, hidden_size).
  • decoder_attentions (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size*num_beams, num_heads, generated_length, sequence_length).
  • cross_attentions (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_heads, generated_length, sequence_length).
  • decoder_hidden_states (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple (one element for each generated token) of tuples (one element for each layer of the decoder) of torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size*num_beams, generated_length, hidden_size).

Base class for outputs of encoder-decoder generation models using beam sampling. Hidden states and attention weights of the decoder (respectively the encoder) can be accessed via the encoder_attentions and the encoder_hidden_states attributes (respectively the decoder_attentions and the decoder_hidden_states attributes)

LogitsProcessor

A LogitsProcessor can be used to modify the prediction scores of a language model head for generation.

class transformers.LogitsProcessor

< >

( )

Abstract base class for all logit processors that can be applied during generation.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor ) → torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

Parameters

  • input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using BertTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of a language modeling head. These can be logits for each vocabulary when not using beam search or log softmax for each vocabulary token when using beam search kwargs — Additional logits processor specific kwargs.

Returns

torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

The processed prediction scores.

Torch method for processing logits.

class transformers.LogitsProcessorList

< >

( iterable = () )

This class can be used to create a list of LogitsProcessor or LogitsWarper to subsequently process a scores input tensor. This class inherits from list and adds a specific call method to apply each LogitsProcessor or LogitsWarper to the inputs.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor **kwargs ) → torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

Parameters

  • input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using BertTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of a language modeling head. These can be logits for each vocabulary when not using beam search or log softmax for each vocabulary token when using beam search kwargs — Additional logits processor specific kwargs.

Returns

torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

The processed prediction scores.

class transformers.LogitsWarper

< >

( )

Abstract base class for all logit warpers that can be applied during generation with multinomial sampling.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor ) → torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

Parameters

  • input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using BertTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of a language modeling head. These can be logits for each vocabulary when not using beam search or log softmax for each vocabulary token when using beam search kwargs — Additional logits processor specific kwargs.

Returns

torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

The processed prediction scores.

Torch method for warping logits.

class transformers.MinLengthLogitsProcessor

< >

( min_length: int eos_token_id: int )

Parameters

  • min_length (int) — The minimum length below which the score of eos_token_id is set to -float("Inf").
  • eos_token_id (int) — The id of the end-of-sequence token.

LogitsProcessor enforcing a min-length by setting EOS probability to 0.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor )

class transformers.TemperatureLogitsWarper

< >

( temperature: float )

Parameters

  • temperature (float) — The value used to module the logits distribution.

LogitsWarper for temperature (exponential scaling output probability distribution).

__call__

< >

( input_ids: Tensor scores: Tensor )

class transformers.RepetitionPenaltyLogitsProcessor

< >

( penalty: float )

Parameters

  • repetition_penalty (float) — The parameter for repetition penalty. 1.0 means no penalty. See this paper for more details.

LogitsProcessor enforcing an exponential penalty on repeated sequences.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor )

class transformers.TopPLogitsWarper

< >

( top_p: float filter_value: float = -inf min_tokens_to_keep: int = 1 )

Parameters

  • top_p (float) — If set to < 1, only the smallest set of most probable tokens with probabilities that add up to top_p or higher are kept for generation.
  • filter_value (float, optional, defaults to -float("Inf")) — All filtered values will be set to this float value.
  • min_tokens_to_keep (int, optional, defaults to 1) — Minimum number of tokens that cannot be filtered.

LogitsWarper that performs top-p, i.e. restricting to top tokens summing to prob_cut_off <= prob_cut_off.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor )

class transformers.TopKLogitsWarper

< >

( top_k: int filter_value: float = -inf min_tokens_to_keep: int = 1 )

Parameters

  • top_k (int) — The number of highest probability vocabulary tokens to keep for top-k-filtering.
  • filter_value (float, optional, defaults to -float("Inf")) — All filtered values will be set to this float value.
  • min_tokens_to_keep (int, optional, defaults to 1) — Minimum number of tokens that cannot be filtered.

LogitsWarper that performs top-k, i.e. restricting to the k highest probability elements.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor )

class transformers.TypicalLogitsWarper

< >

( mass: float = 0.9 filter_value: float = -inf min_tokens_to_keep: int = 1 )

Parameters

  • mass (float) — Value of typical_p between 0 and 1 inclusive, defaults to 0.9.
  • filter_value (float, optional, defaults to -float("Inf")) — All filtered values will be set to this float value.
  • min_tokens_to_keep (int, optional, defaults to 1) — Minimum number of tokens that cannot be filtered.

LogitsWarper that performs typical decoding. See Typical Decoding for Natural Language Generation for more information.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor )

class transformers.NoRepeatNGramLogitsProcessor

< >

( ngram_size: int )

Parameters

  • ngram_size (int) — All ngrams of size ngram_size can only occur once.

LogitsProcessor that enforces no repetition of n-grams. See Fairseq.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor )

class transformers.NoBadWordsLogitsProcessor

< >

( bad_words_ids: typing.List[typing.List[int]] eos_token_id: int )

Parameters

  • bad_words_ids (List[List[int]]) — List of list of token ids that are not allowed to be generated. In order to get the token ids of the words that should not appear in the generated text, use tokenizer(bad_words, add_prefix_space=True, add_special_tokens=False).input_ids.
  • eos_token_id (int) — The id of the end-of-sequence token.

LogitsProcessor that enforces that specified sequences will never be sampled.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor )

class transformers.PrefixConstrainedLogitsProcessor

< >

( prefix_allowed_tokens_fn: typing.Callable[[int, torch.Tensor], typing.List[int]] num_beams: int )

LogitsProcessor that enforces constrained generation and is useful for prefix-conditioned constrained generation. See Autoregressive Entity Retrieval for more information.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor )

class transformers.HammingDiversityLogitsProcessor

< >

( diversity_penalty: float num_beams: int num_beam_groups: int )

Parameters

  • diversity_penalty (float) — This value is subtracted from a beam’s score if it generates a token same as any beam from other group at a particular time. Note that diversity_penalty is only effective if group beam search is enabled.
  • num_beams (int) — Number of beams used for group beam search. See this paper for more details.
  • num_beam_groups (int) — Number of groups to divide num_beams into in order to ensure diversity among different groups of beams. See this paper for more details.

LogitsProcessor that enforces diverse beam search. Note that this logits processor is only effective for PreTrainedModel.group_beam_search(). See Diverse Beam Search: Decoding Diverse Solutions from Neural Sequence Models for more details.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor current_tokens: LongTensor beam_group_idx: int )

class transformers.ForcedBOSTokenLogitsProcessor

< >

( bos_token_id: int )

Parameters

  • bos_token_id (int) — The id of the token to force as the first generated token.

LogitsProcessor that enforces the specified token as the first generated token.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor )

class transformers.ForcedEOSTokenLogitsProcessor

< >

( max_length: int eos_token_id: int )

Parameters

  • max_length (int) — The maximum length of the sequence to be generated.
  • eos_token_id (int) — The id of the token to force as the last generated token when max_length is reached.

LogitsProcessor that enforces the specified token as the last generated token when max_length is reached.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor )

class transformers.InfNanRemoveLogitsProcessor

< >

( )

LogitsProcessor that removes all nan and inf values to avoid the generation method to fail. Note that using the logits processor should only be used if necessary since it can slow down the generation method. max_length is reached.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor )

class transformers.TFLogitsProcessor

< >

( )

Abstract base class for all logit processors that can be applied during generation.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: Tensor scores: Tensor cur_len: int ) → tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

Parameters

  • input_ids (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using PreTrainedTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • scores (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of a language modeling head. These can be logits for each vocabulary when not using beam search or log softmax for each vocabulary token when using beam search.
  • cur_len (int) — The current length of valid input sequence tokens. In the TF implementation, the input_ids’ sequence length is the maximum length generate can produce, and we need to know which of its tokens are valid. kwargs — Additional logits processor specific kwargs.

Returns

tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

The processed prediction scores.

TF method for processing logits.

class transformers.TFLogitsProcessorList

< >

( iterable = () )

This class can be used to create a list of TFLogitsProcessor to subsequently process a scores input tensor. This class inherits from list and adds a specific call method to apply each TFLogitsProcessor to the inputs.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: Tensor scores: Tensor cur_len: int **kwargs ) → tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

Parameters

  • input_ids (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using PreTrainedTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • scores (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of a language modeling head. These can be logits for each vocabulary when not using beam search or log softmax for each vocabulary token when using beam search.
  • cur_len (int) — The current length of valid input sequence tokens. In the TF implementation, the input_ids’ sequence length is the maximum length generate can produce, and we need to know which of its tokens are valid. kwargs — Additional logits processor specific kwargs.

Returns

tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

The processed prediction scores.

class transformers.TFLogitsWarper

< >

( )

Abstract base class for all logit warpers that can be applied during generation with multinomial sampling.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: Tensor scores: Tensor cur_len: int ) → tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

Parameters

  • input_ids (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using PreTrainedTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • scores (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of a language modeling head. These can be logits for each vocabulary when not using beam search or log softmax for each vocabulary token when using beam search.
  • cur_len (int) — The current length of valid input sequence tokens. In the TF implementation, the input_ids’ sequence length is the maximum length generate can produce, and we need to know which of its tokens are valid. kwargs — Additional logits processor specific kwargs.

Returns

tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

The processed prediction scores.

TF method for warping logits.

class transformers.TFTemperatureLogitsWarper

< >

( temperature: float )

Parameters

  • temperature (float) — The value used to module the logits distribution.

TFLogitsWarper for temperature (exponential scaling output probability distribution).

__call__

< >

( input_ids: Tensor scores: Tensor cur_len: int )

class transformers.TFTopPLogitsWarper

< >

( top_p: float filter_value: float = -inf min_tokens_to_keep: int = 1 )

Parameters

  • top_p (float) — If set to < 1, only the smallest set of most probable tokens with probabilities that add up to top_p or higher are kept for generation.
  • filter_value (float, optional, defaults to -float("Inf")) — All filtered values will be set to this float value.
  • min_tokens_to_keep (int, optional, defaults to 1) — Minimum number of tokens that cannot be filtered.

TFLogitsWarper that performs top-p, i.e. restricting to top tokens summing to <= prob_cut_off.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: Tensor scores: Tensor cur_len: int )

class transformers.TFTopKLogitsWarper

< >

( top_k: int filter_value: float = -inf min_tokens_to_keep: int = 1 )

Parameters

  • top_k (int) — The number of highest probability vocabulary tokens to keep for top-k-filtering.
  • filter_value (float, optional, defaults to -float("Inf")) — All filtered values will be set to this float value.
  • min_tokens_to_keep (int, optional, defaults to 1) — Minimum number of tokens that cannot be filtered.

TFLogitsWarper that performs top-k, i.e. restricting to the k highest probability elements.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: Tensor scores: Tensor cur_len: int )

class transformers.TFMinLengthLogitsProcessor

< >

( min_length: int eos_token_id: int )

Parameters

  • min_length (int) — The minimum length below which the score of eos_token_id is set to -float("Inf").
  • eos_token_id (int) — The id of the end-of-sequence token.

TFLogitsProcessor enforcing a min-length by setting EOS probability to 0.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: Tensor scores: Tensor cur_len: int )

class transformers.TFNoBadWordsLogitsProcessor

< >

( bad_words_ids: typing.List[typing.List[int]] eos_token_id: int )

Parameters

  • bad_words_ids (List[List[int]]) — List of list of token ids that are not allowed to be generated. In order to get the tokens of the words that should not appear in the generated text, use tokenizer(bad_word, add_prefix_space=True).input_ids.
  • eos_token_id (int) — The id of the end-of-sequence token.

TFLogitsProcessor that enforces that specified sequences will never be sampled.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: Tensor scores: Tensor cur_len: int )

class transformers.TFNoRepeatNGramLogitsProcessor

< >

( ngram_size: int )

Parameters

  • ngram_size (int) — All ngrams of size ngram_size can only occur once.

TFLogitsProcessor that enforces no repetition of n-grams. See Fairseq.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: Tensor scores: Tensor cur_len: int )

class transformers.TFRepetitionPenaltyLogitsProcessor

< >

( penalty: float )

Parameters

  • repetition_penalty (float) — The parameter for repetition penalty. 1.0 means no penalty. See this paper for more details.

TFLogitsProcessor enforcing an exponential penalty on repeated sequences.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: Tensor scores: Tensor cur_len: int )

class transformers.TFForcedBOSTokenLogitsProcessor

< >

( bos_token_id: int )

Parameters

  • bos_token_id (int) — The id of the token to force as the first generated token.

TFLogitsProcessor that enforces the specified token as the first generated token.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: Tensor scores: Tensor cur_len: int )

class transformers.TFForcedEOSTokenLogitsProcessor

< >

( max_length: int eos_token_id: int )

Parameters

  • max_length (int) — The maximum length of the sequence to be generated.
  • eos_token_id (int) — The id of the token to force as the last generated token when max_length is reached.

TFLogitsProcessor that enforces the specified token as the last generated token when max_length is reached.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: Tensor scores: Tensor cur_len: int )

class transformers.FlaxLogitsProcessor

< >

( )

Abstract base class for all logit processors that can be applied during generation.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: ndarray scores: ndarray ) → jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

Parameters

  • input_ids (jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using PreTrainedTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • scores (jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of a language modeling head. These can be logits for each vocabulary when not using beam search or log softmax for each vocabulary token when using beam search kwargs — Additional logits processor specific kwargs.

Returns

jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

The processed prediction scores.

Flax method for processing logits.

class transformers.FlaxLogitsProcessorList

< >

( iterable = () )

This class can be used to create a list of FlaxLogitsProcessor or FlaxLogitsWarper to subsequently process a scores input tensor. This class inherits from list and adds a specific call method to apply each FlaxLogitsProcessor or FlaxLogitsWarper to the inputs.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: ndarray scores: ndarray cur_len: int **kwargs ) → jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

Parameters

  • input_ids (jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using PreTrainedTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • scores (jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of a language modeling head. These can be logits for each vocabulary when not using beam search or log softmax for each vocabulary token when using beam search kwargs — Additional logits processor specific kwargs.

Returns

jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

The processed prediction scores.

class transformers.FlaxLogitsWarper

< >

( )

Abstract base class for all logit warpers that can be applied during generation with multinomial sampling.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: ndarray scores: ndarray ) → jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

Parameters

  • input_ids (jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using PreTrainedTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • scores (jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of a language modeling head. These can be logits for each vocabulary when not using beam search or log softmax for each vocabulary token when using beam search kwargs — Additional logits processor specific kwargs.

Returns

jnp.ndarray of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)

The processed prediction scores.

Flax method for warping logits.

class transformers.FlaxTemperatureLogitsWarper

< >

( temperature: float )

Parameters

  • temperature (float) — The value used to module the logits distribution.

FlaxLogitsWarper for temperature (exponential scaling output probability distribution).

__call__

< >

( input_ids: ndarray scores: ndarray cur_len: int )

class transformers.FlaxTopPLogitsWarper

< >

( top_p: float filter_value: float = -inf min_tokens_to_keep: int = 1 )

Parameters

  • top_p (float) — If set to < 1, only the smallest set of most probable tokens with probabilities that add up to top_p or higher are kept for generation.
  • filter_value (float, optional, defaults to -float("Inf")) — All filtered values will be set to this float value.
  • min_tokens_to_keep (int, optional, defaults to 1) — Minimum number of tokens that cannot be filtered.

FlaxLogitsWarper that performs top-p, i.e. restricting to top tokens summing to prob_cut_off <= prob_cut_off.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: ndarray scores: ndarray cur_len: int )

class transformers.FlaxTopKLogitsWarper

< >

( top_k: int filter_value: float = -inf min_tokens_to_keep: int = 1 )

Parameters

  • top_k (int) — The number of highest probability vocabulary tokens to keep for top-k-filtering.
  • filter_value (float, optional, defaults to -float("Inf")) — All filtered values will be set to this float value.
  • min_tokens_to_keep (int, optional, defaults to 1) — Minimum number of tokens that cannot be filtered.

FlaxLogitsWarper that performs top-k, i.e. restricting to the k highest probability elements.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: ndarray scores: ndarray cur_len: int )

class transformers.FlaxForcedBOSTokenLogitsProcessor

< >

( bos_token_id: int )

Parameters

  • bos_token_id (int) — The id of the token to force as the first generated token.

FlaxLogitsProcessor that enforces the specified token as the first generated token.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: ndarray scores: ndarray cur_len: int )

class transformers.FlaxForcedEOSTokenLogitsProcessor

< >

( max_length: int eos_token_id: int )

Parameters

  • max_length (int) — The maximum length of the sequence to be generated.
  • eos_token_id (int) — The id of the token to force as the last generated token when max_length is reached.

FlaxLogitsProcessor that enforces the specified token as the last generated token when max_length is reached.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: ndarray scores: ndarray cur_len: int )

class transformers.FlaxMinLengthLogitsProcessor

< >

( min_length: int eos_token_id: int )

Parameters

  • min_length (int) — The minimum length below which the score of eos_token_id is set to -float("Inf").
  • eos_token_id (int) — The id of the end-of-sequence token.

FlaxLogitsProcessor enforcing a min-length by setting EOS probability to 0.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: ndarray scores: ndarray cur_len: int )

StoppingCriteria

A StoppingCriteria can be used to change when to stop generation (other than EOS token).

class transformers.StoppingCriteria

< >

( )

Abstract base class for all stopping criteria that can be applied during generation.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor **kwargs )

Parameters

  • input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using BertTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of a language modeling head. These can be scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax or scores for each vocabulary token after SoftMax. kwargs — Additional stopping criteria specific kwargs.

class transformers.StoppingCriteriaList

< >

( iterable = () )

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor **kwargs )

Parameters

  • input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using BertTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of a language modeling head. These can be scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax or scores for each vocabulary token after SoftMax. kwargs — Additional stopping criteria specific kwargs.

class transformers.MaxLengthCriteria

< >

( max_length: int )

Parameters

  • max_length (int) — The maximum length that the output sequence can have in number of tokens.

This class can be used to stop generation whenever the full generated number of tokens exceeds max_length. Keep in mind for decoder-only type of transformers, this will include the initial prompted tokens.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor **kwargs )

Parameters

  • input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using BertTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of a language modeling head. These can be scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax or scores for each vocabulary token after SoftMax. kwargs — Additional stopping criteria specific kwargs.

class transformers.MaxTimeCriteria

< >

( max_time: float initial_timestamp: typing.Optional[float] = None )

Parameters

  • max_time (float) — The maximum allowed time in seconds for the generation.
  • initial_time (float, optional, defaults to time.time()) — The start of the generation allowed time.

This class can be used to stop generation whenever the full generation exceeds some amount of time. By default, the time will start being counted when you initialize this function. You can override this by passing an initial_time.

__call__

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor scores: FloatTensor **kwargs )

Parameters

  • input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using BertTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of a language modeling head. These can be scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax or scores for each vocabulary token after SoftMax. kwargs — Additional stopping criteria specific kwargs.

Constraints

A Constraint can be used to force the generation to include specific tokens or sequences in the output.

class transformers.Constraint

< >

( )

Abstract base class for all constraints that can be applied during generation. It must define how the constraint can be satisfied.

All classes that inherit Constraint must follow the requirement that

completed = False
while not completed:
    _, completed = constraint.update(constraint.advance())

will always terminate (halt).

advance

< >

( ) → token_ids(torch.tensor)

Returns

token_ids(torch.tensor)

Must be a tensor of a list of indexable tokens, not some integer.

When called, returns the token that would take this constraint one step closer to being fulfilled.

copy

< >

( stateful = False ) → constraint(Constraint)

Returns

constraint(Constraint)

The same constraint as the one being called from.

Creates a new instance of this constraint.

does_advance

< >

( token_id: int )

Reads in a token and returns whether it creates progress.

remaining

< >

( )

Returns the number of remaining steps of advance() in order to complete this constraint.

reset

< >

( )

Resets the state of this constraint to its initialization. We would call this in cases where the fulfillment of a constraint is abrupted by an unwanted token.

test

< >

( )

Tests whether this constraint has been properly defined.

update

< >

( token_id: int ) → stepped(bool)

Returns

stepped(bool)

Whether this constraint has become one step closer to being fulfuilled. completed(bool): Whether this constraint has been completely fulfilled by this token being generated. reset (bool): Whether this constraint has reset its progress by this token being generated.

Reads in a token and returns booleans that indicate the progress made by it. This function will update the state of this object unlikes does_advance(self, token_id: int).

This isn’t to test whether a certain token will advance the progress; it’s to update its state as if it has been generated. This becomes important if token_id != desired token (refer to else statement in PhrasalConstraint)

class transformers.PhrasalConstraint

< >

( token_ids: typing.List[int] )

Parameters

  • token_ids (List[int]) — The id of the token that must be generated by the output.

Constraint enforcing that an ordered sequence of tokens is included in the output.

class transformers.DisjunctiveConstraint

< >

( nested_token_ids: typing.List[typing.List[int]] )

Parameters

  • nested_token_ids (List[List[int]]) — a list of words, where each word is a list of ids. This constraint
  • is fulfilled by generating just one from the list of words. —

A special Constraint that is fulfilled by fulfilling just one of several constraints.

class transformers.ConstraintListState

< >

( constraints: typing.List[transformers.generation_beam_constraints.Constraint] )

Parameters

  • constraints (List[Constraint]) — A list of Constraint objects that must be fulfilled by the beam scorer.

A class for beam scorers to track its progress through a list of constraints.

advance

< >

( )

The list of tokens to generate such that we can make progress. By “list” we don’t mean the list of token that will fully fulfill a constraint.

Given constraints c_i = {t_ij | j == # of tokens}, If we’re not in the middle of progressing through a specific constraint c_i, we return:

[t_k1 for k in indices of unfulfilled constraints]

If we are in the middle of a constraint, then we return: [t_ij], where i is the index of the inprogress constraint, j is the next step for the constraint.

Though we don’t care which constraint is fulfilled first, if we are in the progress of fulfilling a constraint, that’s the only one we’ll return.

reset

< >

( token_ids: typing.Optional[typing.List[int]] )

token_ids: the tokens generated thus far to reset the state of the progress through constraints.

BeamSearch

class transformers.BeamScorer

< >

( )

Abstract base class for all beam scorers that are used for beam_search() and beam_sample().

process

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor next_scores: FloatTensor next_tokens: LongTensor next_indices: LongTensor **kwargs ) → UserDict

Parameters

  • input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size * num_beams, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using any class inheriting from PreTrainedTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • next_scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, 2 * num_beams)) — Current scores of the top 2 * num_beams non-finished beam hypotheses.
  • next_tokens (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, 2 * num_beams)) — input_ids of the tokens corresponding to the top 2 * num_beams non-finished beam hypotheses.
  • next_indices (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, 2 * num_beams)) — Beam indices indicating to which beam hypothesis the next_tokens correspond.
  • pad_token_id (int, optional) — The id of the padding token.
  • eos_token_id (int, optional) — The id of the end-of-sequence token.

Returns

UserDict

A dictionary composed of the fields as defined above:

  • next_beam_scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size * num_beams)) — Updated scores of all non-finished beams.
  • next_beam_tokens (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size * num_beams)) — Next tokens to be added to the non-finished beam_hypotheses.
  • next_beam_indices (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size * num_beams)) — Beam indices indicating to which beam the next tokens shall be added.

finalize

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor next_scores: FloatTensor next_tokens: LongTensor next_indices: LongTensor max_length: int **kwargs ) → torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size * num_return_sequences, sequence_length)

Parameters

  • input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size * num_beams, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using any class inheriting from PreTrainedTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • final_beam_scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size * num_beams)) — The final scores of all non-finished beams.
  • final_beam_tokens (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size * num_beams)) — The last tokens to be added to the non-finished beam_hypotheses.
  • final_beam_indices (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size * num_beams)) — The beam indices indicating to which beam the final_beam_tokens shall be added.
  • pad_token_id (int, optional) — The id of the padding token.
  • eos_token_id (int, optional) — The id of the end-of-sequence token.

Returns

torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size * num_return_sequences, sequence_length)

The generated sequences. The second dimension (sequence_length) is either equal to max_length or shorter if all batches finished early due to the eos_token_id.

class transformers.BeamSearchScorer

< >

( batch_size: int num_beams: int device: device length_penalty: typing.Optional[float] = 1.0 do_early_stopping: typing.Optional[bool] = False num_beam_hyps_to_keep: typing.Optional[int] = 1 num_beam_groups: typing.Optional[int] = 1 **kwargs )

Parameters

  • batch_size (int) — Batch Size of input_ids for which standard beam search decoding is run in parallel.
  • max_length (int) — The maximum length of the sequence to be generated.
  • num_beams (int) — Number of beams for beam search.
  • device (torch.device) — Defines the device type (e.g., "cpu" or "cuda") on which this instance of BeamSearchScorer will be allocated.
  • length_penalty (float, optional, defaults to 1.0) — Exponential penalty to the length that is used with beam-based generation. It is applied as an exponent to the sequence length, which in turn is used to divide the score of the sequence. Since the score is the log likelihood of the sequence (i.e. negative), length_penalty > 0.0 promotes longer sequences, while length_penalty < 0.0 encourages shorter sequences.
  • do_early_stopping (bool, optional, defaults to False) — Whether to stop the beam search when at least num_beams sentences are finished per batch or not.
  • num_beam_hyps_to_keep (int, optional, defaults to 1) — The number of beam hypotheses that shall be returned upon calling ~transformer.BeamSearchScorer.finalize.
  • num_beam_groups (int) — Number of groups to divide num_beams into in order to ensure diversity among different groups of beams. See this paper for more details.

BeamScorer implementing standard beam search decoding.

Adapted in part from Facebook’s XLM beam search code.

Reference for the diverse beam search algorithm and implementation Ashwin Kalyan’s DBS implementation

process

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor next_scores: FloatTensor next_tokens: LongTensor next_indices: LongTensor pad_token_id: typing.Optional[int] = None eos_token_id: typing.Optional[int] = None beam_indices: typing.Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None )

finalize

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor final_beam_scores: FloatTensor final_beam_tokens: LongTensor final_beam_indices: LongTensor max_length: int pad_token_id: typing.Optional[int] = None eos_token_id: typing.Optional[int] = None beam_indices: typing.Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None )

class transformers.ConstrainedBeamSearchScorer

< >

( batch_size: int num_beams: int constraints: typing.List[transformers.generation_beam_constraints.Constraint] device: device length_penalty: typing.Optional[float] = 1.0 do_early_stopping: typing.Optional[bool] = False num_beam_hyps_to_keep: typing.Optional[int] = 1 num_beam_groups: typing.Optional[int] = 1 **kwargs )

Parameters

  • batch_size (int) — Batch Size of input_ids for which standard beam search decoding is run in parallel.
  • max_length (int) — The maximum length of the sequence to be generated.
  • num_beams (int) — Number of beams for beam search.
  • constraints (List[Constraint]) — A list of positive constraints represented as Constraint objects that must be fulfilled in the generation output. For more information, the documentation of Constraint should be read.
  • device (torch.device) — Defines the device type (e.g., "cpu" or "cuda") on which this instance of BeamSearchScorer will be allocated.
  • length_penalty (float, optional, defaults to 1.0) — Exponential penalty to the length that is used with beam-based generation. It is applied as an exponent to the sequence length, which in turn is used to divide the score of the sequence. Since the score is the log likelihood of the sequence (i.e. negative), length_penalty > 0.0 promotes longer sequences, while length_penalty < 0.0 encourages shorter sequences.
  • do_early_stopping (bool, optional, defaults to False) — Whether to stop the beam search when at least num_beams sentences are finished per batch or not.
  • num_beam_hyps_to_keep (int, optional, defaults to 1) — The number of beam hypotheses that shall be returned upon calling ~transformer.BeamSearchScorer.finalize.
  • num_beam_groups (int) — Number of groups to divide num_beams into in order to ensure diversity among different groups of beams. See this paper for more details.

BeamScorer implementing constrained beam search decoding.

process

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor next_scores: FloatTensor next_tokens: LongTensor next_indices: LongTensor scores_for_all_vocab: FloatTensor pad_token_id: typing.Optional[int] = None eos_token_id: typing.Optional[int] = None ) → UserDict

Parameters

  • input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size * num_beams, sequence_length)) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

    Indices can be obtained using any class inheriting from PreTrainedTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

    What are input IDs?

  • next_scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, 2 * num_beams)) — Current scores of the top 2 * num_beams non-finished beam hypotheses.
  • next_tokens (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, 2 * num_beams)) — input_ids of the tokens corresponding to the top 2 * num_beams non-finished beam hypotheses.
  • next_indices (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, 2 * num_beams)) — Beam indices indicating to which beam hypothesis the next_tokens correspond.
  • scores_for_all_vocab (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size * num_beams, sequence_length)) — The scores of all tokens in the vocabulary for each of the beam hypotheses.
  • pad_token_id (int, optional) — The id of the padding token.
  • eos_token_id (int, optional) — The id of the end-of-sequence token.

Returns

UserDict

A dictionary composed of the fields as defined above:

  • next_beam_scores (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size * num_beams)) — Updated scores of all non-finished beams.

  • next_beam_tokens (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size * num_beams)) — Next tokens to be added to the non-finished beam_hypotheses.

  • next_beam_indices (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size * num_beams)) — Beam indices indicating to which beam the next tokens shall be added.

finalize

< >

( input_ids: LongTensor final_beam_scores: FloatTensor final_beam_tokens: LongTensor final_beam_indices: LongTensor max_length: int pad_token_id: typing.Optional[int] = None eos_token_id: typing.Optional[int] = None )

Utilities

transformers.top_k_top_p_filtering

< >

( logits: FloatTensor top_k: int = 0 top_p: float = 1.0 filter_value: float = -inf min_tokens_to_keep: int = 1 )

Parameters

  • top_k (int, optional, defaults to 0) — If > 0, only keep the top k tokens with highest probability (top-k filtering)
  • top_p (float, optional, defaults to 1.0) — If < 1.0, only keep the top tokens with cumulative probability >= top_p (nucleus filtering). Nucleus filtering is described in Holtzman et al. (http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09751)
  • min_tokens_to_keep (int, optional, defaults to 1) — Minimumber of tokens we keep per batch example in the output.

Filter a distribution of logits using top-k and/or nucleus (top-p) filtering

From: https://gist.github.com/thomwolf/1a5a29f6962089e871b94cbd09daf317

transformers.tf_top_k_top_p_filtering

< >

( logits top_k = 0 top_p = 1.0 filter_value = -inf min_tokens_to_keep = 1 )

Parameters

  • top_k (int, optional, defaults to 0) — If > 0, only keep the top k tokens with highest probability (top-k filtering)
  • top_p (float, optional, defaults to 1.0) — If < 1.0, only keep the top tokens with cumulative probability >= top_p (nucleus filtering). Nucleus filtering is described in Holtzman et al. (http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09751)
  • min_tokens_to_keep (int, optional, defaults to 1) — Minimumber of tokens we keep per batch example in the output.

Filter a distribution of logits using top-k and/or nucleus (top-p) filtering

From: https://gist.github.com/thomwolf/1a5a29f6962089e871b94cbd09daf317

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