metadata

license: mit
datasets:
  - squad_v2
  - squad
language:
  - en
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: question-answering
tags:
  - question-answering
  - squad
  - squad_v2
  - t5

flan-t5-base for Extractive QA

This is the flan-t5-base model, fine-tuned using the SQuAD2.0 dataset. It's been trained on question-answer pairs, including unanswerable questions, for the task of Extractive Question Answering.

NOTE: The <cls> token must be manually added to the beginning of the question for this model to work properly. It uses the <cls> token to be able to make "no answer" predictions. The t5 tokenizer does not automatically add this special token which is why it is added manually.

Overview

Language model: flan-t5-base
Language: English
Downstream-task: Extractive QA
Training data: SQuAD 2.0
Eval data: SQuAD 2.0
Infrastructure: 1x NVIDIA 3070

Model Usage

import torch
from transformers import(
  AutoModelForQuestionAnswering,
  AutoTokenizer,
  pipeline
)
model_name = "sjrhuschlee/flan-t5-base-squad2"

# a) Using pipelines
nlp = pipeline('question-answering', model=model_name, tokenizer=model_name)
qa_input = {
'question': f'{nlp.tokenizer.cls_token}Where do I live?',  # '<cls>Where do I live?'
'context': 'My name is Sarah and I live in London'
}
res = nlp(qa_input)
# {'score': 0.984, 'start': 30, 'end': 37, 'answer': ' London'}

# b) Load model & tokenizer
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained(model_name)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)

question = f'{tokenizer.cls_token}Where do I live?'  # '<cls>Where do I live?'
context = 'My name is Sarah and I live in London'
encoding = tokenizer(question, context, return_tensors="pt")
start_scores, end_scores = model(
  encoding["input_ids"],
  attention_mask=encoding["attention_mask"],
  return_dict=False
)

all_tokens = tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens(input_ids[0].tolist())
answer_tokens = all_tokens[torch.argmax(start_scores):torch.argmax(end_scores) + 1]
answer = tokenizer.decode(tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids(answer_tokens))
# 'London'

Metrics

# Squad v2

# Squad

Training procedure

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

learning_rate: 2e-05
train_batch_size: 16
eval_batch_size: 8
seed: 42
gradient_accumulation_steps: 6
total_train_batch_size: 96
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

Training results

Framework versions

Transformers 4.30.0.dev0
Pytorch 2.0.1+cu117
Datasets 2.12.0
Tokenizers 0.13.3