Longformer¶

DISCLAIMER: This model is still a work in progress, if you see something strange, file a Github Issue

Overview¶

The Longformer model was presented in Longformer: The Long-Document Transformer by Iz Beltagy, Matthew E. Peters, Arman Cohan. Here the abstract:

Transformer-based models are unable to process long sequences due to their self-attention operation, which scales quadratically with the sequence length. To address this limitation, we introduce the Longformer with an attention mechanism that scales linearly with sequence length, making it easy to process documents of thousands of tokens or longer. Longformer’s attention mechanism is a drop-in replacement for the standard self-attention and combines a local windowed attention with a task motivated global attention. Following prior work on long-sequence transformers, we evaluate Longformer on character-level language modeling and achieve state-of-the-art results on text8 and enwik8. In contrast to most prior work, we also pretrain Longformer and finetune it on a variety of downstream tasks. Our pretrained Longformer consistently outperforms RoBERTa on long document tasks and sets new state-of-the-art results on WikiHop and TriviaQA.

The Authors’ code can be found here .

Longformer Self Attention¶

Longformer self attention employs self attention on both a “local” context and a “global” context. Most tokens only attend “locally” to each other meaning that each token attends to its \(\frac{1}{2} w\) previous tokens and \(\frac{1}{2} w\) succeding tokens with \(w\) being the window length as defined in config.attention_window. Note that config.attention_window can be of type list to define a different \(w\) for each layer. A selected few tokens attend “globally” to all other tokens, as it is conventionally done for all tokens in e.g. BertSelfAttention.

Note that “locally” and “globally” attending tokens are projected by different query, key and value matrices. Also note that every “locally” attending token not only attends to tokens within its window \(w\), but also to all “globally” attending tokens so that global attention is symmetric.

The user can define which tokens attend “locally” and which tokens attend “globally” by setting the tensor global_attention_mask at run-time appropriately. Longformer employs the following logic for global_attention_mask: 0 - the token attends “locally”, 1 - token attends “globally”. For more information please also refer to forward() method.

Using Longformer self attention, the memory and time complexity of the query-key matmul operation, which usually represents the memory and time bottleneck, can be reduced from \(\mathcal{O}(n_s \times n_s)\) to \(\mathcal{O}(n_s \times w)\), with \(n_s\) being the sequence length and \(w\) being the average window size. It is assumed that the number of “globally” attending tokens is insignificant as compared to the number of “locally” attending tokens.

For more information, please refer to the official paper .

Training¶

LongformerForMaskedLM is trained the exact same way, RobertaForMaskedLM is trained and should be used as follows:

input_ids = tokenizer.encode('This is a sentence from [MASK] training data', return_tensors='pt')
mlm_labels = tokenizer.encode('This is a sentence from the training data', return_tensors='pt')

loss = model(input_ids, labels=input_ids, masked_lm_labels=mlm_labels)[0]

LongformerConfig¶

class transformers.LongformerConfig(attention_window: Union[List[int], int] = 512, sep_token_id: int = 2, **kwargs)[source]¶

This is the configuration class to store the configuration of a LongformerModel. It is used to instantiate an Longformer model according to the specified arguments, defining the model architecture. Instantiating a configuration with the defaults will yield a similar configuration to that of the RoBERTa roberta-base architecture with a sequence length 4,096.

The LongformerConfig class directly inherits RobertaConfig. It reuses the same defaults. Please check the parent class for more information.

Parameters: attention_window (int or List[int], optional, defaults to 512) – Size of an attention window around each token. If int, use the same size for all layers. To specify a different window size for each layer, use a List[int] where len(attention_window) == num_hidden_layers.

Example:

>>> from transformers import LongformerConfig, LongformerModel

>>> # Initializing a Longformer configuration
>>> configuration = LongformerConfig()

>>> # Initializing a model from the configuration
>>> model = LongformerModel(configuration)

>>> # Accessing the model configuration
>>> configuration = model.config

LongformerTokenizer¶

class transformers.LongformerTokenizer(vocab_file, merges_file, errors='replace', bos_token='<s>', eos_token='</s>', sep_token='</s>', cls_token='<s>', unk_token='<unk>', pad_token='<pad>', mask_token='<mask>', add_prefix_space=False, **kwargs)[source]¶

LongformerTokenizerFast¶

class transformers.LongformerTokenizerFast(vocab_file, merges_file, errors='replace', bos_token='<s>', eos_token='</s>', sep_token='</s>', cls_token='<s>', unk_token='<unk>', pad_token='<pad>', mask_token='<mask>', add_prefix_space=False, trim_offsets=True, **kwargs)[source]¶

LongformerModel¶

class transformers.LongformerModel(config)[source]¶

The bare Longformer Model outputting raw hidden-states without any specific head on top. This model is a PyTorch torch.nn.Module sub-class. Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.

Parameters: config (LongformerConfig) – Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.

This class copied code from RobertaModel and overwrote standard self-attention with longformer self-attention to provide the ability to process long sequences following the self-attention approach described in Longformer: the Long-Document Transformer by Iz Beltagy, Matthew E. Peters, and Arman Cohan. Longformer self-attention combines a local (sliding window) and global attention to extend to long documents without the O(n^2) increase in memory and compute.

The self-attention module LongformerSelfAttention implemented here supports the combination of local and global attention but it lacks support for autoregressive attention and dilated attention. Autoregressive and dilated attention are more relevant for autoregressive language modeling than finetuning on downstream tasks. Future release will add support for autoregressive attention, but the support for dilated attention requires a custom CUDA kernel to be memory and compute efficient.

config_class¶: alias of transformers.configuration_longformer.LongformerConfig

forward(input_ids=None, attention_mask=None, global_attention_mask=None, token_type_ids=None, position_ids=None, inputs_embeds=None, output_attentions=None, output_hidden_states=None, return_dict=None)[source]¶

The LongformerModel forward method, overrides the __call__() special method.

Note

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while the latter silently ignores them.

Parameters

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

Indices can be obtained using transformers.LonmgformerTokenizer. See transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__() for details.

What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 1 for tokens that are NOT MASKED, 0 for MASKED tokens.

What are attention masks?
global_attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) – Mask to decide the attention given on each token, local attention or global attenion. Tokens with global attention attends to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them. This is important for task-specific finetuning because it makes the model more flexible at representing the task. For example, for classification, the <s> token should be given global attention. For QA, all question tokens should also have global attention. Please refer to the Longformer paper for more details. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 0 for local attention (a sliding window attention), 1 for global attention (tokens that attend to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them).
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]: 0 corresponds to a sentence A token, 1 corresponds to a sentence B token

What are token type IDs?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].

What are position IDs?
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional, defaults to None) – Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the attentions tensors of all attention layers are returned. See attentions under returned tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the hidden states of all layers are returned. See hidden_states under returned tensors for more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the model will return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.

Returns

A BaseModelOutputWithPooling (if return_dict=True is passed or when config.return_dict=True) or a tuple of torch.FloatTensor comprising various elements depending on the configuration (LongformerConfig) and inputs.

last_hidden_state (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)) – Sequence of hidden-states at the output of the last layer of the model.
pooler_output (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, hidden_size)) – Last layer hidden-state of the first token of the sequence (classification token) further processed by a Linear layer and a Tanh activation function. The Linear layer weights are trained from the next sentence prediction (classification) objective during pretraining.
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).

Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) – Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).

Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention heads.

Examples:

>>> import torch
>>> from transformers import LongformerModel, LongformerTokenizer

>>> model = LongformerModel.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-base-4096', return_dict=True)
>>> tokenizer = LongformerTokenizer.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-base-4096')

>>> SAMPLE_TEXT = ' '.join(['Hello world! '] * 1000)  # long input document
>>> input_ids = torch.tensor(tokenizer.encode(SAMPLE_TEXT)).unsqueeze(0)  # batch of size 1

>>> # Attention mask values -- 0: no attention, 1: local attention, 2: global attention
>>> attention_mask = torch.ones(input_ids.shape, dtype=torch.long, device=input_ids.device) # initialize to local attention
>>> attention_mask[:, [1, 4, 21,]] = 2  # Set global attention based on the task. For example,
...                                     # classification: the <s> token
...                                     # QA: question tokens
...                                     # LM: potentially on the beginning of sentences and paragraphs
>>> outputs = model(input_ids, attention_mask=attention_mask)
>>> sequence_output = outputs.last_hidden_state
>>> pooled_output = outputs.pooler_output

Return type

BaseModelOutputWithPooling or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)

get_input_embeddings()[source]¶

Returns the model’s input embeddings.

Returns: A torch module mapping vocabulary to hidden states.
Return type: nn.Module

set_input_embeddings(value)[source]¶

Set model’s input embeddings

Parameters: value (nn.Module) – A module mapping vocabulary to hidden states.

LongformerForMaskedLM¶

class transformers.LongformerForMaskedLM(config)[source]¶

Longformer Model with a language modeling head on top. This model is a PyTorch torch.nn.Module sub-class. Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.

Parameters: config (LongformerConfig) – Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.

config_class¶: alias of transformers.configuration_longformer.LongformerConfig

forward(input_ids=None, attention_mask=None, global_attention_mask=None, token_type_ids=None, position_ids=None, inputs_embeds=None, labels=None, output_attentions=None, output_hidden_states=None, return_dict=None, **kwargs)[source]¶

The LongformerForMaskedLM forward method, overrides the __call__() special method.

Note

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while the latter silently ignores them.

Parameters

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

Indices can be obtained using transformers.LonmgformerTokenizer. See transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__() for details.

What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 1 for tokens that are NOT MASKED, 0 for MASKED tokens.

What are attention masks?
global_attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) – Mask to decide the attention given on each token, local attention or global attenion. Tokens with global attention attends to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them. This is important for task-specific finetuning because it makes the model more flexible at representing the task. For example, for classification, the <s> token should be given global attention. For QA, all question tokens should also have global attention. Please refer to the Longformer paper for more details. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 0 for local attention (a sliding window attention), 1 for global attention (tokens that attend to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them).
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]: 0 corresponds to a sentence A token, 1 corresponds to a sentence B token

What are token type IDs?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].

What are position IDs?
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional, defaults to None) – Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the attentions tensors of all attention layers are returned. See attentions under returned tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the hidden states of all layers are returned. See hidden_states under returned tensors for more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional, defaults to None) –
If set to True, the model will return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.

labels (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None):
Labels for computing the masked language modeling loss. Indices should be in [-100, 0, ..., config.vocab_size] (see input_ids docstring) Tokens with indices set to -100 are ignored (masked), the loss is only computed for the tokens with labels in [0, ..., config.vocab_size]

kwargs (Dict[str, any], optional, defaults to {}):
Used to hide legacy arguments that have been deprecated.

Returns

A MaskedLMOutput (if return_dict=True is passed or when config.return_dict=True) or a tuple of torch.FloatTensor comprising various elements depending on the configuration (LongformerConfig) and inputs.

loss (torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided) – Masked languaged modeling (MLM) loss.
logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, config.vocab_size)) – Prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax).
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).

Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) – Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).

Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention heads.

Examples:

>>> import torch
>>> from transformers import LongformerForMaskedLM, LongformerTokenizer

>>> model = LongformerForMaskedLM.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-base-4096', return_dict=True)
>>> tokenizer = LongformerTokenizer.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-base-4096')

>>> SAMPLE_TEXT = ' '.join(['Hello world! '] * 1000)  # long input document
>>> input_ids = torch.tensor(tokenizer.encode(SAMPLE_TEXT)).unsqueeze(0)  # batch of size 1

>>> attention_mask = None  # default is local attention everywhere, which is a good choice for MaskedLM
...                        # check ``LongformerModel.forward`` for more details how to set `attention_mask`
>>> outputs = model(input_ids, attention_mask=attention_mask, labels=input_ids)
>>> loss = outputs.loss
>>> prediction_logits = output.logits

Return type

MaskedLMOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)

get_output_embeddings()[source]¶

Returns the model’s output embeddings.

Returns: A torch module mapping hidden states to vocabulary.
Return type: nn.Module

LongformerForSequenceClassification¶

class transformers.LongformerForSequenceClassification(config)[source]¶

Longformer Model transformer with a sequence classification/regression head on top (a linear layer on top of the pooled output) e.g. for GLUE tasks. This model is a PyTorch torch.nn.Module sub-class. Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.

Parameters: config (LongformerConfig) – Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.

config_class¶: alias of transformers.configuration_longformer.LongformerConfig

forward(input_ids=None, attention_mask=None, global_attention_mask=None, token_type_ids=None, position_ids=None, inputs_embeds=None, labels=None, output_attentions=None, output_hidden_states=None, return_dict=None)[source]¶

The LongformerForSequenceClassification forward method, overrides the __call__() special method.

Note

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while the latter silently ignores them.

Parameters

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

Indices can be obtained using transformers.LonmgformerTokenizer. See transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__() for details.

What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 1 for tokens that are NOT MASKED, 0 for MASKED tokens.

What are attention masks?
global_attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) – Mask to decide the attention given on each token, local attention or global attenion. Tokens with global attention attends to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them. This is important for task-specific finetuning because it makes the model more flexible at representing the task. For example, for classification, the <s> token should be given global attention. For QA, all question tokens should also have global attention. Please refer to the Longformer paper for more details. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 0 for local attention (a sliding window attention), 1 for global attention (tokens that attend to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them).
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]: 0 corresponds to a sentence A token, 1 corresponds to a sentence B token

What are token type IDs?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].

What are position IDs?
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional, defaults to None) – Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the attentions tensors of all attention layers are returned. See attentions under returned tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the hidden states of all layers are returned. See hidden_states under returned tensors for more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the model will return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.
labels (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size,), optional, defaults to None) – Labels for computing the sequence classification/regression loss. Indices should be in [0, ..., config.num_labels - 1]. If config.num_labels == 1 a regression loss is computed (Mean-Square loss), If config.num_labels > 1 a classification loss is computed (Cross-Entropy).

Returns

A SequenceClassifierOutput (if return_dict=True is passed or when config.return_dict=True) or a tuple of torch.FloatTensor comprising various elements depending on the configuration (LongformerConfig) and inputs.

loss (torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided) – Classification (or regression if config.num_labels==1) loss.
logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.num_labels)) – Classification (or regression if config.num_labels==1) scores (before SoftMax).
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).

Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) – Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).

Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention heads.

Return type

SequenceClassifierOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)

Example:

>>> from transformers import LongformerTokenizer, LongformerForSequenceClassification
>>> import torch

>>> tokenizer = LongformerTokenizer.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-base-4096')
>>> model = LongformerForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-base-4096', return_dict=True)

>>> inputs = tokenizer("Hello, my dog is cute", return_tensors="pt")
>>> labels = torch.tensor([1]).unsqueeze(0)  # Batch size 1
>>> outputs = model(**inputs, labels=labels)
>>> loss = outputs.loss
>>> logits = outputs.logits

LongformerForMultipleChoice¶

class transformers.LongformerForMultipleChoice(config)[source]¶

Longformer Model with a multiple choice classification head on top (a linear layer on top of the pooled output and a softmax) e.g. for RocStories/SWAG tasks. This model is a PyTorch torch.nn.Module sub-class. Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.

Parameters: config (LongformerConfig) – Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.

config_class¶: alias of transformers.configuration_longformer.LongformerConfig

forward(input_ids=None, token_type_ids=None, attention_mask=None, global_attention_mask=None, labels=None, position_ids=None, inputs_embeds=None, output_attentions=None, output_hidden_states=None, return_dict=None)[source]¶

The LongformerForMultipleChoice forward method, overrides the __call__() special method.

Note

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while the latter silently ignores them.

Parameters

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

Indices can be obtained using transformers.LonmgformerTokenizer. See transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__() for details.

What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 1 for tokens that are NOT MASKED, 0 for MASKED tokens.

What are attention masks?
global_attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) – Mask to decide the attention given on each token, local attention or global attenion. Tokens with global attention attends to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them. This is important for task-specific finetuning because it makes the model more flexible at representing the task. For example, for classification, the <s> token should be given global attention. For QA, all question tokens should also have global attention. Please refer to the Longformer paper for more details. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 0 for local attention (a sliding window attention), 1 for global attention (tokens that attend to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them).
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]: 0 corresponds to a sentence A token, 1 corresponds to a sentence B token

What are token type IDs?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].

What are position IDs?
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional, defaults to None) – Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the attentions tensors of all attention layers are returned. See attentions under returned tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the hidden states of all layers are returned. See hidden_states under returned tensors for more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the model will return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.
labels (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size,), optional, defaults to None) – Labels for computing the multiple choice classification loss. Indices should be in [0, ..., num_choices] where num_choices is the size of the second dimension of the input tensors. (see input_ids above)

Returns

A MultipleChoiceModelOutput (if return_dict=True is passed or when config.return_dict=True) or a tuple of torch.FloatTensor comprising various elements depending on the configuration (LongformerConfig) and inputs.

loss (torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided) – Classification loss.
logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices)) – num_choices is the second dimension of the input tensors. (see input_ids above).

Classification scores (before SoftMax).
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).

Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) – Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).

Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention heads.

Return type

MultipleChoiceModelOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)

Example:

>>> from transformers import LongformerTokenizer, LongformerForMultipleChoice
>>> import torch

>>> tokenizer = LongformerTokenizer.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-base-4096')
>>> model = LongformerForMultipleChoice.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-base-4096', return_dict=True)

>>> prompt = "In Italy, pizza served in formal settings, such as at a restaurant, is presented unsliced."
>>> choice0 = "It is eaten with a fork and a knife."
>>> choice1 = "It is eaten while held in the hand."
>>> labels = torch.tensor(0).unsqueeze(0)  # choice0 is correct (according to Wikipedia ;)), batch size 1

>>> encoding = tokenizer([[prompt, prompt], [choice0, choice1]], return_tensors='pt', padding=True)
>>> outputs = model(**{k: v.unsqueeze(0) for k,v in encoding.items()}, labels=labels)  # batch size is 1

>>> # the linear classifier still needs to be trained
>>> loss = outputs.loss
>>> logits = outputs.logits

LongformerForTokenClassification¶

class transformers.LongformerForTokenClassification(config)[source]¶

Longformer Model with a token classification head on top (a linear layer on top of the hidden-states output) e.g. for Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) tasks. This model is a PyTorch torch.nn.Module sub-class. Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.

Parameters: config (LongformerConfig) – Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.

config_class¶: alias of transformers.configuration_longformer.LongformerConfig

forward(input_ids=None, attention_mask=None, global_attention_mask=None, token_type_ids=None, position_ids=None, inputs_embeds=None, labels=None, output_attentions=None, output_hidden_states=None, return_dict=None)[source]¶

The LongformerForTokenClassification forward method, overrides the __call__() special method.

Note

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while the latter silently ignores them.

Parameters

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

Indices can be obtained using transformers.LonmgformerTokenizer. See transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__() for details.

What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 1 for tokens that are NOT MASKED, 0 for MASKED tokens.

What are attention masks?
global_attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) – Mask to decide the attention given on each token, local attention or global attenion. Tokens with global attention attends to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them. This is important for task-specific finetuning because it makes the model more flexible at representing the task. For example, for classification, the <s> token should be given global attention. For QA, all question tokens should also have global attention. Please refer to the Longformer paper for more details. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 0 for local attention (a sliding window attention), 1 for global attention (tokens that attend to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them).
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]: 0 corresponds to a sentence A token, 1 corresponds to a sentence B token

What are token type IDs?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].

What are position IDs?
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional, defaults to None) – Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the attentions tensors of all attention layers are returned. See attentions under returned tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the hidden states of all layers are returned. See hidden_states under returned tensors for more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the model will return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.
labels (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) – Labels for computing the token classification loss. Indices should be in [0, ..., config.num_labels - 1].

Returns

A TokenClassifierOutput (if return_dict=True is passed or when config.return_dict=True) or a tuple of torch.FloatTensor comprising various elements depending on the configuration (LongformerConfig) and inputs.

loss (torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided) – Classification loss.
logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, config.num_labels)) – Classification scores (before SoftMax).
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).

Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) – Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).

Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention heads.

Return type

TokenClassifierOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)

Example:

>>> from transformers import LongformerTokenizer, LongformerForTokenClassification
>>> import torch

>>> tokenizer = LongformerTokenizer.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-base-4096')
>>> model = LongformerForTokenClassification.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-base-4096', return_dict=True)

>>> inputs = tokenizer("Hello, my dog is cute", return_tensors="pt")
>>> labels = torch.tensor([1] * inputs["input_ids"].size(1)).unsqueeze(0)  # Batch size 1

>>> outputs = model(**inputs, labels=labels)
>>> loss = outputs.loss
>>> logits = outputs.logits

LongformerForQuestionAnswering¶

class transformers.LongformerForQuestionAnswering(config)[source]¶

Longformer Model with a span classification head on top for extractive question-answering tasks like SQuAD / TriviaQA (a linear layers on top of the hidden-states output to compute span start logits and span end logits). This model is a PyTorch torch.nn.Module sub-class. Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.

Parameters: config (LongformerConfig) – Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.

config_class¶: alias of transformers.configuration_longformer.LongformerConfig

forward(input_ids=None, attention_mask=None, global_attention_mask=None, token_type_ids=None, position_ids=None, inputs_embeds=None, start_positions=None, end_positions=None, output_attentions=None, output_hidden_states=None, return_dict=None)[source]¶

The LongformerForQuestionAnswering forward method, overrides the __call__() special method.

Note

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while the latter silently ignores them.

Parameters

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

Indices can be obtained using transformers.LonmgformerTokenizer. See transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__() for details.

What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 1 for tokens that are NOT MASKED, 0 for MASKED tokens.

What are attention masks?
global_attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) – Mask to decide the attention given on each token, local attention or global attenion. Tokens with global attention attends to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them. This is important for task-specific finetuning because it makes the model more flexible at representing the task. For example, for classification, the <s> token should be given global attention. For QA, all question tokens should also have global attention. Please refer to the Longformer paper for more details. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 0 for local attention (a sliding window attention), 1 for global attention (tokens that attend to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them).
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]: 0 corresponds to a sentence A token, 1 corresponds to a sentence B token

What are token type IDs?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].

What are position IDs?
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional, defaults to None) – Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the attentions tensors of all attention layers are returned. See attentions under returned tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the hidden states of all layers are returned. See hidden_states under returned tensors for more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional, defaults to None) –
If set to True, the model will return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.

start_positions (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size,), optional, defaults to None):
Labels for position (index) of the start of the labelled span for computing the token classification loss. Positions are clamped to the length of the sequence (sequence_length). Position outside of the sequence are not taken into account for computing the loss.

end_positions (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size,), optional, defaults to None):
Labels for position (index) of the end of the labelled span for computing the token classification loss. Positions are clamped to the length of the sequence (sequence_length). Position outside of the sequence are not taken into account for computing the loss.

Returns

A QuestionAnsweringModelOutput (if return_dict=True is passed or when config.return_dict=True) or a tuple of torch.FloatTensor comprising various elements depending on the configuration (LongformerConfig) and inputs.

loss (torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided) – Total span extraction loss is the sum of a Cross-Entropy for the start and end positions.
start_logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length,)) – Span-start scores (before SoftMax).
end_logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length,)) – Span-end scores (before SoftMax).
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).

Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) – Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).

Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention heads.

Examples:

>>> from transformers import LongformerTokenizer, LongformerForQuestionAnswering
>>> import torch

>>> tokenizer = LongformerTokenizer.from_pretrained("allenai/longformer-large-4096-finetuned-triviaqa")
>>> model = LongformerForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained("allenai/longformer-large-4096-finetuned-triviaqa", return_dict=True)

>>> question, text = "Who was Jim Henson?", "Jim Henson was a nice puppet"
>>> encoding = tokenizer(question, text, return_tensors="pt")
>>> input_ids = encoding["input_ids"]

>>> # default is local attention everywhere
>>> # the forward method will automatically set global attention on question tokens
>>> attention_mask = encoding["attention_mask"]

>>> outputs = model(input_ids, attention_mask=attention_mask)
>>> start_logits = outputs.start_logits
>>> end_logits = outputs.end_logits
>>> all_tokens = tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens(input_ids[0].tolist())

>>> answer_tokens = all_tokens[torch.argmax(start_logits) :torch.argmax(end_logits)+1]
>>> answer = tokenizer.decode(tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids(answer_tokens)) # remove space prepending space token

Return type

QuestionAnsweringModelOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)

TFLongformerModel¶

class transformers.TFLongformerModel(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶

The bare Longformer Model outputting raw hidden-states without any specific head on top. This model is a tf.keras.Model sub-class. Use it as a regular TF 2.0 Keras Model and refer to the TF 2.0 documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.

Note

TF 2.0 models accepts two formats as inputs:

having all inputs as keyword arguments (like PyTorch models), or

having all inputs as a list, tuple or dict in the first positional arguments.

This second option is useful when using tf.keras.Model.fit() method which currently requires having all the tensors in the first argument of the model call function: model(inputs).

If you choose this second option, there are three possibilities you can use to gather all the input Tensors in the first positional argument :

a single Tensor with input_ids only and nothing else: model(inputs_ids)
a list of varying length with one or several input Tensors IN THE ORDER given in the docstring: model([input_ids, attention_mask]) or model([input_ids, attention_mask, token_type_ids])
a dictionary with one or several input Tensors associated to the input names given in the docstring: model({'input_ids': input_ids, 'token_type_ids': token_type_ids})

Parameters: config (LongformerConfig) – Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.

This class copies code from RobertaModel and overwrites standard self-attention with longformer self-attention to provide the ability to process long sequences following the self-attention approach described in Longformer: the Long-Document Transformer by Iz Beltagy, Matthew E. Peters, and Arman Cohan. Longformer self-attention combines a local (sliding window) and global attention to extend to long documents without the O(n^2) increase in memory and compute.

The self-attention module LongformerSelfAttention implemented here supports the combination of local and global attention but it lacks support for autoregressive attention and dilated attention. Autoregressive and dilated attention are more relevant for autoregressive language modeling than finetuning on downstream tasks. Future release will add support for autoregressive attention, but the support for dilated attention requires a custom CUDA kernel to be memory and compute efficient.

call(inputs, **kwargs)[source]¶

The TFLongformerModel forward method, overrides the __call__() special method.

Note

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while the latter silently ignores them.

Parameters

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

Indices can be obtained using transformers.LonmgformerTokenizer. See transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__() for details.

What are input IDs?
attention_mask (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 1 for tokens that are NOT MASKED, 0 for MASKED tokens.

What are attention masks?
global_attention_mask (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) – Mask to decide the attention given on each token, local attention or global attenion. Tokens with global attention attends to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them. This is important for task-specific finetuning because it makes the model more flexible at representing the task. For example, for classification, the <s> token should be given global attention. For QA, all question tokens should also have global attention. Please refer to the Longformer paper for more details. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 0 for local attention (a sliding window attention), 1 for global attention (tokens that attend to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them).
token_type_ids (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]: 0 corresponds to a sentence A token, 1 corresponds to a sentence B token

What are token type IDs?
position_ids (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].

What are position IDs?
inputs_embeds (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional, defaults to None) – Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the attentions tensors of all attention layers are returned. See attentions under returned tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the hidden states of all layers are returned. See hidden_states under returned tensors for more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the model will return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.

TFLongformerForMaskedLM¶

class transformers.TFLongformerForMaskedLM(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶

Longformer Model with a language modeling head on top. This model is a tf.keras.Model sub-class. Use it as a regular TF 2.0 Keras Model and refer to the TF 2.0 documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.

Note

TF 2.0 models accepts two formats as inputs:

having all inputs as keyword arguments (like PyTorch models), or

having all inputs as a list, tuple or dict in the first positional arguments.

This second option is useful when using tf.keras.Model.fit() method which currently requires having all the tensors in the first argument of the model call function: model(inputs).

If you choose this second option, there are three possibilities you can use to gather all the input Tensors in the first positional argument :

a single Tensor with input_ids only and nothing else: model(inputs_ids)
a list of varying length with one or several input Tensors IN THE ORDER given in the docstring: model([input_ids, attention_mask]) or model([input_ids, attention_mask, token_type_ids])
a dictionary with one or several input Tensors associated to the input names given in the docstring: model({'input_ids': input_ids, 'token_type_ids': token_type_ids})

Parameters: config (LongformerConfig) – Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.

call(inputs=None, attention_mask=None, global_attention_mask=None, token_type_ids=None, position_ids=None, inputs_embeds=None, output_attentions=None, output_hidden_states=None, return_dict=None, labels=None, training=False)[source]¶

The TFLongformerForMaskedLM forward method, overrides the __call__() special method.

Note

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while the latter silently ignores them.

Parameters

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

Indices can be obtained using transformers.LonmgformerTokenizer. See transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__() for details.

What are input IDs?
attention_mask (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 1 for tokens that are NOT MASKED, 0 for MASKED tokens.

What are attention masks?
global_attention_mask (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) – Mask to decide the attention given on each token, local attention or global attenion. Tokens with global attention attends to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them. This is important for task-specific finetuning because it makes the model more flexible at representing the task. For example, for classification, the <s> token should be given global attention. For QA, all question tokens should also have global attention. Please refer to the Longformer paper for more details. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 0 for local attention (a sliding window attention), 1 for global attention (tokens that attend to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them).
token_type_ids (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]: 0 corresponds to a sentence A token, 1 corresponds to a sentence B token

What are token type IDs?
position_ids (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].

What are position IDs?
inputs_embeds (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional, defaults to None) – Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the attentions tensors of all attention layers are returned. See attentions under returned tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the hidden states of all layers are returned. See hidden_states under returned tensors for more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the model will return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.
labels (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) – Labels for computing the masked language modeling loss. Indices should be in [-100, 0, ..., config.vocab_size] (see input_ids docstring) Tokens with indices set to -100 are ignored (masked), the loss is only computed for the tokens with labels in [0, ..., config.vocab_size]

Returns

A TFMaskedLMOutput (if return_dict=True is passed or when config.return_dict=True) or a tuple of tf.Tensor comprising various elements depending on the configuration (LongformerConfig) and inputs.

loss (tf.Tensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided) – Masked languaged modeling (MLM) loss.
logits (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, config.vocab_size)) – Prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax).
hidden_states (tuple(tf.Tensor), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) – Tuple of tf.Tensor (one for the output of the embeddings + one for the output of each layer) of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size).

Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(tf.Tensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) – Tuple of tf.Tensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).

Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention heads.

Return type

TFMaskedLMOutput or tuple(tf.Tensor)

Example::

>>> from transformers import LongformerTokenizer, TFLongformerForMaskedLM
>>> import tensorflow as tf

>>> tokenizer = LongformerTokenizer.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-base-4096')
>>> model = TFLongformerForMaskedLM.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-base-4096')

>>> input_ids = tf.constant(tokenizer.encode("Hello, my dog is cute", add_special_tokens=True))[None, :]  # Batch size 1

>>> outputs = model(input_ids)
>>> prediction_scores = outputs[0]

get_output_embeddings()[source]¶

Returns the model’s output embeddings.

Returns: A torch module mapping hidden states to vocabulary.
Return type: tf.keras.layers.Layer

TFLongformerForQuestionAnswering¶

class transformers.TFLongformerForQuestionAnswering(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶

Longformer Model with a span classification head on top for extractive question-answering tasks like SQuAD / TriviaQA (a linear layers on top of the hidden-states output to compute span start logits and span end logits). This model is a tf.keras.Model sub-class. Use it as a regular TF 2.0 Keras Model and refer to the TF 2.0 documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.

Note

TF 2.0 models accepts two formats as inputs:

having all inputs as keyword arguments (like PyTorch models), or

having all inputs as a list, tuple or dict in the first positional arguments.

This second option is useful when using tf.keras.Model.fit() method which currently requires having all the tensors in the first argument of the model call function: model(inputs).

If you choose this second option, there are three possibilities you can use to gather all the input Tensors in the first positional argument :

a single Tensor with input_ids only and nothing else: model(inputs_ids)
a list of varying length with one or several input Tensors IN THE ORDER given in the docstring: model([input_ids, attention_mask]) or model([input_ids, attention_mask, token_type_ids])
a dictionary with one or several input Tensors associated to the input names given in the docstring: model({'input_ids': input_ids, 'token_type_ids': token_type_ids})

Parameters: config (LongformerConfig) – Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.

call(inputs=None, attention_mask=None, global_attention_mask=None, token_type_ids=None, position_ids=None, inputs_embeds=None, output_attentions=None, output_hidden_states=None, return_dict=None, start_positions=None, end_positions=None, training=False)[source]¶

The TFLongformerForQuestionAnswering forward method, overrides the __call__() special method.

Note

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while the latter silently ignores them.

Parameters

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

Indices can be obtained using transformers.LonmgformerTokenizer. See transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__() for details.

What are input IDs?
attention_mask (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 1 for tokens that are NOT MASKED, 0 for MASKED tokens.

What are attention masks?
global_attention_mask (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) – Mask to decide the attention given on each token, local attention or global attenion. Tokens with global attention attends to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them. This is important for task-specific finetuning because it makes the model more flexible at representing the task. For example, for classification, the <s> token should be given global attention. For QA, all question tokens should also have global attention. Please refer to the Longformer paper for more details. Mask values selected in [0, 1]: 0 for local attention (a sliding window attention), 1 for global attention (tokens that attend to all other tokens, and all other tokens attend to them).
token_type_ids (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]: 0 corresponds to a sentence A token, 1 corresponds to a sentence B token

What are token type IDs?
position_ids (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional, defaults to None) –
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].

What are position IDs?
inputs_embeds (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional, defaults to None) – Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the attentions tensors of all attention layers are returned. See attentions under returned tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the hidden states of all layers are returned. See hidden_states under returned tensors for more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional, defaults to None) – If set to True, the model will return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.
start_positions (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size,), optional, defaults to None) – Labels for position (index) of the start of the labelled span for computing the token classification loss. Positions are clamped to the length of the sequence (sequence_length). Position outside of the sequence are not taken into account for computing the loss.
end_positions (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size,), optional, defaults to None) – Labels for position (index) of the end of the labelled span for computing the token classification loss. Positions are clamped to the length of the sequence (sequence_length). Position outside of the sequence are not taken into account for computing the loss.

Returns

A TFQuestionAnsweringModelOutput (if return_dict=True is passed or when config.return_dict=True) or a tuple of tf.Tensor comprising various elements depending on the configuration (LongformerConfig) and inputs.

loss (tf.Tensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided) – Total span extraction loss is the sum of a Cross-Entropy for the start and end positions.
start_logits (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length,)) – Span-start scores (before SoftMax).
end_logits (tf.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length,)) – Span-end scores (before SoftMax).
hidden_states (tuple(tf.Tensor), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) – Tuple of tf.Tensor (one for the output of the embeddings + one for the output of each layer) of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size).

Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(tf.Tensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) – Tuple of tf.Tensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).

Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention heads.

Return type

TFQuestionAnsweringModelOutput or tuple(tf.Tensor)

Example:

>>> from transformers import LongformerTokenizer, TFLongformerForQuestionAnswering
>>> import tensorflow as tf

>>> tokenizer = LongformerTokenizer.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-large-4096-finetuned-triviaqa')
>>> model = TFLongformerForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained('allenai/longformer-large-4096-finetuned-triviaqa')

>>> question, text = "Who was Jim Henson?", "Jim Henson was a nice puppet"
>>> input_dict = tokenizer(question, text, return_tensors='tf')
>>> start_scores, end_scores = model(input_dict)

>>> all_tokens = tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens(input_dict["input_ids"].numpy()[0])
>>> answer = ' '.join(all_tokens[tf.math.argmax(start_scores, 1)[0] : tf.math.argmax(end_scores, 1)[0]+1])