Longformer Base 4096 Finetuned Squadv1

🚀 LONGFORMER-BASE-4096 fine-tuned on SQuAD v1

This is a fine-tuned longformer-base-4096 model on the SQuAD v1 dataset for question answering tasks, leveraging the capabilities of the Longformer architecture for handling long documents.

🔍 Datasets

• squad_v1

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

🚀 Quick Start

This is longformer-base-4096 model fine-tuned on SQuAD v1 dataset for question answering task.

Longformer model created by Iz Beltagy, Matthew E. Peters, Arman Coha from AllenAI. As the paper explains it

Longformer is a BERT-like model for long documents.

The pre-trained model can handle sequences with upto 4096 tokens.

📚 Documentation

🔧 Model Training

This model was trained on google colab v100 GPU. You can find the fine-tuning colab here .

Few things to keep in mind while training longformer for QA task: By default, longformer uses sliding-window local attention on all tokens. But for QA, all question tokens should have global attention. For more details on this please refer the paper. The LongformerForQuestionAnswering model automatically does that for you. To allow it to do that:

1. The input sequence must have three sep tokens, i.e the sequence should be encoded like this <s> question</s></s> context</s>. If you encode the question and answer as an input pair, then the tokenizer already takes care of that, you shouldn't worry about it.
2. input_ids should always be a batch of examples.

📊 Results

💻 Usage Examples

🌟 Basic Usage

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForQuestionAnswering

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("valhalla/longformer-base-4096-finetuned-squadv1")
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained("valhalla/longformer-base-4096-finetuned-squadv1")

text = "Huggingface has democratized NLP. Huge thanks to Huggingface for this."
question = "What has Huggingface done ?"
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"]

start_scores, end_scores = model(input_ids, attention_mask=attention_mask)
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))
# output => democratized NLP

⚠️ Important Note

The LongformerForQuestionAnswering isn't yet supported in pipeline. I'll update this card once the support has been added.

Created with ❤️ by Suraj Patil