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* Standardize ByT5 model card format

* Apply review feedback from @stevhliu

* Fix Notes formatting and wording

* Fix `aya_vision` test (#38674)

* fix 1: load_in_4bit=True,

* fix 2: decorateor

* fixfix 2: breakpoint

* fixfix 3: update

* fixfix 4: fast

* fixfix 5: cond

* fixfix 5: cond

* fixfix 6: cuda 8

* ruff

* breakpoint

* dtype

* a10

* a10

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Co-authored-by: ydshieh <ydshieh@users.noreply.github.com>

* Fix autodoc formatting for ByT5Tokenizer

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Co-authored-by: Yih-Dar <2521628+ydshieh@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: ydshieh <ydshieh@users.noreply.github.com>
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# ByT5
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## Overview
# ByT5
The ByT5 model was presented in [ByT5: Towards a token-free future with pre-trained byte-to-byte models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13626) by Linting Xue, Aditya Barua, Noah Constant, Rami Al-Rfou, Sharan Narang, Mihir
Kale, Adam Roberts, Colin Raffel.
[ByT5](https://huggingface.co/papers/2105.13626) is tokenizer-free version of the [T5](./t5) model designed to works directly on raw UTF-8 bytes. This means it can process any language, more robust to noise like typos, and simpler to use because it doesn't require a preprocessing pipeline.
The abstract from the paper is the following:
You can find all the original ByT5 checkpoints under the [Google](https://huggingface.co/google?search_models=byt5) organization.
*Most widely-used pre-trained language models operate on sequences of tokens corresponding to word or subword units.
Encoding text as a sequence of tokens requires a tokenizer, which is typically created as an independent artifact from
the model. Token-free models that instead operate directly on raw text (bytes or characters) have many benefits: they
can process text in any language out of the box, they are more robust to noise, and they minimize technical debt by
removing complex and error-prone text preprocessing pipelines. Since byte or character sequences are longer than token
sequences, past work on token-free models has often introduced new model architectures designed to amortize the cost of
operating directly on raw text. In this paper, we show that a standard Transformer architecture can be used with
minimal modifications to process byte sequences. We carefully characterize the trade-offs in terms of parameter count,
training FLOPs, and inference speed, and show that byte-level models are competitive with their token-level
counterparts. We also demonstrate that byte-level models are significantly more robust to noise and perform better on
tasks that are sensitive to spelling and pronunciation. As part of our contribution, we release a new set of
pre-trained byte-level Transformer models based on the T5 architecture, as well as all code and data used in our
experiments.*
> [!TIP]
> Refer to the [T5](./t5) docs for more examples of how to apply ByT5 to different language tasks.
This model was contributed by [patrickvonplaten](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten). The original code can be
found [here](https://github.com/google-research/byt5).
The example below demonstrates how to generate text with [`Pipeline`], [`AutoModel`] and from the command line.
<Tip>
ByT5's architecture is based on the T5v1.1 model, refer to [T5v1.1's documentation page](t5v1.1) for the API reference. They
only differ in how inputs should be prepared for the model, see the code examples below.
</Tip>
Since ByT5 was pre-trained unsupervisedly, there's no real advantage to using a task prefix during single-task
fine-tuning. If you are doing multi-task fine-tuning, you should use a prefix.
## Usage example
ByT5 works on raw UTF-8 bytes, so it can be used without a tokenizer:
<hfoptions id="usage">
<hfoption id="Pipeline">
```python
>>> from transformers import T5ForConditionalGeneration
>>> import torch
import torch
from transformers import pipeline
>>> model = T5ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("google/byt5-small")
>>> num_special_tokens = 3
>>> # Model has 3 special tokens which take up the input ids 0,1,2 of ByT5.
>>> # => Need to shift utf-8 character encodings by 3 before passing ids to model.
>>> input_ids = torch.tensor([list("Life is like a box of chocolates.".encode("utf-8"))]) + num_special_tokens
>>> labels = torch.tensor([list("La vie est comme une boîte de chocolat.".encode("utf-8"))]) + num_special_tokens
>>> loss = model(input_ids, labels=labels).loss
>>> loss.item()
2.66
pipeline = pipeline(
task="text2text-generation",
model="google/byt5-small",
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
device=0
)
pipeline("translate English to French: The weather is nice today")
```
For batched inference and training it is however recommended to make use of the tokenizer:
</hfoption>
<hfoption id="AutoModel">
```python
>>> from transformers import T5ForConditionalGeneration, AutoTokenizer
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM, AutoTokenizer
>>> model = T5ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("google/byt5-small")
>>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/byt5-small")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
"google/byt5-small"
)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(
"google/byt5-small",
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
device_map="auto"
)
>>> model_inputs = tokenizer(
... ["Life is like a box of chocolates.", "Today is Monday."], padding="longest", return_tensors="pt"
... )
>>> labels_dict = tokenizer(
... ["La vie est comme une boîte de chocolat.", "Aujourd'hui c'est lundi."], padding="longest", return_tensors="pt"
... )
>>> labels = labels_dict.input_ids
input_ids = tokenizer("summarize: Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria convert light energy into chemical energy.", return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
>>> loss = model(**model_inputs, labels=labels).loss
>>> loss.item()
17.9
output = model.generate(**input_ids)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
```
Similar to [T5](t5), ByT5 was trained on the span-mask denoising task. However,
since the model works directly on characters, the pretraining task is a bit
different. Let's corrupt some characters of the
input sentence `"The dog chases a ball in the park."` and ask ByT5 to predict them
for us.
</hfoption>
<hfoption id="transformers-cli">
```bash
echo -e "translate English to French: Life is beautiful." | transformers-cli run --task text2text-generation --model google/byt5-small --device 0
```
</hfoption>
</hfoptions>
## Quantization
Quantization reduces the memory burden of large models by representing the weights in a lower precision. Refer to the [Quantization](../quantization/overview) overview for more available quantization backends.
The example below uses [torchao](../quantization/torchao) to only quantize the weights to int4.
```python
>>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
>>> import torch
# pip install torchao
import torch
from transformers import TorchAoConfig, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM, AutoTokenizer
>>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/byt5-base")
>>> model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("google/byt5-base")
quantization_config = TorchAoConfig("int4_weight_only", group_size=128)
>>> input_ids_prompt = "The dog chases a ball in the park."
>>> input_ids = tokenizer(input_ids_prompt).input_ids
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(
"google/byt5-xl",
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device_map="auto",
quantization_config=quantization_config
)
>>> # Note that we cannot add "{extra_id_...}" to the string directly
>>> # as the Byte tokenizer would incorrectly merge the tokens
>>> # For ByT5, we need to work directly on the character level
>>> # Contrary to T5, ByT5 does not use sentinel tokens for masking, but instead
>>> # uses final utf character ids.
>>> # UTF-8 is represented by 8 bits and ByT5 has 3 special tokens.
>>> # => There are 2**8+2 = 259 input ids and mask tokens count down from index 258.
>>> # => mask to "The dog [258]a ball [257]park."
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/byt5-xl")
input_ids = tokenizer("translate English to French: The weather is nice today.", return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
>>> input_ids = torch.tensor([input_ids[:8] + [258] + input_ids[14:21] + [257] + input_ids[28:]])
>>> input_ids
tensor([[ 87, 107, 104, 35, 103, 114, 106, 35, 258, 35, 100, 35, 101, 100, 111, 111, 257, 35, 115, 100, 117, 110, 49, 1]])
>>> # ByT5 produces only one char at a time so we need to produce many more output characters here -> set `max_length=100`.
>>> output_ids = model.generate(input_ids, max_length=100)[0].tolist()
>>> output_ids
[0, 258, 108, 118, 35, 119, 107, 104, 35, 114, 113, 104, 35, 122, 107, 114, 35, 103, 114, 104, 118, 257, 35, 108, 113, 35, 119, 107, 104, 35, 103, 108, 118, 102, 114, 256, 108, 113, 35, 119, 107, 104, 35, 115, 100, 117, 110, 49, 35, 87, 107, 104, 35, 103, 114, 106, 35, 108, 118, 35, 119, 107, 104, 35, 114, 113, 104, 35, 122, 107, 114, 35, 103, 114, 104, 118, 35, 100, 35, 101, 100, 111, 111, 35, 108, 113, 255, 35, 108, 113, 35, 119, 107, 104, 35, 115, 100, 117, 110, 49]
>>> # ^- Note how 258 descends to 257, 256, 255
>>> # Now we need to split on the sentinel tokens, let's write a short loop for this
>>> output_ids_list = []
>>> start_token = 0
>>> sentinel_token = 258
>>> while sentinel_token in output_ids:
... split_idx = output_ids.index(sentinel_token)
... output_ids_list.append(output_ids[start_token:split_idx])
... start_token = split_idx
... sentinel_token -= 1
>>> output_ids_list.append(output_ids[start_token:])
>>> output_string = tokenizer.batch_decode(output_ids_list)
>>> output_string
['<pad>', 'is the one who does', ' in the disco', 'in the park. The dog is the one who does a ball in', ' in the park.']
output = model.generate(**input_ids)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
```
## Notes
- It is recommended to use the tokenizer for batched inference and training.
- The example below shows how to use the model without a tokenizer.
```python
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("google/byt5-small")
num_special_tokens = 3
input_ids = torch.tensor([list("Life is like a box of chocolates.".encode("utf-8"))]) + num_special_tokens
labels = torch.tensor([list("La vie est comme une boîte de chocolat.".encode("utf-8"))]) + num_special_tokens
loss = model(input_ids, labels=labels).loss
loss.item()
```
- ByT5 uses the top byte values (258, 257, etc.) for masking instead of sentinel tokens like `{extra_id_0}`.
```python
# Example: character-level denoising with mask tokens
input_ids = tokenizer("The dog chases a ball in the park.").input_ids
masked_input = torch.tensor([input_ids[:8] + [258] + input_ids[14:21] + [257] + input_ids[28:]])
output = model.generate(masked_input, max_length=100)
```
## ByT5Tokenizer
[[autodoc]] ByT5Tokenizer
See [`ByT5Tokenizer`] for all details.