transformers/docs/source/model_doc/convbert.rst

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ConvBERT
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Overview
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The ConvBERT model was proposed in `ConvBERT: Improving BERT with Span-based Dynamic Convolution
<https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02496>`__ by Zihang Jiang, Weihao Yu, Daquan Zhou, Yunpeng Chen, Jiashi Feng, Shuicheng
Yan.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*Pre-trained language models like BERT and its variants have recently achieved impressive performance in various
natural language understanding tasks. However, BERT heavily relies on the global self-attention block and thus suffers
large memory footprint and computation cost. Although all its attention heads query on the whole input sequence for
generating the attention map from a global perspective, we observe some heads only need to learn local dependencies,
which means the existence of computation redundancy. We therefore propose a novel span-based dynamic convolution to
replace these self-attention heads to directly model local dependencies. The novel convolution heads, together with the
rest self-attention heads, form a new mixed attention block that is more efficient at both global and local context
learning. We equip BERT with this mixed attention design and build a ConvBERT model. Experiments have shown that
ConvBERT significantly outperforms BERT and its variants in various downstream tasks, with lower training cost and
fewer model parameters. Remarkably, ConvBERTbase model achieves 86.4 GLUE score, 0.7 higher than ELECTRAbase, while
using less than 1/4 training cost. Code and pre-trained models will be released.*

ConvBERT training tips are similar to those of BERT. The original implementation can be found here:
https://github.com/yitu-opensource/ConvBert

ConvBertConfig
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ConvBertConfig
    :members:


ConvBertTokenizer
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ConvBertTokenizer
    :members: build_inputs_with_special_tokens, get_special_tokens_mask,
        create_token_type_ids_from_sequences, save_vocabulary


ConvBertTokenizerFast
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ConvBertTokenizerFast
    :members: build_inputs_with_special_tokens, get_special_tokens_mask,
        create_token_type_ids_from_sequences, save_vocabulary


ConvBertModel
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ConvBertModel
    :members: forward


ConvBertForMaskedLM
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ConvBertForMaskedLM
    :members: forward


ConvBertForSequenceClassification
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ConvBertForSequenceClassification
    :members: forward


ConvBertForMultipleChoice
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ConvBertForMultipleChoice
    :members: forward


ConvBertForTokenClassification
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ConvBertForTokenClassification
    :members: forward


ConvBertForQuestionAnswering
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ConvBertForQuestionAnswering
    :members: forward


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.. autoclass:: transformers.TFConvBertModel
    :members: call


TFConvBertForMaskedLM
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.. autoclass:: transformers.TFConvBertForMaskedLM
    :members: call


TFConvBertForSequenceClassification
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.. autoclass:: transformers.TFConvBertForSequenceClassification
    :members: call


TFConvBertForMultipleChoice
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.. autoclass:: transformers.TFConvBertForMultipleChoice
    :members: call


TFConvBertForTokenClassification
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.. autoclass:: transformers.TFConvBertForTokenClassification
    :members: call


TFConvBertForQuestionAnswering
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.. autoclass:: transformers.TFConvBertForQuestionAnswering
    :members: call