transformers/docs/source/index.rst

Transformers
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State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing for Pytorch and TensorFlow 2.0.

🤗 Transformers (formerly known as `pytorch-transformers` and `pytorch-pretrained-bert`) provides general-purpose
architectures (BERT, GPT-2, RoBERTa, XLM, DistilBert, XLNet...) for Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural
Language Generation (NLG) with over 32+ pretrained models in 100+ languages and deep interoperability between
TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch.

This is the documentation of our repository `transformers <https://github.com/huggingface/transformers>`_.

Features
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- High performance on NLU and NLG tasks
- Low barrier to entry for educators and practitioners

State-of-the-art NLP for everyone:

- Deep learning researchers
- Hands-on practitioners
- AI/ML/NLP teachers and educators

Lower compute costs, smaller carbon footprint:

- Researchers can share trained models instead of always retraining
- Practitioners can reduce compute time and production costs
- 8 architectures with over 30 pretrained models, some in more than 100 languages

Choose the right framework for every part of a model's lifetime:

- Train state-of-the-art models in 3 lines of code
- Deep interoperability between TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch models
- Move a single model between TF2.0/PyTorch frameworks at will
- Seamlessly pick the right framework for training, evaluation, production

Contents
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The documentation is organized in five parts:

- **GET STARTED** contains a quick tour, the installation instructions and some useful information about our philosophy
  and a glossary.
- **USING 🤗 TRANSFORMERS** contains general tutorials on how to use the library.
- **ADVANCED GUIDES** contains more advanced guides that are more specific to a given script or part of the library.
- **RESEARCH** focuses on tutorials that have less to do with how to use the library but more about general resarch in
  transformers model
- The three last section contain the documentation of each public class and function, grouped in:
    - **MAIN CLASSES** for the main classes exposing the important APIs of the library.
    - **MODELS** for the classes and functions related to each model implemented in the library.
    - **INTERNAL HELPERS** for the classes and functions we use internally.

The library currently contains PyTorch and Tensorflow implementations, pre-trained model weights, usage scripts and
conversion utilities for the following models:

..
    This list is updated automatically from the README with `make fix-copies`. Do not update manually!

1. `ALBERT <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/albert.html>`__ (from Google Research and the Toyota
   Technological Institute at Chicago) released with the paper `ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of
   Language Representations <https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11942>`__, by Zhenzhong Lan, Mingda Chen, Sebastian Goodman,
   Kevin Gimpel, Piyush Sharma, Radu Soricut.
2. `BART <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/bart.html>`__ (from Facebook) released with the paper `BART:
   Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension
   <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.13461.pdf>`__ by Mike Lewis, Yinhan Liu, Naman Goyal, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Abdelrahman
   Mohamed, Omer Levy, Ves Stoyanov and Luke Zettlemoyer.
3. `BERT <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/bert.html>`__ (from Google) released with the paper `BERT:
   Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding <https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805>`__ by
   Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee and Kristina Toutanova.
4. `BERT For Sequence Generation <https://tfhub.dev/s?module-type=text-generation&subtype=module,placeholder>`__ (from
   Google) released with the paper `Leveraging Pre-trained Checkpoints for Sequence Generation Tasks
   <https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12461>`__ by Sascha Rothe, Shashi Narayan, Aliaksei Severyn.
5. `CamemBERT <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/camembert.html>`__ (from Inria/Facebook/Sorbonne) released
   with the paper `CamemBERT: a Tasty French Language Model <https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03894>`__ by Louis Martin*,
   Benjamin Muller*, Pedro Javier Ortiz Suárez*, Yoann Dupont, Laurent Romary, Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie, Djamé
   Seddah and Benoît Sagot.
6. `CTRL <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/ctrl.html>`__ (from Salesforce) released with the paper `CTRL:
   A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation <https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05858>`__ by Nitish
   Shirish Keskar*, Bryan McCann*, Lav R. Varshney, Caiming Xiong and Richard Socher.
7. `DeBERTa <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/deberta.html>`__ (from Microsoft Research) released with the
   paper `DeBERTa: Decoding-enhanced BERT with Disentangled Attention <https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03654>`__ by
   Pengcheng He, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Weizhu Chen.
8. `DialoGPT <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/dialogpt.html>`__ (from Microsoft Research) released with
   the paper `DialoGPT: Large-Scale Generative Pre-training for Conversational Response Generation
   <https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00536>`__ by Yizhe Zhang, Siqi Sun, Michel Galley, Yen-Chun Chen, Chris Brockett, Xiang
   Gao, Jianfeng Gao, Jingjing Liu, Bill Dolan.
9. `DistilBERT <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/distilbert.html>`__ (from HuggingFace), released together
   with the paper `DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter
   <https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01108>`__ by Victor Sanh, Lysandre Debut and Thomas Wolf. The same method has been
   applied to compress GPT2 into `DistilGPT2
   <https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/distillation>`__, RoBERTa into `DistilRoBERTa
   <https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/distillation>`__, Multilingual BERT into
   `DistilmBERT <https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/distillation>`__ and a German version
   of DistilBERT.
10. `DPR <https://github.com/facebookresearch/DPR>`__ (from Facebook) released with the paper `Dense Passage Retrieval
    for Open-Domain Question Answering <https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04906>`__ by Vladimir Karpukhin, Barlas Oğuz, Sewon
    Min, Patrick Lewis, Ledell Wu, Sergey Edunov, Danqi Chen, and Wen-tau Yih.
11. `ELECTRA <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/electra.html>`__ (from Google Research/Stanford University)
    released with the paper `ELECTRA: Pre-training text encoders as discriminators rather than generators
    <https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10555>`__ by Kevin Clark, Minh-Thang Luong, Quoc V. Le, Christopher D. Manning.
12. `FlauBERT <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/flaubert.html>`__ (from CNRS) released with the paper
    `FlauBERT: Unsupervised Language Model Pre-training for French <https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05372>`__ by Hang Le,
    Loïc Vial, Jibril Frej, Vincent Segonne, Maximin Coavoux, Benjamin Lecouteux, Alexandre Allauzen, Benoît Crabbé,
    Laurent Besacier, Didier Schwab.
13. `Funnel Transformer <https://github.com/laiguokun/Funnel-Transformer>`__ (from CMU/Google Brain) released with the
    paper `Funnel-Transformer: Filtering out Sequential Redundancy for Efficient Language Processing
    <https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03236>`__ by Zihang Dai, Guokun Lai, Yiming Yang, Quoc V. Le.
14. `GPT <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/gpt.html>`__ (from OpenAI) released with the paper `Improving
    Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training <https://blog.openai.com/language-unsupervised/>`__ by Alec
    Radford, Karthik Narasimhan, Tim Salimans and Ilya Sutskever.
15. `GPT-2 <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/gpt2.html>`__ (from OpenAI) released with the paper `Language
    Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners <https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/>`__ by Alec Radford*,
    Jeffrey Wu*, Rewon Child, David Luan, Dario Amodei** and Ilya Sutskever**.
16. `LayoutLM <https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/master/layoutlm>`__ (from Microsoft Research Asia) released with
    the paper `LayoutLM: Pre-training of Text and Layout for Document Image Understanding
    <https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13318>`__ by Yiheng Xu, Minghao Li, Lei Cui, Shaohan Huang, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou.
17. `Longformer <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/longformer.html>`__ (from AllenAI) released with the
    paper `Longformer: The Long-Document Transformer <https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05150>`__ by Iz Beltagy, Matthew E.
    Peters, Arman Cohan.
18. `LXMERT <https://github.com/airsplay/lxmert>`__ (from UNC Chapel Hill) released with the paper `LXMERT: Learning
    Cross-Modality Encoder Representations from Transformers for Open-Domain Question Answering
    <https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07490>`__ by Hao Tan and Mohit Bansal.
19. `MarianMT <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/marian.html>`__ Machine translation models trained using
    `OPUS <http://opus.nlpl.eu/>`__ data by Jörg Tiedemann. The `Marian Framework <https://marian-nmt.github.io/>`__ is
    being developed by the Microsoft Translator Team.
20. `MBart <https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/master/examples/mbart>`__ (from Facebook) released with the paper 
    `Multilingual Denoising Pre-training for Neural Machine Translation <https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08210>`__ by Yinhan
    Liu, Jiatao Gu, Naman Goyal, Xian Li, Sergey Edunov, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Mike Lewis, Luke Zettlemoyer.
21. `MMBT <https://github.com/facebookresearch/mmbt/>`__ (from Facebook), released together with the paper a
    `Supervised Multimodal Bitransformers for Classifying Images and Text <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.02950.pdf>`__ by
    Douwe Kiela, Suvrat Bhooshan, Hamed Firooz, Davide Testuggine.
22. `Pegasus <https://github.com/google-research/pegasus>`__ (from Google) released with the paper `PEGASUS:
    Pre-training with Extracted Gap-sentences for Abstractive Summarization <https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08777>`__> by
    Jingqing Zhang, Yao Zhao, Mohammad Saleh and Peter J. Liu.
23. `Reformer <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/reformer.html>`__ (from Google Research) released with the
    paper `Reformer: The Efficient Transformer <https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04451>`__ by Nikita Kitaev, Łukasz Kaiser,
    Anselm Levskaya.
24. `RoBERTa <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/roberta.html>`__ (from Facebook), released together with
    the paper a `Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach <https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11692>`__ by Yinhan Liu, Myle
    Ott, Naman Goyal, Jingfei Du, Mandar Joshi, Danqi Chen, Omer Levy, Mike Lewis, Luke Zettlemoyer, Veselin Stoyanov.
    ultilingual BERT into `DistilmBERT
    <https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/distillation>`__ and a German version of
    DistilBERT.
25. `SqueezeBert <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/squeezebert.html>`__ released with the paper
    `SqueezeBERT: What can computer vision teach NLP about efficient neural networks?
    <https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11316>`__ by Forrest N. Iandola, Albert E. Shaw, Ravi Krishna, and Kurt W. Keutzer.
26. `T5 <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/t5.html>`__ (from Google AI) released with the paper `Exploring
    the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer <https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683>`__ by
    Colin Raffel and Noam Shazeer and Adam Roberts and Katherine Lee and Sharan Narang and Michael Matena and Yanqi
    Zhou and Wei Li and Peter J. Liu.
27. `Transformer-XL <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/transformerxl.html>`__ (from Google/CMU) released
    with the paper `Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context
    <https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02860>`__ by Zihang Dai*, Zhilin Yang*, Yiming Yang, Jaime Carbonell, Quoc V. Le,
    Ruslan Salakhutdinov.
28. `XLM <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/xlm.html>`__ (from Facebook) released together with the paper
    `Cross-lingual Language Model Pretraining <https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07291>`__ by Guillaume Lample and Alexis
    Conneau.
29. `XLM-RoBERTa <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/xlmroberta.html>`__ (from Facebook AI), released
    together with the paper `Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning at Scale
    <https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02116>`__ by Alexis Conneau*, Kartikay Khandelwal*, Naman Goyal, Vishrav Chaudhary,
    Guillaume Wenzek, Francisco Guzmán, Edouard Grave, Myle Ott, Luke Zettlemoyer and Veselin Stoyanov.
30. `XLNet <https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/xlnet.html>`__ (from Google/CMU) released with the paper
    `​XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding <https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08237>`__ by
    Zhilin Yang*, Zihang Dai*, Yiming Yang, Jaime Carbonell, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Quoc V. Le.
31. `Other community models <https://huggingface.co/models>`__, contributed by the `community
    <https://huggingface.co/users>`__.

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
    :caption: Get started

    quicktour
    installation
    philosophy
    glossary

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
    :caption: Using 🤗 Transformers

    task_summary
    model_summary
    preprocessing
    training
    model_sharing
    tokenizer_summary
    multilingual

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
    :caption: Advanced guides

    pretrained_models
    examples
    custom_datasets
    notebooks
    converting_tensorflow_models
    migration
    contributing
    testing
    serialization

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
    :caption: Research

    bertology
    perplexity
    benchmarks

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
    :caption: Main Classes

    main_classes/callback
    main_classes/configuration
    main_classes/logging
    main_classes/model
    main_classes/optimizer_schedules
    main_classes/output
    main_classes/pipelines
    main_classes/processors
    main_classes/tokenizer
    main_classes/trainer

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
    :caption: Models

    model_doc/albert
    model_doc/auto
    model_doc/bart
    model_doc/bert
    model_doc/bertgeneration
    model_doc/blenderbot
    model_doc/camembert
    model_doc/ctrl
    model_doc/deberta
    model_doc/dialogpt
    model_doc/distilbert
    model_doc/dpr
    model_doc/electra
    model_doc/encoderdecoder
    model_doc/flaubert
    model_doc/fsmt
    model_doc/funnel
    model_doc/layoutlm
    model_doc/longformer
    model_doc/lxmert
    model_doc/marian
    model_doc/mbart
    model_doc/mobilebert
    model_doc/gpt
    model_doc/gpt2
    model_doc/pegasus
    model_doc/rag
    model_doc/reformer
    model_doc/retribert
    model_doc/roberta
    model_doc/squeezebert
    model_doc/t5
    model_doc/transformerxl
    model_doc/xlm
    model_doc/xlmroberta
    model_doc/xlnet

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
    :caption: Internal Helpers

    internal/modeling_utils
    internal/pipelines_utils
    internal/tokenization_utils
    internal/trainer_utils