transformers/docs/source/model_doc/data2vec.mdx

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# Data2Vec

## Overview

The Data2Vec model was proposed in [data2vec: A General Framework for Self-supervised Learning in Speech, Vision and Language](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.03555) by Alexei Baevski, Wei-Ning Hsu, Qiantong Xu, Arun Babu, Jiatao Gu and Michael Auli.
Data2Vec proposes a unified framework for self-supervised learning across different data modalities - text, audio and images.
Importantly, predicted targets for pre-training are contextualized latent representations of the inputs, rather than modality-specific, context-independent targets.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*While the general idea of self-supervised learning is identical across modalities, the actual algorithms and
objectives differ widely because they were developed with a single modality in mind. To get us closer to general
self-supervised learning, we present data2vec, a framework that uses the same learning method for either speech,
NLP or computer vision. The core idea is to predict latent representations of the full input data based on a
masked view of the input in a selfdistillation setup using a standard Transformer architecture.
Instead of predicting modality-specific targets such as words, visual tokens or units of human speech which
are local in nature, data2vec predicts contextualized latent representations that contain information from
the entire input. Experiments on the major benchmarks of speech recognition, image classification, and
natural language understanding demonstrate a new state of the art or competitive performance to predominant approaches.
Models and code are available at www.github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/master/examples/data2vec.*

Tips:

- Both Data2VecAudio and Data2VecText have been trained using the same self-supervised learning method.
  In the case of Data2VecAudio, preprocessing is identical to [`RobertaModel`], including tokenization.

This model was contributed by [edugp](https://huggingface.co/edugp).
The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/main/examples/data2vec).


## Data2VecTextConfig

[[autodoc]] Data2VecTextConfig

## Data2VecAudioConfig

[[autodoc]] Data2VecAudioConfig

## Data2VecAudioModel

[[autodoc]] Data2VecAudioModel
    - forward


## Data2VecAudioForAudioFrameClassification

[[autodoc]] Data2VecAudioForAudioFrameClassification
    - forward

## Data2VecAudioForCTC

[[autodoc]] Data2VecAudioForCTC
    - forward

## Data2VecAudioForSequenceClassification

[[autodoc]] Data2VecAudioForSequenceClassification
    - forward

## Data2VecAudioForXVector

[[autodoc]] Data2VecAudioForXVector
    - forward

## Data2VecTextModel

[[autodoc]] Data2VecTextModel
    - forward

## Data2VecTextForCausalLM

[[autodoc]] Data2VecTextForCausalLM
    - forward

## Data2VecTextForMaskedLM

[[autodoc]] Data2VecTextForMaskedLM
    - forward

## Data2VecTextForSequenceClassification

[[autodoc]] Data2VecTextForSequenceClassification
    - forward

## Data2VecTextForMultipleChoice

[[autodoc]] Data2VecTextForMultipleChoice
    - forward

## Data2VecTextForTokenClassification

[[autodoc]] Data2VecTextForTokenClassification
    - forward

## Data2VecTextForQuestionAnswering

[[autodoc]] Data2VecTextForQuestionAnswering
    - forward