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Co-authored-by: Lysandre Debut <lysandre@huggingface.co>

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Pipelines
----------------------------------------------------
The pipelines are a great and easy way to use models for inference. These pipelines are objects that abstract most
of the complex code from the library, offering a simple API dedicated to several tasks, including Named Entity
Recognition, Masked Language Modeling, Sentiment Analysis, Feature Extraction and Question Answering. See the
:doc:`task summary <../task_summary>` for examples of use.
There are two categories of pipeline abstractions to be aware about:
- The :func:`~transformers.pipeline` which is the most powerful object encapsulating all other pipelines.
- The other task-specific pipelines:
- :class:`~transformers.ConversationalPipeline`
- :class:`~transformers.FeatureExtractionPipeline`
- :class:`~transformers.FillMaskPipeline`
- :class:`~transformers.QuestionAnsweringPipeline`
- :class:`~transformers.SummarizationPipeline`
- :class:`~transformers.TextClassificationPipeline`
- :class:`~transformers.TextGenerationPipeline`
- :class:`~transformers.TokenClassificationPipeline`
- :class:`~transformers.TranslationPipeline`
The pipeline abstraction
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The `pipeline` abstraction is a wrapper around all the other available pipelines. It is instantiated as any
other pipeline but requires an additional argument which is the `task`.
.. autofunction:: transformers.pipeline
The task specific pipelines
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ConversationalPipeline
==========================================
.. autoclass:: transformers.Conversation
.. autoclass:: transformers.ConversationalPipeline
:special-members: __call__
:members:
FeatureExtractionPipeline
==========================================
.. autoclass:: transformers.FeatureExtractionPipeline
:special-members: __call__
:members:
FillMaskPipeline
==========================================
.. autoclass:: transformers.FillMaskPipeline
:special-members: __call__
:members:
NerPipeline
==========================================
This class is an alias of the :class:`~transformers.TokenClassificationPipeline` defined below. Please refer to that
pipeline for documentation and usage examples.
QuestionAnsweringPipeline
==========================================
.. autoclass:: transformers.QuestionAnsweringPipeline
:special-members: __call__
:members:
SummarizationPipeline
==========================================
.. autoclass:: transformers.SummarizationPipeline
:special-members: __call__
:members:
TextClassificationPipeline
==========================================
.. autoclass:: transformers.TextClassificationPipeline
:special-members: __call__
:members:
TextGenerationPipeline
==========================================
.. autoclass:: transformers.TextGenerationPipeline
:special-members: __call__
:members:
TokenClassificationPipeline
==========================================
.. autoclass:: transformers.TokenClassificationPipeline
:special-members: __call__
:members:
Parent class: :obj:`Pipeline`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. autoclass:: transformers.Pipeline
:members: