
 
ErnieM
	
Overview
	
The ErnieM model was proposed in ERNIE-M: Enhanced Multilingual Representation by Aligning
Cross-lingual Semantics with Monolingual Corpora  by Xuan Ouyang, Shuohuan Wang, Chao Pang, Yu Sun,
Hao Tian, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang.
The abstract from the paper is the following:
Recent studies have demonstrated that pre-trained cross-lingual models achieve impressive performance in downstream cross-lingual tasks. This improvement benefits from learning a large amount of monolingual and parallel corpora. Although it is generally acknowledged that parallel corpora are critical for improving the model performance, existing methods are often constrained by the size of parallel corpora, especially for lowresource languages. In this paper, we propose ERNIE-M, a new training method that encourages the model to align the representation of multiple languages with monolingual corpora, to overcome the constraint that the parallel corpus size places on the model performance. Our key insight is to integrate back-translation into the pre-training process. We generate pseudo-parallel sentence pairs on a monolingual corpus to enable the learning of semantic alignments between different languages, thereby enhancing the semantic modeling of cross-lingual models. Experimental results show that ERNIE-M outperforms existing cross-lingual models and delivers new state-of-the-art results in various cross-lingual downstream tasks.
Tips:
Ernie-M is a BERT-like model so it is a stacked Transformer Encoder.
Instead of using MaskedLM for pretraining (like BERT) the authors used two novel techniques: Cross-attention Masked Language Modeling and Back-translation Masked Language Modeling. For now these two LMHead objectives are not implemented here.
It is a multilingual language model.
Next Sentence Prediction was not used in pretraining process.
This model was contributed by Susnato Dhar. The original code can be found here.
Documentation resources
	
Text classification task guide
Token classification task guide
Question answering task guide
Multiple choice task guide
ErnieMConfig
	
class transformers.ErnieMConfig
<
source
>
(
vocab_size: int = 250002
hidden_size: int = 768
num_hidden_layers: int = 12
num_attention_heads: int = 12
intermediate_size: int = 3072
hidden_act: str = 'gelu'
hidden_dropout_prob: float = 0.1
attention_probs_dropout_prob: float = 0.1
max_position_embeddings: int = 514
initializer_range: float = 0.02
pad_token_id: int = 1
layer_norm_eps: float = 1e-05
classifier_dropout = None
is_decoder = False
act_dropout = 0.0
**kwargs
)
Parameters 
vocab_size (int, optional, defaults to 250002) —
Vocabulary size of inputs_ids in ErnieMModel. Also is the vocab size of token embedding matrix.
Defines the number of different tokens that can be represented by the inputs_ids passed when calling
ErnieMModel.
hidden_size (int, optional, defaults to 768) —
Dimensionality of the embedding layer, encoder layers and pooler layer.
num_hidden_layers (int, optional, defaults to 12) —
Number of hidden layers in the Transformer encoder.
num_attention_heads (int, optional, defaults to 12) —
Number of attention heads for each attention layer in the Transformer encoder.
intermediate_size (int, optional, defaults to 3072) —
Dimensionality of the feed-forward (ff) layer in the encoder. Input tensors to feed-forward layers are
firstly projected from hidden_size to intermediate_size, and then projected back to hidden_size. Typically
intermediate_size is larger than hidden_size.
hidden_act (str, optional, defaults to "gelu") —
The non-linear activation function in the feed-forward layer. "gelu", "relu" and any other torch
supported activation functions are supported.
hidden_dropout_prob (float, optional, defaults to 0.1) —
The dropout probability for all fully connected layers in the embeddings and encoder.
attention_probs_dropout_prob (float, optional, defaults to 0.1) —
The dropout probability used in MultiHeadAttention in all encoder layers to drop some attention target.
act_dropout (float, optional, defaults to 0.0) —
This dropout probability is used in ErnieMEncoderLayer after activation.
max_position_embeddings (int, optional, defaults to 512) —
The maximum value of the dimensionality of position encoding, which dictates the maximum supported length
of an input sequence.
layer_norm_eps (float, optional, defaults to 1e-05) —
The epsilon used by the layer normalization layers.
classifier_dropout (float, optional) —
The dropout ratio for the classification head.
initializer_range (float, optional, defaults to 0.02) —
The standard deviation of the normal initializer for initializing all weight matrices.
pad_token_id(int, optional, defaults to 1) —
The index of padding token in the token vocabulary.
This is the configuration class to store the configuration of a ErnieMModel. It is used to instantiate a
Ernie-M model according to the specified arguments, defining the model architecture. Instantiating a configuration
with the defaults will yield a similar configuration to that of the Ernie-M
susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch architecture.
Configuration objects inherit from PretrainedConfig and can be used to control the model outputs. Read the
documentation from PretrainedConfig for more information.
A normal_initializer initializes weight matrices as normal distributions. See
ErnieMPretrainedModel._init_weights() for how weights are initialized in ErnieMModel.
ErnieMTokenizer
	
class transformers.ErnieMTokenizer
<
source
>
(
sentencepiece_model_ckpt
vocab_file = None
do_lower_case = False
encoding = 'utf8'
unk_token = '[UNK]'
sep_token = '[SEP]'
pad_token = '[PAD]'
cls_token = '[CLS]'
mask_token = '[MASK]'
sp_model_kwargs: typing.Union[typing.Dict[str, typing.Any], NoneType] = None
**kwargs
)
Parameters 
sentencepiece_model_file (str) —
The file path of sentencepiece model.
vocab_file (str, optional) —
The file path of the vocabulary.
do_lower_case (str, optional, defaults to True) —
Whether or not to lowercase the input when tokenizing.
unk_token (str, optional, defaults to "[UNK]") —
A special token representing the unknown (out-of-vocabulary) token. An unknown token is set to be
unk_token inorder to be converted to an ID.
sep_token (str, optional, defaults to "[SEP]") —
A special token separating two different sentences in the same input.
pad_token (str, optional, defaults to "[PAD]") —
A special token used to make arrays of tokens the same size for batching purposes.
cls_token (str, optional, defaults to "[CLS]") —
A special token used for sequence classification. It is the last token of the sequence when built with
special tokens.
mask_token (str, optional, defaults to "[MASK]") —
A special token representing a masked token. This is the token used in the masked language modeling task
which the model tries to predict the original unmasked ones.
Constructs a Ernie-M tokenizer. It uses the sentencepiece tools to cut the words to sub-words.
build_inputs_with_special_tokens
<
source
>
(
token_ids_0
token_ids_1 = None
)
→
List[int]
Parameters 
token_ids_0 (List[int]) —
List of IDs to which the special tokens will be added.
token_ids_1 (List[int], optional) —
Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.
Returns
List[int]
List of input_id with the appropriate special tokens.
Build model inputs from a sequence or a pair of sequence for sequence classification tasks by concatenating and
adding special tokens. An ErnieM sequence has the following format:
single sequence: [CLS] X [SEP]
pair of sequences: [CLS] A [SEP] [SEP] B [SEP]
get_special_tokens_mask
<
source
>
(
token_ids_0
token_ids_1 = None
already_has_special_tokens = False
)
→
List[int]
Parameters 
token_ids_0 (List[int]) —
List of ids of the first sequence.
token_ids_1 (List[int], optional) —
Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.
already_has_special_tokens (str, optional, defaults to False) —
Whether or not the token list is already formatted with special tokens for the model.
Returns
List[int]
The list of integers in the range [0, 1]: 1 for a special token, 0 for a sequence token.
Retrieves sequence ids from a token list that has no special tokens added. This method is called when adding
special tokens using the tokenizer encode method.
create_token_type_ids_from_sequences
<
source
>
(
token_ids_0: typing.List[int]
token_ids_1: typing.Optional[typing.List[int]] = None
)
→
List[int]
Parameters 
token_ids_0 (List[int]) —
The first tokenized sequence.
token_ids_1 (List[int], optional) —
The second tokenized sequence.
Returns
List[int]
The token type ids.
Create the token type IDs corresponding to the sequences passed. What are token type
IDs? Should be overridden in a subclass if the model has a special way of
building: those.
save_vocabulary
<
source
>
(
save_directory: str
filename_prefix: typing.Optional[str] = None
)
ErnieMModel
	
class transformers.ErnieMModel
<
source
>
(
config
add_pooling_layer = True
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieMConfig) — Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model.
Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the
configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.
The bare ErnieM Model transformer outputting raw hidden-states without any specific head on top.
This model inherits from PreTrainedModel. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the
library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads
etc.)
This model is a PyTorch torch.nn.Module sub-class. Use
it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and
behavior.
forward
<
source
>
(
input_ids: typing.Union[<built-in method tensor of type object at 0x7f6d4baa6500>, NoneType] = None
position_ids: typing.Union[<built-in method tensor of type object at 0x7f6d4baa6500>, NoneType] = None
attention_mask: typing.Union[<built-in method tensor of type object at 0x7f6d4baa6500>, NoneType] = None
head_mask: typing.Union[<built-in method tensor of type object at 0x7f6d4baa6500>, NoneType] = None
inputs_embeds: typing.Union[<built-in method tensor of type object at 0x7f6d4baa6500>, NoneType] = None
past_key_values: typing.Union[typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[<built-in method tensor of type object at 0x7f6d4baa6500>]], NoneType] = None
use_cache: typing.Optional[bool] = None
output_hidden_states: typing.Optional[bool] = None
output_attentions: typing.Optional[bool] = None
return_dict: typing.Optional[bool] = None
)
→
transformers.modeling_outputs.BaseModelOutputWithPastAndCrossAttentions or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
Parameters 
input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) —
Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.
Indices can be obtained using ErnieMTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and
PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.
What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 for tokens that are not masked,
0 for tokens that are masked.
What are attention masks?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].
What are position IDs?
head_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (num_heads,) or (num_layers, num_heads), optional) —
Mask to nullify selected heads of the self-attention modules. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 indicates the head is not masked,
0 indicates the head is masked.
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional) —
Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This
is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the
model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return the attentions tensors of all attention layers. See attentions under returned
tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return the hidden states of all layers. See hidden_states under returned tensors for
more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.
Returns
transformers.modeling_outputs.BaseModelOutputWithPastAndCrossAttentions or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
A transformers.modeling_outputs.BaseModelOutputWithPastAndCrossAttentions or a tuple of
torch.FloatTensor (if return_dict=False is passed or when config.return_dict=False) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration (ErnieMConfig) and inputs.
last_hidden_state (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)) — Sequence of hidden-states at the output of the last layer of the model.
If past_key_values is used only the last hidden-state of the sequences of shape (batch_size, 1, hidden_size) is output.
past_key_values (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when use_cache=True is passed or when config.use_cache=True) — Tuple of tuple(torch.FloatTensor) of length config.n_layers, with each tuple having 2 tensors of shape
(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, embed_size_per_head)) and optionally if
config.is_encoder_decoder=True 2 additional tensors of shape (batch_size, num_heads, encoder_sequence_length, embed_size_per_head).
Contains pre-computed hidden-states (key and values in the self-attention blocks and optionally if
config.is_encoder_decoder=True in the cross-attention blocks) that can be used (see past_key_values
input) to speed up sequential decoding.
hidden_states (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, +
one for the output of each layer) of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size).
Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).
Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention
heads.
cross_attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True and config.add_cross_attention=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).
Attentions weights of the decoder’s cross-attention layer, after the attention softmax, used to compute the
weighted average in the cross-attention heads.
The ErnieMModel forward method, overrides the __call__ special method.
Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.
Example:
	Copied
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer, ErnieMModel
 import torch
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch")
 model = ErnieMModel.from_pretrained("susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch")
 inputs = tokenizer("Hello, my dog is cute", return_tensors="pt")
 outputs = model(**inputs)
 last_hidden_states = outputs.last_hidden_state
ErnieMForSequenceClassification
	
class transformers.ErnieMForSequenceClassification
<
source
>
(
config
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieMConfig) — Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model.
Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the
configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.
ErnieM Model transformer with a sequence classification/regression head on top (a linear layer on top of
the pooled output) e.g. for GLUE tasks.
This model inherits from PreTrainedModel. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the
library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads
etc.)
This model is a PyTorch torch.nn.Module sub-class. Use
it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and
behavior.
forward
<
source
>
(
input_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
attention_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
position_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
head_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
inputs_embeds: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
past_key_values: typing.Optional[typing.List[torch.Tensor]] = None
use_cache: typing.Optional[bool] = None
output_hidden_states: typing.Optional[bool] = None
output_attentions: typing.Optional[bool] = None
return_dict: typing.Optional[bool] = True
labels: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
)
→
transformers.modeling_outputs.SequenceClassifierOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
Parameters 
input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) —
Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.
Indices can be obtained using ErnieMTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and
PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.
What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 for tokens that are not masked,
0 for tokens that are masked.
What are attention masks?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].
What are position IDs?
head_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (num_heads,) or (num_layers, num_heads), optional) —
Mask to nullify selected heads of the self-attention modules. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 indicates the head is not masked,
0 indicates the head is masked.
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional) —
Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This
is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the
model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return the attentions tensors of all attention layers. See attentions under returned
tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return the hidden states of all layers. See hidden_states under returned tensors for
more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.
labels (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size,), optional) —
Labels for computing the sequence classification/regression loss. Indices should be in [0, ..., config.num_labels - 1]. If config.num_labels == 1 a regression loss is computed (Mean-Square loss), If
config.num_labels > 1 a classification loss is computed (Cross-Entropy).
Returns
transformers.modeling_outputs.SequenceClassifierOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
A transformers.modeling_outputs.SequenceClassifierOutput or a tuple of
torch.FloatTensor (if return_dict=False is passed or when config.return_dict=False) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration (ErnieMConfig) and inputs.
loss (torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided) — Classification (or regression if config.num_labels==1) loss.
logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, config.num_labels)) — Classification (or regression if config.num_labels==1) scores (before SoftMax).
hidden_states (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, +
one for the output of each layer) of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size).
Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).
Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention
heads.
The ErnieMForSequenceClassification forward method, overrides the __call__ special method.
Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.
Example of single-label classification:
	Copied
 import torch
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer, ErnieMForSequenceClassification
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch")
 model = ErnieMForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch")
 inputs = tokenizer("Hello, my dog is cute", return_tensors="pt")
 with torch.no_grad():
...     logits = model(**inputs).logits
 predicted_class_id = logits.argmax().item()
 # To train a model on `num_labels` classes, you can pass `num_labels=num_labels` to `.from_pretrained(...)`
 num_labels = len(model.config.id2label)
 model = ErnieMForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch", num_labels=num_labels)
 labels = torch.tensor([1])
 loss = model(**inputs, labels=labels).loss
Example of multi-label classification:
	Copied
 import torch
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer, ErnieMForSequenceClassification
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch")
 model = ErnieMForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch", problem_type="multi_label_classification")
 inputs = tokenizer("Hello, my dog is cute", return_tensors="pt")
 with torch.no_grad():
...     logits = model(**inputs).logits
 predicted_class_ids = torch.arange(0, logits.shape[-1])[torch.sigmoid(logits).squeeze(dim=0) > 0.5]
 # To train a model on `num_labels` classes, you can pass `num_labels=num_labels` to `.from_pretrained(...)`
 num_labels = len(model.config.id2label)
 model = ErnieMForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
...     "susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch", num_labels=num_labels, problem_type="multi_label_classification"
... )
 labels = torch.sum(
...     torch.nn.functional.one_hot(predicted_class_ids[None, :].clone(), num_classes=num_labels), dim=1
... ).to(torch.float)
 loss = model(**inputs, labels=labels).loss
ErnieMForMultipleChoice
	
class transformers.ErnieMForMultipleChoice
<
source
>
(
config
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieMConfig) — Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model.
Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the
configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.
ErnieM Model with a multiple choice classification head on top (a linear layer on top of
the pooled output and a softmax) e.g. for RocStories/SWAG tasks.
This model inherits from PreTrainedModel. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the
library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads
etc.)
This model is a PyTorch torch.nn.Module sub-class. Use
it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and
behavior.
forward
<
source
>
(
input_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
attention_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
position_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
head_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
inputs_embeds: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
labels: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
output_attentions: typing.Optional[bool] = None
output_hidden_states: typing.Optional[bool] = None
return_dict: typing.Optional[bool] = True
)
→
transformers.modeling_outputs.MultipleChoiceModelOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
Parameters 
input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length)) —
Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.
Indices can be obtained using ErnieMTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and
PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.
What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length), optional) —
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 for tokens that are not masked,
0 for tokens that are masked.
What are attention masks?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length), optional) —
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].
What are position IDs?
head_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (num_heads,) or (num_layers, num_heads), optional) —
Mask to nullify selected heads of the self-attention modules. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 indicates the head is not masked,
0 indicates the head is masked.
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional) —
Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This
is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the
model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return the attentions tensors of all attention layers. See attentions under returned
tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return the hidden states of all layers. See hidden_states under returned tensors for
more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.
labels (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size,), optional) —
Labels for computing the multiple choice classification loss. Indices should be in [0, ..., num_choices-1] where num_choices is the size of the second dimension of the input tensors. (See
input_ids above)
Returns
transformers.modeling_outputs.MultipleChoiceModelOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
A transformers.modeling_outputs.MultipleChoiceModelOutput or a tuple of
torch.FloatTensor (if return_dict=False is passed or when config.return_dict=False) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration (ErnieMConfig) and inputs.
loss (torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided) — Classification loss.
logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices)) — num_choices is the second dimension of the input tensors. (see input_ids above).
Classification scores (before SoftMax).
hidden_states (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, +
one for the output of each layer) of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size).
Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).
Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention
heads.
The ErnieMForMultipleChoice forward method, overrides the __call__ special method.
Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.
Example:
	Copied
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer, ErnieMForMultipleChoice
 import torch
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch")
 model = ErnieMForMultipleChoice.from_pretrained("susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch")
 prompt = "In Italy, pizza served in formal settings, such as at a restaurant, is presented unsliced."
 choice0 = "It is eaten with a fork and a knife."
 choice1 = "It is eaten while held in the hand."
 labels = torch.tensor(0).unsqueeze(0)  # choice0 is correct (according to Wikipedia ;)), batch size 1
 encoding = tokenizer([prompt, prompt], [choice0, choice1], return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
 outputs = model(**{k: v.unsqueeze(0) for k, v in encoding.items()}, labels=labels)  # batch size is 1
 # the linear classifier still needs to be trained
 loss = outputs.loss
 logits = outputs.logits
ErnieMForTokenClassification
	
class transformers.ErnieMForTokenClassification
<
source
>
(
config
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieMConfig) — Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model.
Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the
configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.
ErnieM Model with a token classification head on top (a linear layer on top of
the hidden-states output) e.g. for Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) tasks.
This model inherits from PreTrainedModel. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the
library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads
etc.)
This model is a PyTorch torch.nn.Module sub-class. Use
it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and
behavior.
forward
<
source
>
(
input_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
attention_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
position_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
head_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
inputs_embeds: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
past_key_values: typing.Optional[typing.List[torch.Tensor]] = None
output_hidden_states: typing.Optional[bool] = None
output_attentions: typing.Optional[bool] = None
return_dict: typing.Optional[bool] = True
labels: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
)
→
transformers.modeling_outputs.TokenClassifierOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
Parameters 
input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) —
Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.
Indices can be obtained using ErnieMTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and
PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.
What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 for tokens that are not masked,
0 for tokens that are masked.
What are attention masks?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].
What are position IDs?
head_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (num_heads,) or (num_layers, num_heads), optional) —
Mask to nullify selected heads of the self-attention modules. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 indicates the head is not masked,
0 indicates the head is masked.
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional) —
Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This
is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the
model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return the attentions tensors of all attention layers. See attentions under returned
tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return the hidden states of all layers. See hidden_states under returned tensors for
more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.
labels (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Labels for computing the token classification loss. Indices should be in [0, ..., config.num_labels - 1].
Returns
transformers.modeling_outputs.TokenClassifierOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
A transformers.modeling_outputs.TokenClassifierOutput or a tuple of
torch.FloatTensor (if return_dict=False is passed or when config.return_dict=False) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration (ErnieMConfig) and inputs.
loss (torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided)  — Classification loss.
logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, config.num_labels)) — Classification scores (before SoftMax).
hidden_states (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, +
one for the output of each layer) of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size).
Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).
Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention
heads.
The ErnieMForTokenClassification forward method, overrides the __call__ special method.
Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.
Example:
	Copied
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer, ErnieMForTokenClassification
 import torch
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch")
 model = ErnieMForTokenClassification.from_pretrained("susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch")
 inputs = tokenizer(
...     "HuggingFace is a company based in Paris and New York", add_special_tokens=False, return_tensors="pt"
... )
 with torch.no_grad():
...     logits = model(**inputs).logits
 predicted_token_class_ids = logits.argmax(-1)
 # Note that tokens are classified rather then input words which means that
 # there might be more predicted token classes than words.
 # Multiple token classes might account for the same word
 predicted_tokens_classes = [model.config.id2label[t.item()] for t in predicted_token_class_ids[0]]
 labels = predicted_token_class_ids
 loss = model(**inputs, labels=labels).loss
ErnieMForQuestionAnswering
	
class transformers.ErnieMForQuestionAnswering
<
source
>
(
config
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieMConfig) — Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model.
Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the
configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.
ErnieM Model with a span classification head on top for extractive question-answering tasks like SQuAD (a linear
layers on top of the hidden-states output to compute span start logits and span end logits).
This model inherits from PreTrainedModel. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the
library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads
etc.)
This model is a PyTorch torch.nn.Module sub-class. Use
it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and
behavior.
forward
<
source
>
(
input_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
attention_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
position_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
head_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
inputs_embeds: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
start_positions: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
end_positions: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
output_attentions: typing.Optional[bool] = None
output_hidden_states: typing.Optional[bool] = None
return_dict: typing.Optional[bool] = True
)
→
transformers.modeling_outputs.QuestionAnsweringModelOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
Parameters 
input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) —
Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.
Indices can be obtained using ErnieMTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and
PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.
What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 for tokens that are not masked,
0 for tokens that are masked.
What are attention masks?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].
What are position IDs?
head_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (num_heads,) or (num_layers, num_heads), optional) —
Mask to nullify selected heads of the self-attention modules. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 indicates the head is not masked,
0 indicates the head is masked.
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional) —
Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This
is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the
model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return the attentions tensors of all attention layers. See attentions under returned
tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return the hidden states of all layers. See hidden_states under returned tensors for
more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.
start_positions (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size,), optional) —
Labels for position (index) of the start of the labelled span for computing the token classification loss.
Positions are clamped to the length of the sequence (sequence_length). Position outside of the sequence
are not taken into account for computing the loss.
end_positions (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size,), optional) —
Labels for position (index) of the end of the labelled span for computing the token classification loss.
Positions are clamped to the length of the sequence (sequence_length). Position outside of the sequence
are not taken into account for computing the loss.
Returns
transformers.modeling_outputs.QuestionAnsweringModelOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
A transformers.modeling_outputs.QuestionAnsweringModelOutput or a tuple of
torch.FloatTensor (if return_dict=False is passed or when config.return_dict=False) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration (ErnieMConfig) and inputs.
loss (torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided) — Total span extraction loss is the sum of a Cross-Entropy for the start and end positions.
start_logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Span-start scores (before SoftMax).
end_logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) — Span-end scores (before SoftMax).
hidden_states (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, +
one for the output of each layer) of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size).
Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).
Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention
heads.
The ErnieMForQuestionAnswering forward method, overrides the __call__ special method.
Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.
Example:
	Copied
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer, ErnieMForQuestionAnswering
 import torch
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch")
 model = ErnieMForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained("susnato/ernie-m-base_pytorch")
 question, text = "Who was Jim Henson?", "Jim Henson was a nice puppet"
 inputs = tokenizer(question, text, return_tensors="pt")
 with torch.no_grad():
...     outputs = model(**inputs)
 answer_start_index = outputs.start_logits.argmax()
 answer_end_index = outputs.end_logits.argmax()
 predict_answer_tokens = inputs.input_ids[0, answer_start_index : answer_end_index + 1]
 # target is "nice puppet"
 target_start_index = torch.tensor([14])
 target_end_index = torch.tensor([15])
 outputs = model(**inputs, start_positions=target_start_index, end_positions=target_end_index)
 loss = outputs.loss
ErnieMForInformationExtraction
	
class transformers.ErnieMForInformationExtraction
<
source
>
(
config
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieMConfig) — Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model.
Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the
configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.
ErnieMForInformationExtraction is a Ernie-M Model with two linear layer on top of the hidden-states output to
compute start_prob and end_prob, designed for Universal Information Extraction.
This model inherits from PreTrainedModel. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the
library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads
etc.)
This model is a PyTorch torch.nn.Module sub-class. Use
it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and
behavior.
forward
<
source
>
(
input_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
attention_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
position_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
head_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
inputs_embeds: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
start_positions: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
end_positions: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
output_attentions: typing.Optional[bool] = None
output_hidden_states: typing.Optional[bool] = None
return_dict: typing.Optional[bool] = True
)
Parameters 
input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length)) —
Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.
Indices can be obtained using ErnieMTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and
PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.
What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length), optional) —
Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 for tokens that are not masked,
0 for tokens that are masked.
What are attention masks?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length), optional) —
Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.max_position_embeddings - 1].
What are position IDs?
head_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (num_heads,) or (num_layers, num_heads), optional) —
Mask to nullify selected heads of the self-attention modules. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 indicates the head is not masked,
0 indicates the head is masked.
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional) —
Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This
is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the
model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
output_attentions (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return the attentions tensors of all attention layers. See attentions under returned
tensors for more detail.
output_hidden_states (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return the hidden states of all layers. See hidden_states under returned tensors for
more detail.
return_dict (bool, optional) —
Whether or not to return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.
start_positions (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Labels for position (index) for computing the start_positions loss. Position outside of the sequence are
not taken into account for computing the loss.
end_positions (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size,), optional) —
Labels for position (index) for computing the end_positions loss. Position outside of the sequence are not
taken into account for computing the loss.
The ErnieMForInformationExtraction forward method, overrides the __call__ special method.
Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.
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Overview
Documentation resources
ErnieMConfig
ErnieMTokenizer
ErnieMModel
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ErnieMForMultipleChoice
ErnieMForTokenClassification
ErnieMForQuestionAnswering
ErnieMForInformationExtraction
