
 
ERNIE
	
Overview
	
ERNIE is a series of powerful models proposed by baidu, especially in Chinese tasks,
including [ERNIE1.0](https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09223), [ERNIE2.0](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/6428),
[ERNIE3.0](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02137), [ERNIE-Gram](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12148), [ERNIE-health](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07244), etc.
These models are contributed by nghuyong and the official code can be found in PaddleNLP (in PaddlePaddle).
How to use
	
Take `ernie-1.0-base-zh` as an example:
	
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from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
Supported Models
	
Model Name
Language
Description
ernie-1.0-base-zh
Chinese
Layer:12, Heads:12, Hidden:768
ernie-2.0-base-en
English
Layer:12, Heads:12, Hidden:768
ernie-2.0-large-en
English
Layer:24, Heads:16, Hidden:1024
ernie-3.0-base-zh
Chinese
Layer:12, Heads:12, Hidden:768
ernie-3.0-medium-zh
Chinese
Layer:6, Heads:12, Hidden:768
ernie-3.0-mini-zh
Chinese
Layer:6, Heads:12, Hidden:384
ernie-3.0-micro-zh
Chinese
Layer:4, Heads:12, Hidden:384
ernie-3.0-nano-zh
Chinese
Layer:4, Heads:12, Hidden:312
ernie-health-zh
Chinese
Layer:12, Heads:12, Hidden:768
ernie-gram-zh
Chinese
Layer:12, Heads:12, Hidden:768
You can find all the supported models from huggingface’s model hub: huggingface.co/nghuyong, and model details from paddle’s official
repo: PaddleNLP
and ERNIE.
Documentation resources
	
Text classification task guide
Token classification task guide
Question answering task guide
Causal language modeling task guide
Masked language modeling task guide
Multiple choice task guide
ErnieConfig
	
class transformers.ErnieConfig
<
source
>
(
vocab_size = 30522
hidden_size = 768
num_hidden_layers = 12
num_attention_heads = 12
intermediate_size = 3072
hidden_act = 'gelu'
hidden_dropout_prob = 0.1
attention_probs_dropout_prob = 0.1
max_position_embeddings = 512
type_vocab_size = 2
task_type_vocab_size = 3
use_task_id = False
initializer_range = 0.02
layer_norm_eps = 1e-12
pad_token_id = 0
position_embedding_type = 'absolute'
use_cache = True
classifier_dropout = None
**kwargs
)
Parameters 
vocab_size (int, optional, defaults to 30522) —
Vocabulary size of the ERNIE model. Defines the number of different tokens that can be represented by the
inputs_ids passed when calling ErnieModel or TFErnieModel.
hidden_size (int, optional, defaults to 768) —
Dimensionality of the encoder layers and the 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 “intermediate” (often named feed-forward) layer in the Transformer encoder.
hidden_act (str or Callable, optional, defaults to "gelu") —
The non-linear activation function (function or string) in the encoder and pooler. If string, "gelu",
"relu", "silu" and "gelu_new" are supported.
hidden_dropout_prob (float, optional, defaults to 0.1) —
The dropout probability for all fully connected layers in the embeddings, encoder, and pooler.
attention_probs_dropout_prob (float, optional, defaults to 0.1) —
The dropout ratio for the attention probabilities.
max_position_embeddings (int, optional, defaults to 512) —
The maximum sequence length that this model might ever be used with. Typically set this to something large
just in case (e.g., 512 or 1024 or 2048).
type_vocab_size (int, optional, defaults to 2) —
The vocabulary size of the token_type_ids passed when calling ErnieModel or TFErnieModel.
task_type_vocab_size (int, optional, defaults to 3) —
The vocabulary size of the task_type_ids for ERNIE2.0/ERNIE3.0 model
use_task_id (bool, optional, defaults to False) —
Whether or not the model support task_type_ids
initializer_range (float, optional, defaults to 0.02) —
The standard deviation of the truncated_normal_initializer for initializing all weight matrices.
layer_norm_eps (float, optional, defaults to 1e-12) —
The epsilon used by the layer normalization layers.
position_embedding_type (str, optional, defaults to "absolute") —
Type of position embedding. Choose one of "absolute", "relative_key", "relative_key_query". For
positional embeddings use "absolute". For more information on "relative_key", please refer to
Self-Attention with Relative Position Representations (Shaw et al.).
For more information on "relative_key_query", please refer to Method 4 in Improve Transformer Models
with Better Relative Position Embeddings (Huang et al.).
is_decoder (bool, optional, defaults to False) —
Whether the model is used as a decoder or not. If False, the model is used as an encoder.
use_cache (bool, optional, defaults to True) —
Whether or not the model should return the last key/values attentions (not used by all models). Only
relevant if config.is_decoder=True.
classifier_dropout (float, optional) —
The dropout ratio for the classification head.
This is the configuration class to store the configuration of a ErnieModel or a TFErnieModel. It is used to
instantiate a ERNIE 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
nghuyong/ernie-3.0-base-zh architecture.
Configuration objects inherit from PretrainedConfig and can be used to control the model outputs. Read the
documentation from PretrainedConfig for more information.
Examples:
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 from transformers import ErnieConfig, ErnieModel
 # Initializing a ERNIE nghuyong/ernie-3.0-base-zh style configuration
 configuration = ErnieConfig()
 # Initializing a model (with random weights) from the nghuyong/ernie-3.0-base-zh style configuration
 model = ErnieModel(configuration)
 # Accessing the model configuration
 configuration = model.config
Ernie specific outputs
	
class transformers.models.ernie.modeling_ernie.ErnieForPreTrainingOutput
<
source
>
(
loss: typing.Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None
prediction_logits: FloatTensor = None
seq_relationship_logits: FloatTensor = None
hidden_states: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None
attentions: typing.Optional[typing.Tuple[torch.FloatTensor]] = None
)
Parameters 
loss (optional, returned when labels is provided, torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,)) —
Total loss as the sum of the masked language modeling loss and the next sequence prediction
(classification) loss.
prediction_logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, config.vocab_size)) —
Prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax).
seq_relationship_logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, 2)) —
Prediction scores of the next sequence prediction (classification) head (scores of True/False continuation
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 + 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 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.
Output type of ErnieForPreTraining.
ErnieModel
	
class transformers.ErnieModel
<
source
>
(
config
add_pooling_layer = True
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieConfig) — 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 Ernie 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 also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass.
Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage
and behavior.
The model can behave as an encoder (with only self-attention) as well as a decoder, in which case a layer of
cross-attention is added between the self-attention layers, following the architecture described in Attention is
all you need by Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit,
Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser and Illia Polosukhin.
To behave as an decoder the model needs to be initialized with the is_decoder argument of the configuration set
to True. To be used in a Seq2Seq model, the model needs to initialized with both is_decoder argument and
add_cross_attention set to True; an encoder_hidden_states is then expected as an input to the forward pass.
forward
<
source
>
(
input_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
attention_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
token_type_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
task_type_ids: 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
encoder_hidden_states: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
encoder_attention_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
past_key_values: typing.Optional[typing.List[torch.FloatTensor]] = None
use_cache: typing.Optional[bool] = None
output_attentions: typing.Optional[bool] = None
output_hidden_states: typing.Optional[bool] = None
return_dict: typing.Optional[bool] = None
)
→
transformers.modeling_outputs.BaseModelOutputWithPoolingAndCrossAttentions 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 AutoTokenizer. 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?
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]:
0 corresponds to a sentence A token,
1 corresponds to a sentence B token.
What are token type IDs?
task_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Task type embedding is a special embedding to represent the characteristic of different tasks, such as
word-aware pre-training task, structure-aware pre-training task and semantic-aware pre-training task. We
assign a task_type_id to each task and the task_type_id is in the range `[0,
config.task_type_vocab_size-1]
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.
encoder_hidden_states  (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional) —
Sequence of hidden-states at the output of the last layer of the encoder. Used in the cross-attention if
the model is configured as a decoder.
encoder_attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Mask to avoid performing attention on the padding token indices of the encoder input. This mask is used in
the cross-attention if the model is configured as a decoder. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 for tokens that are not masked,
0 for tokens that are masked.
past_key_values (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)) of length config.n_layers with each tuple having 4 tensors of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length - 1, embed_size_per_head)) —
Contains precomputed key and value hidden states of the attention blocks. Can be used to speed up decoding.
If past_key_values are used, the user can optionally input only the last decoder_input_ids (those that
don’t have their past key value states given to this model) of shape (batch_size, 1) instead of all
decoder_input_ids of shape (batch_size, sequence_length).
use_cache (bool, optional) —
If set to True, past_key_values key value states are returned and can be used to speed up decoding (see
past_key_values).
Returns
transformers.modeling_outputs.BaseModelOutputWithPoolingAndCrossAttentions or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
A transformers.modeling_outputs.BaseModelOutputWithPoolingAndCrossAttentions 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 (ErnieConfig) 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.
pooler_output (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, hidden_size)) — Last layer hidden-state of the first token of the sequence (classification token) after further processing
through the layers used for the auxiliary pretraining task. E.g. for BERT-family of models, this returns
the classification token after processing through a linear layer and a tanh activation function. The linear
layer weights are trained from the next sentence prediction (classification) objective during pretraining.
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.
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.
The ErnieModel 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:
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 from transformers import AutoTokenizer, ErnieModel
 import torch
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
 model = ErnieModel.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
 inputs = tokenizer("Hello, my dog is cute", return_tensors="pt")
 outputs = model(**inputs)
 last_hidden_states = outputs.last_hidden_state
ErnieForPreTraining
	
class transformers.ErnieForPreTraining
<
source
>
(
config
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieConfig) — 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.
Ernie Model with two heads on top as done during the pretraining: a masked language modeling head and a next sentence prediction (classification) head.
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 also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass.
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
token_type_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
task_type_ids: 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
next_sentence_label: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
output_attentions: typing.Optional[bool] = None
output_hidden_states: typing.Optional[bool] = None
return_dict: typing.Optional[bool] = None
)
→
transformers.models.ernie.modeling_ernie.ErnieForPreTrainingOutput 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 AutoTokenizer. 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?
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]:
0 corresponds to a sentence A token,
1 corresponds to a sentence B token.
What are token type IDs?
task_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Task type embedding is a special embedding to represent the characteristic of different tasks, such as
word-aware pre-training task, structure-aware pre-training task and semantic-aware pre-training task. We
assign a task_type_id to each task and the task_type_id is in the range `[0,
config.task_type_vocab_size-1]
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 masked language modeling loss. Indices should be in [-100, 0, ..., config.vocab_size] (see input_ids docstring) Tokens with indices set to -100 are ignored (masked),
the loss is only computed for the tokens with labels in [0, ..., config.vocab_size]
next_sentence_label (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size,), optional):
Labels for computing the next sequence prediction (classification) loss. Input should be a sequence
pair (see input_ids docstring) Indices should be in [0, 1]:
0 indicates sequence B is a continuation of sequence A,
1 indicates sequence B is a random sequence.
kwargs (Dict[str, any], optional, defaults to {}):
Used to hide legacy arguments that have been deprecated.
Returns
transformers.models.ernie.modeling_ernie.ErnieForPreTrainingOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
A transformers.models.ernie.modeling_ernie.ErnieForPreTrainingOutput 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 (ErnieConfig) and inputs.
loss (optional, returned when labels is provided, torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,)) — Total loss as the sum of the masked language modeling loss and the next sequence prediction
(classification) loss.
prediction_logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax).
seq_relationship_logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, 2)) — Prediction scores of the next sequence prediction (classification) head (scores of True/False continuation
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 + 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 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 ErnieForPreTraining 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:
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 from transformers import AutoTokenizer, ErnieForPreTraining
 import torch
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
 model = ErnieForPreTraining.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
 inputs = tokenizer("Hello, my dog is cute", return_tensors="pt")
 outputs = model(**inputs)
 prediction_logits = outputs.prediction_logits
 seq_relationship_logits = outputs.seq_relationship_logits
ErnieForCausalLM
	
class transformers.ErnieForCausalLM
<
source
>
(
config
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieConfig) — 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.
Ernie Model with a language modeling head on top for CLM fine-tuning.
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 also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass.
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
token_type_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
task_type_ids: 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
encoder_hidden_states: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
encoder_attention_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
labels: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
past_key_values: typing.Optional[typing.List[torch.Tensor]] = None
use_cache: typing.Optional[bool] = None
output_attentions: typing.Optional[bool] = None
output_hidden_states: typing.Optional[bool] = None
return_dict: typing.Optional[bool] = None
)
→
transformers.modeling_outputs.CausalLMOutputWithCrossAttentions 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 AutoTokenizer. 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?
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]:
0 corresponds to a sentence A token,
1 corresponds to a sentence B token.
What are token type IDs?
task_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Task type embedding is a special embedding to represent the characteristic of different tasks, such as
word-aware pre-training task, structure-aware pre-training task and semantic-aware pre-training task. We
assign a task_type_id to each task and the task_type_id is in the range `[0,
config.task_type_vocab_size-1]
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.
encoder_hidden_states  (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional) —
Sequence of hidden-states at the output of the last layer of the encoder. Used in the cross-attention if
the model is configured as a decoder.
encoder_attention_mask (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Mask to avoid performing attention on the padding token indices of the encoder input. This mask is used in
the cross-attention if the model is configured as a decoder. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
1 for tokens that are not masked,
0 for tokens that are masked.
labels (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Labels for computing the left-to-right language modeling loss (next word prediction). Indices should be in
[-100, 0, ..., config.vocab_size] (see input_ids docstring) Tokens with indices set to -100 are
ignored (masked), the loss is only computed for the tokens with labels n [0, ..., config.vocab_size]
past_key_values (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)) of length config.n_layers with each tuple having 4 tensors of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length - 1, embed_size_per_head)) —
Contains precomputed key and value hidden states of the attention blocks. Can be used to speed up decoding.
If past_key_values are used, the user can optionally input only the last decoder_input_ids (those that
don’t have their past key value states given to this model) of shape (batch_size, 1) instead of all
decoder_input_ids of shape (batch_size, sequence_length).
use_cache (bool, optional) —
If set to True, past_key_values key value states are returned and can be used to speed up decoding (see
past_key_values).
Returns
transformers.modeling_outputs.CausalLMOutputWithCrossAttentions or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
A transformers.modeling_outputs.CausalLMOutputWithCrossAttentions 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 (ErnieConfig) and inputs.
loss (torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided) — Language modeling loss (for next-token prediction).
logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token 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.
cross_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).
Cross attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the
cross-attention heads.
past_key_values (tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)), optional, returned when use_cache=True is passed or when config.use_cache=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor tuples of length config.n_layers, with each tuple containing the cached key,
value states of the self-attention and the cross-attention layers if model is used in encoder-decoder
setting. Only relevant if config.is_decoder = True.
Contains pre-computed hidden-states (key and values in the attention blocks) that can be used (see
past_key_values input) to speed up sequential decoding.
The ErnieForCausalLM 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
 import torch
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer, ErnieForCausalLM
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
 model = ErnieForCausalLM.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
 inputs = tokenizer("Hello, my dog is cute", return_tensors="pt")
 outputs = model(**inputs, labels=inputs["input_ids"])
 loss = outputs.loss
 logits = outputs.logits
ErnieForMaskedLM
	
class transformers.ErnieForMaskedLM
<
source
>
(
config
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieConfig) — 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.
Ernie Model with a language modeling 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 also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass.
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
token_type_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
task_type_ids: 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
encoder_hidden_states: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
encoder_attention_mask: 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] = None
)
→
transformers.modeling_outputs.MaskedLMOutput 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 AutoTokenizer. 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?
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]:
0 corresponds to a sentence A token,
1 corresponds to a sentence B token.
What are token type IDs?
task_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Task type embedding is a special embedding to represent the characteristic of different tasks, such as
word-aware pre-training task, structure-aware pre-training task and semantic-aware pre-training task. We
assign a task_type_id to each task and the task_type_id is in the range `[0,
config.task_type_vocab_size-1]
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 masked language modeling loss. Indices should be in [-100, 0, ..., config.vocab_size] (see input_ids docstring) Tokens with indices set to -100 are ignored (masked), the
loss is only computed for the tokens with labels in [0, ..., config.vocab_size]
Returns
transformers.modeling_outputs.MaskedLMOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
A transformers.modeling_outputs.MaskedLMOutput 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 (ErnieConfig) and inputs.
loss (torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided) — Masked language modeling (MLM) loss.
logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token 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 ErnieForMaskedLM 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, ErnieForMaskedLM
 import torch
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
 model = ErnieForMaskedLM.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
 inputs = tokenizer("The capital of France is [MASK].", return_tensors="pt")
 with torch.no_grad():
...     logits = model(**inputs).logits
 # retrieve index of [MASK]
 mask_token_index = (inputs.input_ids == tokenizer.mask_token_id)[0].nonzero(as_tuple=True)[0]
 predicted_token_id = logits[0, mask_token_index].argmax(axis=-1)
 tokenizer.decode(predicted_token_id)
'paris'
 labels = tokenizer("The capital of France is Paris.", return_tensors="pt")["input_ids"]
 # mask labels of non-[MASK] tokens
 labels = torch.where(inputs.input_ids == tokenizer.mask_token_id, labels, -100)
 outputs = model(**inputs, labels=labels)
 round(outputs.loss.item(), 2)
0.88
ErnieForNextSentencePrediction
	
class transformers.ErnieForNextSentencePrediction
<
source
>
(
config
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieConfig) — 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.
Ernie Model with a next sentence prediction (classification) 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 also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass.
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
token_type_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
task_type_ids: 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] = None
**kwargs
)
→
transformers.modeling_outputs.NextSentencePredictorOutput 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 AutoTokenizer. 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?
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]:
0 corresponds to a sentence A token,
1 corresponds to a sentence B token.
What are token type IDs?
task_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Task type embedding is a special embedding to represent the characteristic of different tasks, such as
word-aware pre-training task, structure-aware pre-training task and semantic-aware pre-training task. We
assign a task_type_id to each task and the task_type_id is in the range `[0,
config.task_type_vocab_size-1]
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 next sequence prediction (classification) loss. Input should be a sequence pair
(see input_ids docstring). Indices should be in [0, 1]:
0 indicates sequence B is a continuation of sequence A,
1 indicates sequence B is a random sequence.
Returns
transformers.modeling_outputs.NextSentencePredictorOutput or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
A transformers.modeling_outputs.NextSentencePredictorOutput 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 (ErnieConfig) and inputs.
loss (torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when next_sentence_label is provided) — Next sequence prediction (classification) loss.
logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, 2)) — Prediction scores of the next sequence prediction (classification) head (scores of True/False continuation
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 ErnieForNextSentencePrediction 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, ErnieForNextSentencePrediction
 import torch
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
 model = ErnieForNextSentencePrediction.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
 prompt = "In Italy, pizza served in formal settings, such as at a restaurant, is presented unsliced."
 next_sentence = "The sky is blue due to the shorter wavelength of blue light."
 encoding = tokenizer(prompt, next_sentence, return_tensors="pt")
 outputs = model(**encoding, labels=torch.LongTensor([1]))
 logits = outputs.logits
 assert logits[0, 0] < logits[0, 1]  # next sentence was random
ErnieForSequenceClassification
	
class transformers.ErnieForSequenceClassification
<
source
>
(
config
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieConfig) — 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.
Ernie 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 also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass.
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
token_type_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
task_type_ids: 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] = None
)
Parameters 
input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) —
Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.
Indices can be obtained using AutoTokenizer. 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?
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]:
0 corresponds to a sentence A token,
1 corresponds to a sentence B token.
What are token type IDs?
task_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Task type embedding is a special embedding to represent the characteristic of different tasks, such as
word-aware pre-training task, structure-aware pre-training task and semantic-aware pre-training task. We
assign a task_type_id to each task and the task_type_id is in the range `[0,
config.task_type_vocab_size-1]
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).
The ErnieForSequenceClassification 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.
ErnieForMultipleChoice
	
class transformers.ErnieForMultipleChoice
<
source
>
(
config
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieConfig) — 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.
Ernie 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 also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass.
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
token_type_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
task_type_ids: 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] = None
)
→
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 AutoTokenizer. 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?
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length), optional) —
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]:
0 corresponds to a sentence A token,
1 corresponds to a sentence B token.
What are token type IDs?
task_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length), optional) —
Task type embedding is a special embedding to represent the characteristic of different tasks, such as
word-aware pre-training task, structure-aware pre-training task and semantic-aware pre-training task. We
assign a task_type_id to each task and the task_type_id is in the range `[0,
config.task_type_vocab_size-1]
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 (ErnieConfig) 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 ErnieForMultipleChoice 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, ErnieForMultipleChoice
 import torch
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
 model = ErnieForMultipleChoice.from_pretrained("nghuyong/ernie-1.0-base-zh")
 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
ErnieForTokenClassification
	
class transformers.ErnieForTokenClassification
<
source
>
(
config
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieConfig) — 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.
Ernie 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 also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass.
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
token_type_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
task_type_ids: 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] = None
)
Parameters 
input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) —
Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.
Indices can be obtained using AutoTokenizer. 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?
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]:
0 corresponds to a sentence A token,
1 corresponds to a sentence B token.
What are token type IDs?
task_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Task type embedding is a special embedding to represent the characteristic of different tasks, such as
word-aware pre-training task, structure-aware pre-training task and semantic-aware pre-training task. We
assign a task_type_id to each task and the task_type_id is in the range `[0,
config.task_type_vocab_size-1]
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].
The ErnieForTokenClassification 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.
ErnieForQuestionAnswering
	
class transformers.ErnieForQuestionAnswering
<
source
>
(
config
)
Parameters 
config (ErnieConfig) — 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.
Ernie 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 also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass.
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
token_type_ids: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
task_type_ids: 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] = None
)
Parameters 
input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length)) —
Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.
Indices can be obtained using AutoTokenizer. 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?
token_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Segment token indices to indicate first and second portions of the inputs. Indices are selected in [0, 1]:
0 corresponds to a sentence A token,
1 corresponds to a sentence B token.
What are token type IDs?
task_type_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) —
Task type embedding is a special embedding to represent the characteristic of different tasks, such as
word-aware pre-training task, structure-aware pre-training task and semantic-aware pre-training task. We
assign a task_type_id to each task and the task_type_id is in the range `[0,
config.task_type_vocab_size-1]
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.
The ErnieForQuestionAnswering 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
How to use
Supported Models
Documentation resources
ErnieConfig
Ernie specific outputs
ErnieModel
ErnieForPreTraining
ErnieForCausalLM
ErnieForMaskedLM
ErnieForNextSentencePrediction
ErnieForSequenceClassification
ErnieForMultipleChoice
ErnieForTokenClassification
ErnieForQuestionAnswering
