# What does this PR do?

This updates the top-level readme files say the project has been tested with Python 3.8+ (instead of 3.7+) and PyTorch 1.10+ (instead of 1.9+). Versions prior to those are no longer supported as of [v4.31.0](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/releases/tag/v4.31.0). It also updates some other versions in those lists, that had become out of date earlier. The non-English readme files were less up to date than the English readme file `README.md`.

I allowed my editor to remove trailing whitespace, since it does not appear to have been intentional. Rendered Markdown does not appear changed. After editing all seven READMEs, running `make fix-copies` (required to pass CI) propagated this whitespace removal to (just) one of the `index.md` files, which is why that is also changed. However, I understand if whitespace removal may be viewed as best done separately; if requested, I'd be pleased to modify this PR to retain the trailing whitespace.

## Rationale

My reasoning is similar as the reasoning that was given for the previous update to these versions in #24307. As of [**v4.31.0**](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/releases/tag/v4.31.0), 🤗 Transformers has dropped support for Python 3.7 (#24091) and for PyTorch 1.9 (#24080). Because of that:

- If the version ranges noted in the readme files are not changed, some users are likely to be mislead into expecting new releases of 🤗 Transformers to support those versions.
- A lesser issue is that the claim that this repository is tested on all those versions will gradually become inaccurate as further contributions are made to the repository, now that those versions are not supported.

## Before submitting

- [x] This PR fixes a typo or improves the docs (you can dismiss the other checks if that's the case).
- [x] Did you read the [contributor guideline](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#start-contributing-pull-requests), Pull Request section?
- [ ] Was this discussed/approved via a Github issue or the [forum](https://discuss.huggingface.co/)? Please add a link to it if that's the case.

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Library:

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- pipelines: @Narsil
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- tokenizers: @ArthurZucker
- trainer: @sgugger

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- ray/raytune: @richardliaw, @amogkam

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HF projects:

- accelerate: [different repo](https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate)
- datasets: [different repo](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets)
- diffusers: [different repo](https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers)
- rust tokenizers: [different repo](https://github.com/huggingface/tokenizers)

Maintained examples (not research project or legacy):

- Flax: @sanchit-gandhi
- PyTorch: @sgugger
- TensorFlow: @Rocketknight1

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Update tested versions in READMEs. # What does this PR do?

This updates the top-level readme files say the project has been tested with Python 3.8+ (instead of 3.7+) and PyTorch 1.10+ (instead of 1.9+). Versions prior to those are no longer supported as of [v4.31.0](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/releases/tag/v4.31.0). It also updates some other versions in those lists, that had become out of date earlier. The non-English readme files were less up to date than the English readme file `README.md`.

I allowed my editor to remove trailing whitespace, since it does not appear to have been intentional. Rendered Markdown does not appear changed. After editing all seven READMEs, running `make fix-copies` (required to pass CI) propagated this whitespace removal to (just) one of the `index.md` files, which is why that is also changed. However, I understand if whitespace removal may be viewed as best done separately; if requested, I'd be pleased to modify this PR to retain the trailing whitespace.

## Rationale

My reasoning is similar as the reasoning that was given for the previous update to these versions in #24307. As of [**v4.31.0**](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/releases/tag/v4.31.0), 🤗 Transformers has dropped support for Python 3.7 (#24091) and for PyTorch 1.9 (#24080). Because of that:

- If the version ranges noted in the readme files are not changed, some users are likely to be mislead into expecting new releases of 🤗 Transformers to support those versions.
- A lesser issue is that the claim that this repository is tested on all those versions will gradually become inaccurate as further contributions are made to the repository, now that those versions are not supported.

## Before submitting

- [x] This PR fixes a typo or improves the docs (you can dismiss the other checks if that's the case).
- [x] Did you read the [contributor guideline](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#start-contributing-pull-requests), Pull Request section?
- [ ] Was this discussed/approved via a Github issue or the [forum](https://discuss.huggingface.co/)? Please add a link to it if that's the case.

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## Who can review?

Anyone in the community is free to review the PR once the tests have passed. Feel free to tag
members/contributors who may be interested in your PR.

Your PR will be replied to more quickly if you can figure out the right person to tag with @

 If you know how to use git blame, that is the easiest way, otherwise, here is a rough guide of **who to tag**.
 Please tag fewer than 3 people.

Models:

- text models: @ArthurZucker and @younesbelkada
- vision models: @amyeroberts
- speech models: @sanchit-gandhi
- graph models: @clefourrier

Library:

- flax: @sanchit-gandhi
- generate: @gante
- pipelines: @Narsil
- tensorflow: @gante and @Rocketknight1
- tokenizers: @ArthurZucker
- trainer: @sgugger

Integrations:

- deepspeed: HF Trainer/Accelerate: @pacman100
- ray/raytune: @richardliaw, @amogkam

Documentation: @sgugger, @stevhliu and @MKhalusova

HF projects:

- accelerate: [different repo](https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate)
- datasets: [different repo](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets)
- diffusers: [different repo](https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers)
- rust tokenizers: [different repo](https://github.com/huggingface/tokenizers)

Maintained examples (not research project or legacy):

- Flax: @sanchit-gandhi
- PyTorch: @sgugger
- TensorFlow: @Rocketknight1

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# Convolutional Vision Transformer (CvT)

## Overview

The CvT model was proposed in [CvT: Introducing Convolutions to Vision Transformers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15808) by Haiping Wu, Bin Xiao, Noel Codella, Mengchen Liu, Xiyang Dai, Lu Yuan and Lei Zhang. The Convolutional vision Transformer (CvT) improves the [Vision Transformer (ViT)](vit) in performance and efficiency by introducing convolutions into ViT to yield the best of both designs.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*We present in this paper a new architecture, named Convolutional vision Transformer (CvT), that improves Vision Transformer (ViT) 
in performance and efficiency by introducing convolutions into ViT to yield the best of both designs. This is accomplished through 
two primary modifications: a hierarchy of Transformers containing a new convolutional token embedding, and a convolutional Transformer 
block leveraging a convolutional projection. These changes introduce desirable properties of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) 
to the ViT architecture (\ie shift, scale, and distortion invariance) while maintaining the merits of Transformers (\ie dynamic attention, 
global context, and better generalization). We validate CvT by conducting extensive experiments, showing that this approach achieves 
state-of-the-art performance over other Vision Transformers and ResNets on ImageNet-1k, with fewer parameters and lower FLOPs. In addition, 
performance gains are maintained when pretrained on larger datasets (\eg ImageNet-22k) and fine-tuned to downstream tasks. Pre-trained on 
ImageNet-22k, our CvT-W24 obtains a top-1 accuracy of 87.7\% on the ImageNet-1k val set. Finally, our results show that the positional encoding, 
a crucial component in existing Vision Transformers, can be safely removed in our model, simplifying the design for higher resolution vision tasks.*

Tips:

- CvT models are regular Vision Transformers, but trained with convolutions. They outperform the [original model (ViT)](vit) when fine-tuned on ImageNet-1K and CIFAR-100.
- You can check out demo notebooks regarding inference as well as fine-tuning on custom data [here](https://github.com/NielsRogge/Transformers-Tutorials/tree/master/VisionTransformer) (you can just replace [`ViTFeatureExtractor`] by [`AutoImageProcessor`] and [`ViTForImageClassification`] by [`CvtForImageClassification`]).
- The available checkpoints are either (1) pre-trained on [ImageNet-22k](http://www.image-net.org/) (a collection of 14 million images and 22k classes) only, (2) also fine-tuned on ImageNet-22k or (3) also fine-tuned on [ImageNet-1k](http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2012/) (also referred to as ILSVRC 2012, a collection of 1.3 million
  images and 1,000 classes).

This model was contributed by [anugunj](https://huggingface.co/anugunj). The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/microsoft/CvT).

## Resources

A list of official Hugging Face and community (indicated by 🌎) resources to help you get started with CvT.

<PipelineTag pipeline="image-classification"/>

- [`CvtForImageClassification`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/pytorch/image-classification) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/image_classification.ipynb).
- See also: [Image classification task guide](../tasks/image_classification)

If you're interested in submitting a resource to be included here, please feel free to open a Pull Request and we'll review it! The resource should ideally demonstrate something new instead of duplicating an existing resource.

## CvtConfig

[[autodoc]] CvtConfig

## CvtModel

[[autodoc]] CvtModel
    - forward

## CvtForImageClassification

[[autodoc]] CvtForImageClassification
    - forward

## TFCvtModel

[[autodoc]] TFCvtModel
    - call

## TFCvtForImageClassification

[[autodoc]] TFCvtForImageClassification
    - call


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# Convolutional Vision Transformer (CvT)

## Overview

The CvT model was proposed in [CvT: Introducing Convolutions to Vision Transformers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15808) by Haiping Wu, Bin Xiao, Noel Codella, Mengchen Liu, Xiyang Dai, Lu Yuan and Lei Zhang. The Convolutional vision Transformer (CvT) improves the [Vision Transformer (ViT)](vit) in performance and efficiency by introducing convolutions into ViT to yield the best of both designs.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*We present in this paper a new architecture, named Convolutional vision Transformer (CvT), that improves Vision Transformer (ViT) 
in performance and efficiency by introducing convolutions into ViT to yield the best of both designs. This is accomplished through 
two primary modifications: a hierarchy of Transformers containing a new convolutional token embedding, and a convolutional Transformer 
block leveraging a convolutional projection. These changes introduce desirable properties of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) 
to the ViT architecture (\ie shift, scale, and distortion invariance) while maintaining the merits of Transformers (\ie dynamic attention, 
global context, and better generalization). We validate CvT by conducting extensive experiments, showing that this approach achieves 
state-of-the-art performance over other Vision Transformers and ResNets on ImageNet-1k, with fewer parameters and lower FLOPs. In addition, 
performance gains are maintained when pretrained on larger datasets (\eg ImageNet-22k) and fine-tuned to downstream tasks. Pre-trained on 
ImageNet-22k, our CvT-W24 obtains a top-1 accuracy of 87.7\% on the ImageNet-1k val set. Finally, our results show that the positional encoding, 
a crucial component in existing Vision Transformers, can be safely removed in our model, simplifying the design for higher resolution vision tasks.*

Tips:

- CvT models are regular Vision Transformers, but trained with convolutions. They outperform the [original model (ViT)](vit) when fine-tuned on ImageNet-1K and CIFAR-100.
- You can check out demo notebooks regarding inference as well as fine-tuning on custom data [here](https://github.com/NielsRogge/Transformers-Tutorials/tree/master/VisionTransformer) (you can just replace [`ViTFeatureExtractor`] by [`AutoImageProcessor`] and [`ViTForImageClassification`] by [`CvtForImageClassification`]).
- The available checkpoints are either (1) pre-trained on [ImageNet-22k](http://www.image-net.org/) (a collection of 14 million images and 22k classes) only, (2) also fine-tuned on ImageNet-22k or (3) also fine-tuned on [ImageNet-1k](http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2012/) (also referred to as ILSVRC 2012, a collection of 1.3 million
  images and 1,000 classes).

This model was contributed by [anugunj](https://huggingface.co/anugunj). The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/microsoft/CvT).

## Resources

A list of official Hugging Face and community (indicated by 🌎) resources to help you get started with CvT.

<PipelineTag pipeline="image-classification"/>

- [`CvtForImageClassification`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/pytorch/image-classification) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/image_classification.ipynb).
- See also: [Image classification task guide](../tasks/image_classification)

If you're interested in submitting a resource to be included here, please feel free to open a Pull Request and we'll review it! The resource should ideally demonstrate something new instead of duplicating an existing resource.

## CvtConfig

[[autodoc]] CvtConfig

## CvtModel

[[autodoc]] CvtModel
    - forward

## CvtForImageClassification

[[autodoc]] CvtForImageClassification
    - forward

## TFCvtModel

[[autodoc]] TFCvtModel
    - call

## TFCvtForImageClassification

[[autodoc]] TFCvtForImageClassification
    - call

