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# Transformers API Reference
This reference covers the core classes and APIs in the Transformers library.
## Core Auto Classes
Auto classes provide a convenient way to automatically select the appropriate architecture based on model name or checkpoint.
### AutoTokenizer
```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
# Load tokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
# Tokenize single text
encoded = tokenizer("Hello, how are you?")
# Returns: {'input_ids': [...], 'attention_mask': [...]}
# Tokenize with options
encoded = tokenizer(
"Hello, how are you?",
padding="max_length",
truncation=True,
max_length=512,
return_tensors="pt" # "pt" for PyTorch, "tf" for TensorFlow
)
# Tokenize pairs (for classification, QA, etc.)
encoded = tokenizer(
"Question or sentence A",
"Context or sentence B",
padding=True,
truncation=True
)
# Batch tokenization
texts = ["Text 1", "Text 2", "Text 3"]
encoded = tokenizer(texts, padding=True, truncation=True)
# Decode tokens back to text
text = tokenizer.decode(token_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
# Batch decode
texts = tokenizer.batch_decode(batch_token_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
```
**Key Parameters:**
- `padding`: "max_length", "longest", or True (pad to max in batch)
- `truncation`: True or strategy ("longest_first", "only_first", "only_second")
- `max_length`: Maximum sequence length
- `return_tensors`: "pt" (PyTorch), "tf" (TensorFlow), "np" (NumPy)
- `return_attention_mask`: Return attention masks (default True)
- `return_token_type_ids`: Return token type IDs for pairs (default True)
- `add_special_tokens`: Add special tokens like [CLS], [SEP] (default True)
**Special Properties:**
- `tokenizer.vocab_size`: Size of vocabulary
- `tokenizer.pad_token_id`: ID of padding token
- `tokenizer.eos_token_id`: ID of end-of-sequence token
- `tokenizer.bos_token_id`: ID of beginning-of-sequence token
- `tokenizer.unk_token_id`: ID of unknown token
### AutoModel
Base model class that outputs hidden states.
```python
from transformers import AutoModel
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
# Forward pass
outputs = model(**inputs)
# Access hidden states
last_hidden_state = outputs.last_hidden_state # [batch_size, seq_length, hidden_size]
pooler_output = outputs.pooler_output # [batch_size, hidden_size]
# Get all hidden states
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased", output_hidden_states=True)
outputs = model(**inputs)
all_hidden_states = outputs.hidden_states # Tuple of tensors
```
### Task-Specific Auto Classes
```python
from transformers import (
AutoModelForSequenceClassification,
AutoModelForTokenClassification,
AutoModelForQuestionAnswering,
AutoModelForCausalLM,
AutoModelForMaskedLM,
AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM,
AutoModelForImageClassification,
AutoModelForObjectDetection,
AutoModelForVision2Seq,
)
# Sequence classification (sentiment, topic, etc.)
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
"bert-base-uncased",
num_labels=3,
id2label={0: "negative", 1: "neutral", 2: "positive"},
label2id={"negative": 0, "neutral": 1, "positive": 2}
)
# Token classification (NER, POS tagging)
model = AutoModelForTokenClassification.from_pretrained(
"bert-base-uncased",
num_labels=9 # Number of entity types
)
# Question answering
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
# Causal language modeling (GPT-style)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("gpt2")
# Masked language modeling (BERT-style)
model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
# Sequence-to-sequence (T5, BART)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("t5-base")
# Image classification
model = AutoModelForImageClassification.from_pretrained("google/vit-base-patch16-224")
# Object detection
model = AutoModelForObjectDetection.from_pretrained("facebook/detr-resnet-50")
# Vision-to-text (image captioning, VQA)
model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained("microsoft/git-base")
```
### AutoProcessor
For multimodal models that need both text and image processing.
```python
from transformers import AutoProcessor
# For vision-language models
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("microsoft/git-base")
# Process image and text
from PIL import Image
image = Image.open("image.jpg")
inputs = processor(images=image, text="caption", return_tensors="pt")
# For audio models
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("openai/whisper-base")
inputs = processor(audio, sampling_rate=16000, return_tensors="pt")
```
### AutoImageProcessor
For vision-only models.
```python
from transformers import AutoImageProcessor
processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained("google/vit-base-patch16-224")
# Process single image
from PIL import Image
image = Image.open("image.jpg")
inputs = processor(image, return_tensors="pt")
# Batch processing
images = [Image.open(f"image{i}.jpg") for i in range(10)]
inputs = processor(images, return_tensors="pt")
```
## Model Loading Options
### from_pretrained Parameters
```python
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
"model-name",
# Device and precision
device_map="auto", # Automatic device placement
torch_dtype=torch.float16, # Use fp16
low_cpu_mem_usage=True, # Reduce CPU memory during loading
# Quantization
load_in_8bit=True, # 8-bit quantization
load_in_4bit=True, # 4-bit quantization
# Model configuration
num_labels=3, # For classification
id2label={...}, # Label mapping
label2id={...},
# Outputs
output_hidden_states=True,
output_attentions=True,
# Trust remote code
trust_remote_code=True, # For custom models
# Caching
cache_dir="./cache",
force_download=False,
resume_download=True,
)
```
### Quantization with BitsAndBytes
```python
from transformers import BitsAndBytesConfig, AutoModelForCausalLM
# 4-bit quantization
quantization_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
load_in_4bit=True,
bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.float16,
bnb_4bit_use_double_quant=True,
bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4"
)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf",
quantization_config=quantization_config,
device_map="auto"
)
```
## Training Components
### TrainingArguments
See `training.md` for comprehensive coverage. Key parameters:
```python
from transformers import TrainingArguments
args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
num_train_epochs=3,
per_device_train_batch_size=16,
per_device_eval_batch_size=64,
learning_rate=2e-5,
weight_decay=0.01,
eval_strategy="epoch",
save_strategy="epoch",
load_best_model_at_end=True,
metric_for_best_model="accuracy",
fp16=True,
logging_steps=100,
save_total_limit=2,
)
```
### Trainer
```python
from transformers import Trainer
trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=train_dataset,
eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
data_collator=data_collator,
callbacks=[callback1, callback2],
)
# Train
trainer.train()
# Resume from checkpoint
trainer.train(resume_from_checkpoint=True)
# Evaluate
metrics = trainer.evaluate()
# Predict
predictions = trainer.predict(test_dataset)
# Hyperparameter search
best_trial = trainer.hyperparameter_search(
direction="maximize",
backend="optuna",
n_trials=10,
)
# Save model
trainer.save_model("./final_model")
# Push to Hub
trainer.push_to_hub(commit_message="Training complete")
```
### Data Collators
```python
from transformers import (
DataCollatorWithPadding,
DataCollatorForTokenClassification,
DataCollatorForSeq2Seq,
DataCollatorForLanguageModeling,
DefaultDataCollator,
)
# For classification/regression with dynamic padding
data_collator = DataCollatorWithPadding(tokenizer=tokenizer)
# For token classification (NER)
data_collator = DataCollatorForTokenClassification(tokenizer=tokenizer)
# For seq2seq tasks
data_collator = DataCollatorForSeq2Seq(tokenizer=tokenizer, model=model)
# For language modeling
data_collator = DataCollatorForLanguageModeling(
tokenizer=tokenizer,
mlm=True, # True for masked LM, False for causal LM
mlm_probability=0.15
)
# Default (no special handling)
data_collator = DefaultDataCollator()
```
## Generation Components
### GenerationConfig
See `generation_strategies.md` for comprehensive coverage.
```python
from transformers import GenerationConfig
config = GenerationConfig(
max_new_tokens=100,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.7,
top_p=0.9,
top_k=50,
num_beams=5,
repetition_penalty=1.2,
no_repeat_ngram_size=3,
)
# Use with model
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, generation_config=config)
```
### generate() Method
```python
outputs = model.generate(
input_ids=inputs.input_ids,
attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask,
max_new_tokens=100,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.7,
top_p=0.9,
num_return_sequences=3,
eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
pad_token_id=tokenizer.pad_token_id,
)
```
## Pipeline API
See `pipelines.md` for comprehensive coverage.
```python
from transformers import pipeline
# Basic usage
pipe = pipeline("task-name", model="model-name", device=0)
results = pipe(inputs)
# With custom model
from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("model-name")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("model-name")
pipe = pipeline("text-classification", model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer)
```
## Configuration Classes
### Model Configuration
```python
from transformers import AutoConfig
# Load configuration
config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
# Access configuration
print(config.hidden_size)
print(config.num_attention_heads)
print(config.num_hidden_layers)
# Modify configuration
config.num_labels = 5
config.output_hidden_states = True
# Create model with config
model = AutoModel.from_config(config)
# Save configuration
config.save_pretrained("./config")
```
## Utilities
### Hub Utilities
```python
from huggingface_hub import login, snapshot_download
# Login
login(token="hf_...")
# Download model
snapshot_download(repo_id="model-name", cache_dir="./cache")
# Push to Hub
model.push_to_hub("username/model-name", commit_message="Initial commit")
tokenizer.push_to_hub("username/model-name")
```
### Evaluation Metrics
```python
import evaluate
# Load metric
metric = evaluate.load("accuracy")
# Compute metric
results = metric.compute(predictions=predictions, references=labels)
# Common metrics
accuracy = evaluate.load("accuracy")
precision = evaluate.load("precision")
recall = evaluate.load("recall")
f1 = evaluate.load("f1")
bleu = evaluate.load("bleu")
rouge = evaluate.load("rouge")
```
## Model Outputs
All models return dataclass objects with named attributes:
```python
# Sequence classification output
outputs = model(**inputs)
logits = outputs.logits # [batch_size, num_labels]
loss = outputs.loss # If labels provided
# Causal LM output
outputs = model(**inputs)
logits = outputs.logits # [batch_size, seq_length, vocab_size]
past_key_values = outputs.past_key_values # KV cache
# Seq2Seq output
outputs = model(**inputs, labels=labels)
loss = outputs.loss
logits = outputs.logits
encoder_last_hidden_state = outputs.encoder_last_hidden_state
# Access as dict
outputs_dict = outputs.to_tuple() # or dict(outputs)
```
## Best Practices
1. **Use Auto classes**: AutoModel, AutoTokenizer for flexibility
2. **Device management**: Use `device_map="auto"` for multi-GPU
3. **Memory optimization**: Use `torch_dtype=torch.float16` and quantization
4. **Caching**: Set `cache_dir` to avoid re-downloading
5. **Batch processing**: Process multiple inputs at once for efficiency
6. **Trust remote code**: Only set `trust_remote_code=True` for trusted sources

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# Text Generation
## Overview
Generate text with language models using the `generate()` method. Control output quality and style through generation strategies and parameters.
## Basic Generation
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("gpt2")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("gpt2")
# Tokenize input
inputs = tokenizer("Once upon a time", return_tensors="pt")
# Generate
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=50)
# Decode
text = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(text)
```
## Generation Strategies
### Greedy Decoding
Select highest probability token at each step (deterministic):
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=50,
do_sample=False # Greedy decoding (default)
)
```
**Use for**: Factual text, translations, where determinism is needed.
### Sampling
Randomly sample from probability distribution:
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=50,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.7,
top_k=50,
top_p=0.95
)
```
**Use for**: Creative writing, diverse outputs, open-ended generation.
### Beam Search
Explore multiple hypotheses in parallel:
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=50,
num_beams=5,
early_stopping=True
)
```
**Use for**: Translations, summarization, where quality is critical.
### Contrastive Search
Balance quality and diversity:
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=50,
penalty_alpha=0.6,
top_k=4
)
```
**Use for**: Long-form generation, reducing repetition.
## Key Parameters
### Length Control
**max_new_tokens**: Maximum tokens to generate
```python
max_new_tokens=100 # Generate up to 100 new tokens
```
**max_length**: Maximum total length (input + output)
```python
max_length=512 # Total sequence length
```
**min_new_tokens**: Minimum tokens to generate
```python
min_new_tokens=50 # Force at least 50 tokens
```
**min_length**: Minimum total length
```python
min_length=100
```
### Temperature
Controls randomness (only with sampling):
```python
temperature=1.0 # Default, balanced
temperature=0.7 # More focused, less random
temperature=1.5 # More creative, more random
```
Lower temperature → more deterministic
Higher temperature → more random
### Top-K Sampling
Consider only top K most likely tokens:
```python
do_sample=True
top_k=50 # Sample from top 50 tokens
```
**Common values**: 40-100 for balanced output, 10-20 for focused output.
### Top-P (Nucleus) Sampling
Consider tokens with cumulative probability ≥ P:
```python
do_sample=True
top_p=0.95 # Sample from smallest set with 95% cumulative probability
```
**Common values**: 0.9-0.95 for balanced, 0.7-0.85 for focused.
### Repetition Penalty
Discourage repetition:
```python
repetition_penalty=1.2 # Penalize repeated tokens
```
**Values**: 1.0 = no penalty, 1.2-1.5 = moderate, 2.0+ = strong penalty.
### Beam Search Parameters
**num_beams**: Number of beams
```python
num_beams=5 # Keep 5 hypotheses
```
**early_stopping**: Stop when num_beams sentences are finished
```python
early_stopping=True
```
**no_repeat_ngram_size**: Prevent n-gram repetition
```python
no_repeat_ngram_size=3 # Don't repeat any 3-gram
```
### Output Control
**num_return_sequences**: Generate multiple outputs
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=50,
num_beams=5,
num_return_sequences=3 # Return 3 different sequences
)
```
**pad_token_id**: Specify padding token
```python
pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id
```
**eos_token_id**: Stop generation at specific token
```python
eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id
```
## Advanced Features
### Batch Generation
Generate for multiple prompts:
```python
prompts = ["Hello, my name is", "Once upon a time"]
inputs = tokenizer(prompts, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=50)
for i, output in enumerate(outputs):
text = tokenizer.decode(output, skip_special_tokens=True)
print(f"Prompt {i}: {text}\n")
```
### Streaming Generation
Stream tokens as generated:
```python
from transformers import TextIteratorStreamer
from threading import Thread
streamer = TextIteratorStreamer(tokenizer, skip_special_tokens=True)
generation_kwargs = dict(
inputs,
streamer=streamer,
max_new_tokens=100
)
thread = Thread(target=model.generate, kwargs=generation_kwargs)
thread.start()
for text in streamer:
print(text, end="", flush=True)
thread.join()
```
### Constrained Generation
Force specific token sequences:
```python
# Force generation to start with specific tokens
force_words = ["Paris", "France"]
force_words_ids = [tokenizer.encode(word, add_special_tokens=False) for word in force_words]
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
force_words_ids=force_words_ids,
num_beams=5
)
```
### Guidance and Control
**Prevent bad words:**
```python
bad_words = ["offensive", "inappropriate"]
bad_words_ids = [tokenizer.encode(word, add_special_tokens=False) for word in bad_words]
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
bad_words_ids=bad_words_ids
)
```
### Generation Config
Save and reuse generation parameters:
```python
from transformers import GenerationConfig
# Create config
generation_config = GenerationConfig(
max_new_tokens=100,
temperature=0.7,
top_k=50,
top_p=0.95,
do_sample=True
)
# Save
generation_config.save_pretrained("./my_generation_config")
# Load and use
generation_config = GenerationConfig.from_pretrained("./my_generation_config")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, generation_config=generation_config)
```
## Model-Specific Generation
### Chat Models
Use chat templates:
```python
messages = [
{"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
{"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?"}
]
input_text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False)
inputs = tokenizer(input_text, return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=100)
response = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
```
### Encoder-Decoder Models
For T5, BART, etc.:
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM, AutoTokenizer
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("t5-small")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("t5-small")
# T5 uses task prefixes
input_text = "translate English to French: Hello, how are you?"
inputs = tokenizer(input_text, return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=50)
translation = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
```
## Optimization
### Caching
Enable KV cache for faster generation:
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=100,
use_cache=True # Default, faster generation
)
```
### Static Cache
For fixed sequence lengths:
```python
from transformers import StaticCache
cache = StaticCache(model.config, max_batch_size=1, max_cache_len=1024, device="cuda")
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=100,
past_key_values=cache
)
```
### Attention Implementation
Use Flash Attention for speed:
```python
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"model-id",
attn_implementation="flash_attention_2"
)
```
## Generation Recipes
### Creative Writing
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=200,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.8,
top_k=50,
top_p=0.95,
repetition_penalty=1.2
)
```
### Factual Generation
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=100,
do_sample=False, # Greedy
repetition_penalty=1.1
)
```
### Diverse Outputs
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=100,
num_beams=5,
num_return_sequences=5,
temperature=1.5,
do_sample=True
)
```
### Long-Form Generation
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=1000,
penalty_alpha=0.6, # Contrastive search
top_k=4,
repetition_penalty=1.2
)
```
### Translation/Summarization
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=100,
num_beams=5,
early_stopping=True,
no_repeat_ngram_size=3
)
```
## Common Issues
**Repetitive output:**
- Increase repetition_penalty (1.2-1.5)
- Use no_repeat_ngram_size (2-3)
- Try contrastive search
- Lower temperature
**Poor quality:**
- Use beam search (num_beams=5)
- Lower temperature
- Adjust top_k/top_p
**Too deterministic:**
- Enable sampling (do_sample=True)
- Increase temperature (0.7-1.0)
- Adjust top_k/top_p
**Slow generation:**
- Reduce batch size
- Enable use_cache=True
- Use Flash Attention
- Reduce max_new_tokens
## Best Practices
1. **Start with defaults**: Then tune based on output
2. **Use appropriate strategy**: Greedy for factual, sampling for creative
3. **Set max_new_tokens**: Avoid unnecessarily long generation
4. **Enable caching**: For faster sequential generation
5. **Tune temperature**: Most impactful parameter for sampling
6. **Use beam search carefully**: Slower but higher quality
7. **Test different seeds**: For reproducibility with sampling
8. **Monitor memory**: Large beams use significant memory

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# Text Generation Strategies
Transformers provides flexible text generation capabilities through the `generate()` method, supporting multiple decoding strategies and configuration options.
## Basic Generation
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("gpt2")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("gpt2")
inputs = tokenizer("Once upon a time", return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=50)
generated_text = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0])
```
## Decoding Strategies
### 1. Greedy Decoding
Selects the token with highest probability at each step. Deterministic but can be repetitive.
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=50,
do_sample=False,
num_beams=1 # Greedy is default when num_beams=1 and do_sample=False
)
```
### 2. Beam Search
Explores multiple hypotheses simultaneously, keeping top-k candidates at each step.
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=50,
num_beams=5, # Number of beams
early_stopping=True, # Stop when all beams reach EOS
no_repeat_ngram_size=2, # Prevent repeating n-grams
)
```
**Key parameters:**
- `num_beams`: Number of beams (higher = more thorough but slower)
- `early_stopping`: Stop when all beams finish (True/False)
- `length_penalty`: Exponential penalty for length (>1.0 favors longer sequences)
- `no_repeat_ngram_size`: Prevent repeating n-grams
### 3. Sampling (Multinomial)
Samples from probability distribution, introducing randomness and diversity.
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=50,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.7, # Controls randomness (lower = more focused)
top_k=50, # Consider only top-k tokens
top_p=0.9, # Nucleus sampling (cumulative probability threshold)
)
```
**Key parameters:**
- `temperature`: Scales logits before softmax (0.1-2.0 typical range)
- Lower (0.1-0.7): More focused, deterministic
- Higher (0.8-1.5): More creative, random
- `top_k`: Sample from top-k tokens only
- `top_p`: Nucleus sampling - sample from smallest set with cumulative probability > p
### 4. Beam Search with Sampling
Combines beam search with sampling for diverse but coherent outputs.
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=50,
num_beams=5,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.8,
top_k=50,
)
```
### 5. Contrastive Search
Balances coherence and diversity using contrastive objective.
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=50,
penalty_alpha=0.6, # Contrastive penalty
top_k=4, # Consider top-k candidates
)
```
### 6. Assisted Decoding
Uses a smaller "assistant" model to speed up generation of larger model.
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("gpt2-large")
assistant_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("gpt2")
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
assistant_model=assistant_model,
max_new_tokens=50,
)
```
## GenerationConfig
Configure generation parameters with `GenerationConfig` for reusability.
```python
from transformers import GenerationConfig
generation_config = GenerationConfig(
max_new_tokens=100,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.7,
top_p=0.9,
top_k=50,
repetition_penalty=1.2,
no_repeat_ngram_size=3,
)
# Use with model
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, generation_config=generation_config)
# Save and load
generation_config.save_pretrained("./config")
loaded_config = GenerationConfig.from_pretrained("./config")
```
## Key Parameters Reference
### Output Length Control
- `max_length`: Maximum total tokens (input + output)
- `max_new_tokens`: Maximum new tokens to generate (recommended over max_length)
- `min_length`: Minimum total tokens
- `min_new_tokens`: Minimum new tokens to generate
### Sampling Parameters
- `temperature`: Sampling temperature (0.1-2.0, default 1.0)
- `top_k`: Top-k sampling (1-100, typically 50)
- `top_p`: Nucleus sampling (0.0-1.0, typically 0.9)
- `do_sample`: Enable sampling (True/False)
### Beam Search Parameters
- `num_beams`: Number of beams (1-20, typically 5)
- `early_stopping`: Stop when beams finish (True/False)
- `length_penalty`: Length penalty (>1.0 favors longer, <1.0 favors shorter)
- `num_beam_groups`: Diverse beam search groups
- `diversity_penalty`: Penalty for similar beams
### Repetition Control
- `repetition_penalty`: Penalty for repeating tokens (1.0-2.0, default 1.0)
- `no_repeat_ngram_size`: Prevent repeating n-grams (2-5 typical)
- `encoder_repetition_penalty`: Penalty for repeating encoder tokens
### Special Tokens
- `bos_token_id`: Beginning of sequence token
- `eos_token_id`: End of sequence token (or list of tokens)
- `pad_token_id`: Padding token
- `forced_bos_token_id`: Force specific token at beginning
- `forced_eos_token_id`: Force specific token at end
### Multiple Sequences
- `num_return_sequences`: Number of sequences to return
- `num_beam_groups`: Number of diverse beam groups
## Advanced Generation Techniques
### Constrained Generation
Force generation to include specific tokens or follow patterns.
```python
from transformers import PhrasalConstraint
constraints = [
PhrasalConstraint(tokenizer("New York", add_special_tokens=False).input_ids)
]
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
constraints=constraints,
num_beams=5,
)
```
### Streaming Generation
Generate tokens one at a time for real-time display.
```python
from transformers import TextIteratorStreamer
from threading import Thread
streamer = TextIteratorStreamer(tokenizer, skip_special_tokens=True)
generation_kwargs = dict(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=100,
streamer=streamer,
)
thread = Thread(target=model.generate, kwargs=generation_kwargs)
thread.start()
for new_text in streamer:
print(new_text, end="", flush=True)
thread.join()
```
### Logit Processors
Customize token selection with custom logit processors.
```python
from transformers import LogitsProcessor, LogitsProcessorList
class CustomLogitsProcessor(LogitsProcessor):
def __call__(self, input_ids, scores):
# Modify scores here
return scores
logits_processor = LogitsProcessorList([CustomLogitsProcessor()])
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
logits_processor=logits_processor,
)
```
### Stopping Criteria
Define custom stopping conditions.
```python
from transformers import StoppingCriteria, StoppingCriteriaList
class CustomStoppingCriteria(StoppingCriteria):
def __call__(self, input_ids, scores, **kwargs):
# Return True to stop generation
return False
stopping_criteria = StoppingCriteriaList([CustomStoppingCriteria()])
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
stopping_criteria=stopping_criteria,
)
```
## Best Practices
### For Creative Tasks (Stories, Dialogue)
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=200,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.8,
top_p=0.95,
repetition_penalty=1.2,
no_repeat_ngram_size=3,
)
```
### For Factual Tasks (Summaries, QA)
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=100,
num_beams=4,
early_stopping=True,
no_repeat_ngram_size=2,
length_penalty=1.0,
)
```
### For Chat/Instruction Following
```python
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=512,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.7,
top_p=0.9,
repetition_penalty=1.1,
)
```
## Vision-Language Model Generation
For models like LLaVA, BLIP-2, etc.:
```python
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForVision2Seq
from PIL import Image
model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained("llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf")
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf")
image = Image.open("image.jpg")
inputs = processor(text="Describe this image", images=image, return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=100,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.7,
)
generated_text = processor.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
```
## Performance Optimization
### Use KV Cache
```python
# KV cache is enabled by default
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, use_cache=True)
```
### Mixed Precision
```python
import torch
with torch.cuda.amp.autocast():
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=100)
```
### Batch Generation
```python
texts = ["Prompt 1", "Prompt 2", "Prompt 3"]
inputs = tokenizer(texts, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=50)
```
### Quantization
```python
from transformers import BitsAndBytesConfig
quantization_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
load_in_4bit=True,
bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.float16
)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf",
quantization_config=quantization_config,
device_map="auto"
)
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# Model Loading and Management
## Overview
The transformers library provides flexible model loading with automatic architecture detection, device management, and configuration control.
## Loading Models
### AutoModel Classes
Use AutoModel classes for automatic architecture selection:
```python
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoModelForCausalLM
# Base model (no task head)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
# Sequence classification
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-uncased")
# Causal language modeling (GPT-style)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("gpt2")
# Masked language modeling (BERT-style)
from transformers import AutoModelForMaskedLM
model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
# Sequence-to-sequence (T5-style)
from transformers import AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("t5-small")
```
### Common AutoModel Classes
**NLP Tasks:**
- `AutoModelForSequenceClassification`: Text classification, sentiment analysis
- `AutoModelForTokenClassification`: NER, POS tagging
- `AutoModelForQuestionAnswering`: Extractive QA
- `AutoModelForCausalLM`: Text generation (GPT, Llama)
- `AutoModelForMaskedLM`: Masked language modeling (BERT)
- `AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM`: Translation, summarization (T5, BART)
**Vision Tasks:**
- `AutoModelForImageClassification`: Image classification
- `AutoModelForObjectDetection`: Object detection
- `AutoModelForImageSegmentation`: Image segmentation
**Audio Tasks:**
- `AutoModelForAudioClassification`: Audio classification
- `AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq`: Speech recognition
**Multimodal:**
- `AutoModelForVision2Seq`: Image captioning, VQA
## Loading Parameters
### Basic Parameters
**pretrained_model_name_or_path**: Model identifier or local path
```python
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased") # From Hub
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("./local/model/path") # From disk
```
**num_labels**: Number of output labels for classification
```python
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
"bert-base-uncased",
num_labels=3
)
```
**cache_dir**: Custom cache location
```python
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id", cache_dir="./my_cache")
```
### Device Management
**device_map**: Automatic device allocation for large models
```python
# Automatically distribute across GPUs and CPU
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf",
device_map="auto"
)
# Sequential placement
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"model-id",
device_map="sequential"
)
# Custom device map
device_map = {
"transformer.layers.0": 0, # GPU 0
"transformer.layers.1": 1, # GPU 1
"transformer.layers.2": "cpu", # CPU
}
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id", device_map=device_map)
```
Manual device placement:
```python
import torch
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id")
model.to("cuda:0") # Move to GPU 0
model.to(torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"))
```
### Precision Control
**torch_dtype**: Set model precision
```python
import torch
# Float16 (half precision)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
# BFloat16 (better range than float16)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
# Auto (use original dtype)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id", torch_dtype="auto")
```
### Attention Implementation
**attn_implementation**: Choose attention mechanism
```python
# Scaled Dot Product Attention (PyTorch 2.0+, fastest)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id", attn_implementation="sdpa")
# Flash Attention 2 (requires flash-attn package)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id", attn_implementation="flash_attention_2")
# Eager (default, most compatible)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id", attn_implementation="eager")
```
### Memory Optimization
**low_cpu_mem_usage**: Reduce CPU memory during loading
```python
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"large-model-id",
low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
device_map="auto"
)
```
**load_in_8bit**: 8-bit quantization (requires bitsandbytes)
```python
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"model-id",
load_in_8bit=True,
device_map="auto"
)
```
**load_in_4bit**: 4-bit quantization
```python
from transformers import BitsAndBytesConfig
quantization_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
load_in_4bit=True,
bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.float16
)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"model-id",
quantization_config=quantization_config,
device_map="auto"
)
```
## Model Configuration
### Loading with Custom Config
```python
from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoModel
# Load and modify config
config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
config.hidden_dropout_prob = 0.2
config.attention_probs_dropout_prob = 0.2
# Initialize model with custom config
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased", config=config)
```
### Initializing from Config Only
```python
config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained("gpt2")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_config(config) # Random weights
```
## Model Modes
### Training vs Evaluation Mode
Models load in evaluation mode by default:
```python
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id")
print(model.training) # False
# Switch to training mode
model.train()
# Switch back to evaluation mode
model.eval()
```
Evaluation mode disables dropout and uses batch norm statistics.
## Saving Models
### Save Locally
```python
model.save_pretrained("./my_model")
```
This creates:
- `config.json`: Model configuration
- `pytorch_model.bin` or `model.safetensors`: Model weights
### Save to Hugging Face Hub
```python
model.push_to_hub("username/model-name")
# With custom commit message
model.push_to_hub("username/model-name", commit_message="Update model")
# Private repository
model.push_to_hub("username/model-name", private=True)
```
## Model Inspection
### Parameter Count
```python
# Total parameters
total_params = model.num_parameters()
# Trainable parameters only
trainable_params = model.num_parameters(only_trainable=True)
print(f"Total: {total_params:,}")
print(f"Trainable: {trainable_params:,}")
```
### Memory Footprint
```python
memory_bytes = model.get_memory_footprint()
memory_mb = memory_bytes / 1024**2
print(f"Memory: {memory_mb:.2f} MB")
```
### Model Architecture
```python
print(model) # Print full architecture
# Access specific components
print(model.config)
print(model.base_model)
```
## Forward Pass
Basic inference:
```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("model-id")
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("model-id")
inputs = tokenizer("Sample text", return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model(**inputs)
logits = outputs.logits
predictions = logits.argmax(dim=-1)
```
## Model Formats
### SafeTensors vs PyTorch
SafeTensors is faster and safer:
```python
# Save as safetensors (recommended)
model.save_pretrained("./model", safe_serialization=True)
# Load either format automatically
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("./model")
```
### ONNX Export
Export for optimized inference:
```python
from transformers.onnx import export
# Export to ONNX
export(
tokenizer=tokenizer,
model=model,
config=config,
output=Path("model.onnx")
)
```
## Best Practices
1. **Use AutoModel classes**: Automatic architecture detection
2. **Specify dtype explicitly**: Control precision and memory
3. **Use device_map="auto"**: For large models
4. **Enable low_cpu_mem_usage**: When loading large models
5. **Use safetensors format**: Faster and safer serialization
6. **Check model.training**: Ensure correct mode for task
7. **Consider quantization**: For deployment on resource-constrained devices
8. **Cache models locally**: Set TRANSFORMERS_CACHE environment variable
## Common Issues
**CUDA out of memory:**
```python
# Use smaller precision
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
# Or use quantization
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id", load_in_8bit=True)
# Or use CPU
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id", device_map="cpu")
```
**Slow loading:**
```python
# Enable low CPU memory mode
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id", low_cpu_mem_usage=True)
```
**Model not found:**
```python
# Verify model ID on hub.co
# Check authentication for private models
from huggingface_hub import login
login()
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# Transformers Pipelines
# Pipeline API Reference
Pipelines provide a simple and optimized interface for inference across many machine learning tasks. They abstract away the complexity of tokenization, model invocation, and post-processing.
## Overview
## Usage Pattern
Pipelines provide the simplest way to use pre-trained models for inference. They abstract away tokenization, model loading, and post-processing, offering a unified interface for dozens of tasks.
## Basic Usage
Create a pipeline by specifying a task:
```python
from transformers import pipeline
# Basic usage
classifier = pipeline("text-classification")
result = classifier("This movie was amazing!")
# With specific model
classifier = pipeline("text-classification", model="distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english")
result = classifier("This movie was amazing!")
# Auto-select default model for task
pipe = pipeline("text-classification")
result = pipe("This is great!")
```
## Natural Language Processing Pipelines
Or specify a model:
### Text Classification
```python
pipe = pipeline("text-classification", model="distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english")
```
## Supported Tasks
### Natural Language Processing
**text-generation**: Generate text continuations
```python
generator = pipeline("text-generation", model="gpt2")
output = generator("Once upon a time", max_length=50, num_return_sequences=2)
```
**text-classification**: Classify text into categories
```python
classifier = pipeline("text-classification")
classifier("I love this product!")
# [{'label': 'POSITIVE', 'score': 0.9998}]
result = classifier("I love this product!") # Returns label and score
```
### Zero-Shot Classification
**token-classification**: Label individual tokens (NER, POS tagging)
```python
classifier = pipeline("zero-shot-classification")
classifier("This is about climate change", candidate_labels=["politics", "science", "sports"])
ner = pipeline("token-classification", model="dslim/bert-base-NER")
entities = ner("Hugging Face is based in New York City")
```
### Token Classification (NER)
```python
ner = pipeline("token-classification")
ner("My name is Sarah and I work at Microsoft in Seattle")
```
### Question Answering
**question-answering**: Extract answers from context
```python
qa = pipeline("question-answering")
qa(question="What is the capital?", context="The capital of France is Paris.")
result = qa(question="What is the capital?", context="Paris is the capital of France.")
```
### Text Generation
**fill-mask**: Predict masked tokens
```python
generator = pipeline("text-generation")
generator("Once upon a time", max_length=50)
unmasker = pipeline("fill-mask", model="bert-base-uncased")
result = unmasker("Paris is the [MASK] of France")
```
### Text2Text Generation
**summarization**: Summarize long texts
```python
generator = pipeline("text2text-generation", model="t5-base")
generator("translate English to French: Hello")
summarizer = pipeline("summarization", model="facebook/bart-large-cnn")
summary = summarizer("Long article text...", max_length=130, min_length=30)
```
### Summarization
**translation**: Translate between languages
```python
summarizer = pipeline("summarization")
summarizer("Long article text here...", max_length=130, min_length=30)
translator = pipeline("translation_en_to_fr", model="Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-fr")
result = translator("Hello, how are you?")
```
### Translation
**zero-shot-classification**: Classify without training data
```python
translator = pipeline("translation_en_to_fr")
translator("Hello, how are you?")
classifier = pipeline("zero-shot-classification", model="facebook/bart-large-mnli")
result = classifier(
"This is a course about Python programming",
candidate_labels=["education", "politics", "business"]
)
```
### Fill Mask
**sentiment-analysis**: Alias for text-classification focused on sentiment
```python
unmasker = pipeline("fill-mask")
unmasker("Paris is the [MASK] of France.")
sentiment = pipeline("sentiment-analysis")
result = sentiment("This product exceeded my expectations!")
```
### Feature Extraction
### Computer Vision
**image-classification**: Classify images
```python
extractor = pipeline("feature-extraction")
embeddings = extractor("This is a sentence")
classifier = pipeline("image-classification", model="google/vit-base-patch16-224")
result = classifier("path/to/image.jpg")
# Or use PIL Image or URL
from PIL import Image
result = classifier(Image.open("image.jpg"))
```
### Document Question Answering
**object-detection**: Detect objects in images
```python
doc_qa = pipeline("document-question-answering")
doc_qa(image="document.png", question="What is the invoice number?")
detector = pipeline("object-detection", model="facebook/detr-resnet-50")
results = detector("image.jpg") # Returns bounding boxes and labels
```
### Table Question Answering
**image-segmentation**: Segment images
```python
table_qa = pipeline("table-question-answering")
table_qa(table=data, query="How many employees?")
segmenter = pipeline("image-segmentation", model="facebook/detr-resnet-50-panoptic")
segments = segmenter("image.jpg")
```
## Computer Vision Pipelines
### Image Classification
**depth-estimation**: Estimate depth from images
```python
classifier = pipeline("image-classification")
classifier("cat.jpg")
depth = pipeline("depth-estimation", model="Intel/dpt-large")
result = depth("image.jpg")
```
### Zero-Shot Image Classification
**zero-shot-image-classification**: Classify images without training
```python
classifier = pipeline("zero-shot-image-classification")
classifier("cat.jpg", candidate_labels=["cat", "dog", "bird"])
classifier = pipeline("zero-shot-image-classification", model="openai/clip-vit-base-patch32")
result = classifier("image.jpg", candidate_labels=["cat", "dog", "bird"])
```
### Object Detection
### Audio
**automatic-speech-recognition**: Transcribe speech
```python
detector = pipeline("object-detection")
detector("street.jpg")
asr = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model="openai/whisper-base")
text = asr("audio.mp3")
```
### Image Segmentation
**audio-classification**: Classify audio
```python
segmenter = pipeline("image-segmentation")
segmenter("image.jpg")
classifier = pipeline("audio-classification", model="MIT/ast-finetuned-audioset-10-10-0.4593")
result = classifier("audio.wav")
```
### Image-to-Image
**text-to-speech**: Generate speech from text (with specific models)
```python
img2img = pipeline("image-to-image", model="lllyasviel/sd-controlnet-canny")
img2img("input.jpg")
tts = pipeline("text-to-speech", model="microsoft/speecht5_tts")
audio = tts("Hello, this is a test")
```
### Depth Estimation
### Multimodal
**visual-question-answering**: Answer questions about images
```python
depth = pipeline("depth-estimation")
depth("image.jpg")
vqa = pipeline("visual-question-answering", model="dandelin/vilt-b32-finetuned-vqa")
result = vqa(image="image.jpg", question="What color is the car?")
```
### Video Classification
**document-question-answering**: Answer questions about documents
```python
classifier = pipeline("video-classification")
classifier("video.mp4")
doc_qa = pipeline("document-question-answering", model="impira/layoutlm-document-qa")
result = doc_qa(image="document.png", question="What is the invoice number?")
```
### Keypoint Matching
**image-to-text**: Generate captions for images
```python
matcher = pipeline("keypoint-matching")
matcher(image1="img1.jpg", image2="img2.jpg")
captioner = pipeline("image-to-text", model="Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base")
caption = captioner("image.jpg")
```
## Audio Pipelines
### Automatic Speech Recognition
```python
asr = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition")
asr("audio.wav")
```
### Audio Classification
```python
classifier = pipeline("audio-classification")
classifier("audio.wav")
```
### Zero-Shot Audio Classification
```python
classifier = pipeline("zero-shot-audio-classification")
classifier("audio.wav", candidate_labels=["speech", "music", "noise"])
```
### Text-to-Audio/Text-to-Speech
```python
synthesizer = pipeline("text-to-audio")
audio = synthesizer("Hello, how are you today?")
```
## Multimodal Pipelines
### Image-to-Text (Image Captioning)
```python
captioner = pipeline("image-to-text")
captioner("image.jpg")
```
### Visual Question Answering
```python
vqa = pipeline("visual-question-answering")
vqa(image="image.jpg", question="What color is the car?")
```
### Image-Text-to-Text (VLMs)
```python
vlm = pipeline("image-text-to-text")
vlm(images="image.jpg", text="Describe this image in detail")
```
### Zero-Shot Object Detection
```python
detector = pipeline("zero-shot-object-detection")
detector("image.jpg", candidate_labels=["car", "person", "tree"])
```
## Pipeline Configuration
## Pipeline Parameters
### Common Parameters
- `model`: Specify model identifier or path
- `device`: Set device (0 for GPU, -1 for CPU, or "cuda:0")
- `batch_size`: Process multiple inputs at once
- `torch_dtype`: Set precision (torch.float16, torch.bfloat16)
**model**: Model identifier or path
```python
# GPU with half precision
pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="gpt2", device=0, torch_dtype=torch.float16)
# Batch processing
pipe(["text 1", "text 2", "text 3"], batch_size=8)
pipe = pipeline("task", model="model-id")
```
### Task-Specific Parameters
**device**: GPU device index (-1 for CPU, 0+ for GPU)
```python
pipe = pipeline("task", device=0) # Use first GPU
```
Each pipeline accepts task-specific parameters in the call:
**device_map**: Automatic device allocation for large models
```python
pipe = pipeline("task", model="large-model", device_map="auto")
```
**dtype**: Model precision (reduces memory)
```python
import torch
pipe = pipeline("task", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
```
**batch_size**: Process multiple inputs at once
```python
pipe = pipeline("task", batch_size=8)
results = pipe(["text1", "text2", "text3"])
```
**framework**: Choose PyTorch or TensorFlow
```python
pipe = pipeline("task", framework="pt") # or "tf"
```
## Batch Processing
Process multiple inputs efficiently:
```python
# Text generation
generator("prompt", max_length=100, temperature=0.7, top_p=0.9, num_return_sequences=3)
classifier = pipeline("text-classification")
texts = ["Great product!", "Terrible experience", "Just okay"]
results = classifier(texts)
```
# Summarization
summarizer("text", max_length=130, min_length=30, do_sample=False)
For large datasets, use generators or KeyDataset:
# Translation
translator("text", max_length=512, num_beams=4)
```python
from transformers.pipelines.pt_utils import KeyDataset
import datasets
dataset = datasets.load_dataset("dataset-name", split="test")
pipe = pipeline("task", device=0)
for output in pipe(KeyDataset(dataset, "text")):
print(output)
```
## Performance Optimization
### GPU Acceleration
Always specify device for GPU usage:
```python
pipe = pipeline("task", device=0)
```
### Mixed Precision
Use float16 for 2x speedup on supported GPUs:
```python
import torch
pipe = pipeline("task", torch_dtype=torch.float16, device=0)
```
### Batching Guidelines
- **CPU**: Usually skip batching
- **GPU with variable lengths**: May reduce efficiency
- **GPU with similar lengths**: Significant speedup
- **Real-time applications**: Skip batching (increases latency)
```python
# Good for throughput
pipe = pipeline("task", batch_size=32, device=0)
results = pipe(list_of_texts)
```
### Streaming Output
For text generation, stream tokens as they're generated:
```python
from transformers import TextStreamer
generator = pipeline("text-generation", model="gpt2", streamer=TextStreamer())
generator("The future of AI", max_length=100)
```
## Custom Pipeline Configuration
Specify tokenizer and model separately:
```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("model-id")
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("model-id")
pipe = pipeline("text-classification", model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer)
```
Use custom pipeline classes:
```python
from transformers import TextClassificationPipeline
class CustomPipeline(TextClassificationPipeline):
def postprocess(self, model_outputs, **kwargs):
# Custom post-processing
return super().postprocess(model_outputs, **kwargs)
pipe = pipeline("text-classification", model="model-id", pipeline_class=CustomPipeline)
```
## Input Formats
Pipelines accept various input types:
**Text tasks**: Strings or lists of strings
```python
pipe("single text")
pipe(["text1", "text2"])
```
**Image tasks**: URLs, file paths, PIL Images, or numpy arrays
```python
pipe("https://example.com/image.jpg")
pipe("local/path/image.png")
pipe(PIL.Image.open("image.jpg"))
pipe(numpy_array)
```
**Audio tasks**: File paths, numpy arrays, or raw waveforms
```python
pipe("audio.mp3")
pipe(audio_array)
```
## Error Handling
Handle common issues:
```python
try:
result = pipe(input_data)
except Exception as e:
if "CUDA out of memory" in str(e):
# Reduce batch size or use CPU
pipe = pipeline("task", device=-1)
elif "does not appear to have a file named" in str(e):
# Model not found
print("Check model identifier")
else:
raise
```
## Best Practices
1. **Reuse pipelines**: Create once, use multiple times for efficiency
2. **Batch processing**: Use batches for multiple inputs to maximize throughput
3. **GPU acceleration**: Set `device=0` for GPU when available
4. **Model selection**: Choose task-specific models for best results
5. **Memory management**: Use `torch_dtype=torch.float16` for large models
1. **Use pipelines for prototyping**: Fast iteration without boilerplate
2. **Specify models explicitly**: Default models may change
3. **Enable GPU when available**: Significant speedup
4. **Use batching for throughput**: When processing many inputs
5. **Consider memory usage**: Use float16 or smaller models for large batches
6. **Cache models locally**: Avoid repeated downloads

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# Common Task Patterns
This document provides common patterns and workflows for typical tasks using Transformers.
## Text Classification
### Binary or Multi-class Classification
```python
from transformers import (
AutoTokenizer,
AutoModelForSequenceClassification,
TrainingArguments,
Trainer
)
from datasets import load_dataset
import evaluate
import numpy as np
# Load dataset
dataset = load_dataset("imdb")
# Tokenize
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
def tokenize_function(examples):
return tokenizer(examples["text"], padding="max_length", truncation=True, max_length=512)
tokenized_datasets = dataset.map(tokenize_function, batched=True)
# Load model
id2label = {0: "negative", 1: "positive"}
label2id = {"negative": 0, "positive": 1}
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
"bert-base-uncased",
num_labels=2,
id2label=id2label,
label2id=label2id
)
# Metrics
metric = evaluate.load("accuracy")
def compute_metrics(eval_pred):
logits, labels = eval_pred
predictions = np.argmax(logits, axis=-1)
return metric.compute(predictions=predictions, references=labels)
# Train
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
eval_strategy="epoch",
learning_rate=2e-5,
per_device_train_batch_size=16,
per_device_eval_batch_size=64,
num_train_epochs=3,
weight_decay=0.01,
load_best_model_at_end=True,
)
trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=tokenized_datasets["train"],
eval_dataset=tokenized_datasets["test"],
compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
)
trainer.train()
# Inference
text = "This movie was fantastic!"
inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model(**inputs)
predictions = outputs.logits.argmax(-1)
print(id2label[predictions.item()])
```
## Named Entity Recognition (Token Classification)
```python
from transformers import (
AutoTokenizer,
AutoModelForTokenClassification,
TrainingArguments,
Trainer,
DataCollatorForTokenClassification
)
from datasets import load_dataset
import evaluate
import numpy as np
# Load dataset
dataset = load_dataset("conll2003")
# Tokenize (align labels with tokenized words)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
def tokenize_and_align_labels(examples):
tokenized_inputs = tokenizer(
examples["tokens"],
truncation=True,
is_split_into_words=True
)
labels = []
for i, label in enumerate(examples["ner_tags"]):
word_ids = tokenized_inputs.word_ids(batch_index=i)
label_ids = []
previous_word_idx = None
for word_idx in word_ids:
if word_idx is None:
label_ids.append(-100)
elif word_idx != previous_word_idx:
label_ids.append(label[word_idx])
else:
label_ids.append(-100)
previous_word_idx = word_idx
labels.append(label_ids)
tokenized_inputs["labels"] = labels
return tokenized_inputs
tokenized_datasets = dataset.map(tokenize_and_align_labels, batched=True)
# Model
label_list = dataset["train"].features["ner_tags"].feature.names
model = AutoModelForTokenClassification.from_pretrained(
"bert-base-uncased",
num_labels=len(label_list)
)
# Data collator
data_collator = DataCollatorForTokenClassification(tokenizer)
# Metrics
metric = evaluate.load("seqeval")
def compute_metrics(eval_pred):
predictions, labels = eval_pred
predictions = np.argmax(predictions, axis=2)
true_labels = [[label_list[l] for l in label if l != -100] for label in labels]
true_predictions = [
[label_list[p] for (p, l) in zip(prediction, label) if l != -100]
for prediction, label in zip(predictions, labels)
]
return metric.compute(predictions=true_predictions, references=true_labels)
# Train
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
eval_strategy="epoch",
learning_rate=2e-5,
per_device_train_batch_size=16,
num_train_epochs=3,
weight_decay=0.01,
)
trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=tokenized_datasets["train"],
eval_dataset=tokenized_datasets["validation"],
data_collator=data_collator,
compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
)
trainer.train()
```
## Question Answering
```python
from transformers import (
AutoTokenizer,
AutoModelForQuestionAnswering,
TrainingArguments,
Trainer,
DefaultDataCollator
)
from datasets import load_dataset
# Load dataset
dataset = load_dataset("squad")
# Tokenize
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
def preprocess_function(examples):
questions = [q.strip() for q in examples["question"]]
inputs = tokenizer(
questions,
examples["context"],
max_length=384,
truncation="only_second",
return_offsets_mapping=True,
padding="max_length",
)
offset_mapping = inputs.pop("offset_mapping")
answers = examples["answers"]
start_positions = []
end_positions = []
for i, offset in enumerate(offset_mapping):
answer = answers[i]
start_char = answer["answer_start"][0]
end_char = start_char + len(answer["text"][0])
# Find start and end token positions
sequence_ids = inputs.sequence_ids(i)
context_start = sequence_ids.index(1)
context_end = len(sequence_ids) - 1 - sequence_ids[::-1].index(1)
if offset[context_start][0] > end_char or offset[context_end][1] < start_char:
start_positions.append(0)
end_positions.append(0)
else:
idx = context_start
while idx <= context_end and offset[idx][0] <= start_char:
idx += 1
start_positions.append(idx - 1)
idx = context_end
while idx >= context_start and offset[idx][1] >= end_char:
idx -= 1
end_positions.append(idx + 1)
inputs["start_positions"] = start_positions
inputs["end_positions"] = end_positions
return inputs
tokenized_datasets = dataset.map(preprocess_function, batched=True, remove_columns=dataset["train"].column_names)
# Model
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
# Train
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
eval_strategy="epoch",
learning_rate=2e-5,
per_device_train_batch_size=16,
num_train_epochs=3,
)
trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=tokenized_datasets["train"],
eval_dataset=tokenized_datasets["validation"],
data_collator=DefaultDataCollator(),
)
trainer.train()
# Inference
question = "What is the capital of France?"
context = "Paris is the capital and most populous city of France."
inputs = tokenizer(question, context, return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model(**inputs)
start_pos = outputs.start_logits.argmax()
end_pos = outputs.end_logits.argmax()
answer_tokens = inputs.input_ids[0][start_pos:end_pos+1]
answer = tokenizer.decode(answer_tokens)
```
## Text Summarization
```python
from transformers import (
AutoTokenizer,
AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM,
TrainingArguments,
Trainer,
DataCollatorForSeq2Seq
)
from datasets import load_dataset
import evaluate
# Load dataset
dataset = load_dataset("cnn_dailymail", "3.0.0")
# Tokenize
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("t5-small")
def preprocess_function(examples):
inputs = ["summarize: " + doc for doc in examples["article"]]
model_inputs = tokenizer(inputs, max_length=1024, truncation=True)
labels = tokenizer(
text_target=examples["highlights"],
max_length=128,
truncation=True
)
model_inputs["labels"] = labels["input_ids"]
return model_inputs
tokenized_datasets = dataset.map(preprocess_function, batched=True)
# Model
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("t5-small")
# Data collator
data_collator = DataCollatorForSeq2Seq(tokenizer, model=model)
# Metrics
rouge = evaluate.load("rouge")
def compute_metrics(eval_pred):
predictions, labels = eval_pred
decoded_preds = tokenizer.batch_decode(predictions, skip_special_tokens=True)
labels = np.where(labels != -100, labels, tokenizer.pad_token_id)
decoded_labels = tokenizer.batch_decode(labels, skip_special_tokens=True)
result = rouge.compute(
predictions=decoded_preds,
references=decoded_labels,
use_stemmer=True
)
return {k: round(v, 4) for k, v in result.items()}
# Train
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
eval_strategy="epoch",
learning_rate=2e-5,
per_device_train_batch_size=8,
per_device_eval_batch_size=8,
num_train_epochs=3,
predict_with_generate=True,
)
trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=tokenized_datasets["train"],
eval_dataset=tokenized_datasets["validation"],
data_collator=data_collator,
compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
)
trainer.train()
# Inference
text = "Long article text..."
inputs = tokenizer("summarize: " + text, return_tensors="pt", max_length=1024, truncation=True)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_length=128, num_beams=4)
summary = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
```
## Translation
```python
from transformers import (
AutoTokenizer,
AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM,
TrainingArguments,
Trainer,
DataCollatorForSeq2Seq
)
from datasets import load_dataset
# Load dataset
dataset = load_dataset("wmt16", "de-en")
# Tokenize
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("t5-small")
def preprocess_function(examples):
inputs = [f"translate German to English: {de}" for de in examples["de"]]
model_inputs = tokenizer(inputs, max_length=128, truncation=True)
labels = tokenizer(
text_target=examples["en"],
max_length=128,
truncation=True
)
model_inputs["labels"] = labels["input_ids"]
return model_inputs
tokenized_datasets = dataset.map(preprocess_function, batched=True)
# Model and training (similar to summarization)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("t5-small")
# Inference
text = "Guten Tag, wie geht es Ihnen?"
inputs = tokenizer(f"translate German to English: {text}", return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_length=128)
translation = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
```
## Causal Language Modeling (Training from Scratch or Fine-tuning)
```python
from transformers import (
AutoTokenizer,
AutoModelForCausalLM,
TrainingArguments,
Trainer,
DataCollatorForLanguageModeling
)
from datasets import load_dataset
# Load dataset
dataset = load_dataset("wikitext", "wikitext-2-raw-v1")
# Tokenize
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("gpt2")
tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token
def tokenize_function(examples):
return tokenizer(examples["text"], truncation=True, max_length=512)
tokenized_datasets = dataset.map(tokenize_function, batched=True, remove_columns=["text"])
# Group texts into chunks
block_size = 128
def group_texts(examples):
concatenated_examples = {k: sum(examples[k], []) for k in examples.keys()}
total_length = len(concatenated_examples[list(examples.keys())[0]])
total_length = (total_length // block_size) * block_size
result = {
k: [t[i:i + block_size] for i in range(0, total_length, block_size)]
for k, t in concatenated_examples.items()
}
result["labels"] = result["input_ids"].copy()
return result
lm_datasets = tokenized_datasets.map(group_texts, batched=True)
# Model
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("gpt2")
# Data collator
data_collator = DataCollatorForLanguageModeling(tokenizer=tokenizer, mlm=False)
# Train
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
eval_strategy="epoch",
learning_rate=2e-5,
per_device_train_batch_size=8,
num_train_epochs=3,
)
trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=lm_datasets["train"],
eval_dataset=lm_datasets["validation"],
data_collator=data_collator,
)
trainer.train()
```
## Image Classification
```python
from transformers import (
AutoImageProcessor,
AutoModelForImageClassification,
TrainingArguments,
Trainer
)
from datasets import load_dataset
from torchvision.transforms import Compose, Resize, ToTensor, Normalize
import numpy as np
import evaluate
# Load dataset
dataset = load_dataset("food101", split="train[:5000]")
# Prepare image transforms
image_processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained("google/vit-base-patch16-224")
normalize = Normalize(mean=image_processor.image_mean, std=image_processor.image_std)
size = image_processor.size["height"]
transforms = Compose([
Resize((size, size)),
ToTensor(),
normalize,
])
def preprocess_function(examples):
examples["pixel_values"] = [transforms(img.convert("RGB")) for img in examples["image"]]
return examples
dataset = dataset.with_transform(preprocess_function)
# Model
model = AutoModelForImageClassification.from_pretrained(
"google/vit-base-patch16-224",
num_labels=len(dataset["train"].features["label"].names),
ignore_mismatched_sizes=True
)
# Metrics
metric = evaluate.load("accuracy")
def compute_metrics(eval_pred):
predictions = np.argmax(eval_pred.predictions, axis=1)
return metric.compute(predictions=predictions, references=eval_pred.label_ids)
# Train
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
eval_strategy="epoch",
learning_rate=5e-5,
per_device_train_batch_size=16,
num_train_epochs=3,
)
trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=dataset["train"],
eval_dataset=dataset["validation"],
compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
)
trainer.train()
```
## Vision-Language Tasks (Image Captioning)
```python
from transformers import (
AutoProcessor,
AutoModelForVision2Seq,
TrainingArguments,
Trainer
)
from datasets import load_dataset
from PIL import Image
# Load dataset
dataset = load_dataset("ybelkada/football-dataset")
# Processor
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("microsoft/git-base")
def preprocess_function(examples):
images = [Image.open(img).convert("RGB") for img in examples["image"]]
texts = examples["caption"]
inputs = processor(images=images, text=texts, padding="max_length", truncation=True)
inputs["labels"] = inputs["input_ids"]
return inputs
dataset = dataset.map(preprocess_function, batched=True)
# Model
model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained("microsoft/git-base")
# Train
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
eval_strategy="epoch",
learning_rate=5e-5,
per_device_train_batch_size=8,
num_train_epochs=3,
)
trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=dataset["train"],
eval_dataset=dataset["test"],
)
trainer.train()
# Inference
image = Image.open("image.jpg")
inputs = processor(images=image, return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs)
caption = processor.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
```
## Best Practices Summary
1. **Use appropriate Auto* classes**: AutoTokenizer, AutoModel, etc. for model loading
2. **Proper preprocessing**: Tokenize, align labels, handle special cases
3. **Data collators**: Use appropriate collators for dynamic padding
4. **Metrics**: Load and compute relevant metrics for evaluation
5. **Training arguments**: Configure properly for task and hardware
6. **Inference**: Use pipeline() for quick inference, or manual tokenization for custom needs

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# Tokenizers
## Overview
Tokenizers convert text into numerical representations (tokens) that models can process. They handle special tokens, padding, truncation, and attention masks.
## Loading Tokenizers
### AutoTokenizer
Automatically load the correct tokenizer for a model:
```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
```
Load from local path:
```python
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("./local/tokenizer/path")
```
## Basic Tokenization
### Encode Text
```python
# Simple encoding
text = "Hello, how are you?"
tokens = tokenizer.encode(text)
print(tokens) # [101, 7592, 1010, 2129, 2024, 2017, 1029, 102]
# With text tokenization
tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(text)
print(tokens) # ['hello', ',', 'how', 'are', 'you', '?']
```
### Decode Tokens
```python
token_ids = [101, 7592, 1010, 2129, 2024, 2017, 1029, 102]
text = tokenizer.decode(token_ids)
print(text) # "hello, how are you?"
# Skip special tokens
text = tokenizer.decode(token_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
print(text) # "hello, how are you?"
```
## The `__call__` Method
Primary tokenization interface:
```python
# Single text
inputs = tokenizer("Hello, how are you?")
# Returns dictionary with input_ids, attention_mask
print(inputs)
# {
# 'input_ids': [101, 7592, 1010, 2129, 2024, 2017, 1029, 102],
# 'attention_mask': [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
# }
```
Multiple texts:
```python
texts = ["Hello", "How are you?"]
inputs = tokenizer(texts, padding=True, truncation=True)
```
## Key Parameters
### Return Tensors
**return_tensors**: Output format ("pt", "tf", "np")
```python
# PyTorch tensors
inputs = tokenizer("text", return_tensors="pt")
# TensorFlow tensors
inputs = tokenizer("text", return_tensors="tf")
# NumPy arrays
inputs = tokenizer("text", return_tensors="np")
```
### Padding
**padding**: Pad sequences to same length
```python
# Pad to longest sequence in batch
inputs = tokenizer(texts, padding=True)
# Pad to specific length
inputs = tokenizer(texts, padding="max_length", max_length=128)
# No padding
inputs = tokenizer(texts, padding=False)
```
**pad_to_multiple_of**: Pad to multiple of specified value
```python
inputs = tokenizer(texts, padding=True, pad_to_multiple_of=8)
```
### Truncation
**truncation**: Limit sequence length
```python
# Truncate to max_length
inputs = tokenizer(text, truncation=True, max_length=512)
# Truncate first sequence in pairs
inputs = tokenizer(text1, text2, truncation="only_first")
# Truncate second sequence
inputs = tokenizer(text1, text2, truncation="only_second")
# Truncate longest first (default for pairs)
inputs = tokenizer(text1, text2, truncation="longest_first", max_length=512)
```
### Max Length
**max_length**: Maximum sequence length
```python
inputs = tokenizer(text, max_length=512, truncation=True)
```
### Additional Outputs
**return_attention_mask**: Include attention mask (default True)
```python
inputs = tokenizer(text, return_attention_mask=True)
```
**return_token_type_ids**: Segment IDs for sentence pairs
```python
inputs = tokenizer(text1, text2, return_token_type_ids=True)
```
**return_offsets_mapping**: Character position mapping (Fast tokenizers only)
```python
inputs = tokenizer(text, return_offsets_mapping=True)
```
**return_length**: Include sequence lengths
```python
inputs = tokenizer(texts, padding=True, return_length=True)
```
## Special Tokens
### Predefined Special Tokens
Access special tokens:
```python
print(tokenizer.cls_token) # [CLS] or <s>
print(tokenizer.sep_token) # [SEP] or </s>
print(tokenizer.pad_token) # [PAD]
print(tokenizer.unk_token) # [UNK]
print(tokenizer.mask_token) # [MASK]
print(tokenizer.eos_token) # End of sequence
print(tokenizer.bos_token) # Beginning of sequence
# Get IDs
print(tokenizer.cls_token_id)
print(tokenizer.sep_token_id)
```
### Add Special Tokens
Manual control:
```python
# Automatically add special tokens (default True)
inputs = tokenizer(text, add_special_tokens=True)
# Skip special tokens
inputs = tokenizer(text, add_special_tokens=False)
```
### Custom Special Tokens
```python
special_tokens_dict = {
"additional_special_tokens": ["<CUSTOM>", "<SPECIAL>"]
}
num_added = tokenizer.add_special_tokens(special_tokens_dict)
print(f"Added {num_added} tokens")
# Resize model embeddings after adding tokens
model.resize_token_embeddings(len(tokenizer))
```
## Sentence Pairs
Tokenize text pairs:
```python
text1 = "What is the capital of France?"
text2 = "Paris is the capital of France."
# Automatically handles separation
inputs = tokenizer(text1, text2, padding=True, truncation=True)
# Results in: [CLS] text1 [SEP] text2 [SEP]
```
## Batch Encoding
Process multiple texts:
```python
texts = ["First text", "Second text", "Third text"]
# Basic batch encoding
batch = tokenizer(texts, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors="pt")
# Access individual encodings
for i in range(len(texts)):
input_ids = batch["input_ids"][i]
attention_mask = batch["attention_mask"][i]
```
## Fast Tokenizers
Use Rust-based tokenizers for speed:
```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
# Automatically loads Fast version if available
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
# Check if Fast
print(tokenizer.is_fast) # True
# Force Fast tokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased", use_fast=True)
# Force slow (Python) tokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased", use_fast=False)
```
### Fast Tokenizer Features
**Offset mapping** (character positions):
```python
inputs = tokenizer("Hello world", return_offsets_mapping=True)
print(inputs["offset_mapping"])
# [(0, 0), (0, 5), (6, 11), (0, 0)] # [CLS], "Hello", "world", [SEP]
```
**Token to word mapping**:
```python
encoding = tokenizer("Hello world")
word_ids = encoding.word_ids()
print(word_ids) # [None, 0, 1, None] # [CLS]=None, "Hello"=0, "world"=1, [SEP]=None
```
## Saving Tokenizers
Save locally:
```python
tokenizer.save_pretrained("./my_tokenizer")
```
Push to Hub:
```python
tokenizer.push_to_hub("username/my-tokenizer")
```
## Advanced Usage
### Vocabulary
Access vocabulary:
```python
vocab = tokenizer.get_vocab()
vocab_size = len(vocab)
# Get token for ID
token = tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens(100)
# Get ID for token
token_id = tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("hello")
```
### Encoding Details
Get detailed encoding information:
```python
encoding = tokenizer("Hello world", return_tensors="pt")
# Original methods still available
tokens = encoding.tokens()
word_ids = encoding.word_ids()
sequence_ids = encoding.sequence_ids()
```
### Custom Preprocessing
Subclass for custom behavior:
```python
class CustomTokenizer(AutoTokenizer):
def __call__(self, text, **kwargs):
# Custom preprocessing
text = text.lower().strip()
return super().__call__(text, **kwargs)
```
## Chat Templates
For conversational models:
```python
messages = [
{"role": "system", "content": "You are helpful."},
{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"},
{"role": "assistant", "content": "Hi there!"},
{"role": "user", "content": "How are you?"}
]
# Apply chat template
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False)
print(text)
# Tokenize directly
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=True, return_tensors="pt")
```
## Common Patterns
### Pattern 1: Simple Text Classification
```python
texts = ["I love this!", "I hate this!"]
labels = [1, 0]
inputs = tokenizer(
texts,
padding=True,
truncation=True,
max_length=512,
return_tensors="pt"
)
# Use with model
outputs = model(**inputs, labels=torch.tensor(labels))
```
### Pattern 2: Question Answering
```python
question = "What is the capital?"
context = "Paris is the capital of France."
inputs = tokenizer(
question,
context,
padding=True,
truncation=True,
max_length=384,
return_tensors="pt"
)
```
### Pattern 3: Text Generation
```python
prompt = "Once upon a time"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")
# Generate
outputs = model.generate(
inputs["input_ids"],
max_new_tokens=50,
pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id
)
# Decode
text = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
```
### Pattern 4: Dataset Tokenization
```python
def tokenize_function(examples):
return tokenizer(
examples["text"],
padding="max_length",
truncation=True,
max_length=512
)
# Apply to dataset
tokenized_dataset = dataset.map(tokenize_function, batched=True)
```
## Best Practices
1. **Always specify return_tensors**: For model input
2. **Use padding and truncation**: For batch processing
3. **Set max_length explicitly**: Prevent memory issues
4. **Use Fast tokenizers**: When available for speed
5. **Handle pad_token**: Set to eos_token if None for generation
6. **Add special tokens**: Leave enabled (default) unless specific reason
7. **Resize embeddings**: After adding custom tokens
8. **Decode with skip_special_tokens**: For cleaner output
9. **Use batched processing**: For efficiency with datasets
10. **Save tokenizer with model**: Ensure compatibility
## Common Issues
**Padding token not set:**
```python
if tokenizer.pad_token is None:
tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token
```
**Sequence too long:**
```python
# Enable truncation
inputs = tokenizer(text, truncation=True, max_length=512)
```
**Mismatched vocabulary:**
```python
# Always load tokenizer and model from same checkpoint
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("model-id")
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("model-id")
```
**Attention mask issues:**
```python
# Ensure attention_mask is passed
outputs = model(
input_ids=inputs["input_ids"],
attention_mask=inputs["attention_mask"]
)
```

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# Training with Transformers
# Training and Fine-Tuning
Transformers provides comprehensive training capabilities through the `Trainer` API, supporting distributed training, mixed precision, and advanced optimization techniques.
## Overview
## Basic Training Workflow
Fine-tune pre-trained models on custom datasets using the Trainer API. The Trainer handles training loops, gradient accumulation, mixed precision, logging, and checkpointing.
## Basic Fine-Tuning Workflow
### Step 1: Load and Preprocess Data
```python
from transformers import (
AutoModelForSequenceClassification,
AutoTokenizer,
Trainer,
TrainingArguments
)
from datasets import load_dataset
# 1. Load and preprocess data
dataset = load_dataset("imdb")
# Load dataset
dataset = load_dataset("yelp_review_full")
train_dataset = dataset["train"]
eval_dataset = dataset["test"]
# Tokenize
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
def tokenize_function(examples):
return tokenizer(examples["text"], padding="max_length", truncation=True)
return tokenizer(
examples["text"],
padding="max_length",
truncation=True,
max_length=512
)
tokenized_datasets = dataset.map(tokenize_function, batched=True)
train_dataset = train_dataset.map(tokenize_function, batched=True)
eval_dataset = eval_dataset.map(tokenize_function, batched=True)
```
### Step 2: Load Model
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification
# 2. Load model
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
"bert-base-uncased",
num_labels=2
)
# 3. Define training arguments
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
num_train_epochs=3,
per_device_train_batch_size=16,
per_device_eval_batch_size=64,
learning_rate=2e-5,
eval_strategy="epoch",
save_strategy="epoch",
load_best_model_at_end=True,
)
# 4. Create trainer
trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=tokenized_datasets["train"],
eval_dataset=tokenized_datasets["test"],
)
# 5. Train
trainer.train()
# 6. Evaluate
trainer.evaluate()
# 7. Save model
trainer.save_model("./final_model")
```
## TrainingArguments Configuration
### Essential Parameters
**Output and Logging:**
- `output_dir`: Directory for checkpoints and outputs (required)
- `logging_dir`: TensorBoard log directory (default: `{output_dir}/runs`)
- `logging_steps`: Log every N steps (default: 500)
- `logging_strategy`: "steps" or "epoch"
**Training Duration:**
- `num_train_epochs`: Number of epochs (default: 3.0)
- `max_steps`: Max training steps (overrides num_train_epochs if set)
**Batch Size and Gradient Accumulation:**
- `per_device_train_batch_size`: Batch size per device (default: 8)
- `per_device_eval_batch_size`: Eval batch size per device (default: 8)
- `gradient_accumulation_steps`: Accumulate gradients over N steps (default: 1)
- Effective batch size = `per_device_train_batch_size * gradient_accumulation_steps * num_gpus`
**Learning Rate:**
- `learning_rate`: Peak learning rate (default: 5e-5)
- `lr_scheduler_type`: Scheduler type ("linear", "cosine", "constant", etc.)
- `warmup_steps`: Warmup steps (default: 0)
- `warmup_ratio`: Warmup as fraction of total steps
**Evaluation:**
- `eval_strategy`: "no", "steps", or "epoch" (default: "no")
- `eval_steps`: Evaluate every N steps (if eval_strategy="steps")
- `eval_delay`: Delay evaluation until N steps
**Checkpointing:**
- `save_strategy`: "no", "steps", or "epoch" (default: "steps")
- `save_steps`: Save checkpoint every N steps (default: 500)
- `save_total_limit`: Keep only N most recent checkpoints
- `load_best_model_at_end`: Load best checkpoint at end (default: False)
- `metric_for_best_model`: Metric to determine best model
**Optimization:**
- `optim`: Optimizer ("adamw_torch", "adamw_hf", "sgd", etc.)
- `weight_decay`: Weight decay coefficient (default: 0.0)
- `adam_beta1`, `adam_beta2`: Adam optimizer betas
- `adam_epsilon`: Epsilon for Adam (default: 1e-8)
- `max_grad_norm`: Max gradient norm for clipping (default: 1.0)
### Mixed Precision Training
```python
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
fp16=True, # Use fp16 on NVIDIA GPUs
fp16_opt_level="O1", # O0, O1, O2, O3 (Apex levels)
# or
bf16=True, # Use bf16 on Ampere+ GPUs (better than fp16)
num_labels=5 # Number of classes
)
```
### Distributed Training
**DataParallel (single-node multi-GPU):**
```python
# Automatic with multiple GPUs
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
per_device_train_batch_size=16, # Per GPU
)
# Run: python script.py
```
**DistributedDataParallel (multi-node or multi-GPU):**
```bash
# Single node, multiple GPUs
python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=4 script.py
# Or use accelerate
accelerate config
accelerate launch script.py
```
**DeepSpeed Integration:**
```python
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
deepspeed="ds_config.json", # DeepSpeed config file
)
```
### Advanced Features
**Gradient Checkpointing (reduce memory):**
```python
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
gradient_checkpointing=True,
)
```
**Compilation with torch.compile:**
```python
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
torch_compile=True,
torch_compile_backend="inductor", # or "cudagraphs"
)
```
**Push to Hub:**
```python
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
push_to_hub=True,
hub_model_id="username/model-name",
hub_strategy="every_save", # or "end"
)
```
## Custom Training Components
### Custom Metrics
### Step 3: Define Metrics
```python
import evaluate
@@ -188,32 +56,195 @@ def compute_metrics(eval_pred):
logits, labels = eval_pred
predictions = np.argmax(logits, axis=-1)
return metric.compute(predictions=predictions, references=labels)
```
### Step 4: Configure Training
```python
from transformers import TrainingArguments
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
eval_strategy="epoch",
save_strategy="epoch",
learning_rate=2e-5,
per_device_train_batch_size=8,
per_device_eval_batch_size=8,
num_train_epochs=3,
weight_decay=0.01,
logging_dir="./logs",
logging_steps=10,
load_best_model_at_end=True,
metric_for_best_model="accuracy",
)
```
### Step 5: Create Trainer and Train
```python
from transformers import Trainer
trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=train_dataset,
eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
)
# Start training
trainer.train()
# Evaluate
results = trainer.evaluate()
print(results)
```
### Custom Loss Function
### Step 6: Save Model
```python
class CustomTrainer(Trainer):
def compute_loss(self, model, inputs, return_outputs=False):
labels = inputs.pop("labels")
outputs = model(**inputs)
logits = outputs.logits
trainer.save_model("./fine_tuned_model")
tokenizer.save_pretrained("./fine_tuned_model")
# Custom loss calculation
loss_fct = torch.nn.CrossEntropyLoss(weight=class_weights)
loss = loss_fct(logits.view(-1, self.model.config.num_labels), labels.view(-1))
return (loss, outputs) if return_outputs else loss
# Or push to Hub
trainer.push_to_hub("username/my-finetuned-model")
```
### Data Collator
## TrainingArguments Parameters
### Essential Parameters
**output_dir**: Directory for checkpoints and logs
```python
output_dir="./results"
```
**num_train_epochs**: Number of training epochs
```python
num_train_epochs=3
```
**per_device_train_batch_size**: Batch size per GPU/CPU
```python
per_device_train_batch_size=8
```
**learning_rate**: Optimizer learning rate
```python
learning_rate=2e-5 # Common for BERT-style models
learning_rate=5e-5 # Common for smaller models
```
**weight_decay**: L2 regularization
```python
weight_decay=0.01
```
### Evaluation and Saving
**eval_strategy**: When to evaluate ("no", "steps", "epoch")
```python
eval_strategy="epoch" # Evaluate after each epoch
eval_strategy="steps" # Evaluate every eval_steps
```
**save_strategy**: When to save checkpoints
```python
save_strategy="epoch"
save_strategy="steps"
save_steps=500
```
**load_best_model_at_end**: Load best checkpoint after training
```python
load_best_model_at_end=True
metric_for_best_model="accuracy" # Metric to compare
```
### Optimization
**gradient_accumulation_steps**: Accumulate gradients over multiple steps
```python
gradient_accumulation_steps=4 # Effective batch size = batch_size * 4
```
**fp16**: Enable mixed precision (NVIDIA GPUs)
```python
fp16=True
```
**bf16**: Enable bfloat16 (newer GPUs)
```python
bf16=True
```
**gradient_checkpointing**: Trade compute for memory
```python
gradient_checkpointing=True # Slower but uses less memory
```
**optim**: Optimizer choice
```python
optim="adamw_torch" # Default
optim="adamw_8bit" # 8-bit Adam (requires bitsandbytes)
optim="adafactor" # Memory-efficient alternative
```
### Learning Rate Scheduling
**lr_scheduler_type**: Learning rate schedule
```python
lr_scheduler_type="linear" # Linear decay
lr_scheduler_type="cosine" # Cosine annealing
lr_scheduler_type="constant" # No decay
lr_scheduler_type="constant_with_warmup"
```
**warmup_steps** or **warmup_ratio**: Warmup period
```python
warmup_steps=500
# Or
warmup_ratio=0.1 # 10% of total steps
```
### Logging
**logging_dir**: TensorBoard logs directory
```python
logging_dir="./logs"
```
**logging_steps**: Log every N steps
```python
logging_steps=10
```
**report_to**: Logging integrations
```python
report_to=["tensorboard"]
report_to=["wandb"]
report_to=["tensorboard", "wandb"]
```
### Distributed Training
**ddp_backend**: Distributed backend
```python
ddp_backend="nccl" # For multi-GPU
```
**deepspeed**: DeepSpeed config file
```python
deepspeed="ds_config.json"
```
## Data Collators
Handle dynamic padding and special preprocessing:
### DataCollatorWithPadding
Pad sequences to longest in batch:
```python
from transformers import DataCollatorWithPadding
@@ -227,102 +258,243 @@ trainer = Trainer(
)
```
### Callbacks
### DataCollatorForLanguageModeling
For masked language modeling:
```python
from transformers import DataCollatorForLanguageModeling
data_collator = DataCollatorForLanguageModeling(
tokenizer=tokenizer,
mlm=True,
mlm_probability=0.15
)
```
### DataCollatorForSeq2Seq
For sequence-to-sequence tasks:
```python
from transformers import DataCollatorForSeq2Seq
data_collator = DataCollatorForSeq2Seq(
tokenizer=tokenizer,
model=model,
padding=True
)
```
## Custom Training
### Custom Trainer
Override methods for custom behavior:
```python
from transformers import Trainer
class CustomTrainer(Trainer):
def compute_loss(self, model, inputs, return_outputs=False):
labels = inputs.pop("labels")
outputs = model(**inputs)
logits = outputs.logits
# Custom loss computation
loss_fct = torch.nn.CrossEntropyLoss(weight=class_weights)
loss = loss_fct(logits.view(-1, self.model.config.num_labels), labels.view(-1))
return (loss, outputs) if return_outputs else loss
```
### Custom Callbacks
Monitor and control training:
```python
from transformers import TrainerCallback
class CustomCallback(TrainerCallback):
def on_epoch_end(self, args, state, control, **kwargs):
print(f"Epoch {state.epoch} completed!")
print(f"Epoch {state.epoch} completed")
# Custom logic here
return control
trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=train_dataset,
callbacks=[CustomCallback],
)
```
## Hyperparameter Search
## Advanced Training Techniques
### Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT)
Use LoRA for efficient fine-tuning:
```python
from peft import LoraConfig, get_peft_model
lora_config = LoraConfig(
r=16,
lora_alpha=32,
target_modules=["query", "value"],
lora_dropout=0.05,
bias="none",
task_type="SEQ_CLS"
)
model = get_peft_model(model, lora_config)
model.print_trainable_parameters() # Shows reduced parameter count
# Train normally with Trainer
trainer = Trainer(model=model, args=training_args, ...)
trainer.train()
```
### Gradient Checkpointing
Reduce memory at cost of speed:
```python
model.gradient_checkpointing_enable()
training_args = TrainingArguments(
gradient_checkpointing=True,
...
)
```
### Mixed Precision Training
```python
training_args = TrainingArguments(
fp16=True, # For NVIDIA GPUs with Tensor Cores
# or
bf16=True, # For newer GPUs (A100, H100)
...
)
```
### DeepSpeed Integration
For very large models:
```python
# ds_config.json
{
"train_batch_size": 16,
"gradient_accumulation_steps": 1,
"optimizer": {
"type": "AdamW",
"params": {
"lr": 2e-5
}
},
"fp16": {
"enabled": true
},
"zero_optimization": {
"stage": 2
}
}
```
```python
training_args = TrainingArguments(
deepspeed="ds_config.json",
...
)
```
## Training Tips
### Hyperparameter Tuning
Common starting points:
- **Learning rate**: 2e-5 to 5e-5 for BERT-like models, 1e-4 to 1e-3 for smaller models
- **Batch size**: 8-32 depending on GPU memory
- **Epochs**: 2-4 for fine-tuning, more for domain adaptation
- **Warmup**: 10% of total steps
Use Optuna for hyperparameter search:
```python
def model_init():
return AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
"bert-base-uncased",
num_labels=2
num_labels=5
)
trainer = Trainer(
model_init=model_init,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=train_dataset,
eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
)
# Optuna-based search
best_trial = trainer.hyperparameter_search(
direction="maximize",
backend="optuna",
n_trials=10,
hp_space=lambda trial: {
def optuna_hp_space(trial):
return {
"learning_rate": trial.suggest_float("learning_rate", 1e-5, 5e-5, log=True),
"per_device_train_batch_size": trial.suggest_categorical("per_device_train_batch_size", [8, 16, 32]),
"num_train_epochs": trial.suggest_int("num_train_epochs", 2, 5),
}
trainer = Trainer(model_init=model_init, args=training_args, ...)
best_trial = trainer.hyperparameter_search(
direction="maximize",
backend="optuna",
hp_space=optuna_hp_space,
n_trials=10,
)
```
## Training Best Practices
### Monitoring Training
1. **Start with small learning rates**: 2e-5 to 5e-5 for fine-tuning
2. **Use warmup**: 5-10% of total steps for learning rate warmup
3. **Monitor training**: Use eval_strategy="epoch" or "steps" to track progress
4. **Save checkpoints**: Set save_strategy and save_total_limit
5. **Use mixed precision**: Enable fp16 or bf16 for faster training
6. **Gradient accumulation**: For large effective batch sizes on limited memory
7. **Load best model**: Set load_best_model_at_end=True to avoid overfitting
8. **Push to Hub**: Enable push_to_hub for easy model sharing and versioning
Use TensorBoard:
```bash
tensorboard --logdir ./logs
```
## Common Training Patterns
### Classification
Or Weights & Biases:
```python
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
"bert-base-uncased",
num_labels=num_classes,
id2label=id2label,
label2id=label2id
import wandb
wandb.init(project="my-project")
training_args = TrainingArguments(
report_to=["wandb"],
...
)
```
### Question Answering
### Resume Training
Resume from checkpoint:
```python
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
trainer.train(resume_from_checkpoint="./results/checkpoint-1000")
```
### Token Classification (NER)
```python
model = AutoModelForTokenClassification.from_pretrained(
"bert-base-uncased",
num_labels=num_tags,
id2label=id2label,
label2id=label2id
)
```
## Common Issues
### Sequence-to-Sequence
```python
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("t5-base")
```
**CUDA out of memory:**
- Reduce batch size
- Enable gradient checkpointing
- Use gradient accumulation
- Use 8-bit optimizers
### Causal Language Modeling
```python
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("gpt2")
```
**Overfitting:**
- Increase weight_decay
- Add dropout
- Use early stopping
- Reduce model size or training epochs
### Masked Language Modeling
```python
model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
```
**Slow training:**
- Increase batch size
- Enable mixed precision (fp16/bf16)
- Use multiple GPUs
- Optimize data loading
## Best Practices
1. **Start small**: Test on small dataset subset first
2. **Use evaluation**: Monitor validation metrics
3. **Save checkpoints**: Enable save_strategy
4. **Log extensively**: Use TensorBoard or W&B
5. **Try different learning rates**: Start with 2e-5
6. **Use warmup**: Helps training stability
7. **Enable mixed precision**: Faster training
8. **Consider PEFT**: For large models with limited resources