prophetnet.rst

ProphetNet
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Overview
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The ProphetNet model was proposed in `ProphetNet: Predicting Future N-gram for Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training, <https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04063>`__ by Yu Yan, Weizhen Qi, Yeyun Gong, Dayiheng Liu, Nan Duan, Jiusheng Chen, Ruofei Zhang, Ming Zhou on 13 Jan, 2020.

ProphetNet is an encoder-decoder model and can predict n-future tokens for "ngram" language modeling instead of just the next token.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*In this paper, we present a new sequence-to-sequence pre-training model called ProphetNet, which introduces a novel self-supervised objective named future n-gram prediction and the proposed n-stream self-attention mechanism. Instead of the optimization of one-step ahead prediction in traditional sequence-to-sequence model, the ProphetNet is optimized by n-step ahead prediction which predicts the next n tokens simultaneously based on previous context tokens at each time step. The future n-gram prediction explicitly encourages the model to plan for the future tokens and prevent overfitting on strong local correlations. We pre-train ProphetNet using a base scale dataset (16GB) and a large scale dataset (160GB) respectively. Then we conduct experiments on CNN/DailyMail, Gigaword, and SQuAD 1.1 benchmarks for abstractive summarization and question generation tasks. Experimental results show that ProphetNet achieves new state-of-the-art results on all these datasets compared to the models using the same scale pre-training corpus.*

The Authors' code can be found `here <https://github.com/microsoft/ProphetNet>`__.


ProphetNetConfig
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ProphetNetConfig
    :members:


ProphetNetTokenizer
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ProphetNetTokenizer
    :members:


ProphetNet specific outputs
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.. autoclass:: transformers.modeling_prophetnet.ProphetNetSeq2SeqLMOutput
    :members:

.. autoclass:: transformers.modeling_prophetnet.ProphetNetSeq2SeqModelOutput
    :members:

.. autoclass:: transformers.modeling_prophetnet.ProphetNetDecoderModelOutput
    :members:

.. autoclass:: transformers.modeling_prophetnet.ProphetNetDecoderLMOutput
    :members:

ProphetNetModel
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ProphetNetModel
    :members: forward


ProphetNetEncoder
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ProphetNetEncoder
    :members: forward


ProphetNetDecoder
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ProphetNetDecoder
    :members: forward


ProphetNetForConditionalGeneration
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ProphetNetForConditionalGeneration
    :members: forward


ProphetNetForCausalLM
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.. autoclass:: transformers.ProphetNetForCausalLM
    :members: forward