albert.rst

ALBERT
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Overview
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The ALBERT model was proposed in `ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations
<https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11942>`__ by Zhenzhong Lan, Mingda Chen, Sebastian Goodman, Kevin Gimpel, Piyush Sharma,
Radu Soricut. It presents two parameter-reduction techniques to lower memory consumption and increase the training
speed of BERT:

- Splitting the embedding matrix into two smaller matrices.
- Using repeating layers split among groups.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*Increasing model size when pretraining natural language representations often results in improved performance on
downstream tasks. However, at some point further model increases become harder due to GPU/TPU memory limitations,
longer training times, and unexpected model degradation. To address these problems, we present two parameter-reduction
techniques to lower memory consumption and increase the training speed of BERT. Comprehensive empirical evidence shows
that our proposed methods lead to models that scale much better compared to the original BERT. We also use a
self-supervised loss that focuses on modeling inter-sentence coherence, and show it consistently helps downstream tasks
with multi-sentence inputs. As a result, our best model establishes new state-of-the-art results on the GLUE, RACE, and
SQuAD benchmarks while having fewer parameters compared to BERT-large.*

Tips:

- ALBERT is a model with absolute position embeddings so it's usually advised to pad the inputs on the right rather
  than the left.
- ALBERT uses repeating layers which results in a small memory footprint, however the computational cost remains
  similar to a BERT-like architecture with the same number of hidden layers as it has to iterate through the same
  number of (repeating) layers.

The original code can be found `here <https://github.com/google-research/ALBERT>`__.

AlbertConfig
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.. autoclass:: transformers.AlbertConfig
    :members:


AlbertTokenizer
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.. autoclass:: transformers.AlbertTokenizer
    :members: build_inputs_with_special_tokens, get_special_tokens_mask,
        create_token_type_ids_from_sequences, save_vocabulary


Albert specific outputs
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.. autoclass:: transformers.modeling_albert.AlbertForPreTrainingOutput
    :members:

.. autoclass:: transformers.modeling_tf_albert.TFAlbertForPreTrainingOutput
    :members:


AlbertModel
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.. autoclass:: transformers.AlbertModel
    :members: forward


AlbertForPreTraining
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.. autoclass:: transformers.AlbertForPreTraining
    :members: forward


AlbertForMaskedLM
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.. autoclass:: transformers.AlbertForMaskedLM
    :members: forward


AlbertForSequenceClassification
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.. autoclass:: transformers.AlbertForSequenceClassification
    :members: forward


AlbertForMultipleChoice
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.. autoclass:: transformers.AlbertForMultipleChoice
    :members:


AlbertForTokenClassification
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.. autoclass:: transformers.AlbertForTokenClassification
    :members: forward


AlbertForQuestionAnswering
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.. autoclass:: transformers.AlbertForQuestionAnswering
    :members: forward


TFAlbertModel
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.. autoclass:: transformers.TFAlbertModel
    :members: call


TFAlbertForPreTraining
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.. autoclass:: transformers.TFAlbertForPreTraining
    :members: call


TFAlbertForMaskedLM
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.. autoclass:: transformers.TFAlbertForMaskedLM
    :members: call


TFAlbertForSequenceClassification
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.. autoclass:: transformers.TFAlbertForSequenceClassification
    :members: call


TFAlbertForMultipleChoice
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.. autoclass:: transformers.TFAlbertForMultipleChoice
    :members: call


TFAlbertForTokenClassification
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.. autoclass:: transformers.TFAlbertForTokenClassification
    :members: call


TFAlbertForQuestionAnswering
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.. autoclass:: transformers.TFAlbertForQuestionAnswering
    :members: call