[Longformer-base-4096 model](https://huggingface.co/allenai/longformer-base-4096) fine-tuned on [SQuAD v2](https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/) for **Q&A** downstream task.
## Longformer-base-4096
[Longformer](https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05150) is a transformer model for long documents.
`longformer-base-4096` is a BERT-like model started from the RoBERTa checkpoint and pretrained for MLM on long documents. It supports sequences of length up to 4,096.
Longformer uses a combination of a sliding window (local) attention and global attention. Global attention is user-configured based on the task to allow the model to learn task-specific representations.
## Details of the downstream task (Q&A) - Dataset 📚 🧐 ❓
[SQuAD v2](https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/) combines the 100,000 questions in SQuAD1.1 with over 50,000 unanswerable questions written adversarially by crowdworkers to look similar to answerable ones. To do well on SQuAD2.0, systems must not only answer questions when possible, but also determine when no answer is supported by the paragraph and abstain from answering.
| Dataset | Split | # samples |
| -------- | ----- | --------- |
| SQuAD2.0 | train | 130k |
| SQuAD2.0 | eval | 12.3k |
## Model fine-tuning 🏋️
The training script is a slightly modified version of [this one](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1zEl5D-DdkBKva-DdreVOmN0hrAfzKG1o?usp=sharing)