Documentation (#2989)

* All Tokenizers

BertTokenizer + few fixes
RobertaTokenizer
OpenAIGPTTokenizer + Fixes
GPT2Tokenizer + fixes
TransfoXLTokenizer
Correct rst for TransformerXL
XLMTokenizer + fixes
XLNet Tokenizer + Style
DistilBERT + Fix XLNet RST
CTRLTokenizer
CamemBERT Tokenizer
FlaubertTokenizer
XLMRobertaTokenizer
cleanup

* cleanup

docs/source/model_doc/albert.rst

@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ AlbertTokenizer
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. autoclass:: transformers.AlbertTokenizer
-    :members:
+    :members: build_inputs_with_special_tokens, get_special_tokens_mask,
+        create_token_type_ids_from_sequences, save_vocabulary
 
 
 AlbertModel

docs/source/model_doc/bert.rst

@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ BertTokenizer
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. autoclass:: transformers.BertTokenizer
-    :members:
+    :members: build_inputs_with_special_tokens, get_special_tokens_mask,
+        create_token_type_ids_from_sequences, save_vocabulary
 
 
 BertModel

docs/source/model_doc/camembert.rst

@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ CamembertTokenizer
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. autoclass:: transformers.CamembertTokenizer
-    :members:
+    :members: build_inputs_with_special_tokens, get_special_tokens_mask,
+        create_token_type_ids_from_sequences, save_vocabulary
 
 
 CamembertModel

docs/source/model_doc/ctrl.rst

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ CTRLTokenizer
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. autoclass:: transformers.CTRLTokenizer
-    :members:
+    :members: save_vocabulary
 
 
 CTRLModel

docs/source/model_doc/gpt.rst

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ OpenAIGPTTokenizer
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. autoclass:: transformers.OpenAIGPTTokenizer
-    :members:
+    :members: save_vocabulary
 
 
 OpenAIGPTModel

docs/source/model_doc/gpt2.rst

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Overview
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 OpenAI GPT-2 model was proposed in
-`Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners`_
+`Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners <https://cdn.openai.com/better-language-models/language_models_are_unsupervised_multitask_learners.pdf>`_
 by Alec Radford*, Jeffrey Wu*, Rewon Child, David Luan, Dario Amodei** and Ilya Sutskever**.
 It's a causal (unidirectional) transformer pre-trained using  language modeling on a very large
 corpus of ~40 GB of text data.
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ GPT2Tokenizer
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. autoclass:: transformers.GPT2Tokenizer
-    :members:
+    :members: save_vocabulary
 
 
 GPT2Model

docs/source/model_doc/roberta.rst

@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ RobertaTokenizer
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. autoclass:: transformers.RobertaTokenizer
-    :members:
+    :members: build_inputs_with_special_tokens, get_special_tokens_mask,
+        create_token_type_ids_from_sequences, save_vocabulary
 
 
 RobertaModel

docs/source/model_doc/transformerxl.rst

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ TransfoXLTokenizer
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. autoclass:: transformers.TransfoXLTokenizer
-    :members:
+    :members: save_vocabulary
 
 
 TransfoXLModel

docs/source/model_doc/xlm.rst

@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ XLMTokenizer
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. autoclass:: transformers.XLMTokenizer
-    :members:
+    :members: build_inputs_with_special_tokens, get_special_tokens_mask,
+        create_token_type_ids_from_sequences, save_vocabulary
 
 XLMModel
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

docs/source/model_doc/xlmroberta.rst

@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ XLMRobertaTokenizer
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. autoclass:: transformers.XLMRobertaTokenizer
-    :members:
+    :members: build_inputs_with_special_tokens, get_special_tokens_mask,
+        create_token_type_ids_from_sequences, save_vocabulary
 
 
 XLMRobertaModel

docs/source/model_doc/xlnet.rst

@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ XLNetTokenizer
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. autoclass:: transformers.XLNetTokenizer
-    :members:
+    :members: build_inputs_with_special_tokens, get_special_tokens_mask,
+        create_token_type_ids_from_sequences, save_vocabulary
 
 
 XLNetModel

src/transformers/configuration_flaubert.py

@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ class FlaubertConfig(XLMConfig):
                 Argument used when doing sequence summary. Used in for the multiple choice head in
                 :class:`~transformers.XLMForSequenceClassification`.
                 Is one of the following options:
+
                 - 'last' => take the last token hidden state (like XLNet)
                 - 'first' => take the first token hidden state (like Bert)
                 - 'mean' => take the mean of all tokens hidden states

src/transformers/configuration_gpt2.py

@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ class GPT2Config(PretrainedConfig):
                 Argument used when doing sequence summary. Used in for the multiple choice head in
                 :class:`~transformers.GPT2DoubleHeadsModel`.
                 Is one of the following options:
+
                 - 'last' => take the last token hidden state (like XLNet)
                 - 'first' => take the first token hidden state (like Bert)
                 - 'mean' => take the mean of all tokens hidden states

src/transformers/configuration_openai.py

@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ class OpenAIGPTConfig(PretrainedConfig):
                 Argument used when doing sequence summary. Used in for the multiple choice head in
                 :class:`~transformers.OpenAIGPTDoubleHeadsModel`.
                 Is one of the following options:
+
                 - 'last' => take the last token hidden state (like XLNet)
                 - 'first' => take the first token hidden state (like Bert)
                 - 'mean' => take the mean of all tokens hidden states

src/transformers/configuration_xlm.py

@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ class XLMConfig(PretrainedConfig):
                 Argument used when doing sequence summary. Used in for the multiple choice head in
                 :class:`~transformers.XLMForSequenceClassification`.
                 Is one of the following options:
+
                 - 'last' => take the last token hidden state (like XLNet)
                 - 'first' => take the first token hidden state (like Bert)
                 - 'mean' => take the mean of all tokens hidden states

src/transformers/modeling_bert.py

@@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@ class BertForMultipleChoice(BertPreTrainedModel):
 
     Returns:
         :obj:`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)` comprising various elements depending on the configuration (:class:`~transformers.BertConfig`) and inputs:
-        loss (:obj:`torch.FloatTensor`` of shape ``(1,)`, `optional`, returned when :obj:`labels` is provided):
+        loss (:obj:`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(1,)`, `optional`, returned when :obj:`labels` is provided):
             Classification loss.
         classification_scores (:obj:`torch.FloatTensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size, num_choices)`):
             `num_choices` is the second dimension of the input tensors. (see `input_ids` above).

src/transformers/modeling_tf_bert.py

@@ -686,10 +686,11 @@ class TFBertModel(TFBertPreTrainedModel):
             Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the initial embedding outputs.
         attentions (:obj:`tuple(tf.Tensor)`, `optional`, returned when ``config.output_attentions=True``):
             tuple of :obj:`tf.Tensor` (one for each layer) of shape
-                :obj:`(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length)`:
+            :obj:`(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length)`.
 
             Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention heads.
 
+
     Examples::
 
         import tensorflow as tf

src/transformers/tokenization_albert.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import logging
 import os
 import unicodedata
 from shutil import copyfile
+from typing import List, Optional
 
 from .tokenization_utils import PreTrainedTokenizer
 
@@ -55,9 +56,55 @@ SPIECE_UNDERLINE = "▁"
 
 class AlbertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
     """
-        SentencePiece based tokenizer. Peculiarities:
+    Constructs an ALBERT tokenizer. Based on `SentencePiece <https://github.com/google/sentencepiece>`__
 
-            - requires `SentencePiece <https://github.com/google/sentencepiece>`_
+    This tokenizer inherits from :class:`~transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer` which contains most of the methods. Users
+    should refer to the superclass for more information regarding methods.
+
+    Args:
+        vocab_file (:obj:`string`):
+            `SentencePiece <https://github.com/google/sentencepiece>`__ file (generally has a .spm extension) that
+            contains the vocabulary necessary to instantiate a tokenizer.
+        do_lower_case (:obj:`bool`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`True`):
+            Whether to lowercase the input when tokenizing.
+        remove_space (:obj:`bool`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`True`):
+            Whether to strip the text when tokenizing (removing excess spaces before and after the string).
+        keep_accents (:obj:`bool`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`False`):
+            Whether to keep accents when tokenizing.
+        bos_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "[CLS]"):
+            The beginning of sequence token that was used during pre-training. Can be used a sequence classifier token.
+
+            .. note::
+
+                When building a sequence using special tokens, this is not the token that is used for the beginning
+                of sequence. The token used is the :obj:`cls_token`.
+        eos_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "[SEP]"):
+            The end of sequence token.
+
+            .. note::
+
+                When building a sequence using special tokens, this is not the token that is used for the end
+                of sequence. The token used is the :obj:`sep_token`.
+        unk_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "<unk>"):
+            The unknown token. A token that is not in the vocabulary cannot be converted to an ID and is set to be this
+            token instead.
+        sep_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "[SEP]"):
+            The separator token, which is used when building a sequence from multiple sequences, e.g. two sequences
+            for sequence classification or for a text and a question for question answering.
+            It is also used as the last token of a sequence built with special tokens.
+        pad_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "<pad>"):
+            The token used for padding, for example when batching sequences of different lengths.
+        cls_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "[CLS]"):
+            The classifier token which is used when doing sequence classification (classification of the whole
+            sequence instead of per-token classification). It is the first token of the sequence when built with
+            special tokens.
+        mask_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "[MASK]"):
+            The token used for masking values. This is the token used when training this model with masked language
+            modeling. This is the token which the model will try to predict.
+
+    Attributes:
+        sp_model (:obj:`SentencePieceProcessor`):
+            The `SentencePiece` processor that is used for every conversion (string, tokens and IDs).
     """
 
     vocab_files_names = VOCAB_FILES_NAMES
@@ -185,17 +232,28 @@ class AlbertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
         return self.sp_model.IdToPiece(index)
 
     def convert_tokens_to_string(self, tokens):
-        """Converts a sequence of tokens (strings for sub-words) in a single string."""
         out_string = "".join(tokens).replace(SPIECE_UNDERLINE, " ").strip()
         return out_string
 
-    def build_inputs_with_special_tokens(self, token_ids_0, token_ids_1=None):
+    def build_inputs_with_special_tokens(
+        self, token_ids_0: List[int], token_ids_1: Optional[List[int]] = None
+    ) -> List[int]:
         """
         Build model inputs from a sequence or a pair of sequence for sequence classification tasks
         by concatenating and adding special tokens.
         An ALBERT sequence has the following format:
-            single sequence: [CLS] X [SEP]
-            pair of sequences: [CLS] A [SEP] B [SEP]
+
+        - single sequence: ``[CLS] X [SEP]``
+        - pair of sequences: ``[CLS] A [SEP] B [SEP]``
+
+        Args:
+            token_ids_0 (:obj:`List[int]`):
+                List of IDs to which the special tokens will be added
+            token_ids_1 (:obj:`List[int]`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
+                Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.
+
+        Returns:
+            :obj:`List[int]`: list of `input IDs <../glossary.html#input-ids>`__ with the appropriate special tokens.
         """
         sep = [self.sep_token_id]
         cls = [self.cls_token_id]
@@ -203,27 +261,30 @@ class AlbertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
             return cls + token_ids_0 + sep
         return cls + token_ids_0 + sep + token_ids_1 + sep
 
-    def get_special_tokens_mask(self, token_ids_0, token_ids_1=None, already_has_special_tokens=False):
+    def get_special_tokens_mask(
+        self, token_ids_0: List[int], token_ids_1: Optional[List[int]] = None, already_has_special_tokens: bool = False
+    ) -> List[int]:
         """
         Retrieves sequence ids from a token list that has no special tokens added. This method is called when adding
         special tokens using the tokenizer ``prepare_for_model`` or ``encode_plus`` methods.
 
         Args:
-            token_ids_0: list of ids (must not contain special tokens)
-            token_ids_1: Optional list of ids (must not contain special tokens), necessary when fetching sequence ids
-                for sequence pairs
-            already_has_special_tokens: (default False) Set to True if the token list is already formated with
-                special tokens for the model
+            token_ids_0 (:obj:`List[int]`):
+                List of ids.
+            token_ids_1 (:obj:`List[int]`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
+                Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.
+            already_has_special_tokens (:obj:`bool`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`False`):
+                Set to True if the token list is already formatted with special tokens for the model
 
         Returns:
-            A list of integers in the range [0, 1]: 0 for a special token, 1 for a sequence token.
+            :obj:`List[int]`: A list of integers in the range [0, 1]: 0 for a special token, 1 for a sequence token.
         """
 
         if already_has_special_tokens:
             if token_ids_1 is not None:
                 raise ValueError(
                     "You should not supply a second sequence if the provided sequence of "
-                    "ids is already formated with special tokens for the model."
+                    "ids is already formatted with special tokens for the model."
                 )
             return list(map(lambda x: 1 if x in [self.sep_token_id, self.cls_token_id] else 0, token_ids_0))
 
@@ -231,14 +292,29 @@ class AlbertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
             return [1] + ([0] * len(token_ids_0)) + [1] + ([0] * len(token_ids_1)) + [1]
         return [1] + ([0] * len(token_ids_0)) + [1]
 
-    def create_token_type_ids_from_sequences(self, token_ids_0, token_ids_1=None):
+    def create_token_type_ids_from_sequences(
+        self, token_ids_0: List[int], token_ids_1: Optional[List[int]] = None
+    ) -> List[int]:
         """
         Creates a mask from the two sequences passed to be used in a sequence-pair classification task.
         An ALBERT sequence pair mask has the following format:
-        0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
-        | first sequence    | second sequence
 
-        if token_ids_1 is None, only returns the first portion of the mask (0's).
+        ::
+
+            0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
+            | first sequence    | second sequence |
+
+        if token_ids_1 is None, only returns the first portion of the mask (0s).
+
+        Args:
+            token_ids_0 (:obj:`List[int]`):
+                List of ids.
+            token_ids_1 (:obj:`List[int]`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
+                Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.
+
+        Returns:
+            :obj:`List[int]`: List of `token type IDs <../glossary.html#token-type-ids>`_ according to the given
+            sequence(s).
         """
         sep = [self.sep_token_id]
         cls = [self.cls_token_id]
@@ -248,8 +324,15 @@ class AlbertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
         return len(cls + token_ids_0 + sep) * [0] + len(token_ids_1 + sep) * [1]
 
     def save_vocabulary(self, save_directory):
-        """ Save the sentencepiece vocabulary (copy original file) and special tokens file
-            to a directory.
+        """
+        Save the sentencepiece vocabulary (copy original file) and special tokens file to a directory.
+
+        Args:
+            save_directory (:obj:`str`):
+                The directory in which to save the vocabulary.
+
+        Returns:
+            :obj:`Tuple(str)`: Paths to the files saved.
         """
         if not os.path.isdir(save_directory):
             logger.error("Vocabulary path ({}) should be a directory".format(save_directory))

src/transformers/tokenization_bert.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import collections
 import logging
 import os
 import unicodedata
+from typing import List, Optional
 
 from tokenizers import BertWordPieceTokenizer
 
@@ -117,17 +118,41 @@ def whitespace_tokenize(text):
 
 class BertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
     r"""
-    Constructs a BertTokenizer.
-    :class:`~transformers.BertTokenizer` runs end-to-end tokenization: punctuation splitting + wordpiece
+    Constructs a BERT tokenizer. Based on WordPiece.
+
+    This tokenizer inherits from :class:`~transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer` which contains most of the methods. Users
+    should refer to the superclass for more information regarding methods.
 
     Args:
-        vocab_file: Path to a one-wordpiece-per-line vocabulary file
-        do_lower_case: Whether to lower case the input. Only has an effect when do_basic_tokenize=True
-        do_basic_tokenize: Whether to do basic tokenization before wordpiece.
-        max_len: An artificial maximum length to truncate tokenized sequences to; Effective maximum length is always the
-            minimum of this value (if specified) and the underlying BERT model's sequence length.
-        never_split: List of tokens which will never be split during tokenization. Only has an effect when
-            do_basic_tokenize=True
+        vocab_file (:obj:`string`):
+            File containing the vocabulary.
+        do_lower_case (:obj:`bool`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`True`):
+            Whether to lowercase the input when tokenizing.
+        do_basic_tokenize (:obj:`bool`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`True`):
+            Whether to do basic tokenization before WordPiece.
+        never_split (:obj:`bool`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`True`):
+            List of tokens which will never be split during tokenization. Only has an effect when
+            :obj:`do_basic_tokenize=True`
+        unk_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "[UNK]"):
+            The unknown token. A token that is not in the vocabulary cannot be converted to an ID and is set to be this
+            token instead.
+        sep_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "[SEP]"):
+            The separator token, which is used when building a sequence from multiple sequences, e.g. two sequences
+            for sequence classification or for a text and a question for question answering.
+            It is also used as the last token of a sequence built with special tokens.
+        pad_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "[PAD]"):
+            The token used for padding, for example when batching sequences of different lengths.
+        cls_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "[CLS]"):
+            The classifier token which is used when doing sequence classification (classification of the whole
+            sequence instead of per-token classification). It is the first token of the sequence when built with
+            special tokens.
+        mask_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "[MASK]"):
+            The token used for masking values. This is the token used when training this model with masked language
+            modeling. This is the token which the model will try to predict.
+        tokenize_chinese_chars (:obj:`bool`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`True`):
+            Whether to tokenize Chinese characters.
+            This should likely be deactivated for Japanese:
+            see: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/328
     """
 
     vocab_files_names = VOCAB_FILES_NAMES
@@ -149,23 +174,6 @@ class BertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
         tokenize_chinese_chars=True,
         **kwargs
     ):
-        """Constructs a BertTokenizer.
-
-        Args:
-            **vocab_file**: Path to a one-wordpiece-per-line vocabulary file
-            **do_lower_case**: (`optional`) boolean (default True)
-                Whether to lower case the input
-                Only has an effect when do_basic_tokenize=True
-            **do_basic_tokenize**: (`optional`) boolean (default True)
-                Whether to do basic tokenization before wordpiece.
-            **never_split**: (`optional`) list of string
-                List of tokens which will never be split during tokenization.
-                Only has an effect when do_basic_tokenize=True
-            **tokenize_chinese_chars**: (`optional`) boolean (default True)
-                Whether to tokenize Chinese characters.
-                This should likely be deactivated for Japanese:
-                see: https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-pretrained-BERT/issues/328
-        """
         super().__init__(
             unk_token=unk_token,
             sep_token=sep_token,
@@ -221,13 +229,25 @@ class BertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
         out_string = " ".join(tokens).replace(" ##", "").strip()
         return out_string
 
-    def build_inputs_with_special_tokens(self, token_ids_0, token_ids_1=None):
+    def build_inputs_with_special_tokens(
+        self, token_ids_0: List[int], token_ids_1: Optional[List[int]] = None
+    ) -> List[int]:
         """
         Build model inputs from a sequence or a pair of sequence for sequence classification tasks
         by concatenating and adding special tokens.
         A BERT sequence has the following format:
-            single sequence: [CLS] X [SEP]
-            pair of sequences: [CLS] A [SEP] B [SEP]
+
+        - single sequence: ``[CLS] X [SEP]``
+        - pair of sequences: ``[CLS] A [SEP] B [SEP]``
+
+        Args:
+            token_ids_0 (:obj:`List[int]`):
+                List of IDs to which the special tokens will be added
+            token_ids_1 (:obj:`List[int]`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
+                Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.
+
+        Returns:
+            :obj:`List[int]`: list of `input IDs <../glossary.html#input-ids>`__ with the appropriate special tokens.
         """
         if token_ids_1 is None:
             return [self.cls_token_id] + token_ids_0 + [self.sep_token_id]
@@ -235,20 +255,23 @@ class BertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
         sep = [self.sep_token_id]
         return cls + token_ids_0 + sep + token_ids_1 + sep
 
-    def get_special_tokens_mask(self, token_ids_0, token_ids_1=None, already_has_special_tokens=False):
+    def get_special_tokens_mask(
+        self, token_ids_0: List[int], token_ids_1: Optional[List[int]] = None, already_has_special_tokens: bool = False
+    ) -> List[int]:
         """
         Retrieves sequence ids from a token list that has no special tokens added. This method is called when adding
         special tokens using the tokenizer ``prepare_for_model`` or ``encode_plus`` methods.
 
         Args:
-            token_ids_0: list of ids (must not contain special tokens)
-            token_ids_1: Optional list of ids (must not contain special tokens), necessary when fetching sequence ids
-                for sequence pairs
-            already_has_special_tokens: (default False) Set to True if the token list is already formated with
-                special tokens for the model
+            token_ids_0 (:obj:`List[int]`):
+                List of ids.
+            token_ids_1 (:obj:`List[int]`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
+                Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.
+            already_has_special_tokens (:obj:`bool`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`False`):
+                Set to True if the token list is already formatted with special tokens for the model
 
         Returns:
-            A list of integers in the range [0, 1]: 1 for a special token, 0 for a sequence token.
+            :obj:`List[int]`: A list of integers in the range [0, 1]: 0 for a special token, 1 for a sequence token.
         """
 
         if already_has_special_tokens:
@@ -263,14 +286,29 @@ class BertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
             return [1] + ([0] * len(token_ids_0)) + [1] + ([0] * len(token_ids_1)) + [1]
         return [1] + ([0] * len(token_ids_0)) + [1]
 
-    def create_token_type_ids_from_sequences(self, token_ids_0, token_ids_1=None):
+    def create_token_type_ids_from_sequences(
+        self, token_ids_0: List[int], token_ids_1: Optional[List[int]] = None
+    ) -> List[int]:
         """
         Creates a mask from the two sequences passed to be used in a sequence-pair classification task.
         A BERT sequence pair mask has the following format:
-        0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
-        | first sequence    | second sequence
+
+        ::
+
+            0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
+            | first sequence    | second sequence |
 
         if token_ids_1 is None, only returns the first portion of the mask (0's).
+
+        Args:
+            token_ids_0 (:obj:`List[int]`):
+                List of ids.
+            token_ids_1 (:obj:`List[int]`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
+                Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.
+
+        Returns:
+            :obj:`List[int]`: List of `token type IDs <../glossary.html#token-type-ids>`_ according to the given
+            sequence(s).
         """
         sep = [self.sep_token_id]
         cls = [self.cls_token_id]
@@ -279,7 +317,16 @@ class BertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
         return len(cls + token_ids_0 + sep) * [0] + len(token_ids_1 + sep) * [1]
 
     def save_vocabulary(self, vocab_path):
-        """Save the tokenizer vocabulary to a directory or file."""
+        """
+        Save the sentencepiece vocabulary (copy original file) and special tokens file to a directory.
+
+        Args:
+            vocab_path (:obj:`str`):
+                The directory in which to save the vocabulary.
+
+        Returns:
+            :obj:`Tuple(str)`: Paths to the files saved.
+        """
         index = 0
         if os.path.isdir(vocab_path):
             vocab_file = os.path.join(vocab_path, VOCAB_FILES_NAMES["vocab_file"])

src/transformers/tokenization_camembert.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 import logging
 import os
 from shutil import copyfile
+from typing import List, Optional
 
 import sentencepiece as spm
 
@@ -54,6 +55,49 @@ class CamembertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
         SentencePiece based tokenizer. Peculiarities:
 
         - requires `SentencePiece <https://github.com/google/sentencepiece>`_
+
+    This tokenizer inherits from :class:`~transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer` which contains most of the methods. Users
+    should refer to the superclass for more information regarding methods.
+
+    Args:
+        vocab_file (:obj:`str`):
+            Path to the vocabulary file.
+        bos_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "<s>"):
+            The beginning of sequence token that was used during pre-training. Can be used a sequence classifier token.
+
+            .. note::
+
+                When building a sequence using special tokens, this is not the token that is used for the beginning
+                of sequence. The token used is the :obj:`cls_token`.
+        eos_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "</s>"):
+            The end of sequence token.
+
+            .. note::
+
+                When building a sequence using special tokens, this is not the token that is used for the end
+                of sequence. The token used is the :obj:`sep_token`.
+        sep_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "</s>"):
+            The separator token, which is used when building a sequence from multiple sequences, e.g. two sequences
+            for sequence classification or for a text and a question for question answering.
+            It is also used as the last token of a sequence built with special tokens.
+        cls_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "<s>"):
+            The classifier token which is used when doing sequence classification (classification of the whole
+            sequence instead of per-token classification). It is the first token of the sequence when built with
+            special tokens.
+        unk_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "<unk>"):
+            The unknown token. A token that is not in the vocabulary cannot be converted to an ID and is set to be this
+            token instead.
+        pad_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "<pad>"):
+            The token used for padding, for example when batching sequences of different lengths.
+        mask_token (:obj:`string`, `optional`, defaults to "<mask>"):
+            The token used for masking values. This is the token used when training this model with masked language
+            modeling. This is the token which the model will try to predict.
+        additional_special_tokens (:obj:`List[str]`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`["<s>NOTUSED", "</s>NOTUSED"]`):
+            Additional special tokens used by the tokenizer.
+
+    Attributes:
+        sp_model (:obj:`SentencePieceProcessor`):
+            The `SentencePiece` processor that is used for every conversion (string, tokens and IDs).
     """
 
     vocab_files_names = VOCAB_FILES_NAMES
@@ -97,34 +141,50 @@ class CamembertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
         self.fairseq_tokens_to_ids["<mask>"] = len(self.sp_model) + len(self.fairseq_tokens_to_ids)
         self.fairseq_ids_to_tokens = {v: k for k, v in self.fairseq_tokens_to_ids.items()}
 
-    def build_inputs_with_special_tokens(self, token_ids_0, token_ids_1=None):
+    def build_inputs_with_special_tokens(
+        self, token_ids_0: List[int], token_ids_1: Optional[List[int]] = None
+    ) -> List[int]:
         """
         Build model inputs from a sequence or a pair of sequence for sequence classification tasks
         by concatenating and adding special tokens.
-        A RoBERTa sequence has the following format:
-            single sequence: <s> X </s>
-            pair of sequences: <s> A </s></s> B </s>
+        A CamemBERT sequence has the following format:
+
+        - single sequence: ``<s> X </s>``
+        - pair of sequences: ``<s> A </s></s> B </s>``
+
+        Args:
+            token_ids_0 (:obj:`List[int]`):
+                List of IDs to which the special tokens will be added
+            token_ids_1 (:obj:`List[int]`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
+                Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.
+
+        Returns:
+            :obj:`List[int]`: list of `input IDs <../glossary.html#input-ids>`__ with the appropriate special tokens.
         """
+
         if token_ids_1 is None:
             return [self.cls_token_id] + token_ids_0 + [self.sep_token_id]
         cls = [self.cls_token_id]
         sep = [self.sep_token_id]
         return cls + token_ids_0 + sep + sep + token_ids_1 + sep
 
-    def get_special_tokens_mask(self, token_ids_0, token_ids_1=None, already_has_special_tokens=False):
+    def get_special_tokens_mask(
+        self, token_ids_0: List[int], token_ids_1: Optional[List[int]] = None, already_has_special_tokens: bool = False
+    ) -> List[int]:
         """
         Retrieves sequence ids from a token list that has no special tokens added. This method is called when adding
         special tokens using the tokenizer ``prepare_for_model`` or ``encode_plus`` methods.
 
         Args:
-            token_ids_0: list of ids (must not contain special tokens)
-            token_ids_1: Optional list of ids (must not contain special tokens), necessary when fetching sequence ids
-                for sequence pairs
-            already_has_special_tokens: (default False) Set to True if the token list is already formated with
-                special tokens for the model
+            token_ids_0 (:obj:`List[int]`):
+                List of ids.
+            token_ids_1 (:obj:`List[int]`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
+                Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.
+            already_has_special_tokens (:obj:`bool`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`False`):
+                Set to True if the token list is already formatted with special tokens for the model
 
         Returns:
-            A list of integers in the range [0, 1]: 1 for a special token, 0 for a sequence token.
+            :obj:`List[int]`: A list of integers in the range [0, 1]: 0 for a special token, 1 for a sequence token.
         """
         if already_has_special_tokens:
             if token_ids_1 is not None:
@@ -138,14 +198,29 @@ class CamembertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
             return [1] + ([0] * len(token_ids_0)) + [1]
         return [1] + ([0] * len(token_ids_0)) + [1, 1] + ([0] * len(token_ids_1)) + [1]
 
-    def create_token_type_ids_from_sequences(self, token_ids_0, token_ids_1=None):
+    def create_token_type_ids_from_sequences(
+        self, token_ids_0: List[int], token_ids_1: Optional[List[int]] = None
+    ) -> List[int]:
         """
         Creates a mask from the two sequences passed to be used in a sequence-pair classification task.
-        A RoBERTa sequence pair mask has the following format:
-        0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
-        | first sequence    | second sequence
+        A CamemBERT sequence pair mask has the following format:
+
+        ::
 
-        if token_ids_1 is None, only returns the first portion of the mask (0's).
+            0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
+            | first sequence  | | second sequence |
+
+        if token_ids_1 is None, only returns the first portion of the mask (0s).
+
+        Args:
+            token_ids_0 (:obj:`List[int]`):
+                List of ids.
+            token_ids_1 (:obj:`List[int]`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
+                Optional second list of IDs for sequence pairs.
+
+        Returns:
+            :obj:`List[int]`: List of `token type IDs <../glossary.html#token-type-ids>`_ according to the given
+            sequence(s).
         """
         sep = [self.sep_token_id]
         cls = [self.cls_token_id]
@@ -200,8 +275,15 @@ class CamembertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
         return out_string
 
     def save_vocabulary(self, save_directory):
-        """ Save the sentencepiece vocabulary (copy original file) and special tokens file
-            to a directory.
+        """
+        Save the sentencepiece vocabulary (copy original file) and special tokens file to a directory.
+
+        Args:
+            save_directory (:obj:`str`):
+                The directory in which to save the vocabulary.
+
+        Returns:
+            :obj:`Tuple(str)`: Paths to the files saved.
         """
         if not os.path.isdir(save_directory):
             logger.error("Vocabulary path ({}) should be a directory".format(save_directory))