| [TensorFlow 2.0 models on GLUE](#TensorFlow-2.0-Bert-models-on-GLUE) | Examples running BERT TensorFlow 2.0 model on the GLUE tasks.
| [Language Model fine-tuning](#language-model-fine-tuning) | Fine-tuning the library models for language modeling on a text dataset. Causal language modeling for GPT/GPT-2, masked language modeling for BERT/RoBERTa. |
| [Language Generation](#language-generation) | Conditional text generation using the auto-regressive models of the library: GPT, GPT-2, Transformer-XL and XLNet. |
| [GLUE](#glue) | Examples running BERT/XLM/XLNet/RoBERTa on the 9 GLUE tasks. Examples feature distributed training as well as half-precision. |
| [SQuAD](#squad) | Using BERT for question answering, examples with distributed training. |
| [SQuAD](#squad) | Using BERT/XLM/XLNet/RoBERTa for question answering, examples with distributed training. |
| [Multiple Choice](#multiple-choice) | Examples running BERT/XLNet/RoBERTa on the SWAG/RACE/ARC tasks.
| [Named Entity Recognition](#named-entity-recognition) | Using BERT for Named Entity Recognition (NER) on the CoNLL 2003 dataset, examples with distributed training. |
## TensorFlow 2.0 Bert models on GLUE
Based on the script [`run_tf_glue.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/run_tf_glue.py).
Fine-tuning the library TensorFlow 2.0 Bert model for sequence classification on the MRPC task of the GLUE benchmark: [General Language Understanding Evaluation](https://gluebenchmark.com/).
This script has an option for mixed precision (Automatic Mixed Precision / AMP) to run models on Tensor Cores (NVIDIA Volta/Turing GPUs) and future hardware and an option for XLA, which uses the XLA compiler to reduce model runtime.
Options are toggled using `USE_XLA` or `USE_AMP` variables in the script.
These options and the below benchmark are provided by @tlkh.
Quick benchmarks from the script (no other modifications):
| GPU | Mode | Time (2nd epoch) | Val Acc (3 runs) |
Based on the script [`run_ner.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/run_ner.py).
This example fine-tune Bert Multilingual on GermEval 2014 (German NER).
Details and results for the fine-tuning provided by @stefan-it.
### Data (Download and pre-processing steps)
Data can be obtained from the [GermEval 2014](https://sites.google.com/site/germeval2014ner/data) shared task page.
Here are the commands for downloading and pre-processing train, dev and test datasets. The original data format has four (tab-separated) columns, in a pre-processing step only the two relevant columns (token and outer span NER annotation) are extracted:
The GermEval 2014 dataset contains some strange "control character" tokens like `'\x96', '\u200e', '\x95', '\xad' or '\x80'`. One problem with these tokens is, that `BertTokenizer` returns an empty token for them, resulting in misaligned `InputExample`s. I wrote a script that a) filters these tokens and b) splits longer sentences into smaller ones (once the max. subtoken length is reached).
If your GPU supports half-precision training, just add the `--fp16` flag. After training, the model will be both evaluated on development and test datasets.
### Evaluation
Evaluation on development dataset outputs the following for our example: