Struct XLNetForQuestionAnswering

pub struct XLNetForQuestionAnswering { /* private fields */ }

XLNet for question answering

Extractive question-answering model based on a XLNet language model. Identifies the segment of a context that answers a provided question. Please note that a significant amount of pre- and post-processing is required to perform end-to-end question answering. See the question answering pipeline (also provided in this crate) for more details. It is made of the following blocks:

• base_model: Base XLNetModel
• qa_outputs: Linear layer for question answering

Implementations

impl XLNetForQuestionAnswering

pub fn new<'p, P>( p: P, config: &XLNetConfig, ) -> Result<XLNetForQuestionAnswering, RustBertError>

where P: Borrow<Path<'p>>,

Build a new XLNetForQuestionAnswering

Arguments

• p - Variable store path for the root of the XLNet model
• config - XLNetConfig object defining the model architecture

Example

use rust_bert::xlnet::{XLNetConfig, XLNetForQuestionAnswering};
use rust_bert::Config;
use std::path::Path;
use tch::{nn, Device};

let config_path = Path::new("path/to/config.json");
let device = Device::Cpu;
let p = nn::VarStore::new(device);
let config = XLNetConfig::from_file(config_path);
let xlnet_model = XLNetForQuestionAnswering::new(&p.root(), &config);

pub fn forward_t( &self, input_ids: Option<&Tensor>, attention_mask: Option<&Tensor>, old_layer_states: Option<Vec<Option<LayerState>>>, perm_mask: Option<&Tensor>, target_mapping: Option<&Tensor>, token_type_ids: Option<&Tensor>, input_embeds: Option<&Tensor>, train: bool, ) -> XLNetQuestionAnsweringOutput

Forward pass through the model

Arguments

• input_ids - Optional input tensor of shape (batch size, sequence_length). This or input_embeds must be provided.
• attention_mask - Optional attention mask of shape (batch size, sequence_length) for the encoder positions. Positions with a mask with value 0 will be masked.
• perm_mask - Optional tensor of shape (batch size, sequence_length, sequence_length). Mask to indicate the attention pattern for each input token (only used for pre-training over permutations, rather than simple token masking).
• target_mapping - Optional tensor of shape (batch size, num_tokens, sequence_length) indicating the position of the masked words to predict.
• token_type_ids - Optional tensor (batch size, sequence_length) indicating the sentence ID of the token (0: first sentence, 1: second sentence).
• input_embeds - Optional input tensor of shape (batch size, sequence_length, embeddings dimension). This or input_ids must be provided.
• old_layer_states - Optional vector of length num_layers containing optional LayerStates containing the last calculated content for the attention layers. This avoids recomputing attention weights at past positions and speeds up decoding.
• train - boolean flag to turn on/off the dropout layers in the model. Should be set to false for inference.

Returns

• XLNetQuestionAnsweringOutput containing:
  • start_logits - Tensor of shape (batch size, sequence_length) containing the logits for start of the answer
  • end_logits - Tensor of shape (batch size, sequence_length) containing the logits for end of the answer
  • next_cache - Option<Vec<Option<LayerState>>> of length n_layer containing the past content for the the attention layers with shape (past_sequence_length, batch size, hidden_size)
  • all_hidden_states - Option<Vec<(Tensor, Option<Tensor>)>> of length n_layer with shape (batch size, sequence_length, hidden_size) (with optional query stream states if used)
  • all_attentions - Option<Vec<(Tensor, Option<Tensor>)>> of length n_layer with shape (batch size, sequence_length, hidden_size) (with optional query stream states if used)

Example

use rust_bert::xlnet::{XLNetConfig, XLNetForMultipleChoice};
let (batch_size, sequence_length) = (64, 128);
let input_tensor = Tensor::rand(&[batch_size, sequence_length], (Int64, device));
let attention_mask = Tensor::ones(&[batch_size, sequence_length], (Int64, device));
let target_tensor = Tensor::ones(&[batch_size, sequence_length], (Int64, device));
let target_mapping = Tensor::zeros(&[64, 1, 128], (Kind::Float, device));
let _ = target_mapping.narrow(2, 3, 1).fill_(1.0);

let model_output = no_grad(|| {
    xlnet_model.forward_t(
        Some(&input_tensor),
        Some(&attention_mask),
        None,
        Some(&target_mapping),
        None,
        None,
        None,
        false
    )
});