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*This model was published in HF papers on 2019-07-29 and contributed to Hugging Face Transformers on 2020-11-16.*


# BertGeneration

[BertGeneration](https://huggingface.co/papers/1907.12461) leverages pretrained BERT checkpoints for sequence-to-sequence tasks with the [`EncoderDecoderModel`] architecture. BertGeneration adapts the [`BERT`] for generative tasks.

You can find all the original BERT checkpoints under the [BERT](https://huggingface.co/collections/google/bert-release-64ff5e7a4be99045d1896dbc) collection.

> [!TIP]
> This model was contributed by [patrickvonplaten](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten).
>
> Click on the BertGeneration models in the right sidebar for more examples of how to apply BertGeneration to different sequence generation tasks.

The example below demonstrates how to use BertGeneration with [`EncoderDecoderModel`] for sequence-to-sequence tasks.

<hfoptions id="usage">
<hfoption id="AutoModel">

```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, EncoderDecoderModel


model = EncoderDecoderModel.from_pretrained("google/roberta2roberta_L-24_discofuse", device_map="auto")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/roberta2roberta_L-24_discofuse")

input_ids = tokenizer(
    "Plants create energy through ", add_special_tokens=False, return_tensors="pt"
).input_ids

outputs = model.generate(input_ids)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))
```

</hfoption>
</hfoptions>

Quantization reduces the memory burden of large models by representing the weights in a lower precision. Refer to the [Quantization](../quantization/overview) overview for more available quantization backends.

The example below uses [BitsAndBytesConfig](../quantizationbitsandbytes) to quantize the weights to 4-bit.

```python
import torch

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, BitsAndBytesConfig, EncoderDecoderModel


# Configure 4-bit quantization
quantization_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
    load_in_4bit=True,
    bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.float16
)

model = EncoderDecoderModel.from_pretrained(
    "google/roberta2roberta_L-24_discofuse",
    quantization_config=quantization_config,
    device_map="auto",
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/roberta2roberta_L-24_discofuse")

input_ids = tokenizer(
    "Plants create energy through ", add_special_tokens=False, return_tensors="pt"
).input_ids

outputs = model.generate(input_ids)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))
```

## Notes

- [`BertGenerationEncoder`] and [`BertGenerationDecoder`] should be used in combination with [`EncoderDecoderModel`] for sequence-to-sequence tasks.

   ```python
   from transformers import BertGenerationEncoder, BertGenerationDecoder, BertTokenizer, EncoderDecoderModel
   
   # leverage checkpoints for Bert2Bert model
   # use BERT's cls token as BOS token and sep token as EOS token
   encoder = BertGenerationEncoder.from_pretrained("google-bert/bert-large-uncased", bos_token_id=101, eos_token_id=102)
   # add cross attention layers and use BERT's cls token as BOS token and sep token as EOS token
   decoder = BertGenerationDecoder.from_pretrained(
       "google-bert/bert-large-uncased", add_cross_attention=True, is_decoder=True, bos_token_id=101, eos_token_id=102
   )
   bert2bert = EncoderDecoderModel(encoder=encoder, decoder=decoder)

   # create tokenizer
   tokenizer = BertTokenizer.from_pretrained("google-bert/bert-large-uncased")

   input_ids = tokenizer(
       "This is a long article to summarize", add_special_tokens=False, return_tensors="pt"
   ).input_ids
   labels = tokenizer("This is a short summary", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device).input_ids

   # train
   loss = bert2bert(input_ids=input_ids, decoder_input_ids=labels, labels=labels).loss
   loss.backward()
   ```

- For summarization, sentence splitting, sentence fusion and translation, no special tokens are required for the input.
- No EOS token should be added to the end of the input for most generation tasks.

## BertGenerationConfig

[[autodoc]] BertGenerationConfig

## BertGenerationTokenizer

[[autodoc]] BertGenerationTokenizer
    - save_vocabulary

## BertGenerationEncoder

[[autodoc]] BertGenerationEncoder
    - forward

## BertGenerationDecoder

[[autodoc]] BertGenerationDecoder
    - forward
