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# Longformer
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[Longformer](https://huggingface.co/papers/2004.05150) is a transformer model designed for processing long documents. The self-attention operation usually scales quadratically with sequence length, preventing transformers from processing longer sequences. The Longformer attention mechanism overcomes this by scaling linearly with sequence length. It combines local windowed attention with task-specific global attention, enabling efficient processing of documents with thousands of tokens.
## Overview
You can find all the original Longformer checkpoints under the [Ai2](https://huggingface.co/allenai?search_models=longformer) organization.
The Longformer model was presented in [Longformer: The Long-Document Transformer](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.05150.pdf) by Iz Beltagy, Matthew E. Peters, Arman Cohan.
> [!TIP]
> Click on the Longformer models in the right sidebar for more examples of how to apply Longformer to different language tasks.
The abstract from the paper is the following:
The example below demonstrates how to fill the `<mask>` token with [`Pipeline`], [`AutoModel`] and from the command line.
*Transformer-based models are unable to process long sequences due to their self-attention operation, which scales
quadratically with the sequence length. To address this limitation, we introduce the Longformer with an attention
mechanism that scales linearly with sequence length, making it easy to process documents of thousands of tokens or
longer. Longformer's attention mechanism is a drop-in replacement for the standard self-attention and combines a local
windowed attention with a task motivated global attention. Following prior work on long-sequence transformers, we
evaluate Longformer on character-level language modeling and achieve state-of-the-art results on text8 and enwik8. In
contrast to most prior work, we also pretrain Longformer and finetune it on a variety of downstream tasks. Our
pretrained Longformer consistently outperforms RoBERTa on long document tasks and sets new state-of-the-art results on
WikiHop and TriviaQA.*
This model was contributed by [beltagy](https://huggingface.co/beltagy). The Authors' code can be found [here](https://github.com/allenai/longformer).
## Usage tips
- Since the Longformer is based on RoBERTa, it doesn't have `token_type_ids`. You don't need to indicate which
token belongs to which segment. Just separate your segments with the separation token `tokenizer.sep_token` (or
`</s>`).
- A transformer model replacing the attention matrices by sparse matrices to go faster. Often, the local context (e.g., what are the two tokens left and right?) is enough to take action for a given token. Some preselected input tokens are still given global attention, but the attention matrix has way less parameters, resulting in a speed-up. See the local attention section for more information.
## Longformer Self Attention
Longformer self attention employs self attention on both a "local" context and a "global" context. Most tokens only
attend "locally" to each other meaning that each token attends to its \\(\frac{1}{2} w\\) previous tokens and
\\(\frac{1}{2} w\\) succeeding tokens with \\(w\\) being the window length as defined in
`config.attention_window`. Note that `config.attention_window` can be of type `List` to define a
different \\(w\\) for each layer. A selected few tokens attend "globally" to all other tokens, as it is
conventionally done for all tokens in `BertSelfAttention`.
Note that "locally" and "globally" attending tokens are projected by different query, key and value matrices. Also note
that every "locally" attending token not only attends to tokens within its window \\(w\\), but also to all "globally"
attending tokens so that global attention is *symmetric*.
The user can define which tokens attend "locally" and which tokens attend "globally" by setting the tensor
`global_attention_mask` at run-time appropriately. All Longformer models employ the following logic for
`global_attention_mask`:
- 0: the token attends "locally",
- 1: the token attends "globally".
For more information please also refer to [`~LongformerModel.forward`] method.
Using Longformer self attention, the memory and time complexity of the query-key matmul operation, which usually
represents the memory and time bottleneck, can be reduced from \\(\mathcal{O}(n_s \times n_s)\\) to
\\(\mathcal{O}(n_s \times w)\\), with \\(n_s\\) being the sequence length and \\(w\\) being the average window
size. It is assumed that the number of "globally" attending tokens is insignificant as compared to the number of
"locally" attending tokens.
For more information, please refer to the official [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.05150.pdf).
## Training
[`LongformerForMaskedLM`] is trained the exact same way [`RobertaForMaskedLM`] is
trained and should be used as follows:
<hfoptions id="usage">
<hfoption id="Pipeline">
```python
input_ids = tokenizer.encode("This is a sentence from [MASK] training data", return_tensors="pt")
mlm_labels = tokenizer.encode("This is a sentence from the training data", return_tensors="pt")
import torch
from transformers import pipeline
loss = model(input_ids, labels=input_ids, masked_lm_labels=mlm_labels)[0]
pipeline = pipeline(
task="fill-mask",
model="allenai/longformer-base-4096",
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
device=0
)
pipeline("""San Francisco 49ers cornerback Shawntae Spencer will miss the rest of the <mask> with a torn ligament in his left knee.
Spencer, a fifth-year pro, will be placed on injured reserve soon after undergoing surgery Wednesday to repair the ligament. He injured his knee late in the 49ers road victory at Seattle on Sept. 14, and missed last weeks victory over Detroit.
Tarell Brown and Donald Strickland will compete to replace Spencer with the 49ers, who kept 12 defensive backs on their 53-man roster to start the season. Brown, a second-year pro, got his first career interception last weekend while filling in for Strickland, who also sat out with a knee injury.""")
```
## Resources
</hfoption>
<hfoption id="AutoModel">
- [Text classification task guide](../tasks/sequence_classification)
- [Token classification task guide](../tasks/token_classification)
- [Question answering task guide](../tasks/question_answering)
- [Masked language modeling task guide](../tasks/masked_language_modeling)
- [Multiple choice task guide](../tasks/multiple_choice)
```python
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForMaskedLM, AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("allenai/longformer-base-4096")
model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained("allenai/longformer-base-4096")
text = (
"""
San Francisco 49ers cornerback Shawntae Spencer will miss the rest of the <mask> with a torn ligament in his left knee.
Spencer, a fifth-year pro, will be placed on injured reserve soon after undergoing surgery Wednesday to repair the ligament. He injured his knee late in the 49ers road victory at Seattle on Sept. 14, and missed last weeks victory over Detroit.
Tarell Brown and Donald Strickland will compete to replace Spencer with the 49ers, who kept 12 defensive backs on their 53-man roster to start the season. Brown, a second-year pro, got his first career interception last weekend while filling in for Strickland, who also sat out with a knee injury.
"""
)
input_ids = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt")["input_ids"]
logits = model(input_ids).logits
masked_index = (input_ids[0] == tokenizer.mask_token_id).nonzero().item()
probs = logits[0, masked_index].softmax(dim=0)
values, predictions = probs.topk(5)
tokenizer.decode(predictions).split()
```
</hfoption>
<hfoption id="transformers-cli">
```bash
echo -e "San Francisco 49ers cornerback Shawntae Spencer will miss the rest of the <mask> with a torn ligament in his left knee." | transformers-cli run --task fill-mask --model allenai/longformer-base-4096 --device 0
```
</hfoption>
</hfoptions
## Notes
- Longformer is based on [RoBERTa](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/roberta) and doesn't have `token_type_ids`. You don't need to indicate which token belongs to which segment. You only need to separate the segments with the separation token `</s>` or `tokenizer.sep_token`.
- You can set which tokens can attend locally and which tokens attend globally with the `global_attention_mask` at inference (see this [example](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/longformer#transformers.LongformerModel.forward.example) for more details). A value of `0` means a token attends locally and a value of `1` means a token attends globally.
- [`LongformerForMaskedLM`] is trained like [`RobertaForMaskedLM`] and should be used as shown below.
```py
input_ids = tokenizer.encode("This is a sentence from [MASK] training data", return_tensors="pt")
mlm_labels = tokenizer.encode("This is a sentence from the training data", return_tensors="pt")
loss = model(input_ids, labels=input_ids, masked_lm_labels=mlm_labels)[0]
```
## LongformerConfig
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[[autodoc]] models.longformer.modeling_tf_longformer.TFLongformerTokenClassifierOutput
<frameworkcontent>
<pt>
## LongformerModel
[[autodoc]] LongformerModel
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## LongformerForMaskedLM
[[autodoc]] LongformerForMaskedLM
[[autodoc]] LongformerForMaskedLM
- forward
## LongformerForSequenceClassification
[[autodoc]] LongformerForSequenceClassification
[[autodoc]] LongformerForSequenceClassification
- forward
## LongformerForMultipleChoice
[[autodoc]] LongformerForMultipleChoice
[[autodoc]] LongformerForMultipleChoice
- forward
## LongformerForTokenClassification
[[autodoc]] LongformerForTokenClassification
[[autodoc]] LongformerForTokenClassification
- forward
## LongformerForQuestionAnswering
[[autodoc]] LongformerForQuestionAnswering
[[autodoc]] LongformerForQuestionAnswering
- forward
</pt>
<tf>
## TFLongformerModel
[[autodoc]] TFLongformerModel
[[autodoc]] TFLongformerModel
- call
## TFLongformerForMaskedLM
[[autodoc]] TFLongformerForMaskedLM
[[autodoc]] TFLongformerForMaskedLM
- call
## TFLongformerForQuestionAnswering
[[autodoc]] TFLongformerForQuestionAnswering
[[autodoc]] TFLongformerForQuestionAnswering
- call
## TFLongformerForSequenceClassification
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## TFLongformerForTokenClassification
[[autodoc]] TFLongformerForTokenClassification
[[autodoc]] TFLongformerForTokenClassification
- call
## TFLongformerForMultipleChoice
[[autodoc]] TFLongformerForMultipleChoice
[[autodoc]] TFLongformerForMultipleChoice
- call
</tf>
</frameworkcontent>