Freezing weights of new tokens in the input embedding

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Hi

I have added new tokens to my tokenizer and I would like to freeze the weights of the original set of tokens in the input embedding layer while allowing the weights of the new tokens to be trained. I’ve tried

existing_vocab = tokenizer.get_vocab()
for token_id in existing_vocab.values():
    if token_id < tokenizer.vocab_size - len(new_tokens):
        embedding = model.get_input_embeddings().weight[token_id]
        embedding = embedding.detach()
        embedding.requires_grad = False

But subsequently, when I check the weights of the new tokens, they are not frozen.

Any ideas how I can work around this?

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Got the same problem while trying to freeze part of the parameters in the embedding layer of a pretrained CLM