Slight addon to this convo : interesting to see the forward pass for this model, and how we take the pooled output out of Bert.
def forward(
self,
input_ids: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
token_type_ids: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
position_ids: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
head_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
inputs_embeds: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
labels: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
output_attentions: Optional[bool] = None,
output_hidden_states: Optional[bool] = None,
return_dict: Optional[bool] = None,
) -> Union[Tuple[torch.Tensor], SequenceClassifierOutput]:
r"""
labels (`torch.LongTensor` of shape `(batch_size,)`, *optional*):
Labels for computing the sequence classification/regression loss. Indices should be in `[0, ...,
config.num_labels - 1]`. If `config.num_labels == 1` a regression loss is computed (Mean-Square loss), If
`config.num_labels > 1` a classification loss is computed (Cross-Entropy).
"""
return_dict = return_dict if return_dict is not None else self.config.use_return_dict
outputs = self.bert(
input_ids,
attention_mask=attention_mask,
token_type_ids=token_type_ids,
position_ids=position_ids,
head_mask=head_mask,
inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds,
output_attentions=output_attentions,
output_hidden_states=output_hidden_states,
return_dict=return_dict,
)
pooled_output = outputs[1]
pooled_output = self.dropout(pooled_output)
logits = self.classifier(pooled_output)
loss = None
if labels is not None:
if self.config.problem_type is None:
if self.num_labels == 1:
self.config.problem_type = "regression"
elif self.num_labels > 1 and (labels.dtype == torch.long or labels.dtype == torch.int):
self.config.problem_type = "single_label_classification"
else:
self.config.problem_type = "multi_label_classification"
if self.config.problem_type == "regression":
loss_fct = MSELoss()
if self.num_labels == 1:
loss = loss_fct(logits.squeeze(), labels.squeeze())
else:
loss = loss_fct(logits, labels)
elif self.config.problem_type == "single_label_classification":
loss_fct = CrossEntropyLoss()
loss = loss_fct(logits.view(-1, self.num_labels), labels.view(-1))
elif self.config.problem_type == "multi_label_classification":
loss_fct = BCEWithLogitsLoss()
loss = loss_fct(logits, labels)
if not return_dict:
output = (logits,) + outputs[2:]
return ((loss,) + output) if loss is not None else output
return SequenceClassifierOutput(
loss=loss,
logits=logits,
hidden_states=outputs.hidden_states,
attentions=outputs.attentions,
)
Note how the pooling is just done by taking the second element ([1]) out of the tuple output from Bert. The first element of the tuple is all the hidden state, while the second element is the pooled output.
Now how is that pooled output made ? You have to check the BertPooler class for that, below.
class BertPooler(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, config):
super().__init__()
self.dense = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, config.hidden_size)
self.activation = nn.Tanh()
def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
# We "pool" the model by simply taking the hidden state corresponding
# to the first token.
first_token_tensor = hidden_states[:, 0]
pooled_output = self.dense(first_token_tensor)
pooled_output = self.activation(pooled_output)
return pooled_output
Thus the pooled output is a feedforward pass (hidden_size to hidden_size) on top of the hidden state of the CLS hidden state.
Thus, if I’m not mistaken, for sequence classification we have :
- a feedforward pass (hidden_size to hidden_size) with tanh activation, on top of the CLS token,
- dropout
- a classifier (hidden_size to num_classes)
Which is slightly different to what has been said above.