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---
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title: Transformer
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teaser: Pipeline component for multi-task learning with transformer models
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tag: class
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source: github.com/explosion/spacy-transformers/blob/master/spacy_transformers/pipeline_component.py
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new: 3
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api_base_class: /api/pipe
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api_string_name: transformer
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---
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> #### Installation
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>
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> ```bash
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> $ pip install -U %%SPACY_PKG_NAME[transformers] %%SPACY_PKG_FLAGS
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> ```
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<Infobox title="Important note" variant="warning">
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This component is available via the extension package
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[`spacy-transformers`](https://github.com/explosion/spacy-transformers). It
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exposes the component via entry points, so if you have the package installed,
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using `factory = "transformer"` in your
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[training config](/usage/training#config) or `nlp.add_pipe("transformer")` will
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work out-of-the-box.
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</Infobox>
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This pipeline component lets you use transformer models in your pipeline. It
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supports all models that are available via the
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[HuggingFace `transformers`](https://huggingface.co/transformers) library.
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Usually you will connect subsequent components to the shared transformer using
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the [TransformerListener](/api/architectures#TransformerListener) layer. This
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works similarly to spaCy's [Tok2Vec](/api/tok2vec) component and
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[Tok2VecListener](/api/architectures/#Tok2VecListener) sublayer.
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The component assigns the output of the transformer to the `Doc`'s extension
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attributes. We also calculate an alignment between the word-piece tokens and the
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spaCy tokenization, so that we can use the last hidden states to set the
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`Doc.tensor` attribute. When multiple word-piece tokens align to the same spaCy
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token, the spaCy token receives the sum of their values. To access the values,
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you can use the custom [`Doc._.trf_data`](#custom-attributes) attribute. The
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package also adds the function registries [`@span_getters`](#span_getters) and
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[`@annotation_setters`](#annotation_setters) with several built-in registered
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functions. For more details, see the
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[usage documentation](/usage/embeddings-transformers).
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## Config and implementation {#config}
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The default config is defined by the pipeline component factory and describes
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how the component should be configured. You can override its settings via the
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`config` argument on [`nlp.add_pipe`](/api/language#add_pipe) or in your
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[`config.cfg` for training](/usage/training#config). See the
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[model architectures](/api/architectures#transformers) documentation for details
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on the transformer architectures and their arguments and hyperparameters.
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> from spacy_transformers import Transformer
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> from spacy_transformers.pipeline_component import DEFAULT_CONFIG
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>
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> nlp.add_pipe("transformer", config=DEFAULT_CONFIG["transformer"])
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> ```
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| Setting                 | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `max_batch_items`       | Maximum size of a padded batch. Defaults to `4096`. ~~int~~                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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| `set_extra_annotations` | Function that takes a batch of `Doc` objects and transformer outputs to set additional annotations on the `Doc`. The `Doc._.trf_data` attribute is set prior to calling the callback. Defaults to `null_annotation_setter` (no additional annotations). ~~Callable[[List[Doc], FullTransformerBatch], None]~~ |
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| `model`                 | The Thinc [`Model`](https://thinc.ai/docs/api-model) wrapping the transformer. Defaults to [TransformerModel](/api/architectures#TransformerModel). ~~Model[List[Doc], FullTransformerBatch]~~                                                                                                                |
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```python
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https://github.com/explosion/spacy-transformers/blob/master/spacy_transformers/pipeline_component.py
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```
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## Transformer.\_\_init\_\_ {#init tag="method"}
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> # Construction via add_pipe with default model
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer")
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>
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> # Construction via add_pipe with custom config
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> config = {
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>     "model": {
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>         "@architectures": "spacy-transformers.TransformerModel.v1",
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>         "name": "bert-base-uncased",
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>         "tokenizer_config": {"use_fast": True}
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>     }
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> }
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer", config=config)
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>
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> # Construction from class
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> from spacy_transformers import Transformer
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> trf = Transformer(nlp.vocab, model)
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> ```
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Construct a `Transformer` component. One or more subsequent spaCy components can
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use the transformer outputs as features in its model, with gradients
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backpropagated to the single shared weights. The activations from the
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transformer are saved in the [`Doc._.trf_data`](#custom-attributes) extension
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attribute. You can also provide a callback to set additional annotations. In
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your application, you would normally use a shortcut for this and instantiate the
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component using its string name and [`nlp.add_pipe`](/api/language#create_pipe).
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| Name                    | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
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| ----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `vocab`                 | The shared vocabulary. ~~Vocab~~                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
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| `model`                 | The Thinc [`Model`](https://thinc.ai/docs/api-model) wrapping the transformer. Usually you will want to use the [TransformerModel](/api/architectures#TransformerModel) layer for this. ~~Model[List[Doc], FullTransformerBatch]~~                                                      |
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| `set_extra_annotations` | Function that takes a batch of `Doc` objects and transformer outputs and stores the annotations on the `Doc`. The `Doc._.trf_data` attribute is set prior to calling the callback. By default, no additional annotations are set. ~~Callable[[List[Doc], FullTransformerBatch], None]~~ |
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| _keyword-only_          |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
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| `name`                  | String name of the component instance. Used to add entries to the `losses` during training. ~~str~~                                                                                                                                                                                     |
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| `max_batch_items`       | Maximum size of a padded batch. Defaults to `128*32`. ~~int~~                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
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## Transformer.\_\_call\_\_ {#call tag="method"}
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Apply the pipe to one document. The document is modified in place, and returned.
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This usually happens under the hood when the `nlp` object is called on a text
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and all pipeline components are applied to the `Doc` in order. Both
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[`__call__`](/api/transformer#call) and [`pipe`](/api/transformer#pipe) delegate
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to the [`predict`](/api/transformer#predict) and
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[`set_annotations`](/api/transformer#set_annotations) methods.
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> doc = nlp("This is a sentence.")
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer")
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> # This usually happens under the hood
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> processed = transformer(doc)
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> ```
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| Name        | Description                      |
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| ----------- | -------------------------------- |
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| `doc`       | The document to process. ~~Doc~~ |
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| **RETURNS** | The processed document. ~~Doc~~  |
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## Transformer.pipe {#pipe tag="method"}
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Apply the pipe to a stream of documents. This usually happens under the hood
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when the `nlp` object is called on a text and all pipeline components are
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applied to the `Doc` in order. Both [`__call__`](/api/transformer#call) and
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[`pipe`](/api/transformer#pipe) delegate to the
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[`predict`](/api/transformer#predict) and
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[`set_annotations`](/api/transformer#set_annotations) methods.
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer")
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> for doc in trf.pipe(docs, batch_size=50):
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>     pass
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> ```
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| Name           | Description                                                   |
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| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `stream`       | A stream of documents. ~~Iterable[Doc]~~                      |
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| _keyword-only_ |                                                               |
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| `batch_size`   | The number of documents to buffer. Defaults to `128`. ~~int~~ |
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| **YIELDS**     | The processed documents in order. ~~Doc~~                     |
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## Transformer.initialize {#initialize tag="method"}
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Initialize the component for training and return an
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[`Optimizer`](https://thinc.ai/docs/api-optimizers). `get_examples` should be a
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function that returns an iterable of [`Example`](/api/example) objects. The data
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examples are used to **initialize the model** of the component and can either be
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the full training data or a representative sample. Initialization includes
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validating the network,
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[inferring missing shapes](https://thinc.ai/docs/usage-models#validation) and
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setting up the label scheme based on the data. This method is typically called
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by [`Language.initialize`](/api/language#initialize).
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer")
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> trf.initialize(lambda: iter([]), nlp=nlp)
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> ```
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| Name           | Description                                                                                                                           |
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| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `get_examples` | Function that returns gold-standard annotations in the form of [`Example`](/api/example) objects. ~~Callable[[], Iterable[Example]]~~ |
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| _keyword-only_ |                                                                                                                                       |
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| `nlp`          | The current `nlp` object. Defaults to `None`. ~~Optional[Language]~~                                                                  |
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## Transformer.predict {#predict tag="method"}
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Apply the component's model to a batch of [`Doc`](/api/doc) objects without
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modifying them.
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer")
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> scores = trf.predict([doc1, doc2])
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> ```
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| Name        | Description                                 |
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| ----------- | ------------------------------------------- |
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| `docs`      | The documents to predict. ~~Iterable[Doc]~~ |
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| **RETURNS** | The model's prediction for each document.   |
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## Transformer.set_annotations {#set_annotations tag="method"}
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Assign the extracted features to the `Doc` objects. By default, the
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[`TransformerData`](/api/transformer#transformerdata) object is written to the
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[`Doc._.trf_data`](#custom-attributes) attribute. Your `set_extra_annotations`
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callback is then called, if provided.
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer")
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> scores = trf.predict(docs)
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> trf.set_annotations(docs, scores)
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> ```
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| Name     | Description                                           |
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| -------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
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| `docs`   | The documents to modify. ~~Iterable[Doc]~~            |
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| `scores` | The scores to set, produced by `Transformer.predict`. |
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## Transformer.update {#update tag="method"}
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Prepare for an update to the transformer. Like the [`Tok2Vec`](/api/tok2vec)
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component, the `Transformer` component is unusual in that it does not receive
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"gold standard" annotations to calculate a weight update. The optimal output of
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the transformer data is unknown – it's a hidden layer inside the network that is
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updated by backpropagating from output layers.
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The `Transformer` component therefore does **not** perform a weight update
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during its own `update` method. Instead, it runs its transformer model and
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communicates the output and the backpropagation callback to any **downstream
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components** that have been connected to it via the
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[TransformerListener](/api/architectures#TransformerListener) sublayer. If there
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are multiple listeners, the last layer will actually backprop to the transformer
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and call the optimizer, while the others simply increment the gradients.
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer")
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> optimizer = nlp.initialize()
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> losses = trf.update(examples, sgd=optimizer)
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> ```
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| Name              | Description                                                                                                                                                                      |
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| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `examples`        | A batch of [`Example`](/api/example) objects. Only the [`Example.predicted`](/api/example#predicted) `Doc` object is used, the reference `Doc` is ignored. ~~Iterable[Example]~~ |
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| _keyword-only_    |                                                                                                                                                                                  |
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| `drop`            | The dropout rate. ~~float~~                                                                                                                                                      |
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| `sgd`             | An optimizer. Will be created via [`create_optimizer`](#create_optimizer) if not set. ~~Optional[Optimizer]~~                                                                    |
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| `losses`          | Optional record of the loss during training. Updated using the component name as the key. ~~Optional[Dict[str, float]]~~                                                         |
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| **RETURNS**       | The updated `losses` dictionary. ~~Dict[str, float]~~                                                                                                                            |
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## Transformer.create_optimizer {#create_optimizer tag="method"}
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Create an optimizer for the pipeline component.
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer")
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> optimizer = trf.create_optimizer()
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> ```
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| Name        | Description                  |
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| ----------- | ---------------------------- |
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| **RETURNS** | The optimizer. ~~Optimizer~~ |
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## Transformer.use_params {#use_params tag="method, contextmanager"}
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Modify the pipe's model to use the given parameter values. At the end of the
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context, the original parameters are restored.
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer")
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> with trf.use_params(optimizer.averages):
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>     trf.to_disk("/best_model")
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> ```
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| Name     | Description                                        |
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| -------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
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| `params` | The parameter values to use in the model. ~~dict~~ |
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## Transformer.to_disk {#to_disk tag="method"}
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Serialize the pipe to disk.
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer")
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> trf.to_disk("/path/to/transformer")
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> ```
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| Name           | Description                                                                                                                                |
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| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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| `path`         | A path to a directory, which will be created if it doesn't exist. Paths may be either strings or `Path`-like objects. ~~Union[str, Path]~~ |
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| _keyword-only_ |                                                                                                                                            |
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| `exclude`      | String names of [serialization fields](#serialization-fields) to exclude. ~~Iterable[str]~~                                                |
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## Transformer.from_disk {#from_disk tag="method"}
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Load the pipe from disk. Modifies the object in place and returns it.
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer")
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> trf.from_disk("/path/to/transformer")
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> ```
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| Name           | Description                                                                                     |
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| -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `path`         | A path to a directory. Paths may be either strings or `Path`-like objects. ~~Union[str, Path]~~ |
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| _keyword-only_ |                                                                                                 |
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| `exclude`      | String names of [serialization fields](#serialization-fields) to exclude. ~~Iterable[str]~~     |
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| **RETURNS**    | The modified `Transformer` object. ~~Transformer~~                                              |
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## Transformer.to_bytes {#to_bytes tag="method"}
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer")
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> trf_bytes = trf.to_bytes()
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> ```
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Serialize the pipe to a bytestring.
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| Name           | Description                                                                                 |
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| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| _keyword-only_ |                                                                                             |
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| `exclude`      | String names of [serialization fields](#serialization-fields) to exclude. ~~Iterable[str]~~ |
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| **RETURNS**    | The serialized form of the `Transformer` object. ~~bytes~~                                  |
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## Transformer.from_bytes {#from_bytes tag="method"}
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Load the pipe from a bytestring. Modifies the object in place and returns it.
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> trf_bytes = trf.to_bytes()
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> trf = nlp.add_pipe("transformer")
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> trf.from_bytes(trf_bytes)
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> ```
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| Name           | Description                                                                                 |
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| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `bytes_data`   | The data to load from. ~~bytes~~                                                            |
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| _keyword-only_ |                                                                                             |
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| `exclude`      | String names of [serialization fields](#serialization-fields) to exclude. ~~Iterable[str]~~ |
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| **RETURNS**    | The `Transformer` object. ~~Transformer~~                                                   |
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## Serialization fields {#serialization-fields}
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During serialization, spaCy will export several data fields used to restore
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different aspects of the object. If needed, you can exclude them from
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serialization by passing in the string names via the `exclude` argument.
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> #### Example
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>
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> ```python
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> data = trf.to_disk("/path", exclude=["vocab"])
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> ```
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| Name    | Description                                                    |
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| ------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `vocab` | The shared [`Vocab`](/api/vocab).                              |
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| `cfg`   | The config file. You usually don't want to exclude this.       |
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| `model` | The binary model data. You usually don't want to exclude this. |
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## TransformerData {#transformerdata tag="dataclass"}
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Transformer tokens and outputs for one `Doc` object. The transformer models
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return tensors that refer to a whole padded batch of documents. These tensors
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are wrapped into the
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[FullTransformerBatch](/api/transformer#fulltransformerbatch) object. The
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`FullTransformerBatch` then splits out the per-document data, which is handled
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by this class. Instances of this class are typically assigned to the
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[`Doc._.trf_data`](/api/transformer#custom-attributes) extension attribute.
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| Name      | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
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| --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `tokens`  | A slice of the tokens data produced by the tokenizer. This may have several fields, including the token IDs, the texts and the attention mask. See the [`transformers.BatchEncoding`](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main_classes/tokenizer.html#transformers.BatchEncoding) object for details. ~~dict~~                                            |
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| `tensors` | The activations for the `Doc` from the transformer. Usually the last tensor that is 3-dimensional will be the most important, as that will provide the final hidden state. Generally activations that are 2-dimensional will be attention weights. Details of this variable will differ depending on the underlying transformer model. ~~List[FloatsXd]~~ |
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| `align`   | Alignment from the `Doc`'s tokenization to the wordpieces. This is a ragged array, where `align.lengths[i]` indicates the number of wordpiece tokens that token `i` aligns against. The actual indices are provided at `align[i].dataXd`. ~~Ragged~~                                                                                                      |
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| `width`   | The width of the last hidden layer. ~~int~~                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
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### TransformerData.empty {#transformerdata-emoty tag="classmethod"}
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Create an empty `TransformerData` container.
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| Name        | Description                        |
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| ----------- | ---------------------------------- |
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| **RETURNS** | The container. ~~TransformerData~~ |
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## FullTransformerBatch {#fulltransformerbatch tag="dataclass"}
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Holds a batch of input and output objects for a transformer model. The data can
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then be split to a list of [`TransformerData`](/api/transformer#transformerdata)
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objects to associate the outputs to each [`Doc`](/api/doc) in the batch.
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 | 
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| Name       | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
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| ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `spans`    | The batch of input spans. The outer list refers to the Doc objects in the batch, and the inner list are the spans for that `Doc`. Note that spans are allowed to overlap or exclude tokens, but each `Span` can only refer to one `Doc` (by definition). This means that within a `Doc`, the regions of the output tensors that correspond to each `Span` may overlap or have gaps, but for each `Doc`, there is a non-overlapping contiguous slice of the outputs. ~~List[List[Span]]~~ |
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| `tokens`   | The output of the tokenizer. ~~transformers.BatchEncoding~~                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
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| `tensors`  | The output of the transformer model. ~~List[torch.Tensor]~~                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
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| `align`    | Alignment from the spaCy tokenization to the wordpieces. This is a ragged array, where `align.lengths[i]` indicates the number of wordpiece tokens that token `i` aligns against. The actual indices are provided at `align[i].dataXd`. ~~Ragged~~                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
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| `doc_data` | The outputs, split per `Doc` object. ~~List[TransformerData]~~                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
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						||
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### FullTransformerBatch.unsplit_by_doc {#fulltransformerbatch-unsplit_by_doc tag="method"}
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 | 
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Return a new `FullTransformerBatch` from a split batch of activations, using the
 | 
						||
current object's spans, tokens and alignment. This is used during the backward
 | 
						||
pass, in order to construct the gradients to pass back into the transformer
 | 
						||
model.
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						||
 | 
						||
| Name        | Description                                              |
 | 
						||
| ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
 | 
						||
| `arrays`    | The split batch of activations. ~~List[List[Floats3d]]~~ |
 | 
						||
| **RETURNS** | The transformer batch. ~~FullTransformerBatch~~          |
 | 
						||
 | 
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### FullTransformerBatch.split_by_doc {#fulltransformerbatch-split_by_doc tag="method"}
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
Split a `TransformerData` object that represents a batch into a list with one
 | 
						||
`TransformerData` per `Doc`.
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
| Name        | Description                                |
 | 
						||
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------ |
 | 
						||
| **RETURNS** | The split batch. ~~List[TransformerData]~~ |
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						||
 | 
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## Span getters {#span_getters source="github.com/explosion/spacy-transformers/blob/master/spacy_transformers/span_getters.py"}
 | 
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 | 
						||
Span getters are functions that take a batch of [`Doc`](/api/doc) objects and
 | 
						||
return a lists of [`Span`](/api/span) objects for each doc to be processed by
 | 
						||
the transformer. This is used to manage long documents by cutting them into
 | 
						||
smaller sequences before running the transformer. The spans are allowed to
 | 
						||
overlap, and you can also omit sections of the `Doc` if they are not relevant.
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
Span getters can be referenced in the `[components.transformer.model.get_spans]`
 | 
						||
block of the config to customize the sequences processed by the transformer. You
 | 
						||
can also register
 | 
						||
[custom span getters](/usage/embeddings-transformers#transformers-training-custom-settings)
 | 
						||
using the `@spacy.registry.span_getters` decorator.
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
> #### Example
 | 
						||
>
 | 
						||
> ```python
 | 
						||
> @spacy.registry.span_getters("custom_sent_spans")
 | 
						||
> def configure_get_sent_spans() -> Callable:
 | 
						||
>     def get_sent_spans(docs: Iterable[Doc]) -> List[List[Span]]:
 | 
						||
>         return [list(doc.sents) for doc in docs]
 | 
						||
>
 | 
						||
>     return get_sent_spans
 | 
						||
> ```
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
| Name        | Description                                                   |
 | 
						||
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | 
						||
| `docs`      | A batch of `Doc` objects. ~~Iterable[Doc]~~                   |
 | 
						||
| **RETURNS** | The spans to process by the transformer. ~~List[List[Span]]~~ |
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
### doc_spans.v1 {#doc_spans tag="registered function"}
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
> #### Example config
 | 
						||
>
 | 
						||
> ```ini
 | 
						||
> [transformer.model.get_spans]
 | 
						||
> @span_getters = "spacy-transformers.doc_spans.v1"
 | 
						||
> ```
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
Create a span getter that uses the whole document as its spans. This is the best
 | 
						||
approach if your [`Doc`](/api/doc) objects already refer to relatively short
 | 
						||
texts.
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
### sent_spans.v1 {#sent_spans tag="registered function"}
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
> #### Example config
 | 
						||
>
 | 
						||
> ```ini
 | 
						||
> [transformer.model.get_spans]
 | 
						||
> @span_getters = "spacy-transformers.sent_spans.v1"
 | 
						||
> ```
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
Create a span getter that uses sentence boundary markers to extract the spans.
 | 
						||
This requires sentence boundaries to be set (e.g. by the
 | 
						||
[`Sentencizer`](/api/sentencizer)), and may result in somewhat uneven batches,
 | 
						||
depending on the sentence lengths. However, it does provide the transformer with
 | 
						||
more meaningful windows to attend over.
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
### strided_spans.v1 {#strided_spans tag="registered function"}
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
> #### Example config
 | 
						||
>
 | 
						||
> ```ini
 | 
						||
> [transformer.model.get_spans]
 | 
						||
> @span_getters = "spacy-transformers.strided_spans.v1"
 | 
						||
> window = 128
 | 
						||
> stride = 96
 | 
						||
> ```
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
Create a span getter for strided spans. If you set the `window` and `stride` to
 | 
						||
the same value, the spans will cover each token once. Setting `stride` lower
 | 
						||
than `window` will allow for an overlap, so that some tokens are counted twice.
 | 
						||
This can be desirable, because it allows all tokens to have both a left and
 | 
						||
right context.
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
| Name     | Description              |
 | 
						||
| -------- | ------------------------ |
 | 
						||
| `window` | The window size. ~~int~~ |
 | 
						||
| `stride` | The stride size. ~~int~~ |
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
## Annotation setters {#annotation_setters tag="registered functions" source="github.com/explosion/spacy-transformers/blob/master/spacy_transformers/annotation_setters.py"}
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
Annotation setters are functions that take a batch of `Doc` objects and a
 | 
						||
[`FullTransformerBatch`](/api/transformer#fulltransformerbatch) and can set
 | 
						||
additional annotations on the `Doc`, e.g. to set custom or built-in attributes.
 | 
						||
You can register custom annotation setters using the
 | 
						||
`@registry.annotation_setters` decorator.
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
> #### Example
 | 
						||
>
 | 
						||
> ```python
 | 
						||
> @registry.annotation_setters("spacy-transformers.null_annotation_setter.v1")
 | 
						||
> def configure_null_annotation_setter() -> Callable:
 | 
						||
>     def setter(docs: List[Doc], trf_data: FullTransformerBatch) -> None:
 | 
						||
>         pass
 | 
						||
>
 | 
						||
>     return setter
 | 
						||
> ```
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
| Name       | Description                                                   |
 | 
						||
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | 
						||
| `docs`     | A batch of `Doc` objects. ~~List[Doc]~~                       |
 | 
						||
| `trf_data` | The transformers data for the batch. ~~FullTransformerBatch~~ |
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
The following built-in functions are available:
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
| Name                                           | Description                           |
 | 
						||
| ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
 | 
						||
| `spacy-transformers.null_annotation_setter.v1` | Don't set any additional annotations. |
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
## Custom attributes {#custom-attributes}
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
The component sets the following
 | 
						||
[custom extension attributes](/usage/processing-pipeline#custom-components-attributes):
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
| Name             | Description                                                              |
 | 
						||
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
 | 
						||
| `Doc._.trf_data` | Transformer tokens and outputs for the `Doc` object. ~~TransformerData~~ |
 |