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xlnet-cased

Available as managed deployment LLMs xlnet Text gen 1 variants 172k dl/mo

xlnet-cased is an open-weight language model from xlnet. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released byxlnet
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity172k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What xlnet-cased is

XLNet model pre-trained on English language. It was introduced in the paper XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding by Yang et al. and first released in this repository.

Disclaimer: The team releasing XLNet did not write a model card for this model so this model card has been written by the Hugging Face team.

Read the full model card

Model description

XLNet is a new unsupervised language representation learning method based on a novel generalized permutation language modeling objective. Additionally, XLNet employs Transformer-XL as the backbone model, exhibiting excellent performance for language tasks involving long context. Overall, XLNet achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on various downstream language tasks including question answering, natural language inference, sentiment analysis, and document ranking.

Intended uses & limitations

The model is mostly intended to be fine-tuned on a downstream task. See the model hub to look for fine-tuned versions on a task that interests you.

Note that this model is primarily aimed at being fine-tuned on tasks that use the whole sentence (potentially masked) to make decisions, such as sequence classification, token classification or question answering. For tasks such as text generation, you should look at models like GPT2.

Usage

Here is how to use this model to get the features of a given text in PyTorch:

from transformers import XLNetTokenizer, XLNetModel

tokenizer = XLNetTokenizer.from_pretrained('xlnet-base-cased')
model = XLNetModel.from_pretrained('xlnet-base-cased')

inputs = tokenizer("Hello, my dog is cute", return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model(**inputs)

last_hidden_states = outputs.last_hidden_state

BibTeX entry and citation info

@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-1906-08237,
  author    = {Zhilin Yang and
               Zihang Dai and
               Yiming Yang and
               Jaime G. Carbonell and
               Ruslan Salakhutdinov and
               Quoc V. Le},
  title     = {XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding},
  journal   = {CoRR},
  volume    = {abs/1906.08237},
  year      = {2019},
  url       = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08237},
  eprinttype = {arXiv},
  eprint    = {1906.08237},
  timestamp = {Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:28:45 +0200},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-1906-08237.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys xlnet-cased for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (xlnet-cased below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"xlnet-cased","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

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