---
language: en
datasets:
- squad_v2
license: cc-by-4.0
---

# roberta-base for QA 

NOTE: This is version 2 of the model. See [this github issue](https://github.com/deepset-ai/FARM/issues/552) from the FARM repository for an explanation of why we updated. If you'd like to use version 1, specify `revision="v1.0"` when loading the model in Transformers 3.5. For exmaple:
```
model_name = "deepset/roberta-base-squad2"
pipeline(model=model_name, tokenizer=model_name, revision="v1.0", task="question-answering")
```

## Overview
**Language model:** roberta-base  
**Language:** English  
**Downstream-task:** Extractive QA  
**Training data:** SQuAD 2.0  
**Eval data:** SQuAD 2.0  
**Code:**  See [example](https://github.com/deepset-ai/FARM/blob/master/examples/question_answering.py) in [FARM](https://github.com/deepset-ai/FARM/blob/master/examples/question_answering.py)  
**Infrastructure**: 4x Tesla v100

## Hyperparameters

```
batch_size = 96
n_epochs = 2
base_LM_model = "roberta-base"
max_seq_len = 386
learning_rate = 3e-5
lr_schedule = LinearWarmup
warmup_proportion = 0.2
doc_stride=128
max_query_length=64
``` 

## Performance
Evaluated on the SQuAD 2.0 dev set with the [official eval script](https://worksheets.codalab.org/rest/bundles/0x6b567e1cf2e041ec80d7098f031c5c9e/contents/blob/).

```
"exact": 79.87029394424324,
"f1": 82.91251169582613,

"total": 11873,
"HasAns_exact": 77.93522267206478,
"HasAns_f1": 84.02838248389763,
"HasAns_total": 5928,
"NoAns_exact": 81.79983179142137,
"NoAns_f1": 81.79983179142137,
"NoAns_total": 5945
```

## Usage

### In Transformers
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForQuestionAnswering, AutoTokenizer, pipeline

model_name = "deepset/roberta-base-squad2"

# a) Get predictions
nlp = pipeline('question-answering', model=model_name, tokenizer=model_name)
QA_input = {
    'question': 'Why is model conversion important?',
    'context': 'The option to convert models between FARM and transformers gives freedom to the user and let people easily switch between frameworks.'
}
res = nlp(QA_input)

# b) Load model & tokenizer
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained(model_name)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
```

### In FARM

```python
from farm.modeling.adaptive_model import AdaptiveModel
from farm.modeling.tokenization import Tokenizer
from farm.infer import Inferencer

model_name = "deepset/roberta-base-squad2"

# a) Get predictions
nlp = Inferencer.load(model_name, task_type="question_answering")
QA_input = [{"questions": ["Why is model conversion important?"],
             "text": "The option to convert models between FARM and transformers gives freedom to the user and let people easily switch between frameworks."}]
res = nlp.inference_from_dicts(dicts=QA_input, rest_api_schema=True)

# b) Load model & tokenizer
model = AdaptiveModel.convert_from_transformers(model_name, device="cpu", task_type="question_answering")
tokenizer = Tokenizer.load(model_name)
```

### In haystack
For doing QA at scale (i.e. many docs instead of single paragraph), you can load the model also in [haystack](https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/):
```python
reader = FARMReader(model_name_or_path="deepset/roberta-base-squad2")
# or 
reader = TransformersReader(model_name_or_path="deepset/roberta-base-squad2",tokenizer="deepset/roberta-base-squad2")
```


## Authors
Branden Chan: `branden.chan [at] deepset.ai`
Timo Möller: `timo.moeller [at] deepset.ai`
Malte Pietsch: `malte.pietsch [at] deepset.ai`
Tanay Soni: `tanay.soni [at] deepset.ai`

## About us
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We bring NLP to the industry via open source!  
Our focus: Industry specific language models & large scale QA systems.  
  
Some of our work: 
- [German BERT (aka "bert-base-german-cased")](https://deepset.ai/german-bert)
- [GermanQuAD and GermanDPR datasets and models (aka "gelectra-base-germanquad", "gbert-base-germandpr")](https://deepset.ai/germanquad)
- [FARM](https://github.com/deepset-ai/FARM)
- [Haystack](https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/)

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