Get the possible next tokens and their log probabilities its previous context using a causal transformer

Get the possible next tokens and their log probabilities based on its previous context using a causal transformer model from Hugging Face.

Usage

causal_next_tokens_tbl(
  context,
  model = getOption("pangoling.causal.default"),
  checkpoint = NULL,
  add_special_tokens = NULL,
  config_model = NULL,
  config_tokenizer = NULL
)

Arguments

context

The context.

model

Name of a pre-trained model or folder.

checkpoint

Folder of a checkpoint.

add_special_tokens

Whether to include special tokens. It has the same default as the AutoTokenizer method in Python.

config_model

List with other arguments that control how the model from Hugging Face is accessed.

config_tokenizer

List with other arguments that control how the tokenizer from Hugging Face is accessed.

Value

A table with possible next tokens and their log-probabilities.

Details

A causal language model (also called GPT-like, auto-regressive, or decoder model) is a type of large language model usually used for text-generation that can predict the next word (or more accurately in fact token) based on a preceding context.

If not specified, the causal model that will be used is the one set in specified in the global option pangoling.causal.default, this can be accessed via getOption("pangoling.causal.default") (by default "gpt2"). To change the default option use options(pangoling.causal.default = "newcausalmodel").

A list of possible causal models can be found in Hugging Face website.

Using the config_model and config_tokenizer arguments, it's possible to control how the model and tokenizer from Hugging Face is accessed, see the Python method from_pretrained for details.

In case of errors when a new model is run, check the status of https://status.huggingface.co/

More examples

See the online article in pangoling website for more examples.

See also

Other causal model functions: causal_config(), causal_lp_mats(), causal_lp(), causal_preload(), causal_tokens_lp_tbl()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
causal_next_tokens_tbl(
  context = "The apple doesn't fall far from the",
  model = "gpt2"
)
}