# DistilBERT

[DistilBERT](https://huggingface.co/papers/1910.01108) is pretrained by knowledge distillation to create a smaller model with faster inference and requires less compute to train. Through a triple loss objective during pretraining, language modeling loss, distillation loss, cosine-distance loss, DistilBERT demonstrates similar performance to a larger transformer language model.

You can find all the original DistilBERT checkpoints under the [DistilBERT](https://huggingface.co/distilbert) organization.

> [!TIP]
> Click on the DistilBERT models in the right sidebar for more examples of how to apply DistilBERT to different language tasks.

The example below demonstrates how to classify text with [Pipeline](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/pipelines#transformers.Pipeline), [AutoModel](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/auto#transformers.AutoModel), and from the command line.

```python
from transformers import pipeline

classifier = pipeline(
    task="text-classification",
    model="distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english",
    device=0
)

result = classifier("I love using Hugging Face Transformers!")
print(result)
# Output: [{'label': 'POSITIVE', 'score': 0.9998}]
```

```python
import torch

from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
    "distilbert/distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english",
)
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
    "distilbert/distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english",
    device_map="auto",
    attn_implementation="sdpa"
)
inputs = tokenizer("I love using Hugging Face Transformers!", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = model(**inputs)

predicted_class_id = torch.argmax(outputs.logits, dim=-1).item()
predicted_label = model.config.id2label[predicted_class_id]
print(f"Predicted label: {predicted_label}")
```

## Notes

- DistilBERT doesn't have `token_type_ids`, you don't need to indicate which token belongs to which segment. Just
  separate your segments with the separation token `tokenizer.sep_token` (or `[SEP]`).
- DistilBERT doesn't have options to select the input positions (`position_ids` input). This could be added if
  necessary though, just let us know if you need this option.

## DistilBertConfig[[transformers.DistilBertConfig]]

#### transformers.DistilBertConfig[[transformers.DistilBertConfig]]

[Source](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/configuration_distilbert.py#L24)

This is the configuration class to store the configuration of a DistilBertModel. It is used to instantiate a Distilbert
model according to the specified arguments, defining the model architecture. Instantiating a configuration with the
defaults will yield a similar configuration to that of the [google/distilbert-base-uncased](https://huggingface.co/google/distilbert-base-uncased)

Configuration objects inherit from [PreTrainedConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/configuration#transformers.PreTrainedConfig) and can be used to control the model outputs. Read the
documentation from [PreTrainedConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/configuration#transformers.PreTrainedConfig) for more information.

Examples:

```python
>>> from transformers import DistilBertConfig, DistilBertModel

>>> # Initializing a DistilBERT configuration
>>> configuration = DistilBertConfig()

>>> # Initializing a model (with random weights) from the configuration
>>> model = DistilBertModel(configuration)

>>> # Accessing the model configuration
>>> configuration = model.config
```

**Parameters:**

vocab_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `30522`) : Vocabulary size of the model. Defines the number of different tokens that can be represented by the `input_ids`.

max_position_embeddings (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `512`) : The maximum sequence length that this model might ever be used with.

sinusoidal_pos_embds (`boolean`, *optional*, defaults to `False`) : Whether to use sinusoidal positional embeddings.

n_layers (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `6`) : Number of hidden layers in the Transformer decoder.

n_heads (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `12`) : Number of attention heads for each attention layer in the Transformer decoder.

dim (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 768) : Dimensionality of the encoder layers and the pooler layer.

hidden_dim (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `3072`) : Dimension of the hidden representations.

dropout (`Union[float, int]`, *optional*, defaults to `0.1`) : The ratio for all dropout layers.

attention_dropout (`Union[float, int]`, *optional*, defaults to `0.1`) : The dropout ratio for the attention probabilities.

activation (`str`, *optional*, defaults to `gelu`) : The non-linear activation function (function or string) in the decoder. For example, `"gelu"`, `"relu"`, `"silu"`, etc.

initializer_range (`float`, *optional*, defaults to `0.02`) : The standard deviation of the truncated_normal_initializer for initializing all weight matrices.

qa_dropout (`float`, *optional*, defaults to 0.1) : The dropout probabilities used in the question answering model [DistilBertForQuestionAnswering](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertForQuestionAnswering).

seq_classif_dropout (`float`, *optional*, defaults to 0.2) : The dropout probabilities used in the sequence classification and the multiple choice model [DistilBertForSequenceClassification](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertForSequenceClassification).

pad_token_id (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `0`) : Token id used for padding in the vocabulary.

eos_token_id (`Union[int, list[int]]`, *optional*) : Token id used for end-of-stream in the vocabulary.

bos_token_id (`int`, *optional*) : Token id used for beginning-of-stream in the vocabulary.

tie_word_embeddings (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `True`) : Whether to tie weight embeddings according to model's `tied_weights_keys` mapping.

## DistilBertTokenizer[[transformers.DistilBertTokenizer]]

#### transformers.DistilBertTokenizer[[transformers.DistilBertTokenizer]]

[Source](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/tokenization_distilbert.py#L22)

## DistilBertTokenizerFast[[transformers.DistilBertTokenizer]]

#### transformers.DistilBertTokenizer[[transformers.DistilBertTokenizer]]

[Source](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/tokenization_distilbert.py#L22)

## DistilBertModel[[transformers.DistilBertModel]]

#### transformers.DistilBertModel[[transformers.DistilBertModel]]

[Source](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/modeling_distilbert.py#L322)

The bare Distilbert Model outputting raw hidden-states without any specific head on top.

This model inherits from [PreTrainedModel](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel). Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the
library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads
etc.)

This model is also a PyTorch [torch.nn.Module](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html#torch.nn.Module) subclass.
Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage
and behavior.

forwardtransformers.DistilBertModel.forwardhttps://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/modeling_distilbert.py#L386[{"name": "input_ids", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "attention_mask", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "inputs_embeds", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "position_ids", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "**kwargs", "val": ": typing_extensions.Unpack[transformers.utils.generic.TransformersKwargs]"}]- **input_ids** (`torch.LongTensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_choices)`) --
  Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

  Indices can be obtained using [AutoTokenizer](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/auto#transformers.AutoTokenizer). See [PreTrainedTokenizer.encode()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/internal/tokenization_utils#transformers.PreTrainedTokenizerBase.encode) and
  [PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/internal/tokenization_utils#transformers.PreTrainedTokenizerBase.__call__) for details.

  [What are input IDs?](../glossary#input-ids)
- **attention_mask** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in `[0, 1]`:

  - 1 for tokens that are **not masked**,
  - 0 for tokens that are **masked**.

  [What are attention masks?](../glossary#attention-mask)
- **inputs_embeds** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_choices, hidden_size)`, *optional*) --
  Optionally, instead of passing `input_ids` you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This
  is useful if you want more control over how to convert `input_ids` indices into associated vectors than the
  model's internal embedding lookup matrix.
- **position_ids** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range `[0, config.n_positions - 1]`.

  [What are position IDs?](../glossary#position-ids)0[BaseModelOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.BaseModelOutput) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`A [BaseModelOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.BaseModelOutput) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([DistilBertConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertConfig)) and inputs.
The [DistilBertModel](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertModel) forward method, overrides the `__call__` special method.

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the `Module`
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.

- **last_hidden_state** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`) -- Sequence of hidden-states at the output of the last layer of the model.
- **hidden_states** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_hidden_states=True` is passed or when `config.output_hidden_states=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, +
  one for the output of each layer) of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`.

  Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
- **attentions** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_attentions=True` is passed or when `config.output_attentions=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for each layer) of shape `(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length,
  sequence_length)`.

  Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention
  heads.

**Parameters:**

config ([PreTrainedConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/configuration#transformers.PreTrainedConfig)) : Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the [from_pretrained()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel.from_pretrained) method to load the model weights.

**Returns:**

`[BaseModelOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.BaseModelOutput) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)``

A [BaseModelOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.BaseModelOutput) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([DistilBertConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertConfig)) and inputs.

## DistilBertForMaskedLM[[transformers.DistilBertForMaskedLM]]

#### transformers.DistilBertForMaskedLM[[transformers.DistilBertForMaskedLM]]

[Source](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/modeling_distilbert.py#L433)

DistilBert Model with a `masked language modeling` head on top.

This model inherits from [PreTrainedModel](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel). Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the
library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads
etc.)

This model is also a PyTorch [torch.nn.Module](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html#torch.nn.Module) subclass.
Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage
and behavior.

forwardtransformers.DistilBertForMaskedLM.forwardhttps://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/modeling_distilbert.py#L477[{"name": "input_ids", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "attention_mask", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "inputs_embeds", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "labels", "val": ": torch.LongTensor | None = None"}, {"name": "position_ids", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "**kwargs", "val": ": typing_extensions.Unpack[transformers.utils.generic.TransformersKwargs]"}]- **input_ids** (`torch.LongTensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_choices)`) --
  Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

  Indices can be obtained using [AutoTokenizer](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/auto#transformers.AutoTokenizer). See [PreTrainedTokenizer.encode()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/internal/tokenization_utils#transformers.PreTrainedTokenizerBase.encode) and
  [PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/internal/tokenization_utils#transformers.PreTrainedTokenizerBase.__call__) for details.

  [What are input IDs?](../glossary#input-ids)
- **attention_mask** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in `[0, 1]`:

  - 1 for tokens that are **not masked**,
  - 0 for tokens that are **masked**.

  [What are attention masks?](../glossary#attention-mask)
- **inputs_embeds** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_choices, hidden_size)`, *optional*) --
  Optionally, instead of passing `input_ids` you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This
  is useful if you want more control over how to convert `input_ids` indices into associated vectors than the
  model's internal embedding lookup matrix.
- **labels** (`torch.LongTensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Labels for computing the masked language modeling loss. Indices should be in `[-100, 0, ...,
  config.vocab_size]` (see `input_ids` docstring) Tokens with indices set to `-100` are ignored (masked), the
  loss is only computed for the tokens with labels in `[0, ..., config.vocab_size]`.
- **position_ids** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range `[0, config.n_positions - 1]`.

  [What are position IDs?](../glossary#position-ids)0[MaskedLMOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.MaskedLMOutput) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`A [MaskedLMOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.MaskedLMOutput) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([DistilBertConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertConfig)) and inputs.
The [DistilBertForMaskedLM](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertForMaskedLM) forward method, overrides the `__call__` special method.

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the `Module`
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.

- **loss** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(1,)`, *optional*, returned when `labels` is provided) -- Masked language modeling (MLM) loss.
- **logits** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, config.vocab_size)`) -- Prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax).
- **hidden_states** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_hidden_states=True` is passed or when `config.output_hidden_states=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, +
  one for the output of each layer) of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`.

  Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
- **attentions** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_attentions=True` is passed or when `config.output_attentions=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for each layer) of shape `(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length,
  sequence_length)`.

  Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention
  heads.

Example:

```python
>>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer, DistilBertForMaskedLM
>>> import torch

>>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/distilbert-base-uncased")
>>> model = DistilBertForMaskedLM.from_pretrained("google/distilbert-base-uncased")

>>> inputs = tokenizer("The capital of France is .", return_tensors="pt")

>>> with torch.no_grad():
...     logits = model(**inputs).logits

>>> # retrieve index of 
>>> mask_token_index = (inputs.input_ids == tokenizer.mask_token_id)[0].nonzero(as_tuple=True)[0]

>>> predicted_token_id = logits[0, mask_token_index].argmax(axis=-1)
>>> tokenizer.decode(predicted_token_id)
...

>>> labels = tokenizer("The capital of France is Paris.", return_tensors="pt")["input_ids"]
>>> # mask labels of non- tokens
>>> labels = torch.where(inputs.input_ids == tokenizer.mask_token_id, labels, -100)

>>> outputs = model(**inputs, labels=labels)
>>> round(outputs.loss.item(), 2)
...
```

**Parameters:**

config ([PreTrainedConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/configuration#transformers.PreTrainedConfig)) : Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the [from_pretrained()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel.from_pretrained) method to load the model weights.

**Returns:**

`[MaskedLMOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.MaskedLMOutput) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)``

A [MaskedLMOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.MaskedLMOutput) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([DistilBertConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertConfig)) and inputs.

## DistilBertForSequenceClassification[[transformers.DistilBertForSequenceClassification]]

#### transformers.DistilBertForSequenceClassification[[transformers.DistilBertForSequenceClassification]]

[Source](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/modeling_distilbert.py#L537)

DistilBert Model transformer with a sequence classification/regression head on top (a linear layer on top of the
pooled output) e.g. for GLUE tasks.

This model inherits from [PreTrainedModel](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel). Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the
library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads
etc.)

This model is also a PyTorch [torch.nn.Module](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html#torch.nn.Module) subclass.
Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage
and behavior.

forwardtransformers.DistilBertForSequenceClassification.forwardhttps://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/modeling_distilbert.py#L571[{"name": "input_ids", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "attention_mask", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "inputs_embeds", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "labels", "val": ": torch.LongTensor | None = None"}, {"name": "position_ids", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "**kwargs", "val": ": typing_extensions.Unpack[transformers.utils.generic.TransformersKwargs]"}]- **input_ids** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary. Padding will be ignored by default.

  Indices can be obtained using [AutoTokenizer](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/auto#transformers.AutoTokenizer). See [PreTrainedTokenizer.encode()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/internal/tokenization_utils#transformers.PreTrainedTokenizerBase.encode) and
  [PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/internal/tokenization_utils#transformers.PreTrainedTokenizerBase.__call__) for details.

  [What are input IDs?](../glossary#input-ids)
- **attention_mask** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in `[0, 1]`:

  - 1 for tokens that are **not masked**,
  - 0 for tokens that are **masked**.

  [What are attention masks?](../glossary#attention-mask)
- **inputs_embeds** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`, *optional*) --
  Optionally, instead of passing `input_ids` you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This
  is useful if you want more control over how to convert `input_ids` indices into associated vectors than the
  model's internal embedding lookup matrix.
- **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).
- **position_ids** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range `[0, config.n_positions - 1]`.

  [What are position IDs?](../glossary#position-ids)0[SequenceClassifierOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.SequenceClassifierOutput) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`A [SequenceClassifierOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.SequenceClassifierOutput) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([DistilBertConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertConfig)) and inputs.
The [DistilBertForSequenceClassification](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertForSequenceClassification) forward method, overrides the `__call__` special method.

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the `Module`
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.

- **loss** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(1,)`, *optional*, returned when `labels` is provided) -- Classification (or regression if config.num_labels==1) loss.
- **logits** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, config.num_labels)`) -- Classification (or regression if config.num_labels==1) scores (before SoftMax).
- **hidden_states** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_hidden_states=True` is passed or when `config.output_hidden_states=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, +
  one for the output of each layer) of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`.

  Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
- **attentions** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_attentions=True` is passed or when `config.output_attentions=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for each layer) of shape `(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length,
  sequence_length)`.

  Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention
  heads.

Example of single-label classification:

```python
>>> import torch
>>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer, DistilBertForSequenceClassification

>>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/distilbert-base-uncased")
>>> model = DistilBertForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("google/distilbert-base-uncased")

>>> inputs = tokenizer("Hello, my dog is cute", return_tensors="pt")

>>> with torch.no_grad():
...     logits = model(**inputs).logits

>>> predicted_class_id = logits.argmax().item()
>>> model.config.id2label[predicted_class_id]
...

>>> # To train a model on `num_labels` classes, you can pass `num_labels=num_labels` to `.from_pretrained(...)`
>>> num_labels = len(model.config.id2label)
>>> model = DistilBertForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("google/distilbert-base-uncased", num_labels=num_labels)

>>> labels = torch.tensor([1])
>>> loss = model(**inputs, labels=labels).loss
>>> round(loss.item(), 2)
...
```

Example of multi-label classification:

```python
>>> import torch
>>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer, DistilBertForSequenceClassification

>>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/distilbert-base-uncased")
>>> model = DistilBertForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("google/distilbert-base-uncased", problem_type="multi_label_classification")

>>> inputs = tokenizer("Hello, my dog is cute", return_tensors="pt")

>>> with torch.no_grad():
...     logits = model(**inputs).logits

>>> predicted_class_ids = torch.arange(0, logits.shape[-1])[torch.sigmoid(logits).squeeze(dim=0) > 0.5]

>>> # To train a model on `num_labels` classes, you can pass `num_labels=num_labels` to `.from_pretrained(...)`
>>> num_labels = len(model.config.id2label)
>>> model = DistilBertForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
...     "google/distilbert-base-uncased", num_labels=num_labels, problem_type="multi_label_classification"
... )

>>> labels = torch.sum(
...     torch.nn.functional.one_hot(predicted_class_ids[None, :].clone(), num_classes=num_labels), dim=1
... ).to(torch.float)
>>> loss = model(**inputs, labels=labels).loss
```

**Parameters:**

config ([PreTrainedConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/configuration#transformers.PreTrainedConfig)) : Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the [from_pretrained()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel.from_pretrained) method to load the model weights.

**Returns:**

`[SequenceClassifierOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.SequenceClassifierOutput) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)``

A [SequenceClassifierOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.SequenceClassifierOutput) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([DistilBertConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertConfig)) and inputs.

## DistilBertForMultipleChoice[[transformers.DistilBertForMultipleChoice]]

#### transformers.DistilBertForMultipleChoice[[transformers.DistilBertForMultipleChoice]]

[Source](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/modeling_distilbert.py#L812)

The Distilbert Model with a multiple choice classification head on top (a linear layer on top of the pooled output and a
softmax) e.g. for RocStories/SWAG tasks.

This model inherits from [PreTrainedModel](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel). Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the
library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads
etc.)

This model is also a PyTorch [torch.nn.Module](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html#torch.nn.Module) subclass.
Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage
and behavior.

forwardtransformers.DistilBertForMultipleChoice.forwardhttps://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/modeling_distilbert.py#L844[{"name": "input_ids", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "attention_mask", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "inputs_embeds", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "labels", "val": ": torch.LongTensor | None = None"}, {"name": "position_ids", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "**kwargs", "val": ": typing_extensions.Unpack[transformers.utils.generic.TransformersKwargs]"}]- **input_ids** (`torch.LongTensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length)`) --
  Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

  Indices can be obtained using [AutoTokenizer](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/auto#transformers.AutoTokenizer). See [PreTrainedTokenizer.encode()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/internal/tokenization_utils#transformers.PreTrainedTokenizerBase.encode) and
  [PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/internal/tokenization_utils#transformers.PreTrainedTokenizerBase.__call__) for details.

  [What are input IDs?](../glossary#input-ids)
- **attention_mask** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in `[0, 1]`:

  - 1 for tokens that are **not masked**,
  - 0 for tokens that are **masked**.

  [What are attention masks?](../glossary#attention-mask)
- **inputs_embeds** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_choices, sequence_length, hidden_size)`, *optional*) --
  Optionally, instead of passing `input_ids` you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This
  is useful if you want more control over how to convert `input_ids` indices into associated vectors than the
  model's internal embedding lookup matrix.
- **labels** (`torch.LongTensor` of shape `(batch_size,)`, *optional*) --
  Labels for computing the multiple choice classification loss. Indices should be in `[0, ...,
  num_choices-1]` where `num_choices` is the size of the second dimension of the input tensors. (See
  `input_ids` above)
- **position_ids** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range `[0, config.n_positions - 1]`.

  [What are position IDs?](../glossary#position-ids)0[MultipleChoiceModelOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.MultipleChoiceModelOutput) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`A [MultipleChoiceModelOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.MultipleChoiceModelOutput) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([DistilBertConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertConfig)) and inputs.
The [DistilBertForMultipleChoice](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertForMultipleChoice) forward method, overrides the `__call__` special method.

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the `Module`
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.

- **loss** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape *(1,)*, *optional*, returned when `labels` is provided) -- Classification loss.
- **logits** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_choices)`) -- *num_choices* is the second dimension of the input tensors. (see *input_ids* above).

  Classification scores (before SoftMax).
- **hidden_states** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_hidden_states=True` is passed or when `config.output_hidden_states=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, +
  one for the output of each layer) of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`.

  Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
- **attentions** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_attentions=True` is passed or when `config.output_attentions=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for each layer) of shape `(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length,
  sequence_length)`.

  Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention
  heads.

Examples:

```python
>>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer, DistilBertForMultipleChoice
>>> import torch

>>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-cased")
>>> model = DistilBertForMultipleChoice.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-cased")

>>> prompt = "In Italy, pizza served in formal settings, such as at a restaurant, is presented unsliced."
>>> choice0 = "It is eaten with a fork and a knife."
>>> choice1 = "It is eaten while held in the hand."
>>> labels = torch.tensor(0).unsqueeze(0)  # choice0 is correct (according to Wikipedia ;)), batch size 1

>>> encoding = tokenizer([[prompt, choice0], [prompt, choice1]], return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
>>> outputs = model(**{k: v.unsqueeze(0) for k, v in encoding.items()}, labels=labels)  # batch size is 1

>>> # the linear classifier still needs to be trained
>>> loss = outputs.loss
>>> logits = outputs.logits
```

**Parameters:**

config ([PreTrainedConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/configuration#transformers.PreTrainedConfig)) : Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the [from_pretrained()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel.from_pretrained) method to load the model weights.

**Returns:**

`[MultipleChoiceModelOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.MultipleChoiceModelOutput) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)``

A [MultipleChoiceModelOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.MultipleChoiceModelOutput) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([DistilBertConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertConfig)) and inputs.

## DistilBertForTokenClassification[[transformers.DistilBertForTokenClassification]]

#### transformers.DistilBertForTokenClassification[[transformers.DistilBertForTokenClassification]]

[Source](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/modeling_distilbert.py#L737)

The Distilbert transformer with a token classification head on top (a linear layer on top of the hidden-states
output) e.g. for Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) tasks.

This model inherits from [PreTrainedModel](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel). Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the
library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads
etc.)

This model is also a PyTorch [torch.nn.Module](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html#torch.nn.Module) subclass.
Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage
and behavior.

forwardtransformers.DistilBertForTokenClassification.forwardhttps://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/modeling_distilbert.py#L769[{"name": "input_ids", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "attention_mask", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "inputs_embeds", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "labels", "val": ": torch.LongTensor | None = None"}, {"name": "position_ids", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "**kwargs", "val": ": typing_extensions.Unpack[transformers.utils.generic.TransformersKwargs]"}]- **input_ids** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary. Padding will be ignored by default.

  Indices can be obtained using [AutoTokenizer](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/auto#transformers.AutoTokenizer). See [PreTrainedTokenizer.encode()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/internal/tokenization_utils#transformers.PreTrainedTokenizerBase.encode) and
  [PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/internal/tokenization_utils#transformers.PreTrainedTokenizerBase.__call__) for details.

  [What are input IDs?](../glossary#input-ids)
- **attention_mask** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in `[0, 1]`:

  - 1 for tokens that are **not masked**,
  - 0 for tokens that are **masked**.

  [What are attention masks?](../glossary#attention-mask)
- **inputs_embeds** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`, *optional*) --
  Optionally, instead of passing `input_ids` you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This
  is useful if you want more control over how to convert `input_ids` indices into associated vectors than the
  model's internal embedding lookup matrix.
- **labels** (`torch.LongTensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Labels for computing the token classification loss. Indices should be in `[0, ..., config.num_labels - 1]`.
- **position_ids** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range `[0, config.n_positions - 1]`.

  [What are position IDs?](../glossary#position-ids)0[TokenClassifierOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.TokenClassifierOutput) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`A [TokenClassifierOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.TokenClassifierOutput) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([DistilBertConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertConfig)) and inputs.
The [DistilBertForTokenClassification](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertForTokenClassification) forward method, overrides the `__call__` special method.

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the `Module`
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.

- **loss** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(1,)`, *optional*, returned when `labels` is provided) -- Classification loss.
- **logits** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, config.num_labels)`) -- Classification scores (before SoftMax).
- **hidden_states** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_hidden_states=True` is passed or when `config.output_hidden_states=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, +
  one for the output of each layer) of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`.

  Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
- **attentions** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_attentions=True` is passed or when `config.output_attentions=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for each layer) of shape `(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length,
  sequence_length)`.

  Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention
  heads.

Example:

```python
>>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer, DistilBertForTokenClassification
>>> import torch

>>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/distilbert-base-uncased")
>>> model = DistilBertForTokenClassification.from_pretrained("google/distilbert-base-uncased")

>>> inputs = tokenizer(
...     "HuggingFace is a company based in Paris and New York", add_special_tokens=False, return_tensors="pt"
... )

>>> with torch.no_grad():
...     logits = model(**inputs).logits

>>> predicted_token_class_ids = logits.argmax(-1)

>>> # Note that tokens are classified rather then input words which means that
>>> # there might be more predicted token classes than words.
>>> # Multiple token classes might account for the same word
>>> predicted_tokens_classes = [model.config.id2label[t.item()] for t in predicted_token_class_ids[0]]
>>> predicted_tokens_classes
...

>>> labels = predicted_token_class_ids
>>> loss = model(**inputs, labels=labels).loss
>>> round(loss.item(), 2)
...
```

**Parameters:**

config ([PreTrainedConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/configuration#transformers.PreTrainedConfig)) : Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the [from_pretrained()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel.from_pretrained) method to load the model weights.

**Returns:**

`[TokenClassifierOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.TokenClassifierOutput) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)``

A [TokenClassifierOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.TokenClassifierOutput) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([DistilBertConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertConfig)) and inputs.

## DistilBertForQuestionAnswering[[transformers.DistilBertForQuestionAnswering]]

#### transformers.DistilBertForQuestionAnswering[[transformers.DistilBertForQuestionAnswering]]

[Source](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/modeling_distilbert.py#L635)

The Distilbert transformer with a span classification head on top for extractive question-answering tasks like
SQuAD (a linear layer on top of the hidden-states output to compute `span start logits` and `span end logits`).

This model inherits from [PreTrainedModel](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel). Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the
library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads
etc.)

This model is also a PyTorch [torch.nn.Module](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html#torch.nn.Module) subclass.
Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage
and behavior.

forwardtransformers.DistilBertForQuestionAnswering.forwardhttps://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.8.0/src/transformers/models/distilbert/modeling_distilbert.py#L669[{"name": "input_ids", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "attention_mask", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "inputs_embeds", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "start_positions", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "end_positions", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "position_ids", "val": ": torch.Tensor | None = None"}, {"name": "**kwargs", "val": ": typing_extensions.Unpack[transformers.utils.generic.TransformersKwargs]"}]- **input_ids** (`torch.LongTensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_choices)`) --
  Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.

  Indices can be obtained using [AutoTokenizer](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/auto#transformers.AutoTokenizer). See [PreTrainedTokenizer.encode()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/internal/tokenization_utils#transformers.PreTrainedTokenizerBase.encode) and
  [PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/internal/tokenization_utils#transformers.PreTrainedTokenizerBase.__call__) for details.

  [What are input IDs?](../glossary#input-ids)
- **attention_mask** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in `[0, 1]`:

  - 1 for tokens that are **not masked**,
  - 0 for tokens that are **masked**.

  [What are attention masks?](../glossary#attention-mask)
- **inputs_embeds** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_choices, hidden_size)`, *optional*) --
  Optionally, instead of passing `input_ids` you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This
  is useful if you want more control over how to convert `input_ids` indices into associated vectors than the
  model's internal embedding lookup matrix.
- **start_positions** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size,)`, *optional*) --
  Labels for position (index) of the start of the labelled span for computing the token classification loss.
  Positions are clamped to the length of the sequence (`sequence_length`). Position outside of the sequence
  are not taken into account for computing the loss.
- **end_positions** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size,)`, *optional*) --
  Labels for position (index) of the end of the labelled span for computing the token classification loss.
  Positions are clamped to the length of the sequence (`sequence_length`). Position outside of the sequence
  are not taken into account for computing the loss.
- **position_ids** (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*) --
  Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range `[0, config.n_positions - 1]`.

  [What are position IDs?](../glossary#position-ids)0[QuestionAnsweringModelOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.QuestionAnsweringModelOutput) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`A [QuestionAnsweringModelOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.QuestionAnsweringModelOutput) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([DistilBertConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertConfig)) and inputs.
The [DistilBertForQuestionAnswering](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertForQuestionAnswering) forward method, overrides the `__call__` special method.

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the `Module`
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.

- **loss** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(1,)`, *optional*, returned when `labels` is provided) -- Total span extraction loss is the sum of a Cross-Entropy for the start and end positions.
- **start_logits** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`) -- Span-start scores (before SoftMax).
- **end_logits** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`) -- Span-end scores (before SoftMax).
- **hidden_states** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_hidden_states=True` is passed or when `config.output_hidden_states=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, +
  one for the output of each layer) of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`.

  Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
- **attentions** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_attentions=True` is passed or when `config.output_attentions=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for each layer) of shape `(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length,
  sequence_length)`.

  Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention
  heads.

Example:

```python
>>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer, DistilBertForQuestionAnswering
>>> import torch

>>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/distilbert-base-uncased")
>>> model = DistilBertForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained("google/distilbert-base-uncased")

>>> question, text = "Who was Jim Henson?", "Jim Henson was a nice puppet"

>>> inputs = tokenizer(question, text, return_tensors="pt")
>>> with torch.no_grad():
...     outputs = model(**inputs)

>>> answer_start_index = outputs.start_logits.argmax()
>>> answer_end_index = outputs.end_logits.argmax()

>>> predict_answer_tokens = inputs.input_ids[0, answer_start_index : answer_end_index + 1]
>>> tokenizer.decode(predict_answer_tokens, skip_special_tokens=True)
...

>>> # target is "nice puppet"
>>> target_start_index = torch.tensor([14])
>>> target_end_index = torch.tensor([15])

>>> outputs = model(**inputs, start_positions=target_start_index, end_positions=target_end_index)
>>> loss = outputs.loss
>>> round(loss.item(), 2)
...
```

**Parameters:**

config ([PreTrainedConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/configuration#transformers.PreTrainedConfig)) : Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the [from_pretrained()](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel.from_pretrained) method to load the model weights.

**Returns:**

`[QuestionAnsweringModelOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.QuestionAnsweringModelOutput) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)``

A [QuestionAnsweringModelOutput](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.QuestionAnsweringModelOutput) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([DistilBertConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.8.0/en/model_doc/distilbert#transformers.DistilBertConfig)) and inputs.