integrations/transformers/usage.md

ModernBERT: fill-mask with Transformers

This page is the Transformers contract of the ModernBERT MIC and also a usage example. doc-builder renders the runnable blocks below as documentation, and its pytest plugin runs them as written against answerdotai/ModernBERT-base. The MIC runner runs the same blocks against each slim fixture and each checkpoint in integration.json. Lines marked # doc-builder: hide only matter there: they swap in the pinned checkpoint or variant and print the result record.

Predict the masked word

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForMaskedLM, AutoTokenizer, set_seed
import json  # doc-builder: hide
import os  # doc-builder: hide

model_id = "answerdotai/ModernBERT-base"
model_id = os.environ.get("MIC_MODEL", model_id)  # doc-builder: hide
variant = json.loads(os.environ.get("MIC_MODEL_KWARGS", "{}"))  # doc-builder: hide
device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
set_seed(0)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained(model_id).to(device)
if variant:  # doc-builder: hide
    model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained(model_id, **variant).to(device)

prompts = [
    "The capital of France is [MASK].",
    "Water is made of hydrogen and [MASK].",
]
inputs = tokenizer(prompts, return_tensors="pt", padding=True).to(device)

model.eval()
with torch.no_grad():
    logits = model(**inputs).logits
masked = inputs["input_ids"] == tokenizer.mask_token_id
predicted = logits[masked].argmax(dim=-1)
print(tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens(predicted))

One training step

answers = ["paris", "oxygen"]
answer_ids = tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids(answers)
labels = torch.full_like(inputs["input_ids"], -100)
labels[masked] = torch.tensor(answer_ids, device=device)

model.train()
optimizer = torch.optim.SGD(model.parameters(), lr=0.01)
loss = model(**inputs, labels=labels).loss
loss.backward()
before = {name: p.detach().clone() for name, p in model.named_parameters()}  # doc-builder: hide
optimizer.step()
print(f"loss: {loss.item():.4f}")

if os.environ.get("MIC_RUNNER"):  # doc-builder: hide
    named = dict(model.named_parameters())
    grad_params = [n for n, p in named.items() if p.grad is not None]
    checked = grad_params[:2]
    result = {
        "runtime": {
            "device": model.device.type,
            "dtype": str(model.dtype).removeprefix("torch."),
            "attn_implementation": model.config._attn_implementation,
        },
        "predicted_tokens": predicted.tolist(),
        "predicted_text": tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens(predicted),
        "answer_logits": logits[masked][:, answer_ids].float().tolist(),
        "training": {
            "loss": loss.item(),
            "gradients": {n: bool(torch.count_nonzero(named[n].grad) > 0 and torch.isfinite(named[n].grad).all()) for n in checked},
            "updated": any(not torch.equal(p, before[n]) for n, p in named.items()),
        },
    }
    print(json.dumps(result))