app.py

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForQuestionAnswering

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("valhalla/longformer-base-4096-finetuned-squadv1")
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained("valhalla/longformer-base-4096-finetuned-squadv1")

text = "Huggingface has democratized NLP. Huge thanks to Huggingface for this."
question = "What has Huggingface done ?"
encoding = tokenizer(question, text, return_tensors="pt")
input_ids = encoding["input_ids"]

# default is local attention everywhere
# the forward method will automatically set global attention on question tokens
attention_mask = encoding["attention_mask"]

start_scores, end_scores = model(input_ids, attention_mask=attention_mask)
all_tokens = tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens(input_ids[0].tolist())

answer_tokens = all_tokens[torch.argmax(start_scores) :torch.argmax(end_scores)+1]
answer = tokenizer.decode(tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids(answer_tokens))
# output => democratized NLP