README.md

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license: apache-2.0
language: en
---

# LongT5 (local attention, base-sized model)

LongT5 model pre-trained on English language. The model was introduced in the paper [LongT5: Efficient Text-To-Text Transformer for Long Sequences](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.07916.pdf) by Guo et al. and first released in [the LongT5 repository](https://github.com/google-research/longt5). All the model architecture and configuration can be found in [Flaxformer repository](https://github.com/google/flaxformer) which uses another Google research project repository [T5x](https://github.com/google-research/t5x).

Disclaimer: The team releasing LongT5 did not write a model card for this model so this model card has been written by the Hugging Face team.

## Model description
LongT5 model is an encoder-decoder transformer pre-trained in a text-to-text denoising generative setting ([Pegasus-like generation pre-training](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.08777.pdf)). LongT5 model is an extension of [T5 model](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.10683.pdf), and it enables using one of the two different efficient attention mechanisms - (1) Local attention, or (2) Transient-Global attention. The usage of attention sparsity patterns allows the model to efficiently handle input sequence.

LongT5 is particularly effective when fine-tuned for text generation (summarization, question answering) which requires handling long input sequences (up to 16,384 tokens).


## Intended uses & limitations

The model is mostly meant to be fine-tuned on a supervised dataset. See the [model hub](https://huggingface.co/models?search=longt5) to look for fine-tuned versions on a task that interests you.

### How to use

```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, LongT5Model

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/long-t5-local-base")
model = LongT5Model.from_pretrained("google/long-t5-local-base")

inputs = tokenizer("Hello, my dog is cute", return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model(**inputs)

last_hidden_states = outputs.last_hidden_state
```

### BibTeX entry and citation info

```bibtex
@article{guo2021longt5,
  title={LongT5: Efficient Text-To-Text Transformer for Long Sequences},
  author={Guo, Mandy and Ainslie, Joshua and Uthus, David and Ontanon, Santiago and Ni, Jianmo and Sung, Yun-Hsuan and Yang, Yinfei},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.07916},
  year={2021}
}
```