Detailed Explanation of HuggingFace BERT Source Code

class BertTokenizer(PreTrainedTokenizer):
    """
    Construct a BERT tokenizer. Based on WordPiece.

    This tokenizer inherits from :class:`~transformers.PreTrainedTokenizer` which contains most of the main methods.
    Users should refer to this superclass for more information regarding those methods.
    ...
    """

• <span>BasicTokenizer</span> is responsible for the first step—splitting sentences by punctuation, spaces, etc., handling whether to lowercase, and cleaning illegal characters.

• For Chinese characters, it splits by characters through preprocessing (adding spaces);

• It can also specify certain words not to be split through <span>never_split</span>;

• This step is optional (default executed).
• <span>WordPieceTokenizer</span> further decomposes words into subwords on top of words.

• Subwords are between characters and words, preserving some meaning of words while addressing the vocabulary explosion and OOV (Out-Of-Vocabulary) issues caused by plural forms and tenses in English, by segmenting roots and tense affixes, thus reducing vocabulary and lowering training difficulty;

• For example, the word tokenizer can be broken down into “token” and “##izer”, where the “##” indicates that the latter word follows the former.

>>> from transformers import BertTokenizer
>>> bt = BertTokenizer.from_pretrained('./bert-base-uncased/')
>>> bt('I like natural language progressing!')
{'input_ids': [101, 1045, 2066, 3019, 2653, 27673, 999, 102], 'token_type_ids': [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], 'attention_mask': [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]}

class BertModel(BertPreTrainedModel):
    """
    The model can behave as an encoder (with only self-attention) as well as a decoder, in which case a layer of
    cross-attention is added between the self-attention layers, following the architecture described in `Attention is
    all you need <https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762>`__ by Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit,
    Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser and Illia Polosukhin.

    To behave as a decoder the model needs to be initialized with the :obj:`is_decoder` argument of the configuration
    set to :obj:`True`. To be used in a Seq2Seq model, the model needs to initialized with both :obj:`is_decoder`
    argument and :obj:`add_cross_attention` set to :obj:`True`; an :obj:`encoder_hidden_states` is then expected as an
    input to the forward pass.
    """ 

    def forward(
        self,
        input_ids=None,
        attention_mask=None,
        token_type_ids=None,
        position_ids=None,
        head_mask=None,
        inputs_embeds=None,
        encoder_hidden_states=None,
        encoder_attention_mask=None,
        past_key_values=None,
        use_cache=None,
        output_attentions=None,
        output_hidden_states=None,
        return_dict=None,
    ): ...

        # BertModel's forward propagation return part
        if not return_dict:
            return (sequence_output, pooled_output) + encoder_outputs[1:]

        return BaseModelOutputWithPoolingAndCrossAttentions(
            last_hidden_state=sequence_output,
            pooler_output=pooled_output,
            past_key_values=encoder_outputs.past_key_values,
            hidden_states=encoder_outputs.hidden_states,
            attentions=encoder_outputs.attentions,
            cross_attentions=encoder_outputs.cross_attentions,
        )

        # BertEncoder's forward propagation return part, i.e., the above encoder_outputs
        if not return_dict:
            return tuple(
                v
                for v in [
                    hidden_states,
                    next_decoder_cache,
                    all_hidden_states,
                    all_self_attentions,
                    all_cross_attentions,
                ]
                if v is not None
            )
        return BaseModelOutputWithPastAndCrossAttentions(
            last_hidden_state=hidden_states,
            past_key_values=next_decoder_cache,
            hidden_states=all_hidden_states,
            attentions=all_self_attentions,
            cross_attentions=all_cross_attentions,
        )

        # This is part of forward
        self_attention_outputs = self.attention(
            hidden_states,
            attention_mask,
            head_mask,
            output_attentions=output_attentions,
            past_key_value=self_attn_past_key_value,
        )
        outputs = self_attention_outputs[1:]  # add self attentions if we output attention weights

        # ...

def apply_chunking_to_forward(
    forward_fn: Callable[..., torch.Tensor], chunk_size: int, chunk_dim: int, *input_tensors
) -> torch.Tensor:
    """
    This function chunks the :obj:`input_tensors` into smaller input tensor parts of size :obj:`chunk_size` over the
    dimension :obj:`chunk_dim`. It then applies a layer :obj:`forward_fn` to each chunk independently to save memory.

    If the :obj:`forward_fn` is independent across the :obj:`chunk_dim` this function will yield the same result as
    directly applying :obj:`forward_fn` to :obj:`input_tensors`.
    ...
    """

class BertAttention(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, config):
        super().__init__()
        self.self = BertSelfAttention(config)
        self.output = BertSelfOutput(config)
        self.pruned_heads = set()

    def prune_heads(self, heads):
        if len(heads) == 0:
            return
        heads, index = find_pruneable_heads_and_indices(
            heads, self.self.num_attention_heads, self.self.attention_head_size, self.pruned_heads
        )

        # Prune linear layers
        self.self.query = prune_linear_layer(self.self.query, index)
        self.self.key = prune_linear_layer(self.self.key, index)
        self.self.value = prune_linear_layer(self.self.value, index)
        self.output.dense = prune_linear_layer(self.output.dense, index, dim=1)

        # Update hyper params and store pruned heads
        self.self.num_attention_heads = self.self.num_attention_heads - len(heads)
        self.self.all_head_size = self.self.attention_head_size * self.self.num_attention_heads
        self.pruned_heads = self.pruned_heads.union(heads)

class BertSelfAttention(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, config):
        super().__init__()
        if config.hidden_size % config.num_attention_heads != 0 and not hasattr(config, "embedding_size"):
            raise ValueError(
                "The hidden size (%d) is not a multiple of the number of attention "
                "heads (%d)" % (config.hidden_size, config.num_attention_heads)
            )

        self.num_attention_heads = config.num_attention_heads
        self.attention_head_size = int(config.hidden_size / config.num_attention_heads)
        self.all_head_size = self.num_attention_heads * self.attention_head_size

        self.query = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, self.all_head_size)
        self.key = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, self.all_head_size)
        self.value = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, self.all_head_size)

        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(config.attention_probs_dropout_prob)
        self.position_embedding_type = getattr(config, "position_embedding_type", "absolute")
        if self.position_embedding_type == "relative_key" or self.position_embedding_type == "relative_key_query":
            self.max_position_embeddings = config.max_position_embeddings
            self.distance_embedding = nn.Embedding(2 * config.max_position_embeddings - 1, self.attention_head_size)

        self.is_decoder = config.is_decoder

    def transpose_for_scores(self, x):
        new_x_shape = x.size()[:-1] + (self.num_attention_heads, self.attention_head_size)
        x = x.view(*new_x_shape)
        return x.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)

    def forward(
        self,
        hidden_states,
        attention_mask=None,
        head_mask=None,
        encoder_hidden_states=None,
        encoder_attention_mask=None,
        past_key_value=None,
        output_attentions=False,
    ):
        mixed_query_layer = self.query(hidden_states)

        # ...

        # ...
        if self.position_embedding_type == "relative_key" or self.position_embedding_type == "relative_key_query":
            seq_length = hidden_states.size()[1]
            position_ids_l = torch.arange(seq_length, dtype=torch.long, device=hidden_states.device).view(-1, 1)
            position_ids_r = torch.arange(seq_length, dtype=torch.long, device=hidden_states.device).view(1, -1)
            distance = position_ids_l - position_ids_r
            positional_embedding = self.distance_embedding(distance + self.max_position_embeddings - 1)
            positional_embedding = positional_embedding.to(dtype=query_layer.dtype)  # fp16 compatibility

            if self.position_embedding_type == "relative_key":
                relative_position_scores = torch.einsum("bhld,lrd->bhlr", query_layer, positional_embedding)
                attention_scores = attention_scores + relative_position_scores
            elif self.position_embedding_type == "relative_key_query":
                relative_position_scores_query = torch.einsum("bhld,lrd->bhlr", query_layer, positional_embedding)
                relative_position_scores_key = torch.einsum("bhrd,lrd->bhlr", key_layer, positional_embedding)
                attention_scores = attention_scores + relative_position_scores_query + relative_position_scores_key
        # ...

        # ...
        attention_scores = attention_scores / math.sqrt(self.attention_head_size)
        if attention_mask is not None:
            # Apply the attention mask is (precomputed for all layers in BertModel forward() function)
            attention_scores = attention_scores + attention_mask  # Why is this + instead of *?

        # Normalize the attention scores to probabilities.
        attention_probs = nn.Softmax(dim=-1)(attention_scores)

        # This is actually dropping out entire tokens to attend to, which might
        # seem a bit unusual, but is taken from the original Transformer paper.
        attention_probs = self.dropout(attention_probs)

        # Mask heads if we want to
        if head_mask is not None:
            attention_probs = attention_probs * head_mask

        context_layer = torch.matmul(attention_probs, value_layer)

        context_layer = context_layer.permute(0, 2, 1, 3).contiguous()
        new_context_layer_shape = context_layer.size()[:-2] + (self.all_head_size,)
        context_layer = context_layer.view(*new_context_layer_shape)

        outputs = (context_layer, attention_probs) if output_attentions else (context_layer,)

        # ...
        return outputs

(Pdb) attention_mask
tensor([[[[    -0.,     -0.,     -0.,  ..., -10000., -10000., -10000.]]],
        [[[    -0.,     -0.,     -0.,  ..., -10000., -10000., -10000.]]],
        [[[    -0.,     -0.,     -0.,  ..., -10000., -10000., -10000.]]],
        ...,
        [[[    -0.,     -0.,     -0.,  ..., -10000., -10000., -10000.]]],
        [[[    -0.,     -0.,     -0.,  ..., -10000., -10000., -10000.]]],
        [[[    -0.,     -0.,     -0.,  ..., -10000., -10000., -10000.]]]],
       device='cuda:0')

    def get_extended_attention_mask(self, attention_mask: Tensor, input_shape: Tuple[int], device: device) -> Tensor:
        """
        Makes broadcastable attention and causal masks so that future and masked tokens are ignored.

        Arguments:
            attention_mask (:obj:`torch.Tensor`):
                Mask with ones indicating tokens to attend to, zeros for tokens to ignore.
            input_shape (:obj:`Tuple[int]`):
                The shape of the input to the model.
            device: (:obj:`torch.device`):
                The device of the input to the model.

        Returns:
            :obj:`torch.Tensor` The extended attention mask, with a the same dtype as :obj:`attention_mask.dtype`.
        """
        # ...

        # Since attention_mask is 1.0 for positions we want to attend and 0.0 for
        # masked positions, this operation will create a tensor which is 0.0 for
        # positions we want to attend and -10000.0 for masked positions.
        # Since we are adding it to the raw scores before the softmax, this is
        # effectively the same as removing these entirely.
        extended_attention_mask = extended_attention_mask.to(dtype=self.dtype)  # fp16 compatibility
        extended_attention_mask = (1.0 - extended_attention_mask) * -10000.0
        return extended_attention_mask

        # We can provide a self-attention mask of dimensions [batch_size, from_seq_length, to_seq_length]
        # ourselves in which case we just need to make it broadcastable to all heads.
        extended_attention_mask: torch.Tensor = self.get_extended_attention_mask(attention_mask, input_shape, device)

class BertSelfOutput(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, config):
        super().__init__()
        self.dense = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, config.hidden_size)
        self.LayerNorm = nn.LayerNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=config.layer_norm_eps)
        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(config.hidden_dropout_prob)

    def forward(self, hidden_states, input_tensor):
        hidden_states = self.dense(hidden_states)
        hidden_states = self.dropout(hidden_states)
        hidden_states = self.LayerNorm(hidden_states + input_tensor)
        return hidden_states

class BertIntermediate(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, config):
        super().__init__()
        self.dense = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, config.intermediate_size)
        if isinstance(config.hidden_act, str):
            self.intermediate_act_fn = ACT2FN[config.hidden_act]
        else:
            self.intermediate_act_fn = config.hidden_act

    def forward(self, hidden_states):
        hidden_states = self.dense(hidden_states)
        hidden_states = self.intermediate_act_fn(hidden_states)
        return hidden_states

class BertOutput(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, config):
        super().__init__()
        self.dense = nn.Linear(config.intermediate_size, config.hidden_size)
        self.LayerNorm = nn.LayerNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=config.layer_norm_eps)
        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(config.hidden_dropout_prob)

    def forward(self, hidden_states, input_tensor):
        hidden_states = self.dense(hidden_states)
        hidden_states = self.dropout(hidden_states)
        hidden_states = self.LayerNorm(hidden_states + input_tensor)
        return hidden_states

class BertPooler(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, config):
        super().__init__()
        self.dense = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, config.hidden_size)
        self.activation = nn.Tanh()

    def forward(self, hidden_states):
        # We "pool" the model by simply taking the hidden state corresponding
        # to the first token.
        first_token_tensor = hidden_states[:, 0]
        pooled_output = self.dense(first_token_tensor)
        pooled_output = self.activation(pooled_output)
        return pooled_output