Note that [BlenderbotSmallModel] and
[BlenderbotSmallForConditionalGeneration] are only used in combination with the checkpoint
facebook/blenderbot-90M. Larger Blenderbot checkpoints should
instead be used with [BlenderbotModel] and
[BlenderbotForConditionalGeneration]
Overview
The Blender chatbot model was proposed in Recipes for building an open-domain chatbot Stephen Roller, Emily Dinan, Naman Goyal, Da Ju, Mary Williamson, Yinhan Liu,
Jing Xu, Myle Ott, Kurt Shuster, Eric M. Smith, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston on 30 Apr 2020.
The abstract of the paper is the following:
Building open-domain chatbots is a challenging area for machine learning research. While prior work has shown that
scaling neural models in the number of parameters and the size of the data they are trained on gives improved results,
