readme: ---
  language: en
  license: apache-2.0
  datasets: natural_questions
  widget:
  - text: "Who added BigBird to HuggingFace Transformers?"
    context: "BigBird Pegasus just landed! Thanks to Vasudev Gupta, BigBird Pegasus from Google AI is merged into HuggingFace Transformers. Check it out today!!!"
  ---
  
  This checkpoint is obtained after training `BigBirdForQuestionAnswering` (with extra pooler head) on [`natural_questions`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/natural_questions) dataset for ~ 2 weeks on 2 K80 GPUs. Script for training can be found here: https://github.com/vasudevgupta7/bigbird
  
  | Exact Match | 47.44 |
  |-------------|-------|
  
  **Use this model just like any other model from 🤗Transformers**
  
  ```python
  from transformers import BigBirdForQuestionAnswering
  
  model_id = "vasudevgupta/bigbird-roberta-natural-questions"
  model = BigBirdForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained(model_id)
  tokenizer = BigBirdTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
  ```
  
  In case you are interested in predicting category (null, long, short, yes, no) as well, use `BigBirdForNaturalQuestions` (instead of `BigBirdForQuestionAnswering`) from my training script.
  