Name: bert large uncased whole word masking squad2
Author: deepset

Overview

The BERT-Large-Uncased-WWM-SQuAD2 model is a specialized encoder designed for high-precision extractive question answering. Unlike standard BERT, this version utilizes Whole Word Masking (WWM), which prevents the model from learning trivial subword patterns and forces a deeper semantic understanding of full tokens. Fine-tuned on the SQuAD 2.0 dataset, it is specifically optimized to handle 'unanswerable' questions, reducing false positives in production pipelines. For developers, this makes it a reliable choice for building RAG systems or knowledge-base bots where accuracy and the ability to say 'I don't know' are critical. It integrates seamlessly with the Hugging Face Transformers library and is compatible with most PyTorch and TensorFlow workflows.

Highlights

Optimized for extractive QA with SQuAD 2.0 fine-tuning
Whole Word Masking improves semantic token representation
Effectively identifies unanswerable queries to reduce hallucinations
Fully compatible with Hugging Face Transformers ecosystem
Strong performance for knowledge-base and RAG integrations

Usage

Install

# Install Hugging Face transformers
pip install transformers torch

SDK Usage

# Load model with transformers
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2")

Hugging Face Download

We recommend downloading the model via the Hugging Face CLI or Hub SDK.

Guidance：Before downloading, install huggingface_hub with:

Guidance

pip install -U huggingface_hub

CLI Download

Download the full repository

huggingface-cli download deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. config.json into ./dir)

huggingface-cli download deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2 config.json --local-dir ./dir

See the official docs for more CLI options

SDK Download

# 模型下载
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download

git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS

GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2

Model files are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub — download directly via HF CLI / SDK / Git, not through this site.

PyTorch / Transformers Usage

Install Transformers

pip install -U transformers torch

Load the model and run inference

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2')
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2')

Model Download

We recommend downloading the model via the ModelScope CLI or SDK.

Guidance：Before downloading, install ModelScope with:

Guidance

pip install modelscope

CLI Download

Download the full repository

modelscope download --model deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. README.md into ./dir)

modelscope download --model deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2 README.md --local_dir ./dir

See the docs for more CLI options

SDK Download

# 模型下载
from modelscope import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download

git lfs install
git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2.git

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS

GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2.git

ModelScope 模型页直接下载模型文件；无需将模型文件放在本站服务器。

Notebook Quickstart

Install the ModelScope library

pip install "modelscope[audio,cv,nlp,multi-modal,science]" -f https://modelscope.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/releases/repo.html

Load the model and run inference

from modelscope.pipelines import pipeline
from modelscope.utils.constant import Tasks

p = pipeline('text-generation', 'deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2')

Full Documentation

来源: HuggingFace

---
language: en
license: cc-by-4.0
datasets:

squad_v2

model-index:

name: deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2

results:
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squad_v2
type: squad_v2
config: squad_v2
split: validation
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 80.8846
name: Exact Match
verified: true
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- type: f1
value: 83.8765
name: F1
verified: true
verifyToken: eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJoYXNoIjoiNGFlNmEzMTk2NjRkNTI3ZTk3ZTU1NWNlYzIyN2E0ZDFlNDA2ZjYwZWJlNThkMmRmMmE0YzcwYjIyZDM5NmRiMCIsInZlcnNpb24iOjF9.-rc2_Bsp_B26-o12MFYuAU0Ad2Hg9PDx7Preuk27WlhYJDeKeEr32CW8LLANQABR3Mhw2x8uTYkEUrSDMxxLBw
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squad
type: squad
config: plain_text
split: validation
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 85.904
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 92.586
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: adversarial_qa
type: adversarial_qa
config: adversarialQA
split: validation
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 28.233
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 41.170
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squad_adversarial
type: squad_adversarial
config: AddOneSent
split: validation
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 78.064
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 83.591
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squadshifts amazon
type: squadshifts
config: amazon
split: test
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 65.615
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 80.733
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squadshifts new_wiki
type: squadshifts
config: new_wiki
split: test
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 81.570
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 91.199
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squadshifts nyt
type: squadshifts
config: nyt
split: test
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 83.279
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 91.090
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squadshifts reddit
type: squadshifts
config: reddit
split: test
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 69.305
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 82.405
name: F1
---

bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2 for Extractive QA

This is a berta-large model, fine-tuned using the SQuAD2.0 dataset for the task of question answering.

Overview

Language model: bert-large Language: English Downstream-task: Extractive QA Training data: SQuAD 2.0 Eval data: SQuAD 2.0 Code: See an example extractive QA pipeline built with Haystack

Usage

In Haystack

Haystack is an AI orchestration framework to build customizable, production-ready LLM applications. You can use this model in Haystack to do extractive question answering on documents. To load and run the model with Haystack:

python

# After running pip install haystack-ai "transformers[torch,sentencepiece]"
from haystack import Document
from haystack.components.readers import ExtractiveReader
docs = [
    Document(content="Python is a popular programming language"),
    Document(content="python ist eine beliebte Programmiersprache"),
]
reader = ExtractiveReader(model="deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2")
reader.warm_up()
question = "What is a popular programming language?"
result = reader.run(query=question, documents=docs)
{'answers': [ExtractedAnswer(query='What is a popular programming language?', score=0.5740374326705933, data='python', document=Document(id=..., content: '...'), context=None, document_offset=ExtractedAnswer.Span(start=0, end=6),...)]}

For a complete example with an extractive question answering pipeline that scales over many documents, check out the corresponding Haystack tutorial.

In Transformers

python

from transformers import AutoModelForQuestionAnswering, AutoTokenizer, pipeline
model_name = "deepset/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-squad2"
a) Get predictions
nlp = pipeline('question-answering', model=model_name, tokenizer=model_name)
QA_input = {
    'question': 'Why is model conversion important?',
    'context': 'The option to convert models between FARM and transformers gives freedom to the user and let people easily switch between frameworks.'
}
res = nlp(QA_input)
b) Load model & tokenizer
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained(model_name)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)

About us

deepset is the company behind the production-ready open-source AI framework Haystack.

Some of our other work:

Distilled roberta-base-squad2 (aka "tinyroberta-squad2")

German BERT, GermanQuAD and GermanDPR, German embedding model

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