Masked Language Modeling -- MLM

Knowledge graph 本篇所涉及的知识点

• BERT concept and theory
• BERT application
• MLM: introduction and way to use
• NLP
• next sentence prediction (NSP)

Masked language Modeling(MLM)

关于BERT和MLM：

• BERT可以很方便地用于应用领域；
• BERT + MLM可以方便应用于特定领域及问题中；

Here I would like to introduce Masked language Modeling(MLM). Before the introduction, there are some basic ideas you need to know about BERT and MLM:

• BERT is easy to use in a general purpose of use;
• BERT with MLM can be used in specific areas and domains.

BERT + MLM 的思想在于：
在数据输入BERT训练前，使用MLM遮盖部分数据，然后让BERT填补这部分数据；MLM所遮盖的部分，可以是随机性遮盖一定比例的。

(mask some tokens before training in BERT; let BERT fill the missing part of the text)

使用BERT + MLM的过程

The whole processes:

• 文本特征化后得到三个张量 tokenize the text, after this, we will get three tensors:
  • input_ids – this is what will be used as input to BERT
  • token_type_ids – not necessary for MLM
  • attention_mask
• 标签张量label tensors:
  • calculate loss against and optimize towards
  • simply input_ids – 只对这个张量进行操作
• MLM遮盖数据集 randomly mask some tokens in input_ids
  • 15% of masking the tokens in pre-training model process.
• 计算损失函数 calculate loss – used for optimization the model
  • input input_ids and labels in BERT
  • do the calculation