Hey, I’m using BertForSequenceClassification + Pytorch Lightning-Flash for a text classification task. I want to add additional features besides the text (e.g. categorical features). From what I understand, I need to override BertForSequenceClassification “forward” method and change the final class…

Correction: my response above is useful in case one wants to add additional text features to the tokens. However, if you want to combine text features with other features (like categorical or numerical ones) - which was actually the question above (apologies) - it makes sense to concatenate the fin…

@nielsr in the notebook it doesn’t look like the classification head is actually fitted against the data? I might be missing something, but it looks like it takes a pretrained model, adds a classification head and then uses it directly for inference without actually training it? I’m trying to do exa…

Combine BertForSequenceClassificaion with Additional Features

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nielsr June 4, 2021, 9:26am 2

See this response where I explain how to modify BERT to add additional POS (part-of-speech) features to tokens to perform named-entity recognition.

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Combine BertForSequenceClassificaion with Additional Features

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