Method _prune_heads

bert/modeling_bert.py:660–666

Prunes heads of the model. heads_to_prune: dict of {layer_num: list of heads to prune in this layer} See base class PreTrainedModel

(self, heads_to_prune)

        self.embeddings.word_embeddings = value

    def _prune_heads(self, heads_to_prune):
        """ Prunes heads of the model.
            heads_to_prune: dict of {layer_num: list of heads to prune in this layer}
            See base class PreTrainedModel
        """
        for layer, heads in heads_to_prune.items():
            self.encoder.layer[layer].attention.prune_heads(heads)

    @add_start_docstrings_to_callable(BERT_INPUTS_DOCSTRING.format("(batch_size, sequence_length)"))
    @add_code_sample_docstrings(tokenizer_class=_TOKENIZER_FOR_DOC, checkpoint="bert-base-uncased")