How cls token in BERT contribute to Overall sentiment?

68    Asked by DavidPiper in Data Science , Asked on Jul 3, 2024

 I am currently engaged in a particular task which is related to designing q natural language processing model for sentiment analysis by using the BERT. How can the cow token in the BERT contribute to the overall sentiment analysis task and what role it can play specifically during the time of training and inference phrases? 

Answered by Joshua Smith

In the context of data science, here are the steps given:-

Training phase

During the time of training, the BERT processes input sequences by first adding a cls token at the starting point. This particular token would represent what is learned by the training process to encapsulate the whole input sequence's meaning, which can be useful for downstream tasks such as classification or sentiment analysis. In other words, the cls token representation is used as the input to the classification layer which can help in predicting the sentiment label.

# Example using Hugging Face’s Transformers library
From transformers import BertTokenizer, BertForSequenceClassification
Import torch
Tokenizer = BertTokenizer.from_pretrained(‘bert-base-uncased’)
Model = BertForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(‘bert-base-uncased’)
Inputs = tokenizer(“This is a positive review.”, return_tensors=”pt”)
Outputs = model(**inputs)
Logits = outputs.logits

Inference phase

During the time of Inference phase, after fine-tuning BERT on a sentimental analysis dataset, you would need to use the cls token similarly. The model would predict the sentiment label based on the representation learned during the time of training. In other words, you input the sequence by using the BERT model which would extract the representation of the cls toke and make predictions based on that representation.

# Example inference using the fine-tuned model
Inputs = tokenizer(“This movie is great!”, return_tensors=”pt”)
Outputs = model(**inputs)
Logits = outputs.logitsPredicted_label = torch.argmax(logits, dim=1)

Here is a Python-based script given which would demonstrate how you can use the “transformers” library from hugging face to perform sentiment analysis by using the BERT, including the use of the cls token:-

From transformers import BertTokenizer, BertForSequenceClassification

Import torch

# Load pre-trained BERT tokenizer and model for sequence classification
Tokenizer = BertTokenizer.from_pretrained(‘bert-base-uncased’)
Model = BertForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(‘bert-base-uncased’)
# Example input sentence for sentiment analysis
Input_text = “This movie is fantastic! I enjoyed it.”
# Tokenize input text and prepare inputs for BERT
Inputs = tokenizer(input_text, return_tensors=’pt’)
# Perform forward pass through the BERT model
Outputs = model(**inputs)
# Get logits from the model output
Logits = outputs.logits
# Predict sentiment label
Predicted_label = torch.argmax(logits, dim=1).item()
# Define mapping from index to sentiment label (assuming a binary classification here)
Label_map = {0: ‘Negative’, 1: ‘Positive’}
# Print the predicted sentiment label
Print(f”Predicted sentiment: {label_map[predicted_label]}”)


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