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Cohere
Cohere
Cohere Command-R is a 35B parameter multilingual large language model designed for long context tasks like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and calling external APIs and tools. The model is specifically trained for grounded generation and supports both single-step and multi-step tool use. It supports a context length of 128K tokens.
You can find all the original Command-R checkpoints under the Command Models collection.
Click on the Cohere models in the right sidebar for more examples of how to apply Cohere to different language tasks.
The example below demonstrates how to generate text with Pipeline or the AutoModel, and from the command line.
import torch
from transformers import pipeline
pipeline = pipeline(
task="text-generation",
model="CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-v01",
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
device=0
)
pipeline("Plants create energy through a process known as")
Quantization reduces the memory burden of large models by representing the weights in a lower precision. Refer to the Quantization overview for more available quantization backends.
The example below uses bitsandbytes to quantize the weights to 4-bits.
import torch
from transformers import BitsAndBytesConfig, AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
bnb_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(load_in_4bit=True)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-v01")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-v01", torch_dtype=torch.float16, device_map="auto", quantization_config=bnb_config, attn_implementation="sdpa")
# format message with the Command-R chat template
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "How do plants make energy?"}]
input_ids = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=True, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
output = model.generate(
input_ids,
max_new_tokens=100,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.3,
cache_implementation="static",
)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
Use the AttentionMaskVisualizer to better understand what tokens the model can and cannot attend to.
from transformers.utils.attention_visualizer import AttentionMaskVisualizer
visualizer = AttentionMaskVisualizer("CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-v01")
visualizer("Plants create energy through a process known as")

Notes
- Don’t use the torch_dtype parameter in from_pretrained() if you’re using FlashAttention-2 because it only supports fp16 or bf16. You should use Automatic Mixed Precision, set fp16 or bf16 to True if using Trainer, or use torch.autocast.
CohereConfig
class transformers.CohereConfig
< source >( vocab_size = 256000hidden_size = 8192intermediate_size = 22528logit_scale = 0.0625num_hidden_layers = 40num_attention_heads = 64num_key_value_heads = Nonehidden_act = 'silu'max_position_embeddings = 8192initializer_range = 0.02layer_norm_eps = 1e-05use_cache = Truepad_token_id = 0bos_token_id = 5eos_token_id = 255001tie_word_embeddings = Truerope_theta = 10000.0rope_scaling = Noneattention_bias = Falseattention_dropout = 0.0use_qk_norm = False**kwargs )
Parameters
- vocab_size (
int
, optional, defaults to 256000) — Vocabulary size of the Cohere model. Defines the number of different tokens that can be represented by theinputs_ids
passed when calling CohereModel - hidden_size (
int
, optional, defaults to 8192) — Dimension of the hidden representations. - intermediate_size (
int
, optional, defaults to 22528) — Dimension of the MLP representations. - logit_scale (
float
, optional, defaults to 0.0625) — The scaling factor for the output logits. - num_hidden_layers (
int
, optional, defaults to 40) — Number of hidden layers in the Transformer decoder. - num_attention_heads (
int
, optional, defaults to 64) — Number of attention heads for each attention layer in the Transformer decoder. - num_key_value_heads (
int
, optional) — This is the number of key_value heads that should be used to implement Grouped Query Attention. Ifnum_key_value_heads=num_attention_heads
, the model will use Multi Head Attention (MHA), ifnum_key_value_heads=1
the model will use Multi Query Attention (MQA) otherwise GQA is used. When converting a multi-head checkpoint to a GQA checkpoint, each group key and value head should be constructed by meanpooling all the original heads within that group. For more details checkout this paper. If it is not specified, will default tonum_attention_heads
. - hidden_act (
str
orfunction
, optional, defaults to"silu"
) — The non-linear activation function (function or string) in the decoder. - max_position_embeddings (
int
, optional, defaults to 8192) — The maximum sequence length that this model might ever be used with. - initializer_range (
float
, optional, defaults to 0.02) — The standard deviation of the truncated_normal_initializer for initializing all weight matrices. - layer_norm_eps (
float
, optional, defaults to 1e-05) — The epsilon used by the layer normalization. - use_cache (
bool
, optional, defaults toTrue
) — Whether or not the model should return the last key/values attentions (not used by all models). Only relevant ifconfig.is_decoder=True
. - pad_token_id (
int
, optional, defaults to 0) — Padding token id. - bos_token_id (
int
, optional, defaults to 5) — Beginning of stream token id. - eos_token_id (
int
, optional, defaults to 255001) — End of stream token id. - tie_word_embeddings (
bool
, optional, defaults toTrue
) — Whether to tie weight embeddings - rope_theta (
float
, optional, defaults to 10000.0) — The base period of the RoPE embeddings. - rope_scaling (
Dict
, optional) — Dictionary containing the scaling configuration for the RoPE embeddings. NOTE: if you apply new rope type and you expect the model to work on longermax_position_embeddings
, we recommend you to update this value accordingly. Expected contents:rope_type
(str
): The sub-variant of RoPE to use. Can be one of [‘default’, ‘linear’, ‘dynamic’, ‘yarn’, ‘longrope’, ‘llama3’], with ‘default’ being the original RoPE implementation.factor
(float
, optional): Used with all rope types except ‘default’. The scaling factor to apply to the RoPE embeddings. In most scaling types, afactor
of x will enable the model to handle sequences of length x original maximum pre-trained length.original_max_position_embeddings
(int
, optional): Used with ‘dynamic’, ‘longrope’ and ‘llama3’. The original max position embeddings used during pretraining.attention_factor
(float
, optional): Used with ‘yarn’ and ‘longrope’. The scaling factor to be applied on the attention computation. If unspecified, it defaults to value recommended by the implementation, using thefactor
field to infer the suggested value.beta_fast
(float
, optional): Only used with ‘yarn’. Parameter to set the boundary for extrapolation (only) in the linear ramp function. If unspecified, it defaults to 32.beta_slow
(float
, optional): Only used with ‘yarn’. Parameter to set the boundary for interpolation (only) in the linear ramp function. If unspecified, it defaults to 1.short_factor
(List[float]
, optional): Only used with ‘longrope’. The scaling factor to be applied to short contexts (<original_max_position_embeddings
). Must be a list of numbers with the same length as the hidden size divided by the number of attention heads divided by 2long_factor
(List[float]
, optional): Only used with ‘longrope’. The scaling factor to be applied to long contexts (<original_max_position_embeddings
). Must be a list of numbers with the same length as the hidden size divided by the number of attention heads divided by 2low_freq_factor
(float
, optional): Only used with ‘llama3’. Scaling factor applied to low frequency components of the RoPEhigh_freq_factor
(float
, optional*): Only used with ‘llama3’. Scaling factor applied to high frequency components of the RoPE - attention_bias (
bool
, defaults toFalse
, optional, defaults toFalse
) — Whether to use a bias in the query, key, value and output projection layers during self-attention. - attention_dropout (
float
, optional, defaults to 0.0) — The dropout ratio for the attention probabilities. - use_qk_norm (
bool
, optional, defaults toFalse
) — Whether to use query-key normalization in the attention
This is the configuration class to store the configuration of a CohereModel. It is used to instantiate an Cohere model according to the specified arguments, defining the model architecture.
Configuration objects inherit from PretrainedConfig and can be used to control the model outputs. Read the documentation from PretrainedConfig for more information. Instantiating a configuration with the defaults will yield a similar configuration to that of the CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-v01 model.
>>> from transformers import CohereModel, CohereConfig
>>> # Initializing a Cohere model configuration
>>> configuration = CohereConfig()
>>> # Initializing a model from the Cohere configuration
>>> model = CohereModel(configuration)
>>> # Accessing the model configuration
>>> configuration = model.config
CohereTokenizerFast
class transformers.CohereTokenizerFast
< source >( vocab_file = Nonemerges_file = Nonetokenizer_file = Noneclean_up_tokenization_spaces = Falseunk_token = '<UNK>'bos_token = '<BOS_TOKEN>'eos_token = '<|END_OF_TURN_TOKEN|>'add_bos_token = Trueadd_eos_token = Falseuse_default_system_prompt = Falseadd_prefix_space = False**kwargs )
Parameters
- vocab_file (
str
, optional) — Path to the vocabulary file. - merges_file (
str
, optional) — Path to the merges file. - tokenizer_file (
str
, optional) — tokenizers file (generally has a .json extension) that contains everything needed to load the tokenizer. - clean_up_tokenization_spaces (
bool
, optional, defaults toFalse
) — Whether or not to cleanup spaces after decoding, cleanup consists in removing potential artifacts like extra spaces. - unk_token (
str
ortokenizers.AddedToken
, optional, defaults to"<UNK>"
) — The unknown token. A token that is not in the vocabulary cannot be converted to an ID and is set to be this token instead. - bos_token (
str
ortokenizers.AddedToken
, optional, defaults to"<BOS_TOKEN>"
) — The beginning of sequence token that was used during pretraining. Can be used a sequence classifier token. - eos_token (
str
ortokenizers.AddedToken
, optional, defaults to"<|END_OF_TURN_TOKEN|>"
) — The end of sequence token. - add_bos_token (
bool
, optional, defaults toTrue
) — Whether or not to add anbos_token
at the start of sequences. - add_eos_token (
bool
, optional, defaults toFalse
) — Whether or not to add aneos_token
at the end of sequences. - use_default_system_prompt (
bool
, optional, defaults toFalse
) — Whether or not the default system prompt for Cohere tokenizer should be used. - add_prefix_space (
bool
, optional, defaults toFalse
) — Whether or not the tokenizer should automatically add a prefix space
Construct a Cohere tokenizer. Based on byte-level Byte-Pair-Encoding.
This uses notably ByteFallback and NFC normalization.
>>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer
>>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-v01")
>>> tokenizer.encode("Hello this is a test")
[5, 28339, 2075, 1801, 1671, 3282]
If you want to change the bos_token
or the eos_token
, make sure to specify them when initializing the model, or
call tokenizer.update_post_processor()
to make sure that the post-processing is correctly done (otherwise the
values of the first token and final token of an encoded sequence will not be correct). For more details, checkout
[post-processors] (https://huggingface.co/docs/tokenizers/api/post-processors) documentation.
You can get around that behavior by passing add_prefix_space=True
when instantiating this tokenizer, but since
the model was not pretrained this way, it might yield a decrease in performance.
When used with is_split_into_words=True
, this tokenizer needs to be instantiated with add_prefix_space=True
.
This tokenizer inherits from PreTrainedTokenizerFast which contains most of the main methods. Users should refer to this superclass for more information regarding those methods.
get_special_tokens_mask
< source >( token_ids_0: typing.List[int]token_ids_1: typing.Optional[typing.List[int]] = Nonealready_has_special_tokens: bool = False ) → A list of integers in the range [0, 1]
Parameters
- token_ids_0 (
List[int]
) — List of ids of the first sequence. - token_ids_1 (
List[int]
, optional) — List of ids of the second sequence. - already_has_special_tokens (
bool
, optional, defaults toFalse
) — Whether or not the token list is already formatted with special tokens for the model.
Returns
A list of integers in the range [0, 1]
1 for a special token, 0 for a sequence token.
Retrieves sequence ids from a token list that has no special tokens added. This method is called when adding
special tokens using the tokenizer prepare_for_model
or encode_plus
methods.
create_token_type_ids_from_sequences
< source >( token_ids_0: typing.List[int]token_ids_1: typing.Optional[typing.List[int]] = None ) → List[int]
Create the token type IDs corresponding to the sequences passed. What are token type IDs?
Should be overridden in a subclass if the model has a special way of building those.
Updates the underlying post processor with the current bos_token
and eos_token
.
save_vocabulary
< source >( save_directory: strfilename_prefix: typing.Optional[str] = None ) → Tuple(str)
Save only the vocabulary of the tokenizer (vocabulary + added tokens).
This method won’t save the configuration and special token mappings of the tokenizer. Use
_save_pretrained()
to save the whole state of the tokenizer.
CohereModel
class transformers.CohereModel
< source >( config: CohereConfig )
Parameters
- config (CohereConfig) — Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.
- config — CohereConfig
The bare Cohere Model outputting raw hidden-states without any specific head on top. This model inherits from PreTrainedModel. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads etc.)
This model is also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass. Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.
Transformer decoder consisting of config.num_hidden_layers layers. Each layer is a CohereDecoderLayer
forward
< source >( input_ids: typing.Optional[torch.LongTensor] = Noneattention_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = Noneposition_ids: typing.Optional[torch.LongTensor] = Nonepast_key_values: typing.Optional[transformers.cache_utils.Cache] = Noneinputs_embeds: typing.Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = Noneuse_cache: typing.Optional[bool] = Noneoutput_attentions: typing.Optional[bool] = Noneoutput_hidden_states: typing.Optional[bool] = Nonecache_position: typing.Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None**flash_attn_kwargs: typing_extensions.Unpack[transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils.FlashAttentionKwargs] )
Parameters
- input_ids (
torch.LongTensor
of shape(batch_size, sequence_length)
) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary. Padding will be ignored by default should you provide it.Indices can be obtained using AutoTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.
- attention_mask (
torch.Tensor
of shape(batch_size, sequence_length)
, optional) — Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in[0, 1]
:- 1 for tokens that are not masked,
- 0 for tokens that are masked.
Indices can be obtained using AutoTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.
If
past_key_values
is used, optionally only the lastinput_ids
have to be input (seepast_key_values
).If you want to change padding behavior, you should read
modeling_opt._prepare_decoder_attention_mask
and modify to your needs. See diagram 1 in the paper for more information on the default strategy.- 1 indicates the head is not masked,
- 0 indicates the head is masked.
- position_ids (
torch.LongTensor
of shape(batch_size, sequence_length)
, optional) — Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range[0, config.n_positions - 1]
. - past_key_values (
Cache
, optional) — Pre-computed hidden-states (key and values in the self-attention blocks and in the cross-attention blocks) that can be used to speed up sequential decoding. This typically consists in thepast_key_values
returned by the model at a previous stage of decoding, whenuse_cache=True
orconfig.use_cache=True
.It is a Cache instance. For more details, see our kv cache guide.
If
past_key_values
are used, the user can optionally input only the lastinput_ids
(those that don’t have their past key value states given to this model) of shape(batch_size, 1)
instead of allinput_ids
of shape(batch_size, sequence_length)
. - inputs_embeds (
torch.FloatTensor
of shape(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)
, optional) — Optionally, instead of passinginput_ids
you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convertinput_ids
indices into associated vectors than the model’s internal embedding lookup matrix. - use_cache (
bool
, optional) — If set toTrue
,past_key_values
key value states are returned and can be used to speed up decoding (seepast_key_values
). - output_attentions (
bool
, optional) — Whether or not to return the attentions tensors of all attention layers. Seeattentions
under returned tensors for more detail. - output_hidden_states (
bool
, optional) — Whether or not to return the hidden states of all layers. Seehidden_states
under returned tensors for more detail. - return_dict (
bool
, optional) — Whether or not to return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple. - cache_position (
torch.LongTensor
of shape(sequence_length)
, optional) — Indices depicting the position of the input sequence tokens in the sequence. Contrarily toposition_ids
, this tensor is not affected by padding. It is used to update the cache in the correct position and to infer the complete sequence length.
The CohereModel forward method, overrides the __call__
special method.
Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.
CohereForCausalLM
forward
< source >( input_ids: typing.Optional[torch.LongTensor] = Noneattention_mask: typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = Noneposition_ids: typing.Optional[torch.LongTensor] = Nonepast_key_values: typing.Union[typing.List[torch.FloatTensor], transformers.cache_utils.Cache, NoneType] = Noneinputs_embeds: typing.Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = Nonelabels: typing.Optional[torch.LongTensor] = Noneuse_cache: typing.Optional[bool] = Noneoutput_attentions: typing.Optional[bool] = Noneoutput_hidden_states: typing.Optional[bool] = Nonecache_position: typing.Optional[torch.LongTensor] = Nonelogits_to_keep: typing.Union[int, torch.Tensor] = 0**kwargs: typing_extensions.Unpack[transformers.models.cohere.modeling_cohere.KwargsForCausalLM] ) → transformers.modeling_outputs.CausalLMOutputWithPast or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
Parameters
- input_ids (
torch.LongTensor
of shape(batch_size, sequence_length)
) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary. Padding will be ignored by default should you provide it.Indices can be obtained using AutoTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.
- attention_mask (
torch.Tensor
of shape(batch_size, sequence_length)
, optional) — Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in[0, 1]
:- 1 for tokens that are not masked,
- 0 for tokens that are masked.
Indices can be obtained using AutoTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.
If
past_key_values
is used, optionally only the lastinput_ids
have to be input (seepast_key_values
).If you want to change padding behavior, you should read
modeling_opt._prepare_decoder_attention_mask
and modify to your needs. See diagram 1 in the paper for more information on the default strategy.- 1 indicates the head is not masked,
- 0 indicates the head is masked.
- position_ids (
torch.LongTensor
of shape(batch_size, sequence_length)
, optional) — Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range[0, config.n_positions - 1]
. - past_key_values (
Cache
, optional) — Pre-computed hidden-states (key and values in the self-attention blocks and in the cross-attention blocks) that can be used to speed up sequential decoding. This typically consists in thepast_key_values
returned by the model at a previous stage of decoding, whenuse_cache=True
orconfig.use_cache=True
.It is a Cache instance. For more details, see our kv cache guide.
If
past_key_values
are used, the user can optionally input only the lastinput_ids
(those that don’t have their past key value states given to this model) of shape(batch_size, 1)
instead of allinput_ids
of shape(batch_size, sequence_length)
. - inputs_embeds (
torch.FloatTensor
of shape(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)
, optional) — Optionally, instead of passinginput_ids
you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convertinput_ids
indices into associated vectors than the model’s internal embedding lookup matrix. - use_cache (
bool
, optional) — If set toTrue
,past_key_values
key value states are returned and can be used to speed up decoding (seepast_key_values
). - output_attentions (
bool
, optional) — Whether or not to return the attentions tensors of all attention layers. Seeattentions
under returned tensors for more detail. - output_hidden_states (
bool
, optional) — Whether or not to return the hidden states of all layers. Seehidden_states
under returned tensors for more detail. - return_dict (
bool
, optional) — Whether or not to return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple. - cache_position (
torch.LongTensor
of shape(sequence_length)
, optional) — Indices depicting the position of the input sequence tokens in the sequence. Contrarily toposition_ids
, this tensor is not affected by padding. It is used to update the cache in the correct position and to infer the complete sequence length. - labels (
torch.LongTensor
of shape(batch_size, sequence_length)
, optional) — Labels for computing the masked language modeling loss. Indices should either be in[0, ..., config.vocab_size]
or -100 (seeinput_ids
docstring). Tokens with indices set to-100
are ignored (masked), the loss is only computed for the tokens with labels in[0, ..., config.vocab_size]
. - logits_to_keep (
int
ortorch.Tensor
, optional) — If anint
, compute logits for the lastlogits_to_keep
tokens. If0
, calculate logits for allinput_ids
(special case). Only last token logits are needed for generation, and calculating them only for that token can save memory, which becomes pretty significant for long sequences or large vocabulary size. If atorch.Tensor
, must be 1D corresponding to the indices to keep in the sequence length dimension. This is useful when using packed tensor format (single dimension for batch and sequence length).
Returns
transformers.modeling_outputs.CausalLMOutputWithPast or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
A transformers.modeling_outputs.CausalLMOutputWithPast or a tuple of
torch.FloatTensor
(if return_dict=False
is passed or when config.return_dict=False
) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration (CohereConfig) and inputs.
-
loss (
torch.FloatTensor
of shape(1,)
, optional, returned whenlabels
is provided) — Language modeling loss (for next-token prediction). -
logits (
torch.FloatTensor
of shape(batch_size, sequence_length, config.vocab_size)
) — Prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax). -
past_key_values (
tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor))
, optional, returned whenuse_cache=True
is passed or whenconfig.use_cache=True
) — Tuple oftuple(torch.FloatTensor)
of lengthconfig.n_layers
, with each tuple having 2 tensors of shape(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, embed_size_per_head)
)Contains pre-computed hidden-states (key and values in the self-attention blocks) that can be used (see
past_key_values
input) to speed up sequential decoding. -
hidden_states (
tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
, optional, returned whenoutput_hidden_states=True
is passed or whenconfig.output_hidden_states=True
) — Tuple oftorch.FloatTensor
(one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, + one for the output of each layer) of shape(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)
.Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
-
attentions (
tuple(torch.FloatTensor)
, optional, returned whenoutput_attentions=True
is passed or whenconfig.output_attentions=True
) — Tuple oftorch.FloatTensor
(one for each layer) of shape(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length)
.Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention heads.
The CohereForCausalLM forward method, overrides the __call__
special method.
Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.
Example:
>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer, CohereForCausalLM
>> model = CohereForCausalLM.from_pretrained("CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-v01")
>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-v01")
>> prompt = "Hey, are you conscious? Can you talk to me?"
>> inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")
>> # Generate
>> generate_ids = model.generate(inputs.input_ids, max_length=30)
>> tokenizer.batch_decode(generate_ids, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False)[0]
"Hey, are you conscious? Can you talk to me?\nI'm not conscious, but I can talk to you."