Creation of the decoder_attention_mask while evaluating

[pietrolesci]

Hi there,

I am trying to recreate the decoder attention mask and I am a bit puzzled by how it is created here

t-few/src/models/EncoderDecoder.py

Line 53 in 114dece

decoder_attention_mask = (decoder_input_ids == decoder_input_ids).float()

This creates a dense matrix with 1s everywhere. Shouldn't this be a lower triangular matrix (which is what T5Model does internally by default)?

Thanks a lot for your help!

[dptam]

The decoder_attention_mask is of the same shape as the input_ids [batch_size, seq_len] to determine which ids are pad_tokens are which are not. The lower triangular matrix is formed later in HuggingFace code of shape [batch_size, seq_len, seq_len].
The log probs of the padded_tokens get masked out later when computing the log prob of the choices, so it doesn't matter if we mask out the pad_tokens in the decoder_attention_mask.