transformers/docs/source/en/model_doc/modernbert-decoder.md

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*This model was published in HF papers on 2024-12-18 and contributed to Hugging Face Transformers on 2025-07-15.*

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# ModernBERT Decoder

ModernBERT Decoder has the same architecture as [ModernBERT](https://huggingface.co/papers/2412.13663) but it is trained from scratch with a causal language modeling objective from the [Ettin paper](https://huggingface.co/papers/2507.11412). This allows for using the same architecture to compare encoders and decoders. This model is the decoder architecture implementation of ModernBERT, designed for autoregressive text generation tasks.

ModernBERT Decoder uses sliding window attention and rotary positional embeddings for efficiency and to handle longer sequences.

You can find all the original ModernBERT Decoder checkpoints under the [jhu-clsp](https://huggingface.co/collections/jhu-clsp/encoders-vs-decoders-the-ettin-suite-686303e16142257eed8e6aeb) collection.

> [!TIP]
> This model was contributed by [orionw](https://huggingface.co/orionweller).
>
> Click on the ModernBERT Decoder models in the right sidebar for more examples of how to apply ModernBERT Decoder to different text generation tasks.

The example below demonstrates how to use ModernBERT Decoder for text generation with [`Pipeline`], [`AutoModel`] (with and without quantization), and from the command line.

<hfoptions id="usage">
<hfoption id="Pipeline">

```python
from transformers import pipeline


generator = pipeline(
    task="text-generation",
    model="jhu-clsp/ettin-decoder-17m",
    device=0
)
generator("The future of artificial intelligence is", max_length=50, num_return_sequences=1)

# For sequence classification
classifier = pipeline(
    task="text-classification",
    model="jhu-clsp/ettin-decoder-17m",
    device=0
)
classifier("This movie is really great!")
```

</hfoption>
<hfoption id="AutoModel">

```python
import torch

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer


tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("jhu-clsp/ettin-decoder-17m")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "jhu-clsp/ettin-decoder-17m",
    device_map="auto",
)

prompt = "The future of artificial intelligence is"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = model.generate(
        **inputs,
        max_length=50,
        num_return_sequences=1,
        temperature=0.7,
        do_sample=True,
        pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id
    )

generated_text = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(f"Generated text: {generated_text}")

# For sequence classification
from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification


classifier_model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
    "jhu-clsp/ettin-decoder-17m",
    device_map="auto",
    num_labels=2
)

text = "This movie is really great!"
inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt").to(classifier_model.device)

with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = classifier_model(**inputs)
    predictions = torch.nn.functional.softmax(outputs.logits, dim=-1)
    predicted_class = torch.argmax(predictions, dim=-1)

print(f"Predicted class: {predicted_class.item()}")
print(f"Prediction probabilities: {predictions}")
```

</hfoption>

<hfoption id="AutoModel (w/quantization)">

```python
import torch

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, BitsAndBytesConfig


quantization_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
    load_in_8bit=True,
)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("jhu-clsp/ettin-decoder-1b")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "jhu-clsp/ettin-decoder-1b",
    device_map="auto",
    quantization_config=quantization_config
)

prompt = "The future of artificial intelligence is"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = model.generate(
        **inputs,
        max_length=50,
        num_return_sequences=1,
        temperature=0.7,
        do_sample=True,
        pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id
    )

generated_text = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(f"Generated text: {generated_text}")
```

</hfoption>
</hfoptions>

## ModernBertDecoderConfig

[[autodoc]] ModernBertDecoderConfig

## ModernBertDecoderModel

[[autodoc]] ModernBertDecoderModel
    - forward

## ModernBertDecoderForCausalLM

[[autodoc]] ModernBertDecoderForCausalLM
    - forward

## ModernBertDecoderForSequenceClassification

[[autodoc]] ModernBertDecoderForSequenceClassification
    - forward