In Rothe et al.'s "Leveraging Pre-trained Checkpoints for Sequence
Generation Tasks", Bert2Bert is initialized with pre-trained weights for
the encoder, and only pre-trained embeddings for the decoder. The
current version of the code completely randomizes the weights of the
decoder.
We write a custom function to initiliaze the weights of the decoder; we
first initialize the decoder with the weights and then randomize
everything but the embeddings.
Since the preloading of weights relies on the name of the class's
attributes changing the namespace breaks loading pretrained weights on
Bert and all related models. I reverted `self_attention` to `attention`
and us `crossattention` for the decoder instead.
In the seq2seq model we need to both load pretrained weights in the
encoder and initialize the decoder randomly. Because the
`from_pretrained` method defined in the base class relies on module
names to assign weights, it would also initialize the decoder with
pretrained weights. To avoid this we override the method to only
initialize the encoder with pretrained weights.
Rémi Louf