Make sure BERT model does not load pretrained weights?

Question

I want to make sure my BertModel does not loads pre-trained weights. I am using auto class (hugging face) which loads model automatically.

My question is how do I load bert model without pretrained weights?

Answer 1

Use AutoConfig instead of AutoModel:

from transformers import AutoConfig
config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained('bert-base-uncased')
model =  AutoModel.from_config(config)

this should set up the model without loading the weights.

Documentation here and here