def forward(
        self,
        input_ids=None,
        attention_mask=None,
        mems=None,
        perm_mask=None,
        target_mapping=None,
        token_type_ids=None,
        input_mask=None,
        head_mask=None,
        inputs_embeds=None,
        start_positions=None,
        end_positions=None,
    ):
        r"""
        start_positions (:obj:`torch.LongTensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size,)`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
            Labels for position (index) of the start of the labelled span for computing the token classification loss.
            Positions are clamped to the length of the sequence (`sequence_length`).
            Position outside of the sequence are not taken into account for computing the loss.
        end_positions (:obj:`torch.LongTensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size,)`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
            Labels for position (index) of the end of the labelled span for computing the token classification loss.
            Positions are clamped to the length of the sequence (`sequence_length`).
            Position outside of the sequence are not taken into account for computing the loss.

    Returns:
        :obj:`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)` comprising various elements depending on the configuration (:class:`~transformers.XLNetConfig`) and inputs:
        loss (:obj:`torch.FloatTensor` of shape :obj:`(1,)`, `optional`, returned when :obj:`labels` is provided):
            Total span extraction loss is the sum of a Cross-Entropy for the start and end positions.
        start_scores (:obj:`torch.FloatTensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size, sequence_length,)`):
            Span-start scores (before SoftMax).
        end_scores (:obj:`torch.FloatTensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size, sequence_length,)`):
            Span-end scores (before SoftMax).
        mems (:obj:`List[torch.FloatTensor]` of length :obj:`config.n_layers`):
            Contains pre-computed hidden-states (key and values in the attention blocks).
            Can be used (see `past` input) to speed up sequential decoding. The token ids which have their past given to this model
            should not be passed as input ids as they have already been computed.
        hidden_states (:obj:`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, `optional`, returned when ``config.output_hidden_states=True``):
            Tuple of :obj:`torch.FloatTensor` (one for the output of the embeddings + one for the output of each layer)
            of shape :obj:`(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`.

            Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the initial embedding outputs.
        attentions (:obj:`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, `optional`, returned when ``config.output_attentions=True``):
            Tuple of :obj:`torch.FloatTensor` (one for each layer) of shape
            :obj:`(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.

    Examples::

        from transformers import XLNetTokenizer, XLNetForQuestionAnsweringSimple
        import torch

        tokenizer = XLNetTokenizer.from_pretrained('xlnet-base-cased')
        model = XLNetForQuestionAnsweringSimple.from_pretrained('xlnet-base-cased')

        input_ids = torch.tensor(tokenizer.encode("Hello, my dog is cute", add_special_tokens=True)).unsqueeze(0)  # Batch size 1
        start_positions = torch.tensor([1])
        end_positions = torch.tensor([3])

        outputs = model(input_ids, start_positions=start_positions, end_positions=end_positions)
        loss = outputs[0]

        """

        outputs = self.transformer(
            input_ids,
            attention_mask=attention_mask,
            mems=mems,
            perm_mask=perm_mask,
            target_mapping=target_mapping,
            token_type_ids=token_type_ids,
            input_mask=input_mask,
            head_mask=head_mask,
            inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds,
        )

        sequence_output = outputs[0]

        logits = self.qa_outputs(sequence_output)
        start_logits, end_logits = logits.split(1, dim=-1)
        start_logits = start_logits.squeeze(-1)
        end_logits = end_logits.squeeze(-1)

        outputs = (start_logits, end_logits,) + outputs[2:]
        if start_positions is not None and end_positions is not None:
            # If we are on multi-GPU, split add a dimension
            if len(start_positions.size()) > 1:
                start_positions = start_positions.squeeze(-1)
            if len(end_positions.size()) > 1:
                end_positions = end_positions.squeeze(-1)
            # sometimes the start/end positions are outside our model inputs, we ignore these terms
            ignored_index = start_logits.size(1)
            start_positions.clamp_(0, ignored_index)
            end_positions.clamp_(0, ignored_index)

            loss_fct = CrossEntropyLoss(ignore_index=ignored_index)
            start_loss = loss_fct(start_logits, start_positions)
            end_loss = loss_fct(end_logits, end_positions)
            total_loss = (start_loss + end_loss) / 2
            outputs = (total_loss,) + outputs

        return outputs  # (loss), start_logits, end_logits, (mems), (hidden_states), (attentions)

        start_positions (:obj:`torch.LongTensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size,)`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
            Labels for position (index) of the start of the labelled span for computing the token classification loss.
            Positions are clamped to the length of the sequence (`sequence_length`).
            Position outside of the sequence are not taken into account for computing the loss.
        end_positions (:obj:`torch.LongTensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size,)`, `optional`, defaults to :obj:`None`):
            Labels for position (index) of the end of the labelled span for computing the token classification loss.
            Positions are clamped to the length of the sequence (`sequence_length`).
            Position outside of the sequence are not taken into account for computing the loss.

    Returns:
        :obj:`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)` comprising various elements depending on the configuration (:class:`~transformers.XLNetConfig`) and inputs:
        loss (:obj:`torch.FloatTensor` of shape :obj:`(1,)`, `optional`, returned when :obj:`labels` is provided):
            Total span extraction loss is the sum of a Cross-Entropy for the start and end positions.
        start_scores (:obj:`torch.FloatTensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size, sequence_length,)`):
            Span-start scores (before SoftMax).
        end_scores (:obj:`torch.FloatTensor` of shape :obj:`(batch_size, sequence_length,)`):
            Span-end scores (before SoftMax).
        mems (:obj:`List[torch.FloatTensor]` of length :obj:`config.n_layers`):
            Contains pre-computed hidden-states (key and values in the attention blocks).
            Can be used (see `past` input) to speed up sequential decoding. The token ids which have their past given to this model
            should not be passed as input ids as they have already been computed.
        hidden_states (:obj:`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, `optional`, returned when ``config.output_hidden_states=True``):
            Tuple of :obj:`torch.FloatTensor` (one for the output of the embeddings + one for the output of each layer)
            of shape :obj:`(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`.

            Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the initial embedding outputs.
        attentions (:obj:`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, `optional`, returned when ``config.output_attentions=True``):
            Tuple of :obj:`torch.FloatTensor` (one for each layer) of shape
            :obj:`(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.

    Examples::

        from transformers import XLNetTokenizer, XLNetForQuestionAnsweringSimple
        import torch

        tokenizer = XLNetTokenizer.from_pretrained('xlnet-base-cased')
        model = XLNetForQuestionAnsweringSimple.from_pretrained('xlnet-base-cased')

        input_ids = torch.tensor(tokenizer.encode("Hello, my dog is cute", add_special_tokens=True)).unsqueeze(0)  # Batch size 1
        start_positions = torch.tensor([1])
        end_positions = torch.tensor([3])

        outputs = model(input_ids, start_positions=start_positions, end_positions=end_positions)
        loss = outputs[0]

        
xtune/src/transformers/modeling_xlnet.py