Splinter-base is the pretrained model discussed in the paper Few-Shot Question Answering by Pretraining Span Selection (at ACL 2021). Its original repository can be found here. The model is case-sensitive. Note: This model doesn't contain the pretrained weights for the QASS layer (see paper for details), and therefore the QASS layer is randomly initialized upon loading it. For the model with those weights, see tau/splinter-base-qass. Splinter is a model that is pretrained in a self-supervised fashion for few-shot question answering. This means it was pretrained on the raw texts only, with no humans labelling them in any way (which is why it can use lots of publicly available data) with an…