# Using inputs\_embeds as input for GPT2 generation\_utils

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/using-inputs-embeds-as-input-for-gpt2-generation-utils/26725>\
**Category:** 🤗Transformers\
**Created:** [November 26, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/using-inputs-embeds-as-input-for-gpt2-generation-utils/26725 "2022-11-26T00:20:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheoCoombes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@TheoCoombes](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/TheoCoombes)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/using-inputs-embeds-as-input-for-gpt2-generation-utils/26725/1 "2022-11-26T00:20:45Z")

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Hi everyone 🙂

I am currently working on building a system named ClipCap (CLIP Captions) at LAION, which takes in a CLIP embedding as an input and performs the reverse-dalle task of captioning the image. This system creates inputs\_embeds using the CLIP embedding - so that when it comes to inference, it’s a bit of a pain to handle.

Is it possible to use inputs\_embeds as an input in the generate() method? If not, could someone point me to any resources that could help me to recreate these methods from scratch so that I could use inputs\_embeds as the input?

Many thanks in advance,  
Theo

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**Author:** ![yujianll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/cab0a1/32.png) [@yujianll](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/yujianll)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/using-inputs-embeds-as-input-for-gpt2-generation-utils/26725/2 "2023-03-16T06:10:09Z")

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Hi, have you found a solution for this? I have the same problem here. Thanks!