# BART for sequence classification

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/bart-for-sequence-classification/2425>\
**Category:** 🤗Transformers\
**Created:** [December 2, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/bart-for-sequence-classification/2425 "2020-12-02T15:10:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![shainaraza](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/shainaraza/32/2854_2.png) [@shainaraza](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/shainaraza)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/bart-for-sequence-classification/2425/1 "2020-12-02T15:10:36Z")

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the facebook/bart-large-cnn is pre-trained on summarization task, is it possible to fine-tune it on a classification task?  
syntactically, it doesn’t cause any issue, but in terms of results.

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**Author:** ![Jung](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/jung/32/21989_2.png) [@Jung](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Jung)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/bart-for-sequence-classification/2425/2 "2020-12-03T06:43:30Z")

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In [Google’s QUEST challenge](https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-quest-challenge) which is a “multi-label” classificatin competition , the 1st place winner uses (finetuned) pretrained Bart as one of their core model, so that might partially answer your question.