# How to include token-level prior into bert?

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-include-token-level-prior-into-bert/17341>\
**Category:** 🤗Transformers\
**Created:** [April 29, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-include-token-level-prior-into-bert/17341 "2022-04-29T19:33:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-include-token-level-prior-into-bert/17341/1 "2022-04-29T19:33:54Z")

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Is there a way to explicitly tell BERT to pay more attention to certain tokens given some prior information I have about the data?