# How to stop after generating "###" in transformers?

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**Created:** [May 3, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-stop-after-generating-in-transformers/38585 "2023-05-03T19:20:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-stop-after-generating-in-transformers/38585/1 "2023-05-03T19:20:57Z")

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I’m trying to do something fairly basic. When my language model is generating tokens, I want to stop if the language model generates the token corresponding to “##”.

I’m not sure how to do this. Do I need to implement a custom stopping\_criteria?