# Seeding Data Collator

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/seeding-data-collator/39589>\
**Category:** 🤗Transformers\
**Created:** [May 12, 2023, 12:47am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/seeding-data-collator/39589 "2023-05-12T00:47:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![surya-narayanan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@surya-narayanan](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/surya-narayanan)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 12:47am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/seeding-data-collator/39589/1 "2023-05-12T00:47:56Z")

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Can I seed a `DataCollatorForLanguageModeling` to control what word will be masked?