def forward(self,
                input_ids: torch.LongTensor,
                offsets: torch.LongTensor = None,
                token_type_ids: torch.LongTensor = None) -> torch.Tensor:
        """
        Parameters
        ----------
        input_ids : ``torch.LongTensor``
            The (batch_size, ..., max_sequence_length) tensor of wordpiece ids.
        offsets : ``torch.LongTensor``, optional
            The BERT embeddings are one per wordpiece. However it's possible/likely
            you might want one per original token. In that case, ``offsets``
            represents the indices of the desired wordpiece for each original token.
            Depending on how your token indexer is configured, this could be the
            position of the last wordpiece for each token, or it could be the position
            of the first wordpiece for each token.

            For example, if you had the sentence "Definitely not", and if the corresponding
            wordpieces were ["Def", "##in", "##ite", "##ly", "not"], then the input_ids
            would be 5 wordpiece ids, and the "last wordpiece" offsets would be [3, 4].
            If offsets are provided, the returned tensor will contain only the wordpiece
            embeddings at those positions, and (in particular) will contain one embedding
            per token. If offsets are not provided, the entire tensor of wordpiece embeddings
            will be returned.
        token_type_ids : ``torch.LongTensor``, optional
            If an input consists of two sentences (as in the BERT paper),
            tokens from the first sentence should have type 0 and tokens from
            the second sentence should have type 1.  If you don't provide this
            (the default BertIndexer doesn't) then it's assumed to be all 0s.
        """
        # pylint: disable=arguments-differ
        if token_type_ids is None:
            token_type_ids = torch.zeros_like(input_ids)

        input_mask = (input_ids != 0).long()

        # input_ids may have extra dimensions, so we reshape down to 2-d
        # before calling the BERT model and then reshape back at the end.
        all_encoder_layers, _ = self.bert_model(input_ids=util.combine_initial_dims(input_ids),
                                                token_type_ids=util.combine_initial_dims(token_type_ids),
                                                attention_mask=util.combine_initial_dims(input_mask))
        if self._scalar_mix is not None:
            mix = self._scalar_mix(all_encoder_layers, input_mask)
        else:
            mix = all_encoder_layers[-1]

        # At this point, mix is (batch_size * d1 * ... * dn, sequence_length, embedding_dim)

        if offsets is None:
            # Resize to (batch_size, d1, ..., dn, sequence_length, embedding_dim)
            return util.uncombine_initial_dims(mix, input_ids.size())
        else:
            # offsets is (batch_size, d1, ..., dn, orig_sequence_length)
            offsets2d = util.combine_initial_dims(offsets)
            # now offsets is (batch_size * d1 * ... * dn, orig_sequence_length)
            range_vector = util.get_range_vector(offsets2d.size(0),
                                                 device=util.get_device_of(mix)).unsqueeze(1)
            # selected embeddings is also (batch_size * d1 * ... * dn, orig_sequence_length)
            selected_embeddings = mix[range_vector, offsets2d]

            return util.uncombine_initial_dims(selected_embeddings, offsets.size())