# Seeding Data Collator

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**Created:** [May 12, 2023, 12:47am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fseeding-data-collator%2F39589 "2023-05-12T00:47:56Z")\
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Can I seed a `DataCollatorForLanguageModeling` to control what word will be masked?