How to generate one token after the other with Scibert?

[junoriosity]

I would like to use Scibert for iterated token generation. Here is my code:

import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

device = "cuda"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('allenai/scibert_scivocab_uncased')
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('allenai/scibert_scivocab_uncased').to(device)

input_sequence = "Hello, I'm a language model,"

inputs = torch.as_tensor(tokenizer.encode(input_sequence)).unsqueeze(0).to(device)
attention_mask = torch.as_tensor(tokenizer(input_sequence).attention_mask).unsqueeze(0).to(device)
past_key_values = None

count = 0
complete_token = []
with torch.no_grad():
    while count < 10:
        count += 1
        print("Iteration no.: " + str(count))
        if count > 1:
            inputs = input_token

        print(inputs.to(device))
        print(attention_mask)
        print(past_key_values[0][0].shape if past_key_values else None)

        model_out = model(input_ids=inputs.to(device), attention_mask=attention_mask, past_key_values=past_key_values)
        logits = model_out.logits[:, -1, :]
        past_key_values = model_out.past_key_values

        topk_values, topk_indices = torch.topk(logits, 5)

        log_probs = F.softmax(topk_values, dim=-1)
        inputs_in_topk = torch.multinomial(log_probs, num_samples=1, replacement=True)
        input_token = torch.gather(topk_indices, 1, inputs_in_topk)
        attention_mask = torch.concat((attention_mask, torch.tensor([[1]]).to(attention_mask.device)), dim=1)
        complete_token.append(input_token)

However, we have past_key_values = Null all the time. I tried this approach with other models and past_key_values is not null there. How can I make the iteration work here, such that we have the knowledge of the previous iteration?