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Data Collator
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Data collators are objects that will form a batch by using a list of dataset elements as input. These elements are of
the same type as the elements of :obj:`train_dataset` or :obj:`eval_dataset`.

To be able to build batches, data collators may apply some processing (like padding). Some of them (like
:class:`~transformers.DataCollatorForLanguageModeling`) also apply some random data augmentation (like random masking)
oin the formed batch.

Examples of use can be found in the :doc:`example scripts <../examples>` or :doc:`example notebooks <../notebooks>`.


Default data collator
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.. autofunction:: transformers.data.data_collator.default_data_collator


DataCollatorWithPadding
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.. autoclass:: transformers.data.data_collator.DataCollatorWithPadding
    :members:


DataCollatorForTokenClassification
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.. autoclass:: transformers.data.data_collator.DataCollatorForTokenClassification
    :members:


DataCollatorForSeq2Seq
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.. autoclass:: transformers.data.data_collator.DataCollatorForSeq2Seq
    :members:


DataCollatorForLanguageModeling
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.. autoclass:: transformers.data.data_collator.DataCollatorForLanguageModeling
    :members: mask_tokens


DataCollatorForWholeWordMask
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.. autoclass:: transformers.data.data_collator.DataCollatorForWholeWordMask
    :members: mask_tokens


DataCollatorForPermutationLanguageModeling
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.. autoclass:: transformers.data.data_collator.DataCollatorForPermutationLanguageModeling
    :members: mask_tokens
