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# Examples

This folder contains actively maintained examples of use of 🤗 Transformers organized along NLP tasks. If you are looking for an example that used to
be in this folder, it may have moved to our [research projects](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/research_projects) subfolder (which contains frozen snapshots of research projects).

## Important note

**Important**

To make sure you can successfully run the latest versions of the example scripts, you have to **install the library from source** and install some example-specific requirements. To do this, execute the following steps in a new virtual environment:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
cd transformers
pip install .
```
Then cd in the example folder of your choice and run
```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Alternatively, you can run the version of the examples as they were for your current version of Transformers via (for instance with v3.5.1):
```bash
git checkout tags/v3.5.1
```

## The Big Table of Tasks

Here is the list of all our examples:
- with information on whether they are **built on top of `Trainer`/`TFTrainer`** (if not, they still work, they might
  just lack some features),
- whether or not they leverage the [🤗 Datasets](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets) library.
- links to **Colab notebooks** to walk through the scripts and run them easily,
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| Task | Example datasets | Trainer support | TFTrainer support | 🤗 Datasets | Colab
|---|---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| [**`language-modeling`**](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/language-modeling)       | Raw text        | ✅ | -  | ✅ | [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/blog/blob/master/notebooks/01_how_to_train.ipynb)
| [**`multiple-choice`**](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/multiple-choice)           | SWAG, RACE, ARC | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/ViktorAlm/notebooks/blob/master/MPC_GPU_Demo_for_TF_and_PT.ipynb)
| [**`question-answering`**](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/question-answering)     | SQuAD           | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://github.com/huggingface/notebooks/blob/master/examples/question_answering.ipynb)
| [**`summarization`**](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/seq2seq)                     | CNN/Daily Mail  | ✅  | - | - | -
| [**`text-classification`**](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/text-classification)   | GLUE, XNLI      | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://github.com/huggingface/notebooks/blob/master/examples/text_classification.ipynb)
| [**`text-generation`**](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/text-generation)           | -               | n/a | n/a | - | [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/blog/blob/master/notebooks/02_how_to_generate.ipynb)
| [**`token-classification`**](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/token-classification) | CoNLL NER       | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://github.com/huggingface/notebooks/blob/master/examples/token_classification.ipynb)
| [**`translation`**](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/seq2seq)                       | WMT             | ✅  | - | - | -


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## Running on TPUs

When using Tensorflow, TPUs are supported out of the box as a `tf.distribute.Strategy`.

When using PyTorch, we support TPUs thanks to `pytorch/xla`. For more context and information on how to setup your TPU environment refer to Google's documentation and to the
very detailed [pytorch/xla README](https://github.com/pytorch/xla/blob/master/README.md).

In this repo, we provide a very simple launcher script named [xla_spawn.py](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/xla_spawn.py) that lets you run our example scripts on multiple TPU cores without any boilerplate.
Just pass a `--num_cores` flag to this script, then your regular training script with its arguments (this is similar to the `torch.distributed.launch` helper for torch.distributed). 
Note that this approach does not work for examples that use `pytorch-lightning`.

For example for `run_glue`:

```bash
python examples/xla_spawn.py --num_cores 8 \
	examples/text-classification/run_glue.py \
	--model_name_or_path bert-base-cased \
	--task_name mnli \
	--data_dir ./data/glue_data/MNLI \
	--output_dir ./models/tpu \
	--overwrite_output_dir \
	--do_train \
	--do_eval \
	--num_train_epochs 1 \
	--save_steps 20000
```

Feedback and more use cases and benchmarks involving TPUs are welcome, please share with the community.

## Logging & Experiment tracking

You can easily log and monitor your runs code. The following are currently supported:

* [TensorBoard](https://www.tensorflow.org/tensorboard)
* [Weights & Biases](https://docs.wandb.com/library/integrations/huggingface)
* [Comet ML](https://www.comet.ml/docs/python-sdk/huggingface/)

### Weights & Biases

To use Weights & Biases, install the wandb package with:

```bash
pip install wandb
```

Then log in the command line:

```bash
wandb login
```

If you are in Jupyter or Colab, you should login with:

```python
import wandb
wandb.login()
```

Whenever you use `Trainer` or `TFTrainer` classes, your losses, evaluation metrics, model topology and gradients (for `Trainer` only) will automatically be logged.

When using 🤗 Transformers with PyTorch Lightning, runs can be tracked through `WandbLogger`. Refer to related [documentation & examples](https://docs.wandb.com/library/integrations/lightning).

### Comet.ml

To use `comet_ml`, install the Python package with:

```bash
pip install comet_ml
```

or if in a Conda environment:

```bash
conda install -c comet_ml -c anaconda -c conda-forge comet_ml
```