trainer.rst

Trainer
----------

The :class:`~transformers.Trainer` and :class:`~transformers.TFTrainer` classes provide an API for feature-complete
training in most standard use cases. It's used in most of the :doc:`example scripts <../examples>`.

Before instantiating your :class:`~transformers.Trainer`/:class:`~transformers.TFTrainer`, create a 
:class:`~transformers.TrainingArguments`/:class:`~transformers.TFTrainingArguments` to access all the points of
customization during training.

The API supports distributed training on multiple GPUs/TPUs, mixed precision through `NVIDIA Apex
<https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex>`__ for PyTorch and :obj:`tf.keras.mixed_precision` for TensorFlow.

Both :class:`~transformers.Trainer` and :class:`~transformers.TFTrainer` contain the basic training loop supporting the
previous features. To inject custom behavior you can subclass them and override the following methods:

- **get_train_dataloader**/**get_train_tfdataset** -- Creates the training DataLoader (PyTorch) or TF Dataset.
- **get_eval_dataloader**/**get_eval_tfdataset** -- Creates the evaulation DataLoader (PyTorch) or TF Dataset.
- **get_test_dataloader**/**get_test_tfdataset** -- Creates the test DataLoader (PyTorch) or TF Dataset.
- **log** -- Logs information on the various objects watching training.
- **setup_wandb** -- Setups wandb (see `here <https://docs.wandb.com/huggingface>`__ for more information).
- **create_optimizer_and_scheduler** -- Setups the optimizer and learning rate scheduler if they were not passed at
  init.
- **training_step** -- Performs a training step.
- **prediction_step** -- Performs an evaluation/test step.
- **run_model** (TensorFlow only) -- Basic pass through the model.
- **evaluate** -- Runs an evaluation loop and returns metrics.
- **predict** -- Returns predictions (with metrics if labels are available) on a test set.


``Trainer`` 
~~~~~~~~~~~

.. autoclass:: transformers.Trainer
    :members:

``TFTrainer`` 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. autoclass:: transformers.TFTrainer
    :members:

``TrainingArguments``
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. autoclass:: transformers.TrainingArguments
    :members:

``TFTrainingArguments``
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. autoclass:: transformers.TFTrainingArguments
    :members:

Utilities
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.. autoclass:: transformers.EvalPrediction

.. autofunction:: transformers.set_seed

.. autofunction:: transformers.torch_distributed_zero_first