Include Keras tensor in the allowed types (#14155)

* Include KerasTensor in allowed types

- This allows propagating symbolic tensors through TFBert models and layers' call(),
  which allows converting the subclass models to functional models.

* Style pass
Co-authored-by: Sergio Valcarcel Macua <sergiov@graphcore.ai>
Co-authored-by: matt <rocketknight1@gmail.com>

src/transformers/modeling_tf_utils.py

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import numpy as np
 import tensorflow as tf
 from tensorflow.python.keras import backend as K
 from tensorflow.python.keras.engine import data_adapter
+from tensorflow.python.keras.engine.keras_tensor import KerasTensor
 from tensorflow.python.keras.saving import hdf5_format
 
 from .configuration_utils import PretrainedConfig
@@ -52,7 +53,15 @@ logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)
 tf_logger = tf.get_logger()
 
 TFModelInputType = Union[
-    List[tf.Tensor], List[np.ndarray], Dict[str, tf.Tensor], Dict[str, np.ndarray], np.ndarray, tf.Tensor
+    List[tf.Tensor],
+    List[np.ndarray],
+    List[KerasTensor],
+    Dict[str, tf.Tensor],
+    Dict[str, np.ndarray],
+    Dict[str, KerasTensor],
+    tf.Tensor,
+    np.ndarray,
+    KerasTensor,
 ]
 
 
@@ -348,7 +357,7 @@ def input_processing(func, config, input_ids, **kwargs):
     signature.pop("self", None)
     parameter_names = list(signature.keys())
     output = {}
-    allowed_types = (tf.Tensor, bool, int, ModelOutput, tuple, list, dict, np.ndarray)
+    allowed_types = (tf.Tensor, bool, int, ModelOutput, tuple, list, dict, np.ndarray, KerasTensor)
 
     if "inputs" in kwargs["kwargs_call"]:
         warnings.warn(
@@ -432,7 +441,7 @@ def input_processing(func, config, input_ids, **kwargs):
             else:
                 raise ValueError(f"Data of type {type(v)} is not allowed only {allowed_types} is accepted for {k}.")
     else:
-        if isinstance(input_ids, tf.Tensor) or input_ids is None:
+        if isinstance(input_ids, (tf.Tensor, KerasTensor)) or input_ids is None:
             output[parameter_names[0]] = input_ids
         else:
             raise ValueError(