Fixing return type tensor with `num_return_sequences>1`. (#16828)

* Fixing return type tensor with `num_return_sequences>1`.

* Nit.

src/transformers/pipelines/text2text_generation.py

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ class Text2TextGenerationPipeline(Pipeline):
         records = []
         for output_ids in model_outputs["output_ids"][0]:
             if return_type == ReturnType.TENSORS:
-                record = {f"{self.return_name}_token_ids": model_outputs}
+                record = {f"{self.return_name}_token_ids": output_ids}
             elif return_type == ReturnType.TEXT:
                 record = {
                     f"{self.return_name}_text": self.tokenizer.decode(

src/transformers/pipelines/text_generation.py

@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ class TextGenerationPipeline(Pipeline):
         records = []
         for sequence in generated_sequence:
             if return_type == ReturnType.TENSORS:
-                record = {"generated_token_ids": generated_sequence}
+                record = {"generated_token_ids": sequence}
             elif return_type in {ReturnType.NEW_TEXT, ReturnType.FULL_TEXT}:
                 # Decode text
                 text = self.tokenizer.decode(

tests/pipelines/test_pipelines_text2text_generation.py

@@ -21,10 +21,15 @@ from transformers import (
     pipeline,
 )
 from transformers.testing_utils import is_pipeline_test, require_tf, require_torch
+from transformers.utils import is_torch_available
 
 from .test_pipelines_common import ANY, PipelineTestCaseMeta
 
 
+if is_torch_available():
+    import torch
+
+
 @is_pipeline_test
 class Text2TextGenerationPipelineTests(unittest.TestCase, metaclass=PipelineTestCaseMeta):
     model_mapping = MODEL_FOR_SEQ_TO_SEQ_CAUSAL_LM_MAPPING
@@ -83,6 +88,37 @@ class Text2TextGenerationPipelineTests(unittest.TestCase, metaclass=PipelineTest
         ]
         self.assertEqual(outputs, target_outputs)
 
+        outputs = generator("This is a test", do_sample=True, num_return_sequences=2, return_tensors=True)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            outputs,
+            [
+                {"generated_token_ids": ANY(torch.Tensor)},
+                {"generated_token_ids": ANY(torch.Tensor)},
+            ],
+        )
+        generator.tokenizer.pad_token_id = generator.model.config.eos_token_id
+        generator.tokenizer.pad_token = "<pad>"
+        outputs = generator(
+            ["This is a test", "This is a second test"],
+            do_sample=True,
+            num_return_sequences=2,
+            batch_size=2,
+            return_tensors=True,
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            outputs,
+            [
+                [
+                    {"generated_token_ids": ANY(torch.Tensor)},
+                    {"generated_token_ids": ANY(torch.Tensor)},
+                ],
+                [
+                    {"generated_token_ids": ANY(torch.Tensor)},
+                    {"generated_token_ids": ANY(torch.Tensor)},
+                ],
+            ],
+        )
+
     @require_tf
     def test_small_model_tf(self):
         generator = pipeline("text2text-generation", model="patrickvonplaten/t5-tiny-random", framework="tf")

tests/pipelines/test_pipelines_text_generation.py

@@ -56,6 +56,37 @@ class TextGenerationPipelineTests(unittest.TestCase, metaclass=PipelineTestCaseM
             ],
         )
 
+        outputs = text_generator("This is a test", do_sample=True, num_return_sequences=2, return_tensors=True)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            outputs,
+            [
+                {"generated_token_ids": ANY(list)},
+                {"generated_token_ids": ANY(list)},
+            ],
+        )
+        text_generator.tokenizer.pad_token_id = text_generator.model.config.eos_token_id
+        text_generator.tokenizer.pad_token = "<pad>"
+        outputs = text_generator(
+            ["This is a test", "This is a second test"],
+            do_sample=True,
+            num_return_sequences=2,
+            batch_size=2,
+            return_tensors=True,
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            outputs,
+            [
+                [
+                    {"generated_token_ids": ANY(list)},
+                    {"generated_token_ids": ANY(list)},
+                ],
+                [
+                    {"generated_token_ids": ANY(list)},
+                    {"generated_token_ids": ANY(list)},
+                ],
+            ],
+        )
+
     @require_tf
     def test_small_model_tf(self):
         text_generator = pipeline(task="text-generation", model="sshleifer/tiny-ctrl", framework="tf")