examples/legacy/run_language_modeling.py/main
def main():
    # See all possible arguments in src/transformers/training_args.py
    # or by passing the --help flag to this script.
    # We now keep distinct sets of args, for a cleaner separation of concerns.

    parser = HfArgumentParser((ModelArguments, DataTrainingArguments, TrainingArguments))
    model_args, data_args, training_args = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses()

    if data_args.eval_data_file is None and training_args.do_eval:
        raise ValueError(
            "Cannot do evaluation without an evaluation data file. Either supply a file to --eval_data_file "
            "or remove the --do_eval argument."
        )
    if (
        os.path.exists(training_args.output_dir)
        and os.listdir(training_args.output_dir)
        and training_args.do_train
        and not training_args.overwrite_output_dir
    ):
        raise ValueError(
            f"Output directory ({training_args.output_dir}) already exists and is not empty. Use --overwrite_output_dir to overcome."
        )

    # Setup logging
    logging.basicConfig(
        format="%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(name)s - %(message)s",
        datefmt="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S",
        level=logging.INFO if training_args.local_rank in [-1, 0] else logging.WARN,
    )
    logger.warning(
        "Process rank: %s, device: %s, n_gpu: %s, distributed training: %s, 16-bits training: %s",
        training_args.local_rank,
        training_args.device,
        training_args.n_gpu,
        bool(training_args.local_rank != -1),
        training_args.fp16,
    )
    # Set the verbosity to info of the Transformers logger (on main process only):
    if is_main_process(training_args.local_rank):
        transformers.utils.logging.set_verbosity_info()
        transformers.utils.logging.enable_default_handler()
        transformers.utils.logging.enable_explicit_format()
    logger.info("Training/evaluation parameters %s", training_args)

    # Set seed
    set_seed(training_args.seed)

    # Load pretrained model and tokenizer
    #
    # Distributed training:
    # The .from_pretrained methods guarantee that only one local process can concurrently
    # download model & vocab.

    if model_args.config_name:
        config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model_args.config_name, cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir)
    elif model_args.model_name_or_path:
        config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model_args.model_name_or_path, cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir)
    else:
        config = CONFIG_MAPPING[model_args.model_type]()
        logger.warning("You are instantiating a new config instance from scratch.")

    if model_args.tokenizer_name:
        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_args.tokenizer_name, cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir)
    elif model_args.model_name_or_path:
        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_args.model_name_or_path, cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir)
    else:
        raise ValueError(
            "You are instantiating a new tokenizer from scratch. This is not supported, but you can do it from another script, save it,"
            "and load it from here, using --tokenizer_name"
        )

    if model_args.model_name_or_path:
        model = AutoModelWithLMHead.from_pretrained(
            model_args.model_name_or_path,
            from_tf=bool(".ckpt" in model_args.model_name_or_path),
            config=config,
            cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir,
        )
    else:
        logger.info("Training new model from scratch")
        model = AutoModelWithLMHead.from_config(config)

    model.resize_token_embeddings(len(tokenizer))

    if config.model_type in ["bert", "roberta", "distilbert", "camembert"] and not data_args.mlm:
        raise ValueError(
            "BERT and RoBERTa-like models do not have LM heads but masked LM heads. They must be run using the"
            "--mlm flag (masked language modeling)."
        )

    if data_args.block_size <= 0:
        data_args.block_size = tokenizer.max_len
        # Our input block size will be the max possible for the model
    else:
        data_args.block_size = min(data_args.block_size, tokenizer.max_len)

    # Get datasets

    train_dataset = (
        get_dataset(data_args, tokenizer=tokenizer, cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir) if training_args.do_train else None
    )
    eval_dataset = (
        get_dataset(data_args, tokenizer=tokenizer, evaluate=True, cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir)
        if training_args.do_eval
        else None
    )
    if config.model_type == "xlnet":
        data_collator = DataCollatorForPermutationLanguageModeling(
            tokenizer=tokenizer,
            plm_probability=data_args.plm_probability,
            max_span_length=data_args.max_span_length,
        )
    else:
        if data_args.mlm and data_args.whole_word_mask:
            data_collator = DataCollatorForWholeWordMask(
                tokenizer=tokenizer, mlm_probability=data_args.mlm_probability
            )
        else:
            data_collator = DataCollatorForLanguageModeling(
                tokenizer=tokenizer, mlm=data_args.mlm, mlm_probability=data_args.mlm_probability
            )

    # Initialize our Trainer
    trainer = Trainer(
        model=model,
        args=training_args,
        data_collator=data_collator,
        train_dataset=train_dataset,
        eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
        prediction_loss_only=True,
    )

    # Training
    if training_args.do_train:
        model_path = (
            model_args.model_name_or_path
            if model_args.model_name_or_path is not None and os.path.isdir(model_args.model_name_or_path)
            else None
        )
        trainer.train(model_path=model_path)
        trainer.save_model()
        # For convenience, we also re-save the tokenizer to the same directory,
        # so that you can share your model easily on huggingface.co/models =)
        if trainer.is_world_master():
            tokenizer.save_pretrained(training_args.output_dir)

    # Evaluation
    results = {}
    if training_args.do_eval:
        logger.info("*** Evaluate ***")

        eval_output = trainer.evaluate()

        perplexity = math.exp(eval_output["eval_loss"])
        result = {"perplexity": perplexity}

        output_eval_file = os.path.join(training_args.output_dir, "eval_results_lm.txt")
        if trainer.is_world_master():
            with open(output_eval_file, "w") as writer:
                logger.info("***** Eval results *****")
                for key in sorted(result.keys()):
                    logger.info("  %s = %s", key, str(result[key]))
                    writer.write("%s = %s\n" % (key, str(result[key])))

        results.update(result)

    return results