examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_clm_no_trainer.py/parse_args
def parse_args():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Finetune a transformers model on a causal language modeling task")
    parser.add_argument(
        "--dataset_name",
        type=str,
        default=None,
        help="The name of the dataset to use (via the datasets library).",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--dataset_config_name",
        type=str,
        default=None,
        help="The configuration name of the dataset to use (via the datasets library).",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--train_file", type=str, default=None, help="A csv or a json file containing the training data."
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--validation_file", type=str, default=None, help="A csv or a json file containing the validation data."
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--validation_split_percentage",
        default=5,
        help="The percentage of the train set used as validation set in case there's no validation split",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--model_name_or_path",
        type=str,
        help="Path to pretrained model or model identifier from huggingface.co/models.",
        required=True,
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--config_name",
        type=str,
        default=None,
        help="Pretrained config name or path if not the same as model_name",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--tokenizer_name",
        type=str,
        default=None,
        help="Pretrained tokenizer name or path if not the same as model_name",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--use_slow_tokenizer",
        action="store_true",
        help="If passed, will use a slow tokenizer (not backed by the 🤗 Tokenizers library).",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--per_device_train_batch_size",
        type=int,
        default=8,
        help="Batch size (per device) for the training dataloader.",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--per_device_eval_batch_size",
        type=int,
        default=8,
        help="Batch size (per device) for the evaluation dataloader.",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--learning_rate",
        type=float,
        default=5e-5,
        help="Initial learning rate (after the potential warmup period) to use.",
    )
    parser.add_argument("--weight_decay", type=float, default=0.0, help="Weight decay to use.")
    parser.add_argument("--num_train_epochs", type=int, default=3, help="Total number of training epochs to perform.")
    parser.add_argument(
        "--max_train_steps",
        type=int,
        default=None,
        help="Total number of training steps to perform. If provided, overrides num_train_epochs.",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--gradient_accumulation_steps",
        type=int,
        default=1,
        help="Number of updates steps to accumulate before performing a backward/update pass.",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--lr_scheduler_type",
        type=SchedulerType,
        default="linear",
        help="The scheduler type to use.",
        choices=["linear", "cosine", "cosine_with_restarts", "polynomial", "constant", "constant_with_warmup"],
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--num_warmup_steps", type=int, default=0, help="Number of steps for the warmup in the lr scheduler."
    )
    parser.add_argument("--output_dir", type=str, default=None, help="Where to store the final model.")
    parser.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=None, help="A seed for reproducible training.")
    parser.add_argument(
        "--model_type",
        type=str,
        default=None,
        help="Model type to use if training from scratch.",
        choices=MODEL_TYPES,
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--block_size",
        type=int,
        default=None,
        help="Optional input sequence length after tokenization. The training dataset will be truncated in block of this size for training. Default to the model max input length for single sentence inputs (take into account special tokens).",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--preprocessing_num_workers",
        type=int,
        default=None,
        help="The number of processes to use for the preprocessing.",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--overwrite_cache", type=bool, default=False, help="Overwrite the cached training and evaluation sets"
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--no_keep_linebreaks", action="store_true", help="Do not keep line breaks when using TXT files."
    )
    parser.add_argument("--push_to_hub", action="store_true", help="Whether or not to push the model to the Hub.")
    parser.add_argument(
        "--hub_model_id", type=str, help="The name of the repository to keep in sync with the local `output_dir`."
    )
    parser.add_argument("--hub_token", type=str, help="The token to use to push to the Model Hub.")
    args = parser.parse_args()

    # Sanity checks
    if args.dataset_name is None and args.train_file is None and args.validation_file is None:
        raise ValueError("Need either a dataset name or a training/validation file.")
    else:
        if args.train_file is not None:
            extension = args.train_file.split(".")[-1]
            assert extension in ["csv", "json", "txt"], "`train_file` should be a csv, json or txt file."
        if args.validation_file is not None:
            extension = args.validation_file.split(".")[-1]
            assert extension in ["csv", "json", "txt"], "`validation_file` should be a csv, json or txt file."

    if args.push_to_hub:
        assert args.output_dir is not None, "Need an `output_dir` to create a repo when `--push_to_hub` is passed."

    return args