examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa.py/prepare_train_features
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))
    if len(sys.argv) == 2 and sys.argv[1].endswith(".json"):
        # If we pass only one argument to the script and it's the path to a json file,
        # let's parse it to get our arguments.
        model_args, data_args, training_args = parser.parse_json_file(json_file=os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1]))
    else:
        model_args, data_args, training_args = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses()

    # Setup logging
    logging.basicConfig(
        format="%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(name)s - %(message)s",
        datefmt="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S",
        handlers=[logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)],
    )

    log_level = training_args.get_process_log_level()
    logger.setLevel(log_level)
    datasets.utils.logging.set_verbosity(log_level)
    transformers.utils.logging.set_verbosity(log_level)
    transformers.utils.logging.enable_default_handler()
    transformers.utils.logging.enable_explicit_format()

    # Log on each process the small summary:
    logger.warning(
        f"Process rank: {training_args.local_rank}, device: {training_args.device}, n_gpu: {training_args.n_gpu}"
        + f"distributed training: {bool(training_args.local_rank != -1)}, 16-bits training: {training_args.fp16}"
    )
    logger.info(f"Training/evaluation parameters {training_args}")

    # Detecting last checkpoint.
    last_checkpoint = None
    if os.path.isdir(training_args.output_dir) and training_args.do_train and not training_args.overwrite_output_dir:
        last_checkpoint = get_last_checkpoint(training_args.output_dir)
        if last_checkpoint is None and len(os.listdir(training_args.output_dir)) > 0:
            raise ValueError(
                f"Output directory ({training_args.output_dir}) already exists and is not empty. "
                "Use --overwrite_output_dir to overcome."
            )
        elif last_checkpoint is not None and training_args.resume_from_checkpoint is None:
            logger.info(
                f"Checkpoint detected, resuming training at {last_checkpoint}. To avoid this behavior, change "
                "the `--output_dir` or add `--overwrite_output_dir` to train from scratch."
            )

    # Set seed before initializing model.
    set_seed(training_args.seed)

    # Get the datasets: you can either provide your own CSV/JSON/TXT training and evaluation files (see below)
    # or just provide the name of one of the public datasets available on the hub at https://huggingface.co/datasets/
    # (the dataset will be downloaded automatically from the datasets Hub).
    #
    # For CSV/JSON files, this script will use the column called 'text' or the first column if no column called
    # 'text' is found. You can easily tweak this behavior (see below).
    #
    # In distributed training, the load_dataset function guarantee that only one local process can concurrently
    # download the dataset.
    if data_args.dataset_name is not None:
        # Downloading and loading a dataset from the hub.
        raw_datasets = load_dataset(
            data_args.dataset_name, data_args.dataset_config_name, cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir
        )
    else:
        data_files = {}
        if data_args.train_file is not None:
            data_files["train"] = data_args.train_file
            extension = data_args.train_file.split(".")[-1]

        if data_args.validation_file is not None:
            data_files["validation"] = data_args.validation_file
            extension = data_args.validation_file.split(".")[-1]
        if data_args.test_file is not None:
            data_files["test"] = data_args.test_file
            extension = data_args.test_file.split(".")[-1]
        raw_datasets = load_dataset(extension, data_files=data_files, field="data", cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir)
    # See more about loading any type of standard or custom dataset (from files, python dict, pandas DataFrame, etc) at
    # https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/loading_datasets.html.

    # Load pretrained model and tokenizer
    #
    # Distributed training:
    # The .from_pretrained methods guarantee that only one local process can concurrently
    # download model & vocab.
    config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(
        model_args.config_name if model_args.config_name else model_args.model_name_or_path,
        cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir,
        revision=model_args.model_revision,
        use_auth_token=True if model_args.use_auth_token else None,
    )
    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
        model_args.tokenizer_name if model_args.tokenizer_name else model_args.model_name_or_path,
        cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir,
        use_fast=True,
        revision=model_args.model_revision,
        use_auth_token=True if model_args.use_auth_token else None,
    )
    model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.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,
        revision=model_args.model_revision,
        use_auth_token=True if model_args.use_auth_token else None,
    )

    # Tokenizer check: this script requires a fast tokenizer.
    if not isinstance(tokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerFast):
        raise ValueError(
            "This example script only works for models that have a fast tokenizer. Checkout the big table of models "
            "at https://huggingface.co/transformers/index.html#supported-frameworks to find the model types that meet this "
            "requirement"
        )

    # Preprocessing the datasets.
    # Preprocessing is slighlty different for training and evaluation.
    if training_args.do_train:
        column_names = raw_datasets["train"].column_names
    elif training_args.do_eval:
        column_names = raw_datasets["validation"].column_names
    else:
        column_names = raw_datasets["test"].column_names
    question_column_name = "question" if "question" in column_names else column_names[0]
    context_column_name = "context" if "context" in column_names else column_names[1]
    answer_column_name = "answers" if "answers" in column_names else column_names[2]

    # Padding side determines if we do (question|context) or (context|question).
    pad_on_right = tokenizer.padding_side == "right"

    if data_args.max_seq_length > tokenizer.model_max_length:
        logger.warning(
            f"The max_seq_length passed ({data_args.max_seq_length}) is larger than the maximum length for the"
            f"model ({tokenizer.model_max_length}). Using max_seq_length={tokenizer.model_max_length}."
        )
    max_seq_length = min(data_args.max_seq_length, tokenizer.model_max_length)

    # Training preprocessing
    def prepare_train_features(examples):
        # Some of the questions have lots of whitespace on the left, which is not useful and will make the
        # truncation of the context fail (the tokenized question will take a lots of space). So we remove that
        # left whitespace
        examples[question_column_name] = [q.lstrip() for q in examples[question_column_name]]

        # Tokenize our examples with truncation and maybe padding, but keep the overflows using a stride. This results
        # in one example possible giving several features when a context is long, each of those features having a
        # context that overlaps a bit the context of the previous feature.
        tokenized_examples = tokenizer(
            examples[question_column_name if pad_on_right else context_column_name],
            examples[context_column_name if pad_on_right else question_column_name],
            truncation="only_second" if pad_on_right else "only_first",
            max_length=max_seq_length,
            stride=data_args.doc_stride,
            return_overflowing_tokens=True,
            return_offsets_mapping=True,
            padding="max_length" if data_args.pad_to_max_length else False,
        )

        # Since one example might give us several features if it has a long context, we need a map from a feature to
        # its corresponding example. This key gives us just that.
        sample_mapping = tokenized_examples.pop("overflow_to_sample_mapping")
        # The offset mappings will give us a map from token to character position in the original context. This will
        # help us compute the start_positions and end_positions.
        offset_mapping = tokenized_examples.pop("offset_mapping")

        # Let's label those examples!
        tokenized_examples["start_positions"] = []
        tokenized_examples["end_positions"] = []

        for i, offsets in enumerate(offset_mapping):
            # We will label impossible answers with the index of the CLS token.
            input_ids = tokenized_examples["input_ids"][i]
            cls_index = input_ids.index(tokenizer.cls_token_id)

            # Grab the sequence corresponding to that example (to know what is the context and what is the question).
            sequence_ids = tokenized_examples.sequence_ids(i)

            # One example can give several spans, this is the index of the example containing this span of text.
            sample_index = sample_mapping[i]
            answers = examples[answer_column_name][sample_index]
            # If no answers are given, set the cls_index as answer.
            if len(answers["answer_start"]) == 0:
                tokenized_examples["start_positions"].append(cls_index)
                tokenized_examples["end_positions"].append(cls_index)
            else:
                # Start/end character index of the answer in the text.
                start_char = answers["answer_start"][0]
                end_char = start_char + len(answers["text"][0])

                # Start token index of the current span in the text.
                token_start_index = 0
                while sequence_ids[token_start_index] != (1 if pad_on_right else 0):
                    token_start_index += 1

                # End token index of the current span in the text.
                token_end_index = len(input_ids) - 1
                while sequence_ids[token_end_index] != (1 if pad_on_right else 0):
                    token_end_index -= 1

                # Detect if the answer is out of the span (in which case this feature is labeled with the CLS index).
                if not (offsets[token_start_index][0] <= start_char and offsets[token_end_index][1] >= end_char):
                    tokenized_examples["start_positions"].append(cls_index)
                    tokenized_examples["end_positions"].append(cls_index)
                else:
                    # Otherwise move the token_start_index and token_end_index to the two ends of the answer.
                    # Note: we could go after the last offset if the answer is the last word (edge case).
                    while token_start_index < len(offsets) and offsets[token_start_index][0] <= start_char:
                        token_start_index += 1
                    tokenized_examples["start_positions"].append(token_start_index - 1)
                    while offsets[token_end_index][1] >= end_char:
                        token_end_index -= 1
                    tokenized_examples["end_positions"].append(token_end_index + 1)

        return tokenized_examples

    if training_args.do_train:
        if "train" not in raw_datasets:
            raise ValueError("--do_train requires a train dataset")
        train_dataset = raw_datasets["train"]
        if data_args.max_train_samples is not None:
            # We will select sample from whole data if agument is specified
            train_dataset = train_dataset.select(range(data_args.max_train_samples))
        # Create train feature from dataset
        with training_args.main_process_first(desc="train dataset map pre-processing"):
            train_dataset = train_dataset.map(
                prepare_train_features,
                batched=True,
                num_proc=data_args.preprocessing_num_workers,
                remove_columns=column_names,
                load_from_cache_file=not data_args.overwrite_cache,
                desc="Running tokenizer on train dataset",
            )
        if data_args.max_train_samples is not None:
            # Number of samples might increase during Feature Creation, We select only specified max samples
            train_dataset = train_dataset.select(range(data_args.max_train_samples))

    # Validation preprocessing
    def prepare_validation_features(examples):
        # Some of the questions have lots of whitespace on the left, which is not useful and will make the
        # truncation of the context fail (the tokenized question will take a lots of space). So we remove that
        # left whitespace
        examples[question_column_name] = [q.lstrip() for q in examples[question_column_name]]

        # Tokenize our examples with truncation and maybe padding, but keep the overflows using a stride. This results
        # in one example possible giving several features when a context is long, each of those features having a
        # context that overlaps a bit the context of the previous feature.
        tokenized_examples = tokenizer(
            examples[question_column_name if pad_on_right else context_column_name],
            examples[context_column_name if pad_on_right else question_column_name],
            truncation="only_second" if pad_on_right else "only_first",
            max_length=max_seq_length,
            stride=data_args.doc_stride,
            return_overflowing_tokens=True,
            return_offsets_mapping=True,
            padding="max_length" if data_args.pad_to_max_length else False,
        )

        # Since one example might give us several features if it has a long context, we need a map from a feature to
        # its corresponding example. This key gives us just that.
        sample_mapping = tokenized_examples.pop("overflow_to_sample_mapping")

        # For evaluation, we will need to convert our predictions to substrings of the context, so we keep the
        # corresponding example_id and we will store the offset mappings.
        tokenized_examples["example_id"] = []

        for i in range(len(tokenized_examples["input_ids"])):
            # Grab the sequence corresponding to that example (to know what is the context and what is the question).
            sequence_ids = tokenized_examples.sequence_ids(i)
            context_index = 1 if pad_on_right else 0

            # One example can give several spans, this is the index of the example containing this span of text.
            sample_index = sample_mapping[i]
            tokenized_examples["example_id"].append(examples["id"][sample_index])

            # Set to None the offset_mapping that are not part of the context so it's easy to determine if a token
            # position is part of the context or not.
            tokenized_examples["offset_mapping"][i] = [
                (o if sequence_ids[k] == context_index else None)
                for k, o in enumerate(tokenized_examples["offset_mapping"][i])
            ]

        return tokenized_examples

    if training_args.do_eval:
        if "validation" not in raw_datasets:
            raise ValueError("--do_eval requires a validation dataset")
        eval_examples = raw_datasets["validation"]
        if data_args.max_eval_samples is not None:
            # We will select sample from whole data
            eval_examples = eval_examples.select(range(data_args.max_eval_samples))
        # Validation Feature Creation
        with training_args.main_process_first(desc="validation dataset map pre-processing"):
            eval_dataset = eval_examples.map(
                prepare_validation_features,
                batched=True,
                num_proc=data_args.preprocessing_num_workers,
                remove_columns=column_names,
                load_from_cache_file=not data_args.overwrite_cache,
                desc="Running tokenizer on validation dataset",
            )
        if data_args.max_eval_samples is not None:
            # During Feature creation dataset samples might increase, we will select required samples again
            eval_dataset = eval_dataset.select(range(data_args.max_eval_samples))

    if training_args.do_predict:
        if "test" not in raw_datasets:
            raise ValueError("--do_predict requires a test dataset")
        predict_examples = raw_datasets["test"]
        if data_args.max_predict_samples is not None:
            # We will select sample from whole data
            predict_examples = predict_examples.select(range(data_args.max_predict_samples))
        # Predict Feature Creation
        with training_args.main_process_first(desc="prediction dataset map pre-processing"):
            predict_dataset = predict_examples.map(
                prepare_validation_features,
                batched=True,
                num_proc=data_args.preprocessing_num_workers,
                remove_columns=column_names,
                load_from_cache_file=not data_args.overwrite_cache,
                desc="Running tokenizer on prediction dataset",
            )
        if data_args.max_predict_samples is not None:
            # During Feature creation dataset samples might increase, we will select required samples again
            predict_dataset = predict_dataset.select(range(data_args.max_predict_samples))

    # Data collator
    # We have already padded to max length if the corresponding flag is True, otherwise we need to pad in the data
    # collator.
    data_collator = (
        default_data_collator
        if data_args.pad_to_max_length
        else DataCollatorWithPadding(tokenizer, pad_to_multiple_of=8 if training_args.fp16 else None)
    )

    # Post-processing:
    def post_processing_function(examples, features, predictions, stage="eval"):
        # Post-processing: we match the start logits and end logits to answers in the original context.
        predictions = postprocess_qa_predictions(
            examples=examples,
            features=features,
            predictions=predictions,
            version_2_with_negative=data_args.version_2_with_negative,
            n_best_size=data_args.n_best_size,
            max_answer_length=data_args.max_answer_length,
            null_score_diff_threshold=data_args.null_score_diff_threshold,
            output_dir=training_args.output_dir,
            log_level=log_level,
            prefix=stage,
        )
        # Format the result to the format the metric expects.
        if data_args.version_2_with_negative:
            formatted_predictions = [
                {"id": k, "prediction_text": v, "no_answer_probability": 0.0} for k, v in predictions.items()
            ]
        else:
            formatted_predictions = [{"id": k, "prediction_text": v} for k, v in predictions.items()]

        references = [{"id": ex["id"], "answers": ex[answer_column_name]} for ex in examples]
        return EvalPrediction(predictions=formatted_predictions, label_ids=references)

    metric = load_metric("squad_v2" if data_args.version_2_with_negative else "squad")

    def compute_metrics(p: EvalPrediction):
        return metric.compute(predictions=p.predictions, references=p.label_ids)

    # Initialize our Trainer
    trainer = QuestionAnsweringTrainer(
        model=model,
        args=training_args,
        train_dataset=train_dataset if training_args.do_train else None,
        eval_dataset=eval_dataset if training_args.do_eval else None,
        eval_examples=eval_examples if training_args.do_eval else None,
        tokenizer=tokenizer,
        data_collator=data_collator,
        post_process_function=post_processing_function,
        compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
    )

    # Training
    if training_args.do_train:
        checkpoint = None
        if training_args.resume_from_checkpoint is not None:
            checkpoint = training_args.resume_from_checkpoint
        elif last_checkpoint is not None:
            checkpoint = last_checkpoint
        train_result = trainer.train(resume_from_checkpoint=checkpoint)
        trainer.save_model()  # Saves the tokenizer too for easy upload

        metrics = train_result.metrics
        max_train_samples = (
            data_args.max_train_samples if data_args.max_train_samples is not None else len(train_dataset)
        )
        metrics["train_samples"] = min(max_train_samples, len(train_dataset))

        trainer.log_metrics("train", metrics)
        trainer.save_metrics("train", metrics)
        trainer.save_state()

    # Evaluation
    if training_args.do_eval:
        logger.info("*** Evaluate ***")
        metrics = trainer.evaluate()

        max_eval_samples = data_args.max_eval_samples if data_args.max_eval_samples is not None else len(eval_dataset)
        metrics["eval_samples"] = min(max_eval_samples, len(eval_dataset))

        trainer.log_metrics("eval", metrics)
        trainer.save_metrics("eval", metrics)

    # Prediction
    if training_args.do_predict:
        logger.info("*** Predict ***")
        results = trainer.predict(predict_dataset, predict_examples)
        metrics = results.metrics

        max_predict_samples = (
            data_args.max_predict_samples if data_args.max_predict_samples is not None else len(predict_dataset)
        )
        metrics["predict_samples"] = min(max_predict_samples, len(predict_dataset))

        trainer.log_metrics("predict", metrics)
        trainer.save_metrics("predict", metrics)

    if training_args.push_to_hub:
        kwargs = {"finetuned_from": model_args.model_name_or_path, "tasks": "question-answering"}
        if data_args.dataset_name is not None:
            kwargs["dataset_tags"] = data_args.dataset_name
            if data_args.dataset_config_name is not None:
                kwargs["dataset_args"] = data_args.dataset_config_name
                kwargs["dataset"] = f"{data_args.dataset_name} {data_args.dataset_config_name}"
            else:
                kwargs["dataset"] = data_args.dataset_name

        trainer.push_to_hub(**kwargs)