How to accessing the input_ids in EvalPrediction.predictions in Seq2SeqTrainer?

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When training a Seq2SeqTrainer model with evaluate and it looks something like:

mt_metrics = evaluate.combine(
    ["bleu", "chrf"]
)

def compute_metrics(pred):
    labels_ids = pred.label_ids
    pred_ids = pred.predictions
    
    predictions = tokenizer.batch_decode(pred_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)

    labels_ids[labels_ids == -100] = tokenizer.pad_token_id
    references = tokenizer.batch_decode(labels_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)

    outputs = mt_metrics.compute(predictions=predictions,
                             references=references)

    return outputs

model = MarianMTModel.from_pretrained("Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-de")

training_args = Seq2SeqTrainingArguments(
    output_dir='./',
    num_train_epochs=3,
    per_device_train_batch_size=16,
    per_device_eval_batch_size=16,
    logging_steps=100,
    save_steps=500,
    eval_steps=1,
    max_steps=1_000_000,
    evaluation_strategy="steps",
    predict_with_generate=True,
    report_to=None,
)

trainer = Seq2SeqTrainer(
    model=model,
    args=training_args,
    train_dataset=valid_data.with_format("torch"),
    eval_dataset=test_data.with_format("torch"),
    compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
)

trainer.train()

The EvalPrediction.predictions objects is exposed to compute_metrics, it contains the label_ids and the predictions ids but it doesn’t contain the input_ids, sometimes when training computing the metrics that requires the input_ids:

mt_metrics = evaluate.combine(
    ["bleu", "chrf", "comet"]
)

def compute_metrics(pred, input_ids):
    labels_ids = pred.label_ids
    pred_ids = pred.predictions
    
    source = tokenizer.batch_decode(input_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
    predictions = tokenizer.batch_decode(pred_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)

    labels_ids[labels_ids == -100] = tokenizer.pad_token_id
    references = tokenizer.batch_decode(labels_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)

    outputs = mt_metrics.compute(predictions=predictions,
                             references=references, sources=sources)

    return outputs

Is there someway to include the input_ids in the EvalPrediction object when using Seq2SeqTrainer?

If there isn’t, could anyone help to point me to docs to rewrite to create my own custom Seq2SeqTrainer and EvalPrediction? Thank you in advance!

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You have a training argument for that: include_inputs_for_metrics.

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Thanks for the prompt reply! The include_inputs_for_metrics is exactly what’s needed =)

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I’m confused, can I know the difference between the three, input, prediction and reference? and what is the evaluation matrics that needs them all?

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@inoormoq, here’s a few examples of metrics in the evaluate package that uses references. Hope the examples are self explanatory Huggingface Evaluate for MT Evaluations | Kaggle

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That’s very informative in many aspects. Thanks alot.