Using Trainer with do_train + do_eval

Beginners
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Hi, I’m currently training a T5 model using the HF Trainer and looking through the TrainingArguments documentation as well as example scripts.

At the moment I am trying to understand the use of the the two optional arguments within TrainingArguments ‘do_train’ and ‘do_eval’. Some examples notebooks don’t specify these, and therefore default these to false.

From experimenting, you can run trainer.evaluate() without ‘do_eval’, and I can’t figure out what ‘do_train’ would do if it defaults to False

Thanks,

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Those arguments are only used by the scripts, not the Trainer itself.

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Hi!
Which scripts? I also was unable to understand it from examples. The link in the function description does not point to a specific example.