Add utility to find model labels (#16526)

* Add utility to find model labels

* Use it in the Trainer

* Update src/transformers/utils/generic.py

Co-authored-by: Matt <Rocketknight1@users.noreply.github.com>

* Quality

Co-authored-by: Matt <Rocketknight1@users.noreply.github.com>

src/transformers/trainer.py

@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ from .deepspeed import deepspeed_init, deepspeed_reinit, is_deepspeed_zero3_enab
 from .dependency_versions_check import dep_version_check
 from .modelcard import TrainingSummary
 from .modeling_utils import PreTrainedModel, unwrap_model
-from .models.auto.modeling_auto import MODEL_FOR_QUESTION_ANSWERING_MAPPING_NAMES
 from .optimization import Adafactor, get_scheduler
 from .tokenization_utils_base import PreTrainedTokenizerBase
 from .trainer_callback import (
@@ -124,6 +123,7 @@ from .training_args import OptimizerNames, ParallelMode, TrainingArguments
 from .utils import (
     CONFIG_NAME,
     WEIGHTS_NAME,
+    find_labels,
     get_full_repo_name,
     is_apex_available,
     is_datasets_available,
@@ -495,11 +495,7 @@ class Trainer:
         self.current_flos = 0
         self.hp_search_backend = None
         self.use_tune_checkpoints = False
-        default_label_names = (
-            ["start_positions", "end_positions"]
-            if type(self.model).__name__ in MODEL_FOR_QUESTION_ANSWERING_MAPPING_NAMES.values()
-            else ["labels"]
-        )
+        default_label_names = find_labels(self.model.__class__)
         self.label_names = default_label_names if self.args.label_names is None else self.args.label_names
         self.control = self.callback_handler.on_init_end(self.args, self.state, self.control)
 

src/transformers/utils/__init__.py

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ from .generic import (
     PaddingStrategy,
     TensorType,
     cached_property,
+    find_labels,
     is_tensor,
     to_numpy,
     to_py_obj,

src/transformers/utils/generic.py

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 Generic utilities
 """
 
+import inspect
 from collections import OrderedDict, UserDict
 from contextlib import ExitStack
 from dataclasses import fields
@@ -289,3 +290,23 @@ class ContextManagers:
 
     def __exit__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         self.stack.__exit__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
+def find_labels(model_class):
+    """
+    Find the labels used by a given model.
+
+    Args:
+        model_class (`type`): The class of the model.
+    """
+    model_name = model_class.__name__
+    if model_name.startswith("TF"):
+        signature = inspect.signature(model_class.call)
+    elif model_name.startswith("Flax"):
+        signature = inspect.signature(model_class.__call__)
+    else:
+        signature = inspect.signature(model_class.forward)
+    if "QuestionAnswering" in model_name:
+        return [p for p in signature.parameters if "label" in p or p in ("start_positions", "end_positions")]
+    else:
+        return [p for p in signature.parameters if "label" in p]

tests/utils/test_file_utils.py

@@ -35,10 +35,14 @@ from transformers.utils import (
     RepositoryNotFoundError,
     RevisionNotFoundError,
     filename_to_url,
+    find_labels,
     get_file_from_repo,
     get_from_cache,
     has_file,
     hf_bucket_url,
+    is_flax_available,
+    is_tf_available,
+    is_torch_available,
 )
 
 
@@ -158,24 +162,51 @@ class GetFromCacheTests(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertIsNone(get_file_from_repo(tmp_dir, "b.txt"))
 
 
-class ContextManagerTests(unittest.TestCase):
+class GenericUtilTests(unittest.TestCase):
     @unittest.mock.patch("sys.stdout", new_callable=io.StringIO)
-    def test_no_context(self, mock_stdout):
+    def test_context_managers_no_context(self, mock_stdout):
         with ContextManagers([]):
             print("Transformers are awesome!")
         # The print statement adds a new line at the end of the output
         self.assertEqual(mock_stdout.getvalue(), "Transformers are awesome!\n")
 
     @unittest.mock.patch("sys.stdout", new_callable=io.StringIO)
-    def test_one_context(self, mock_stdout):
+    def test_context_managers_one_context(self, mock_stdout):
         with ContextManagers([context_en()]):
             print("Transformers are awesome!")
         # The output should be wrapped with an English welcome and goodbye
         self.assertEqual(mock_stdout.getvalue(), "Welcome!\nTransformers are awesome!\nBye!\n")
 
     @unittest.mock.patch("sys.stdout", new_callable=io.StringIO)
-    def test_two_context(self, mock_stdout):
+    def test_context_managers_two_context(self, mock_stdout):
         with ContextManagers([context_fr(), context_en()]):
             print("Transformers are awesome!")
         # The output should be wrapped with an English and French welcome and goodbye
         self.assertEqual(mock_stdout.getvalue(), "Bonjour!\nWelcome!\nTransformers are awesome!\nBye!\nAu revoir!\n")
+
+    def test_find_labels(self):
+        if is_torch_available():
+            from transformers import BertForPreTraining, BertForQuestionAnswering, BertForSequenceClassification
+
+            self.assertEqual(find_labels(BertForSequenceClassification), ["labels"])
+            self.assertEqual(find_labels(BertForPreTraining), ["labels", "next_sentence_label"])
+            self.assertEqual(find_labels(BertForQuestionAnswering), ["start_positions", "end_positions"])
+
+        if is_tf_available():
+            from transformers import TFBertForPreTraining, TFBertForQuestionAnswering, TFBertForSequenceClassification
+
+            self.assertEqual(find_labels(TFBertForSequenceClassification), ["labels"])
+            self.assertEqual(find_labels(TFBertForPreTraining), ["labels", "next_sentence_label"])
+            self.assertEqual(find_labels(TFBertForQuestionAnswering), ["start_positions", "end_positions"])
+
+        if is_flax_available():
+            # Flax models don't have labels
+            from transformers import (
+                FlaxBertForPreTraining,
+                FlaxBertForQuestionAnswering,
+                FlaxBertForSequenceClassification,
+            )
+
+            self.assertEqual(find_labels(FlaxBertForSequenceClassification), [])
+            self.assertEqual(find_labels(FlaxBertForPreTraining), [])
+            self.assertEqual(find_labels(FlaxBertForQuestionAnswering), [])