examples/seq2seq supports translation (#5202)

examples/seq2seq/initialization_utils.py

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+from typing import List
+
+from torch import nn
+
+
+def init_student(student, teacher):
+    teacher_state_dict = teacher.state_dict()
+    info = student.load_state_dict(teacher_state_dict, strict=False)
+    assert info.missing_keys == [], info.missing_keys
+    return student, info
+
+
+def copy_decoder_layers(teacher, student, l2copy=[0, 2, 4, 7, 9, 11]):
+    copy_layers(teacher.model.decoder.layers, student.model.decoder.layers, l2copy)
+
+
+def copy_layers(teacher_layers: nn.ModuleList, student_layers: nn.ModuleList, layers_to_copy: List) -> None:
+    layers_to_copy = nn.ModuleList([l for i, l in enumerate(teacher_layers) if i in layers_to_copy])
+    assert len(student_layers) == len(layers_to_copy), f"{len(student_layers)} != {len(layers_to_copy)}"
+    student_layers.load_state_dict(layers_to_copy.state_dict())