Fixes bug that appears when using QA bert and distilation. (#12026)

* Fixing bug that appears when using distilation (and potentially other uses).
During backward pass Pytorch complains with:
RuntimeError: one of the variables needed for gradient computation has been modified by an inplace operation
This happens because the QA model code modifies the start_positions and end_positions input tensors, using clamp_ function: as a consequence the teacher and the student both modifies the inputs, and backward pass fails.

* Fixing all models QA clamp_ bug.
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François Lagunas
2021-06-07 17:21:59 +02:00
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parent 59f75d538b
commit f8bd8c6c7e
25 changed files with 52 additions and 52 deletions

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@@ -1516,8 +1516,8 @@ class {{cookiecutter.camelcase_modelname}}ForQuestionAnswering({{cookiecutter.ca
end_positions = end_positions.squeeze(-1)
# sometimes the start/end positions are outside our model inputs, we ignore these terms
ignored_index = start_logits.size(1)
start_positions.clamp_(0, ignored_index)
end_positions.clamp_(0, ignored_index)
start_positions = start_positions.clamp(0, ignored_index)
end_positions = end_positions.clamp(0, ignored_index)
loss_fct = CrossEntropyLoss(ignore_index=ignored_index)
start_loss = loss_fct(start_logits, start_positions)
@@ -3066,8 +3066,8 @@ class {{cookiecutter.camelcase_modelname}}ForQuestionAnswering({{cookiecutter.ca
end_positions = end_positions.squeeze(-1)
# sometimes the start/end positions are outside our model inputs, we ignore these terms
ignored_index = start_logits.size(1)
start_positions.clamp_(0, ignored_index)
end_positions.clamp_(0, ignored_index)
start_positions = start_positions.clamp(0, ignored_index)
end_positions = end_positions.clamp(0, ignored_index)
loss_fct = CrossEntropyLoss(ignore_index=ignored_index)
start_loss = loss_fct(start_logits, start_positions)