Conflict between last version of Transformers.Trainer and DPOTrainer.get_batch_samples

[lucasdegeorge]

System Info

System Info

Python version: 3.11.0
PyTorch version: 2.4.1 or 2.5.0
Transformers version: 4.46.0
TRL version: 0.11.4
PEFT version: 0.13.2

Information

• The official example scripts
• My own modified scripts

Tasks

• An officially supported task in the examples folder
• My own task or dataset (give details below)

Reproduction

Code to reproduce the error (with transformers==4.46.0 and trl==0.11.4)

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B",
    device_map="auto",
    trust_remote_code=True,
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B")
config = LoraConfig(
    r = 16,
    lora_alpha=32,
    lora_dropout=0.05,
    bias="none",
    task_type= "CAUSAL_LM"
)
model = get_peft_model(model, config)

data_dpo = load_dataset("CultriX/llama70B-dpo-dataset")
def preprocess_data_dpo(data_point):
    system = data_point['system']
    question = data_point['question']
    chosen = data_point['chosen']
    rejected = data_point['rejected']
    features = {
        "prompt": f"{question}",
        "chosen": f"{chosen}",
        "rejected": f"{rejected}"
     }
    return features # fill the gap, using dpo format
data_dpo = data_dpo['train'].shuffle(seed=42).map(preprocess_data_dpo)

training_args = DPOConfig(
    per_device_train_batch_size=1,
    gradient_accumulation_steps=4,
    num_train_epochs=1,
    learning_rate=2e-4,
    fp16=True,
    save_total_limit=3,
    logging_steps=1,
    output_dir="output_dir",
    max_steps=200,
    optim="paged_adamw_8bit",
    lr_scheduler_type="cosine",
    warmup_ratio=0.05,
    report_to="tensorboard",
)

trainer = DPOTrainer(
    model=model,
    args = training_args,
    train_dataset = data_dpo,
    tokenizer=tokenizer,
)
trainer.train() 

This error is raised:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "dpo_lora.py", line 70, in <module>
    trainer.train() 
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File ".venv/env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/transformers/trainer.py", line 2122, in train
    return inner_training_loop(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File ".venv/env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/transformers/trainer.py", line 2426, in _inner_training_loop
    batch_samples, num_items_in_batch = self.get_batch_samples(epoch_iterator, num_batches)
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File ".venv/env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/trl/trainer/dpo_trainer.py", line 1508, in get_batch_samples
    policy_output = model.generate(
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'generator' object has no attribute 'generate'

Expected behavior

It seems to be due to the recent commit 6ba31a8 on Oct 17, 2024 "Enable users to use their own loss functions + deal with prefetching for grad accum (huggingface/transformers#34198)" on Transformers 4.46.0
where a new method get_batch_samples is defined and used by _inner_training_loop

But the subclass DPOTrainer overwrites the method get_batch_samples with a different signature (and output).

Error can be avoided with Transformers==4.45.2 and trl==0.11.4

[qgallouedec]

The issue has been solved with #2246
TRL 0.11.4 is not compatible with Transformers 4.46.
We will release TRL 0.12 very soon

[swamymushini]

What is the working fix for this issue now? which library versions we can use now for temp solution? should be downgrade transformers

[bibhudutta-p]

Yes, use the latest version of TRL and v4.45.2 of Transformers. This fixed it for me.

[swamymushini]

Yes, use the latest version of TRL and v4.45.2 of Transformers. This fixed it for me.

u mean the TRL 0.11.4?

[bibhudutta-p]

yes

[swamymushini]

yes

Really thanks.. it worked for me..