GitHub issue #3353:  add one field  "example_id", but I can't see it in the "comput_loss" function
State: closed | Created: 2021-12-01T09:35:09Z

Hi,  I add one field **example_id**, but I can't see it in the **comput_loss** function, how can I do this? below is the information of inputs

```
*********************** inputs: {'attention_mask': tensor([[1, 1, 1,  ..., 0, 0, 0],
        [1, 1, 1,  ..., 0, 0, 0],
        [1, 1, 1,  ..., 0, 0, 0],
        ...,
        [1, 1, 1,  ..., 0, 0, 0],
        [1, 1, 1,  ..., 0, 0, 0],
        [1, 1, 1,  ..., 0, 0, 0]], device='cuda:0'), 'end_positions': tensor([ 25,  97,  93,  44,  25, 112, 109, 134], device='cuda:0'), 'input_ids': tensor([[ 101, 2054, 2390,  ...,    0,    0,    0],
        [ 101, 2054, 2515,  ...,    0,    0,    0],
        [ 101, 2054, 2106,  ...,    0,    0,    0],
        ...,
        [ 101, 2339, 2001,  ...,    0,    0,    0],
        [ 101, 2054, 2515,  ...,    0,    0,    0],
        [ 101, 2054, 2003,  ...,    0,    0,    0]], device='cuda:0'), 'start_positions': tensor([ 20,  90,  89,  41,  25,  96, 106, 132], device='cuda:0'), 'token_type_ids': tensor([[0, 0, 0,  ..., 0, 0, 0],
        [0, 0, 0,  ..., 0, 0, 0],
        [0, 0, 0,  ..., 0, 0, 0],
        ...,
        [0, 0, 0,  ..., 0, 0, 0],
        [0, 0, 0,  ..., 0, 0, 0],
        [0, 0, 0,  ..., 0, 0, 0]], device='cuda:0')} 
```

```
# This function preprocesses a question answering dataset, tokenizing the question and context text
# and finding the right offsets for the answer spans in the tokenized context (to use as labels).
# Adapted from https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa.py
def prepare_train_dataset_qa(examples, tokenizer, max_seq_length=None):
    questions = [q.lstrip() for q in examples["question"]]
    max_seq_length = tokenizer.model_max_length
    # tokenize both questions and the corresponding context
    # if the context length is longer than max_length, we split it to several
    # chunks of max_length
    tokenized_examples = tokenizer(
        questions,
        examples["context"],
        truncation="only_second",
        max_length=max_seq_length,
        stride=min(max_seq_length // 2, 128),
        return_overflowing_tokens=True,
        return_offsets_mapping=True,
        padding="max_length"
    )

    # Since one example might give us several features if it has a long context,
    # we need a map from a feature to its corresponding example.
    sample_mapping = tokenized_examples.pop("overflow_to_sample_mapping")
    # The offset mappings will give us a map from token to character position
    # in the original context. This will help us compute the start_positions
    # and end_positions to get the final answer string.
    offset_mapping = tokenized_examples.pop("offset_mapping")

    tokenized_examples["start_positions"] = []
    tokenized_examples["end_positions"] = []

    tokenized_examples["example_id"] = []

    for i, offsets in enumerate(offset_mapping):
        input_ids = tokenized_examples["input_ids"][i]
        # We will label features not containing the answer the index of the CLS token.
        cls_index = input_ids.index(tokenizer.cls_token_id)
        sequence_ids = tokenized_examples.sequence_ids(i)
        # from the feature idx to sample idx
        sample_index = sample_mapping[i]
        # get the answer for a feature
        answers = examples["answers"][sample_index]

        tokenized_examples["example_id"].append(examples["id"][sample_index])

        if len(answers["answer_start"]) == 0:
            tokenized_examples["start_positions"].append(cls_index)
            tokenized_examples["end_positions"].append(cls_index)
        else:
            # Start/end character index of the answer in the text.
            start_char = answers["answer_start"][0]
            end_char = start_char + len(answers["text"][0])

            # Start token index of the current span in the text.
            token_start_index = 0
            while sequence_ids[token_start_index] != 1:
                token_start_index += 1

            # End token index of the current span in the text.
            token_end_index = len(input_ids) - 1
            while sequence_ids[token_end_index] != 1:
                token_end_index -= 1

            # Detect if the answer is out of the span (in which case this feature is labeled with the CLS index).
            if not (offsets[token_start_index][0] <= start_char and
                    offsets[token_end_index][1] >= end_char):
                tokenized_examples["start_positions"].append(cls_index)
                tokenized_examples["end_positions"].append(cls_index)
            else:
                # Otherwise move the token_start_index and token_end_index to the two ends of the answer.
                # Note: we could go after the last offset if the answer is the last word (edge case).
                while token_start_index < len(offsets) and \
                        offsets[token_start_index][0] <= start_char:
                    token_start_index += 1
                tokenized_examples["start_positions"].append(
                    token_start_index - 1)
                while offsets[token_end_index][1] >= end_char:
                    token_end_index -= 1
                tokenized_examples["end_positions"].append(token_end_index + 1)

    return tokenized_examples
```

_Originally posted by @yanllearnn in https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/issues/3333#issuecomment-983457161_