Load generation config from model config Error!
Author: CinderellaCc
Pull request: no

### System Info

- `transformers` version: 4.27.4
- Platform: Linux-3.10.0-1160.11.1.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.10
- Python version: 3.8.16
- Huggingface_hub version: 0.13.2
- PyTorch version (GPU?): 1.13.1+cu117 (True)
- Tensorflow version (GPU?): not installed (NA)
- Flax version (CPU?/GPU?/TPU?): not installed (NA)
- Jax version: not installed
- JaxLib version: not installed
- Using GPU in script?: <fill in>
- Using distributed or parallel set-up in script?: <fill in>

### Who can help?

_No response_

### Information

- [X] The official example scripts
- [ ] My own modified scripts

### Tasks

- [ ] An officially supported task in the `examples` folder (such as GLUE/SQuAD, ...)
- [X] My own task or dataset (give details below)

### Reproduction

This is where I call your generate() method:
`output_sequences = super().**generate**(**batch, pad_token_id=self.tokenizer.pad_token_id, eos_token_id=self.tokenizer.eos_token_id,**input_generation_kwargs)`

**batch** looks like this:
batch
{'input_ids': tensor([[  259,  661...='cuda:0'), 'attention_mask': tensor([[1, 1, 1, 1,...='cuda:0'), 'decoder_input_ids': tensor([[    0, 3259...='cuda:0'), 'loss_ids': tensor([[0, 1, 1, 0,...='cuda:0'), 'guid': ['0', '1', '2', '3'], 'tgt_text': ['_', '_', '_', '_']}
print(batch)
{'input_ids': tensor([[  259,  6611, 22933,   267,   259,  2967,   278, 14342,   368,  8183,
          2357,  1838, 13663,  5020, 25598, 20782,  7858,  2286,  3726,  5702,
          6302,   259,   428,   271, 15597, 10714,   267, 32595,     1,     0,
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             0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,
             0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0],
        [  259,  6611, 22933,   267,   259,  2967,   278, 14342,   368,  8183,
          2357,  1838, 13663,  5020, 25598, 20782,  7858,  2286,  3726,  5702,
          6302,   259,   428,   271, 15597, 10714,   267, 32595,     1,     0,
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             0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,
             0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0],
        [  259,  6611, 22933,   267,   259,  2967,   278, 14342,   368,  8183,
          2357,  1838, 13663,  5020, 25598, 20782,  7858,  2286,  3726,  5702,
          6302,   259,   428,   271, 15597, 10714,   267, 32595,     1,     0,
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             0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0],
        [  259,  6611, 22933,   267,   259,  2967,   278, 14342,   368,  8183,
          2357,  1838, 13663,  5020, 25598, 20782,  7858,  2286,  3726,  5702,
          6302,   259,   428,   271, 15597, 10714,   267, 32595,     1,     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,
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             0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,
             0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0,     0]],
       device='cuda:0'), 'attention_mask': tensor([[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
         1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 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, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
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         0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
        [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
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         0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
        [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
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         0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]], device='cuda:0'), 'decoder_input_ids': tensor([[    0, 32595],
        [    0, 32595],
        [    0, 32595],
        [    0, 32595]], device='cuda:0'), 'loss_ids': tensor([[0, 1, 1, 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, 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, 1, 1, 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, 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, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
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         0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
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         0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]], device='cuda:0'), 'guid': ['0', '1', '2', '3'], 'tgt_text': ['_', '_', '_', '_']}


model config like this:
`T5Config {
  "_name_or_path": "IDEA-CCNL/Randeng-T5-784M-MultiTask-Chinese",
  "architectures": [
    "T5ForConditionalGeneration"
  ],
  "bad_words_ids": [
    [
      3473,
      1837
    ],
    [
      3473,
      27556
    ],
    [
      259,
      3473
    ]
  ],
  "d_ff": 2816,
  "d_kv": 64,
  "d_model": 1024,
  "decoder_start_token_id": 0,
  "dense_act_fn": "gelu_new",
  "diversity_penalty": 3.0,
  "dropout_rate": 0.1,
  "eos_token_id": 1,
  "feed_forward_proj": "gated-gelu",
  "initializer_factor": 1.0,
  "is_encoder_decoder": true,
  "is_gated_act": true,
  "layer_norm_epsilon": 1e-06,
  "length_penalty": 3.0,
  "max_length": 200,
  "max_new_tokens": 4,
  "metric": [
    "sentence_bleu"
  ],
  "min_length": 5,
  "model_type": "t5",
  "num_beam_groups": 5,
  "num_beams": 5,
  "num_decoder_layers": 24,
  "num_heads": 16,
  "num_layers": 24,
  "output_past": true,
  "pad_token_id": 0,
  "parent_config": "task",
  "relative_attention_max_distance": 128,
  "relative_attention_num_buckets": 32,
  "repetition_penalty": 5.0,
  "temperature": 2.0,
  "tie_word_embeddings": false,
  "tokenizer_class": "T5Tokenizer",
  "top_k": 0,
  "top_p": 0.9,
  "torch_dtype": "float32",
  "transformers_version": "4.27.4",
  "use_cache": true,
  "vocab_size": 32596
}`

### Expected behavior

Hello, @gante, When I evaluate my generation model, I need to load generation config from model config. 
You can find the code at [https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/src/transformers/generation/utils.py#L1225](url)
It's not working to copy model config, but when I change code like this: 
`self.generation_config.update(**new_generation_config.to_dict())`
the copy can work. I think this is a bug you should probably fix.

Thank you for your excellent work!

Comments:
Hey @CinderellaCc 👋  Thank you for raising the issue!

I'm not sure I follow the exact details if your issue -- would you be able to share a stand-alone short script to reproduce the issue? :)

`from_model_config()` calls `.to_dict()` internally, and it should work with model config objects 🤔 

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