Seq2SeqTrainer not working for a list of inputs: TypeError: can't convert np.ndarray of type numpy.object_
Author: helloworld123-lab
Pull request: no
Labels: name: Migration


## Information

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Model I am using Bert2Bert, training using Seq2SeqTrainer on Google Colab. 

## Details
I am trying to use a Bert2Bert model on multiple-choice qa dataset using Seq2SeqTrainer. My whole code is given in the [following]( https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1bqwHa2guKVGDn_8cBehI3BkAl1Xz_7-O?usp=sharing)
I convert question-choices-label as follow:

> input: (Question, option1), (Question, option2), ... target: label


I have generated the tokens for input using tokenizer.batch_encode_plus(.) method as:

```
max_length = 128
def convert_to_commonsense_qa_features(example_batch):
    num_examples = len(example_batch["question"])
    num_choices = len(example_batch["choices"][0]["text"])
    features = {}
    for example_i in range(num_examples):
        choices_inputs = tokenizer.batch_encode_plus(
            list(zip(
                [example_batch["question"][example_i]] * num_choices,
                example_batch["choices"][example_i]["text"],
            )),
            max_length=max_length, pad_to_max_length=True,
        )
        for k, v in choices_inputs.items():
            if k not in features:
                features[k] = []
            features[k].append(v)
    labels2id = {char: i for i, char in enumerate("ABCDE")}
    # Dummy answers for test
    if example_batch["answerKey"][0]:
        features["labels"] = [labels2id[ans] for ans in example_batch["answerKey"]]
    else:
        features["labels"] = [0] * num_examples    
    return features

convert_func_dict = {
    "commonsense_qa": convert_to_commonsense_qa_features,
}
```
`for` the input, when I print input_ids, it is given the following form (ndarray):

```
array([array([ 101, 1996, 2237, 4580, 2001, 1037, 2524, 5271, 2005, 1996, 2613,
       4263, 1010, 2009, 2001, 2157, 2279, 2000, 1037, 2152, 4125, 2054,
       1029,  102, 9282, 2458,  102,    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,    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]),
       array([ 101, 1996, 2237, 4580, 2001, 1037, 2524, 5271, 2005, 1996, 2613,
       4263, 1010, 2009, 2001, 2157, 2279, 2000, 1037, 2152, 4125, 2054,
       1029,  102, 4545, 2311,  102,    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,    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]),
```

And I train the model as:
```
training_args = Seq2SeqTrainingArguments(
    output_dir='./models/tpu',
    per_device_train_batch_size=8,
    per_device_eval_batch_size=8,
    predict_with_generate=True,
    do_train=True,
    do_eval=True,
    logging_steps=100,  # set to 1000 for full training
    warmup_steps=2000,  # set to 2000 for full training
    overwrite_output_dir=True,
    num_train_epochs = 10,
    save_steps = 12180,
    fp16=True, 
)

# instantiate trainer
trainer = Seq2SeqTrainer(
    model=bert2bert,
    tokenizer=tokenizer,
    args=training_args,
    #compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
    train_dataset=features_dict["commonsense_qa"]["train"],
    eval_dataset=features_dict["commonsense_qa"]["validation"],
)
trainer.train()

But it produces:
```
> `TypeError: can't convert np.ndarray of type numpy.object_. The only supported types are: float64, float32, float16, complex64, complex128, int64, int32, int16, int8, uint8, and bool.


I could not fix it. Any ideas?



## Checklist

- [ ] I have read the migration guide in the readme.
 ([pytorch-transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers#migrating-from-pytorch-transformers-to-transformers);
  [pytorch-pretrained-bert](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers#migrating-from-pytorch-pretrained-bert-to-transformers))
- [ ] I checked if a related official extension example runs on my machine.


Comments:
Could you please post the full error?
From what I can see here, the dataset should return tensors, not NumPy arrays. This could be the issue.