needed to specify a default output_dir for the trainer

epi_pipeline.py

@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ class NER_Pipeline:
         self.labels = {re.sub(".-","",label) for label in self.config.label2id.keys() if label != "O"}
         # Create the TrainingArguments object and set the batch size
         training_args = TrainingArguments(
+            output_dir: ./tmp_trainer,
             per_device_eval_batch_size=16,
             per_gpu_eval_batch_size=16,
             # other training arguments...