f"The model '{self.model.__class__.__name__}' is not supported for {self.task}. Supported models are {supported_models}",
## Context
I have used the official example for Q&A [here](https://huggingface.co/dbmdz/bert-base-italian-cased), but slightly modified the `Pipeline` to use the `model` and `tokenizer` objects from pretrained model as exaplained [here](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main_classes/pipelines.html#the-pipeline-abstraction). This because I need a `cache_dir` that currently is not supported by `Pipeline` object.

## Environment info
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- `transformers` version: 4.3.3
- Platform: Linux-4.19.121-linuxkit-x86_64-with-debian-10.1
- Python version: 3.7.4
- PyTorch version (GPU?): 1.7.1 (False)
- Tensorflow version (GPU?): 2.4.1 (False)
- Using GPU in script?: <NO>
- Using distributed or parallel set-up in script?: <NO>

### Who can help

Model:
https://huggingface.co/dbmdz/bert-base-italian-cased
@patrickvonplaten, @patil-suraj

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Models:

- albert, bert, xlm: @LysandreJik
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Library:

- benchmarks: @patrickvonplaten
- deepspeed: @stas00
- ray/raytune: @richardliaw, @amogkam
- text generation: @patrickvonplaten
- tokenizers: @n1t0, @LysandreJik
- trainer: @sgugger
- pipelines: @LysandreJik

Documentation: @sgugger

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- nlp datasets: [different repo](https://github.com/huggingface/nlp)
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## Information

Model I am using (Bert, XLNet ...):

The problem arises when using:
* [] the official example scripts: (give details below)
* [X] my own modified scripts: (give details below)

The tasks I am working on is:
* [X] an official GLUE/SQUaD task: (translation)
* [ ] my own task or dataset: (give details below)

## To reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

```python
question = 'Quale filosofia seguì Marco Aurelio ?'
context = 'Marco Aurelio era un imperatore romano che praticava lo stoicismo come filosofia di vita .'

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
    'mrm8488/bert-italian-finedtuned-squadv1-it-alfa',
    cache_dir=os.getenv("cache_dir", "model"))
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    'mrm8488/bert-italian-finedtuned-squadv1-it-alfa',
    cache_dir=os.getenv("cache_dir", "model"))

nlp_qa_bert = pipeline(
    'question-answering',
    model=model,
    tokenizer=tokenizer)

out = nlp_qa_bert({
    'question': question,
    'context': context
})
print(out)
````

ERROR:

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "qa/run.py", line 26, in <module>
    tokenizer=tokenizer)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers/pipelines/__init__.py", line 418, in pipeline
    return task_class(model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer, modelcard=modelcard, framework=framework, task=task, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers/pipelines/question_answering.py", line 135, in __init__
    TF_MODEL_FOR_QUESTION_ANSWERING_MAPPING if self.framework == "tf" else MODEL_FOR_QUESTION_ANSWERING_MAPPING
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers/pipelines/base.py", line 577, in check_model_type
    f"The model '{self.model.__class__.__name__}' is not supported for {self.task}. Supported models are {supported_models}",
transformers.pipelines.base.PipelineException: The model 'BertModel' is not supported for question-answering. Supported models are ['ConvBertForQuestionAnswering', 'LEDForQuestionAnswering', 'DistilBertForQuestionAnswering', 'AlbertForQuestionAnswering', 'CamembertForQuestionAnswering', 'BartForQuestionAnswering', 'MBartForQuestionAnswering', 'LongformerForQuestionAnswering', 'XLMRobertaForQuestionAnswering', 'RobertaForQuestionAnswering', 'SqueezeBertForQuestionAnswering', 'BertForQuestionAnswering', 'XLNetForQuestionAnsweringSimple', 'FlaubertForQuestionAnsweringSimple', 'MobileBertForQuestionAnswering', 'XLMForQuestionAnsweringSimple', 'ElectraForQuestionAnswering', 'ReformerForQuestionAnswering', 'FunnelForQuestionAnswering', 'LxmertForQuestionAnswering', 'MPNetForQuestionAnswering', 'DebertaForQuestionAnswering', 'DebertaV2ForQuestionAnswering', 'IBertForQuestionAnswering']
```

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Hi there, 

You should use the `AutoModelForQuestionAnswering` class to load a QA model, the `AutoModel` class just loads the base model and doesn't load the task-specific head, which is the reason for this error.

In general, always use the task-specific auto classes to load task-specific architectures.<|||||>@patil-suraj confirmed, it works 

```python
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
    'mrm8488/bert-italian-finedtuned-squadv1-it-alfa',
    cache_dir=os.getenv("cache_dir", "model"))
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained(
    'mrm8488/bert-italian-finedtuned-squadv1-it-alfa',
    cache_dir=os.getenv("cache_dir", "model"))

nlp_qa_bert = pipeline(
    'question-answering',
    model=model,
    tokenizer=tokenizer)
```