[Wav2vec Pretrain] KeyError: ‘attention_mask’
## Environment info
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- `transformers` version: 4.9.1
- Platform: Google Colab
- Python version: 3.7 & 3.8
- PyTorch version (GPU?): 1.8
- Tensorflow version (GPU?): N/A
- Using GPU in script?:
- Using distributed or parallel set-up in script?:

### Who can help

Models:
@patrickvonplaten


## Information

Model I am using Wav2vec Pretrain:

The problem arises when using:
https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/research_projects/wav2vec2/run_pretrain.py

The tasks I am working on is:
* [ ] an official wav2vec pretrain task: (give the name)
* [ ] my own task or dataset: (give details below)
Wav2vec on TIMIT

## To reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

python run_pretrain.py --output_dir="./wav2vec2-base" \
--num_train_epochs="3" \
--per_device_train_batch_size="32" \
--per_device_eval_batch_size="32" \
--gradient_accumulation_steps="2" \
--save_total_limit="3" \
--save_steps="500" \
--logging_steps="10" \
--learning_rate="5e-4" \
--weight_decay="0.01" \
--warmup_steps="3000" \
--model_name_or_path="facebook/wav2vec2-base" \
--dataset_name="timit_asr" \
--train_split_name="train" \
--preprocessing_num_workers="4" \
--max_duration_in_seconds="10.0" \
--group_by_length \
--verbose_logging \


## Expected behavior

<!-- A clear and concise description of what you would expect to happen. -->
***** Running training *****
  Num examples = 185
  Num Epochs = 3
  Instantaneous batch size per device = 32
  Total train batch size (w. parallel, distributed & accumulation) = 64
  Gradient Accumulation steps = 2
  Total optimization steps = 9
  0% 0/9 [00:00<?, ?it/s]Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "wav2vec_pretrain.py", line 388, in <module>
    main()
  File "wav2vec_pretrain.py", line 384, in main
    trainer.train()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/transformers/trainer.py", line 1254, in train
    for step, inputs in enumerate(epoch_iterator):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/torch/utils/data/dataloader.py", line 521, in __next__
    data = self._next_data()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/torch/utils/data/dataloader.py", line 561, in _next_data
    data = self._dataset_fetcher.fetch(index)  # may raise StopIteration
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/torch/utils/data/_utils/fetch.py", line 47, in fetch
    return self.collate_fn(data)
  File "wav2vec_pretrain.py", line 176, in __call__
    if batch["attention_mask"] is not None:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/transformers/feature_extraction_utils.py", line 81, in __getitem__
    return self.data[item]
KeyError: 'attention_mask'


Thank you very much!


I've assigned Patrick, but looking at the docs of Wav2Vec2, is says:

> Wav2Vec2 models that have set config.feat_extract_norm == "group", such as wav2vec2-base, have not been trained using attention_mask. For such models, input_values should simply be padded with 0 and no attention_mask should be passed.

> For Wav2Vec2 models that have set config.feat_extract_norm == "layer", such as wav2vec2-lv60, attention_mask should be passed for batched inference.

It seems like the pre-training script currently only supports models that are pre-trained using an attention mask, such as `patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-base-libri-100h`.<|||||>@NielsRogge 

Got it! It works well now. Thank you for your advice! <|||||>@NielsRogge The training process can start normally. But the loss doesn't decrease any more after ~300 steps. I have tried different datasets, including English and Chinese data. Could you help me check it? I appreciate it so much!

{'loss': 4.0485, 'learning_rate': 3.3333333333333335e-05, 'epoch': 0.07}
{'loss': 3.7386, 'learning_rate': 3.5000000000000004e-05, 'epoch': 0.07}
{'loss': 1.5081, 'learning_rate': 3.6666666666666666e-05, 'epoch': 0.07}
{'loss': 4.2322, 'learning_rate': 3.8333333333333334e-05, 'epoch': 0.08}
{'loss': 4.1046, 'learning_rate': 4e-05, 'epoch': 0.08}
{'loss': 3.2526, 'learning_rate': 4.1666666666666665e-05, 'epoch': 0.08}
{'loss': 1.5949, 'learning_rate': 4.3333333333333334e-05, 'epoch': 0.09}
{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 4.4999999999999996e-05, 'epoch': 0.09}
{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 4.666666666666667e-05, 'epoch': 0.09}
{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 4.8333333333333334e-05, 'epoch': 0.1}

{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 5e-05, 'epoch': 0.1}
{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 5.1666666666666664e-05, 'epoch': 0.1}

{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 5.333333333333334e-05, 'epoch': 0.11}

{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 5.5e-05, 'epoch': 0.11}
  4%|███▏                                                                               | 340/8922 [07:55<3:33:42,  1.49s/it]
{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 5.6666666666666664e-05, 'epoch': 0.11}
  4%|███▎                                                                               | 350/8922 [08:04<1:50:16,  1.30it/s]
{'loss': 0.0014, 'learning_rate': 5.833333333333333e-05, 'epoch': 0.12}
{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 6e-05, 'epoch': 0.12}
  4%|███▍                                                                               | 370/8922 [08:34<2:31:36,  1.06s/it]
{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 6.166666666666667e-05, 'epoch': 0.12}
{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 6.333333333333335e-05, 'epoch': 0.13}
{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 6.500000000000001e-05, 'epoch': 0.13}
{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 6.666666666666667e-05, 'epoch': 0.13}
{'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 6.833333333333333e-05, 'epoch': 0.14}

Btw, others have the same problem. Refer to https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/why-is-wav2vec-pretraining-loss-not-decreasing/8112<|||||>> @NielsRogge The training process can start normally. But the loss doesn't decrease any more after ~300 steps. I have tried different datasets, including English and Chinese data. Could you help me check it? I appreciate it so much!
> 
> {'loss': 4.0485, 'learning_rate': 3.3333333333333335e-05, 'epoch': 0.07} {'loss': 3.7386, 'learning_rate': 3.5000000000000004e-05, 'epoch': 0.07} {'loss': 1.5081, 'learning_rate': 3.6666666666666666e-05, 'epoch': 0.07} {'loss': 4.2322, 'learning_rate': 3.8333333333333334e-05, 'epoch': 0.08} {'loss': 4.1046, 'learning_rate': 4e-05, 'epoch': 0.08} {'loss': 3.2526, 'learning_rate': 4.1666666666666665e-05, 'epoch': 0.08} {'loss': 1.5949, 'learning_rate': 4.3333333333333334e-05, 'epoch': 0.09} {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 4.4999999999999996e-05, 'epoch': 0.09} {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 4.666666666666667e-05, 'epoch': 0.09} {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 4.8333333333333334e-05, 'epoch': 0.1}
> 
> {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 5e-05, 'epoch': 0.1} {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 5.1666666666666664e-05, 'epoch': 0.1}
> 
> {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 5.333333333333334e-05, 'epoch': 0.11}
> 
> {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 5.5e-05, 'epoch': 0.11} 4%|███▏ | 340/8922 [07:55<3:33:42, 1.49s/it] {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 5.6666666666666664e-05, 'epoch': 0.11} 4%|███▎ | 350/8922 [08:04<1:50:16, 1.30it/s] {'loss': 0.0014, 'learning_rate': 5.833333333333333e-05, 'epoch': 0.12} {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 6e-05, 'epoch': 0.12} 4%|███▍ | 370/8922 [08:34<2:31:36, 1.06s/it] {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 6.166666666666667e-05, 'epoch': 0.12} {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 6.333333333333335e-05, 'epoch': 0.13} {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 6.500000000000001e-05, 'epoch': 0.13} {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 6.666666666666667e-05, 'epoch': 0.13} {'loss': 0.0013, 'learning_rate': 6.833333333333333e-05, 'epoch': 0.14}
> 
> Btw, others have the same problem. Refer to https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/why-is-wav2vec-pretraining-loss-not-decreasing/8112

Hello, I’m facing the same problem pretraining my model from English base model. Have you solved it?<|||||>Hey guys, 

I think this is a good example of how it looks like when the `"contrastive_loss"` function collapses and the training becomes useless. If you see an instant drop to `0.0013` this means that the training didn't work. I've seen this countless times in my tests and there is not a very easy fix IMO.

What seems to work best to counteract this is to do the following in this line:
https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/4c99e553c152ce9b709d7c138379b0b126ed2fa1/examples/pytorch/speech-pretraining/run_wav2vec2_pretraining_no_trainer.py#L327 

Replace:
`mask_time_indices=mask_time_indices,` by `mask_time_indices=batch["sub_attention_mask"]`

This is known to be a more robust training that however seems to give slightly worse results. 

Also, I think [speechbrain](https://speechbrain.github.io/) is working quite a bit on getting Wav2Vec2-Pretraining more robust and general, as far as I know those guys have done much more experiements with pretraining than I have so it might be worth checking out their pretraining script as well. 

cc @TParcollet 
<|||||>I'm hoping to find some time to again dive a bit deeper into wav2vec2 pretraining over the Chrismas holidays and then make a comprehensive guide on how to pretrain wav2vec2 at some point. I'm really not sure though whether I find the time<|||||>> Hey guys,
> 
> I think this is a good example of how it looks like when the `"contrastive_loss"` function collapses and the training becomes useless. If you see an instant drop to `0.0013` this means that the training didn't work. I've seen this countless times in my tests and there is not a very easy fix IMO.
> 
> What seems to work best to counteract this is to do the following in this line:
> 
> https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/4c99e553c152ce9b709d7c138379b0b126ed2fa1/examples/pytorch/speech-pretraining/run_wav2vec2_pretraining_no_trainer.py#L327
> 
> Replace: `mask_time_indices=mask_time_indices,` by `mask_time_indices=batch["sub_attention_mask"]`
> 
> This is known to be a more robust training that however seems to give slightly worse results.
> 
> Also, I think [speechbrain](https://speechbrain.github.io/) is working quite a bit on getting Wav2Vec2-Pretraining more robust and general, as far as I know those guys have done much more experiements with pretraining than I have so it might be worth checking out their pretraining script as well.
> 
> cc @TParcollet

Hi. The `%_mask_idx ` i got is so low, I wonder if you changed `mask_prob` in the configuration file from 0.05 to 0.5?<|||||>For passing the mask_prob should be around 0.65<|||||>FYI I ran into the same issue (missing attention_mask in pre-trained model) saving my model on a custom dataset from the greek emotion classification using wav2vec2 from this notebook:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/m3hrdadfi/soxan/blob/main/notebooks/Emotion_recognition_in_Greek_speech_using_Wav2Vec2.ipynb#scrollTo=n0HzBneBK84G

Changing the model to 'facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self' helped.