So I have tried to fine-tune distilbert for regression task (using num_labels=1) and it seemed to work. But after saving it to disk (model.save_pretrained(f"checkpoints/model_epoch_{epoch}")) and loading it again and doing inference on a sample piece of text, it is outputting a 768-dimensional vector instead of a single number:
text = "Replace me by any text you'd like."
encoded_input = tokenizer(text, return_tensors='pt')
output = model(**encoded_input)

odict_values([tensor([[[-0.0013,  0.0024,  0.0388,  ...,  0.0087,  0.0316,  0.0316],
         [ 0.0128,  0.0046,  0.0446,  ...,  0.0043,  0.0132,  0.0331],
         [ 0.0124,  0.0069,  0.0430,  ...,  0.0060,  0.0124,  0.0369],
         ...,
         [ 0.0167,  0.0159,  0.0357,  ...,  0.0059,  0.0145,  0.0299],
         [ 0.0139,  0.0140,  0.0340,  ...,  0.0076,  0.0157,  0.0298],
         [ 0.0144,  0.0284,  0.0265,  ...,  0.0117,  0.0108,  0.0268]]],
       grad_fn=<NativeLayerNormBackward>)])

Not sure what I’m doing wrong here.