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- local: prepare-a-dataset
  title: Prepare a dataset
- local: finetune-with-trainer
  sections:
  - local: training-hyperparameters
    title: Training hyperparameters
  - local: metrics
    title: Metrics
  - local: trainer
    title: Trainer
  title: Fine-tune with `Trainer`
- local: finetune-with-keras
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  - local: convert-dataset-to-tensorflow-format
    title: Convert dataset to TensorFlow format
  - local: compile-and-fit
    title: Compile and fit
  title: Fine-tune with Keras
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  - local: dataloader
    title: DataLoader
  - local: optimizer-and-learning-rate-scheduler
    title: Optimizer and learning rate scheduler
  - local: training-loop
    title: Training loop
  - local: metrics
    title: Metrics
  title: Fine-tune in native PyTorch
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  title: Additional resources
title: Fine-tune a pretrained model
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<h1 id="finetune-a-pretrained-model">Fine-tune a pretrained model</h1>

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There are significant benefits to using a pretrained model. It reduces computation costs, your carbon footprint, and allows you to use state-of-the-art models without having to train one from scratch. 🤗 Transformers provides access to thousands of pretrained models for a wide range of tasks. When you use a pretrained model, you train it on a dataset specific to your task. This is known as fine-tuning, an incredibly powerful training technique. In this tutorial, you will fine-tune a pretrained model with a deep learning framework of your choice:

* Fine-tune a pretrained model with 🤗 Transformers [Trainer](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.Trainer).
* Fine-tune a pretrained model in TensorFlow with Keras.
* Fine-tune a pretrained model in native PyTorch.

<a id='data-processing'></a>

<h2 id="prepare-a-dataset">Prepare a dataset</h2>

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Before you can fine-tune a pretrained model, download a dataset and prepare it for training. The previous tutorial showed you how to process data for training, and now you get an opportunity to put those skills to the test!

Begin by loading the [Yelp Reviews](https://huggingface.co/datasets/yelp_review_full) dataset:

```py
>>> from datasets import load_dataset

>>> dataset = load_dataset("yelp_review_full")
>>> dataset[100]
&amp;lcub;'label': 0,
 'text': 'My expectations for McDonalds are t rarely high. But for one to still fail so spectacularly...that takes something special!\\nThe cashier took my friends\'s order, then promptly ignored me. I had to force myself in front of a cashier who opened his register to wait on the person BEHIND me. I waited over five minutes for a gigantic order that included precisely one kid\'s meal. After watching two people who ordered after me be handed their food, I asked where mine was. The manager started yelling at the cashiers for \\"serving off their orders\\" when they didn\'t have their food. But neither cashier was anywhere near those controls, and the manager was the one serving food to customers and clearing the boards.\\nThe manager was rude when giving me my order. She didn\'t make sure that I had everything ON MY RECEIPT, and never even had the decency to apologize that I felt I was getting poor service.\\nI\'ve eaten at various McDonalds restaurants for over 30 years. I\'ve worked at more than one location. I expect bad days, bad moods, and the occasional mistake. But I have yet to have a decent experience at this store. It will remain a place I avoid unless someone in my party needs to avoid illness from low blood sugar. Perhaps I should go back to the racially biased service of Steak n Shake instead!'}
```

As you now know, you need a tokenizer to process the text and include a padding and truncation strategy to handle any variable sequence lengths. To process your dataset in one step, use 🤗 Datasets [`map`](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/process.html#map) method to apply a preprocessing function over the entire dataset:

```py
>>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer

>>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bert-base-cased")


>>> def tokenize_function(examples):
...     return tokenizer(examples["text"], padding="max_length", truncation=True)


>>> tokenized_datasets = dataset.map(tokenize_function, batched=True)
```

If you like, you can create a smaller subset of the full dataset to fine-tune on to reduce the time it takes:

```py
>>> small_train_dataset = tokenized_datasets["train"].shuffle(seed=42).select(range(1000))
>>> small_eval_dataset = tokenized_datasets["test"].shuffle(seed=42).select(range(1000))
```

<a id='trainer'></a>

<h2 id="finetune-with-trainer">Fine-tune with `Trainer`</h2>

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🤗 Transformers provides a [Trainer](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.Trainer) class optimized for training 🤗 Transformers models, making it easier to start training without manually writing your own training loop. The [Trainer](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.Trainer) API supports a wide range of training options and features such as logging, gradient accumulation, and mixed precision.

Start by loading your model and specify the number of expected labels. From the Yelp Review [dataset card](https://huggingface.co/datasets/yelp_review_full#data-fields), you know there are five labels:

```py
>>> from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification

>>> model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("bert-base-cased", num_labels=5)
```

<Tip>

You will see a warning about some of the pretrained weights not being used and some weights being randomly
initialized. Don't worry, this is completely normal! The pretrained head of the BERT model is discarded, and replaced with a randomly initialized classification head. You will fine-tune this new model head on your sequence classification task, transferring the knowledge of the pretrained model to it.

</Tip>

<h3 id="training-hyperparameters">Training hyperparameters</h3>

Next, create a [TrainingArguments](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.TrainingArguments) class which contains all the hyperparameters you can tune as well as flags for activating different training options. For this tutorial you can start with the default training [hyperparameters](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main_classes/trainer#transformers.TrainingArguments), but feel free to experiment with these to find your optimal settings.

Specify where to save the checkpoints from your training:

```py
>>> from transformers import TrainingArguments

>>> training_args = TrainingArguments(output_dir="test_trainer")
```

<h3 id="metrics">Metrics</h3>

[Trainer](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.Trainer) does not automatically evaluate model performance during training. You will need to pass [Trainer](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.Trainer) a function to compute and report metrics. The 🤗 Datasets library provides a simple [`accuracy`](https://huggingface.co/metrics/accuracy) function you can load with the `load_metric` (see this [tutorial](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/metrics.html) for more information) function:

```py
>>> import numpy as np
>>> from datasets import load_metric

>>> metric = load_metric("accuracy")
```

Call `compute` on `metric` to calculate the accuracy of your predictions. Before passing your predictions to `compute`, you need to convert the predictions to logits (remember all 🤗 Transformers models return logits):

```py
>>> def compute_metrics(eval_pred):
...     logits, labels = eval_pred
...     predictions = np.argmax(logits, axis=-1)
...     return metric.compute(predictions=predictions, references=labels)
```

If you'd like to monitor your evaluation metrics during fine-tuning, specify the `evaluation_strategy` parameter in your training arguments to report the evaluation metric at the end of each epoch:

```py
>>> from transformers import TrainingArguments

>>> training_args = TrainingArguments(output_dir="test_trainer", evaluation_strategy="epoch")
```

<h3 id="trainer">Trainer</h3>

Create a [Trainer](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.Trainer) object with your model, training arguments, training and test datasets, and evaluation function:

```py
>>> trainer = Trainer(
...     model=model,
...     args=training_args,
...     train_dataset=small_train_dataset,
...     eval_dataset=small_eval_dataset,
...     compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
... )
```

Then fine-tune your model by calling [train()](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.Trainer.train):

```py
>>> trainer.train()
```

<a id='keras'></a>

<h2 id="finetune-with-keras">Fine-tune with Keras</h2>

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🤗 Transformers models also supports training in TensorFlow with the Keras API. You only need to make a few changes before you can fine-tune.

<h3 id="convert-dataset-to-tensorflow-format">Convert dataset to TensorFlow format</h3>

The [DefaultDataCollator](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/data_collator#transformers.DefaultDataCollator) assembles tensors into a batch for the model to train on. Make sure you specify `return_tensors` to return TensorFlow tensors:

```py
>>> from transformers import DefaultDataCollator

>>> data_collator = DefaultDataCollator(return_tensors="tf")
```

<Tip>

[Trainer](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.Trainer) uses [DataCollatorWithPadding](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/data_collator#transformers.DataCollatorWithPadding) by default so you don't need to explicitly specify a data collator.

</Tip>

Next, convert the tokenized datasets to TensorFlow datasets with the [`to_tf_dataset`](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/package_reference/main_classes.html#datasets.Dataset.to_tf_dataset) method. Specify your inputs in `columns`, and your label in `label_cols`:

```py
>>> tf_train_dataset = small_train_dataset.to_tf_dataset(
...     columns=["attention_mask", "input_ids", "token_type_ids"],
...     label_cols=["labels"],
...     shuffle=True,
...     collate_fn=data_collator,
...     batch_size=8,
... )

>>> tf_validation_dataset = small_eval_dataset.to_tf_dataset(
...     columns=["attention_mask", "input_ids", "token_type_ids"],
...     label_cols=["labels"],
...     shuffle=False,
...     collate_fn=data_collator,
...     batch_size=8,
... )
```

<h3 id="compile-and-fit">Compile and fit</h3>

Load a TensorFlow model with the expected number of labels:

```py
>>> import tensorflow as tf
>>> from transformers import TFAutoModelForSequenceClassification

>>> model = TFAutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("bert-base-cased", num_labels=5)
```

Then compile and fine-tune your model with [`fit`](https://keras.io/api/models/model_training_apis/) as you would with any other Keras model:

```py
>>> model.compile(
...     optimizer=tf.keras.optimizers.Adam(learning_rate=5e-5),
...     loss=tf.keras.losses.SparseCategoricalCrossentropy(from_logits=True),
...     metrics=tf.metrics.SparseCategoricalAccuracy(),
... )

>>> model.fit(tf_train_dataset, validation_data=tf_validation_dataset, epochs=3)
```

<a id='pytorch_native'></a>

<h2 id="finetune-in-native-pytorch">Fine-tune in native PyTorch</h2>

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[Trainer](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.Trainer) takes care of the training loop and allows you to fine-tune a model in a single line of code. For users who prefer to write their own training loop, you can also fine-tune a 🤗 Transformers model in native PyTorch.

At this point, you may need to restart your notebook or execute the following code to free some memory:

```py
del model
del pytorch_model
del trainer
torch.cuda.empty_cache()
```

Next, manually postprocess `tokenized_dataset` to prepare it for training.

1. Remove the `text` column because the model does not accept raw text as an input:

    ```py
    >>> tokenized_datasets = tokenized_datasets.remove_columns(["text"])
    ```

2. Rename the `label` column to `labels` because the model expects the argument to be named `labels`:

    ```py
    >>> tokenized_datasets = tokenized_datasets.rename_column("label", "labels")
    ```

3. Set the format of the dataset to return PyTorch tensors instead of lists:

    ```py
    >>> tokenized_datasets.set_format("torch")
    ```

Then create a smaller subset of the dataset as previously shown to speed up the fine-tuning:

```py
>>> small_train_dataset = tokenized_datasets["train"].shuffle(seed=42).select(range(1000))
>>> small_eval_dataset = tokenized_datasets["test"].shuffle(seed=42).select(range(1000))
```

<h3 id="dataloader">DataLoader</h3>

Create a `DataLoader` for your training and test datasets so you can iterate over batches of data:

```py
>>> from torch.utils.data import DataLoader

>>> train_dataloader = DataLoader(small_train_dataset, shuffle=True, batch_size=8)
>>> eval_dataloader = DataLoader(small_eval_dataset, batch_size=8)
```

Load your model with the number of expected labels:

```py
>>> from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification

>>> model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("bert-base-cased", num_labels=5)
```

<h3 id="optimizer-and-learning-rate-scheduler">Optimizer and learning rate scheduler</h3>

Create an optimizer and learning rate scheduler to fine-tune the model. Let's use the [`AdamW`](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.optim.AdamW.html) optimizer from PyTorch:

```py
>>> from torch.optim import AdamW

>>> optimizer = AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=5e-5)
```

Create the default learning rate scheduler from [Trainer](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.Trainer):

```py
>>> from transformers import get_scheduler

>>> num_epochs = 3
>>> num_training_steps = num_epochs * len(train_dataloader)
>>> lr_scheduler = get_scheduler(
...     name="linear", optimizer=optimizer, num_warmup_steps=0, num_training_steps=num_training_steps
... )
```

Lastly, specify `device` to use a GPU if you have access to one. Otherwise, training on a CPU may take several hours instead of a couple of minutes.

```py
>>> import torch

>>> device = torch.device("cuda") if torch.cuda.is_available() else torch.device("cpu")
>>> model.to(device)
```

<Tip>

Get free access to a cloud GPU if you don't have one with a hosted notebook like [Colaboratory](https://colab.research.google.com/) or [SageMaker StudioLab](https://studiolab.sagemaker.aws/).

</Tip>

Great, now you are ready to train! 🥳 

<h3 id="training-loop">Training loop</h3>

To keep track of your training progress, use the [tqdm](https://tqdm.github.io/) library to add a progress bar over the number of training steps:

```py
>>> from tqdm.auto import tqdm

>>> progress_bar = tqdm(range(num_training_steps))

>>> model.train()
>>> for epoch in range(num_epochs):
...     for batch in train_dataloader:
...         batch = &amp;lcub;k: v.to(device) for k, v in batch.items()}
...         outputs = model(**batch)
...         loss = outputs.loss
...         loss.backward()

...         optimizer.step()
...         lr_scheduler.step()
...         optimizer.zero_grad()
...         progress_bar.update(1)
```

<h3 id="metrics">Metrics</h3>

Just like how you need to add an evaluation function to [Trainer](/docs/transformers/pr_15592/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.Trainer), you need to do the same when you write your own training loop. But instead of calculating and reporting the metric at the end of each epoch, this time you will accumulate all the batches with [`add_batch`](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/package_reference/main_classes.html?highlight=add_batch#datasets.Metric.add_batch) and calculate the metric at the very end.

```py
>>> metric = load_metric("accuracy")
>>> model.eval()
>>> for batch in eval_dataloader:
...     batch = &amp;lcub;k: v.to(device) for k, v in batch.items()}
...     with torch.no_grad():
...         outputs = model(**batch)

...     logits = outputs.logits
...     predictions = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
...     metric.add_batch(predictions=predictions, references=batch["labels"])

>>> metric.compute()
```

<a id='additional-resources'></a>

<h2 id="additional-resources">Additional resources</h2>

For more fine-tuning examples, refer to:

- [🤗 Transformers Examples](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples) includes scripts
  to train common NLP tasks in PyTorch and TensorFlow.

- [🤗 Transformers Notebooks](notebooks) contains various notebooks on how to fine-tune a model for specific tasks in PyTorch and TensorFlow.
