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Wrap evaluation benchmark using HF-trainer

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
huggingface, python

Research direction

Start by reviewing the repository's current benchmark evaluation flow and identifying the trainer entry points; the issue names no files or tests. Compare the existing task-specific handling with Hugging Face Trainer requirements for data_loader, DataCollator, compute_metrics, and optional predictions. Done means the benchmark is wrapped with Hugging Face Trainer while preserving task evaluation and supporting future fine-tuning.

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Description

This might sounds like a bit of re-structuring but for the sake of future compatibility, I propose the following,

  1. Move to huggingface trainer: This will help the repo to automatically adapt to deepspeed and all the exclusive features of transformers library.
  2. We don't have to re-invent the wheel. Given that we are using huggingface trainer, we only need to implement the following functions for a trainer for different tasks.
    -- data_loader
    -- DataCollator
    -- compute_metrics
    -- predictions (if needed)
  3. In case if we want to finetune our full model, we don't have to change a lot in the surface level.

I would love to take some responsibility if needed. Let me know. @jaketae @tianjianjiang @wilsonyhlee

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