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+<!---
+Copyright 2021 The HuggingFace Team. All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+# Image classification examples
+
+The following examples showcase how to fine-tune a `ViT` for image-classification using PyTorch.
+
+## Using datasets from 🤗 `datasets`
+
+Here we show how to fine-tune a `ViT` on the [beans](https://huggingface.co/datasets/beans) dataset.
+
+👀 See the results here: [nateraw/vit-base-beans](https://huggingface.co/nateraw/vit-base-beans).
+
+```bash
+python run_image_classification.py \
+    --dataset_name beans \
+    --output_dir ./beans_outputs/ \
+    --remove_unused_columns False \
+    --do_train \
+    --do_eval \
+    --push_to_hub \
+    --push_to_hub_model_id vit-base-beans \
+    --learning_rate 2e-5 \
+    --num_train_epochs 5 \
+    --per_device_train_batch_size 8 \
+    --per_device_eval_batch_size 8 \
+    --logging_strategy steps \
+    --logging_steps 10 \
+    --evaluation_strategy epoch \
+    --save_strategy epoch \
+    --load_best_model_at_end True \
+    --save_total_limit 3 \
+    --seed 1337
+```
+
+Here we show how to fine-tune a `ViT` on the [cats_vs_dogs](https://huggingface.co/datasets/cats_vs_dogs) dataset.
+
+👀 See the results here: [nateraw/vit-base-cats-vs-dogs](https://huggingface.co/nateraw/vit-base-cats-vs-dogs).
+
+```bash
+python run_image_classification.py \
+    --dataset_name cats_vs_dogs \
+    --output_dir ./cats_vs_dogs_outputs/ \
+    --remove_unused_columns False \
+    --do_train \
+    --do_eval \
+    --push_to_hub \
+    --push_to_hub_model_id vit-base-cats-vs-dogs \
+    --fp16 True \
+    --learning_rate 2e-4 \
+    --num_train_epochs 5 \
+    --per_device_train_batch_size 32 \
+    --per_device_eval_batch_size 32 \
+    --logging_strategy steps \
+    --logging_steps 10 \
+    --evaluation_strategy epoch \
+    --save_strategy epoch \
+    --load_best_model_at_end True \
+    --save_total_limit 3 \
+    --seed 1337
+```
+
+## Using your own data
+
+To use your own dataset, the training script expects the following directory structure:
+
+```bash
+root/dog/xxx.png
+root/dog/xxy.png
+root/dog/[...]/xxz.png
+
+root/cat/123.png
+root/cat/nsdf3.png
+root/cat/[...]/asd932_.png
+```
+
+Once you've prepared your dataset, you can can run the script like this:
+
+```bash
+python run_image_classification.py \
+    --dataset_name nateraw/image-folder \
+    --train_dir <path-to-train-root> \
+    --output_dir ./outputs/ \
+    --remove_unused_columns False \
+    --do_train \
+    --do_eval
+```
+
+### 💡 The above will split the train dir into training and evaluation sets
+  - To control the split amount, use the `--train_val_split` flag.
+  - To provide your own validation split in its own directory, you can pass the `--validation_dir <path-to-val-root>` flag.
+
+
+## Sharing your model on 🤗 Hub
+
+0. If you haven't already, [sign up](https://huggingface.co/join) for a 🤗 account
+
+1. Make sure you have `git-lfs` installed and git set up.
+
+```bash
+$ apt install git-lfs
+$ git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
+$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
+```
+
+2. Log in with your HuggingFace account credentials using `huggingface-cli`
+
+```bash
+$ huggingface-cli login
+# ...follow the prompts
+```
+
+3. When running the script, pass the following arguments:
+
+```bash
+python run_image_classification.py \
+    --push_to_hub \
+    --push_to_hub_model_id <name-your-model> \
+    ...
+```
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+torch>=1.9.0
+torchvision>=0.10.0
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diff --git a/examples/pytorch/image-classification/run_image_classification.py b/examples/pytorch/image-classification/run_image_classification.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# coding=utf-8
+# Copyright 2021 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+
+import logging
+import os
+import sys
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from typing import Optional
+
+import datasets
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+from datasets import load_dataset
+from PIL import Image
+from torchvision.transforms import (
+    CenterCrop,
+    Compose,
+    Normalize,
+    RandomHorizontalFlip,
+    RandomResizedCrop,
+    Resize,
+    ToTensor,
+)
+
+import transformers
+from transformers import (
+    MODEL_FOR_IMAGE_CLASSIFICATION_MAPPING,
+    AutoConfig,
+    AutoFeatureExtractor,
+    AutoModelForImageClassification,
+    HfArgumentParser,
+    Trainer,
+    TrainingArguments,
+)
+from transformers.trainer_utils import get_last_checkpoint
+from transformers.utils import check_min_version
+from transformers.utils.versions import require_version
+
+
+""" Fine-tuning a 🤗 Transformers model for image classification"""
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
+check_min_version("4.10.0.dev0")
+
+require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/text-classification/requirements.txt")
+
+MODEL_CONFIG_CLASSES = list(MODEL_FOR_IMAGE_CLASSIFICATION_MAPPING.keys())
+MODEL_TYPES = tuple(conf.model_type for conf in MODEL_CONFIG_CLASSES)
+
+
+def pil_loader(path: str):
+    with open(path, "rb") as f:
+        im = Image.open(f)
+        return im.convert("RGB")
+
+
+@dataclass
+class DataTrainingArguments:
+    """
+    Arguments pertaining to what data we are going to input our model for training and eval.
+    Using `HfArgumentParser` we can turn this class
+    into argparse arguments to be able to specify them on
+    the command line.
+    """
+
+    dataset_name: Optional[str] = field(
+        default="nateraw/image-folder", metadata={"help": "Name of a dataset from the datasets package"}
+    )
+    dataset_config_name: Optional[str] = field(
+        default=None, metadata={"help": "The configuration name of the dataset to use (via the datasets library)."}
+    )
+    train_dir: Optional[str] = field(default=None, metadata={"help": "A folder containing the training data."})
+    validation_dir: Optional[str] = field(default=None, metadata={"help": "A folder containing the validation data."})
+    train_val_split: Optional[float] = field(
+        default=0.15, metadata={"help": "Percent to split off of train for validation."}
+    )
+    max_train_samples: Optional[int] = field(
+        default=None,
+        metadata={
+            "help": "For debugging purposes or quicker training, truncate the number of training examples to this "
+            "value if set."
+        },
+    )
+    max_eval_samples: Optional[int] = field(
+        default=None,
+        metadata={
+            "help": "For debugging purposes or quicker training, truncate the number of evaluation examples to this "
+            "value if set."
+        },
+    )
+    image_size: Optional[int] = field(default=224, metadata={"help": " The size (resolution) of each image."})
+
+    def __post_init__(self):
+        data_files = dict()
+        if self.train_dir is not None:
+            data_files["train"] = self.train_dir
+        if self.validation_dir is not None:
+            data_files["val"] = self.validation_dir
+        self.data_files = data_files if data_files else None
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ModelArguments:
+    """
+    Arguments pertaining to which model/config/tokenizer we are going to fine-tune from.
+    """
+
+    model_name_or_path: str = field(
+        default="google/vit-base-patch16-224-in21k",
+        metadata={"help": "Path to pretrained model or model identifier from huggingface.co/models"},
+    )
+    model_type: Optional[str] = field(
+        default=None,
+        metadata={"help": "If training from scratch, pass a model type from the list: " + ", ".join(MODEL_TYPES)},
+    )
+    config_name: Optional[str] = field(
+        default=None, metadata={"help": "Pretrained config name or path if not the same as model_name"}
+    )
+    cache_dir: Optional[str] = field(
+        default=None, metadata={"help": "Where do you want to store the pretrained models downloaded from s3"}
+    )
+    model_revision: str = field(
+        default="main",
+        metadata={"help": "The specific model version to use (can be a branch name, tag name or commit id)."},
+    )
+    feature_extractor_name: str = field(default=None, metadata={"help": "Name or path of preprocessor config."})
+    use_auth_token: bool = field(
+        default=False,
+        metadata={
+            "help": "Will use the token generated when running `transformers-cli login` (necessary to use this script "
+            "with private models)."
+        },
+    )
+
+
+def collate_fn(examples):
+    pixel_values = torch.stack([example["pixel_values"] for example in examples])
+    labels = torch.tensor([example["labels"] for example in examples])
+    return {"pixel_values": pixel_values, "labels": labels}
+
+
+def main():
+    # See all possible arguments in src/transformers/training_args.py
+    # or by passing the --help flag to this script.
+    # We now keep distinct sets of args, for a cleaner separation of concerns.
+
+    parser = HfArgumentParser((ModelArguments, DataTrainingArguments, TrainingArguments))
+    if len(sys.argv) == 2 and sys.argv[1].endswith(".json"):
+        # If we pass only one argument to the script and it's the path to a json file,
+        # let's parse it to get our arguments.
+        model_args, data_args, training_args = parser.parse_json_file(json_file=os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1]))
+    else:
+        model_args, data_args, training_args = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses()
+
+    # Setup logging
+    logging.basicConfig(
+        format="%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(name)s - %(message)s",
+        datefmt="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S",
+        handlers=[logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)],
+    )
+
+    log_level = training_args.get_process_log_level()
+    logger.setLevel(log_level)
+    transformers.utils.logging.set_verbosity(log_level)
+    transformers.utils.logging.enable_default_handler()
+    transformers.utils.logging.enable_explicit_format()
+
+    # Log on each process the small summary:
+    logger.warning(
+        f"Process rank: {training_args.local_rank}, device: {training_args.device}, n_gpu: {training_args.n_gpu}"
+        + f"distributed training: {bool(training_args.local_rank != -1)}, 16-bits training: {training_args.fp16}"
+    )
+    logger.info(f"Training/evaluation parameters {training_args}")
+
+    # Detecting last checkpoint.
+    last_checkpoint = None
+    if os.path.isdir(training_args.output_dir) and training_args.do_train and not training_args.overwrite_output_dir:
+        last_checkpoint = get_last_checkpoint(training_args.output_dir)
+        if last_checkpoint is None and len(os.listdir(training_args.output_dir)) > 0:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Output directory ({training_args.output_dir}) already exists and is not empty. "
+                "Use --overwrite_output_dir to overcome."
+            )
+        elif last_checkpoint is not None and training_args.resume_from_checkpoint is None:
+            logger.info(
+                f"Checkpoint detected, resuming training at {last_checkpoint}. To avoid this behavior, change "
+                "the `--output_dir` or add `--overwrite_output_dir` to train from scratch."
+            )
+
+    # Initialize our dataset and prepare it for the 'image-classification' task.
+    ds = load_dataset(
+        data_args.dataset_name,
+        data_args.dataset_config_name,
+        data_files=data_args.data_files,
+        cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir,
+        task="image-classification",
+    )
+
+    # Define torchvision transforms to be applied to each image.
+    normalize = Normalize(mean=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5], std=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5])
+    _train_transforms = Compose(
+        [
+            RandomResizedCrop(data_args.image_size),
+            RandomHorizontalFlip(),
+            ToTensor(),
+            normalize,
+        ]
+    )
+    _val_transforms = Compose(
+        [
+            Resize(data_args.image_size),
+            CenterCrop(data_args.image_size),
+            ToTensor(),
+            normalize,
+        ]
+    )
+
+    def train_transforms(example_batch):
+        """Apply _train_transforms across a batch."""
+        example_batch["pixel_values"] = [_train_transforms(pil_loader(f)) for f in example_batch["image_file_path"]]
+        return example_batch
+
+    def val_transforms(example_batch):
+        """Apply _val_transforms across a batch."""
+        example_batch["pixel_values"] = [_val_transforms(pil_loader(f)) for f in example_batch["image_file_path"]]
+        return example_batch
+
+    # If we don't have a validation split, split off a percentage of train as validation.
+    data_args.train_val_split = None if "validation" in ds.keys() else data_args.train_val_split
+    if isinstance(data_args.train_val_split, float) and data_args.train_val_split > 0.0:
+        split = ds["train"].train_test_split(data_args.train_val_split)
+        ds["train"] = split["train"]
+        ds["validation"] = split["test"]
+
+    # Prepare label mappings.
+    # We'll include these in the model's config to get human readable labels in the Inference API.
+    labels = ds["train"].features["labels"].names
+    label2id, id2label = dict(), dict()
+    for i, label in enumerate(labels):
+        label2id[label] = str(i)
+        id2label[str(i)] = label
+
+    # Load the accuracy metric from the datasets package
+    metric = datasets.load_metric("accuracy")
+
+    # Define our compute_metrics function. It takes an `EvalPrediction` object (a namedtuple with a
+    # predictions and label_ids field) and has to return a dictionary string to float.
+    def compute_metrics(p):
+        """Computes accuracy on a batch of predictions"""
+        return metric.compute(predictions=np.argmax(p.predictions, axis=1), references=p.label_ids)
+
+    config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(
+        model_args.config_name or model_args.model_name_or_path,
+        num_labels=len(labels),
+        label2id=label2id,
+        id2label=id2label,
+        finetuning_task="image-classification",
+        cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir,
+        revision=model_args.model_revision,
+        use_auth_token=True if model_args.use_auth_token else None,
+    )
+    model = AutoModelForImageClassification.from_pretrained(
+        model_args.model_name_or_path,
+        from_tf=bool(".ckpt" in model_args.model_name_or_path),
+        config=config,
+        cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir,
+        revision=model_args.model_revision,
+        use_auth_token=True if model_args.use_auth_token else None,
+    )
+    # NOTE - We aren't directly using this feature extractor since we defined custom transforms above.
+    # We initialize this instance below and pass it to Trainer to ensure that the feature extraction
+    # config, preprocessor_config.json, is included in output directories.
+    # This way if we push a model to the hub, the inference widget will work.
+    feature_extractor = AutoFeatureExtractor.from_pretrained(
+        model_args.feature_extractor_name or model_args.model_name_or_path,
+        cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir,
+        revision=model_args.model_revision,
+        use_auth_token=True if model_args.use_auth_token else None,
+        size=data_args.image_size,
+        image_mean=normalize.mean,
+        image_std=normalize.std,
+    )
+
+    if training_args.do_train:
+        if "train" not in ds:
+            raise ValueError("--do_train requires a train dataset")
+        if data_args.max_train_samples is not None:
+            ds["train"] = ds["train"].shuffle(seed=training_args.seed).select(range(data_args.max_train_samples))
+        # Set the training transforms
+        ds["train"].set_transform(train_transforms)
+
+    if training_args.do_eval:
+        if "validation" not in ds:
+            raise ValueError("--do_eval requires a validation dataset")
+        if data_args.max_eval_samples is not None:
+            ds["validation"] = (
+                ds["validation"].shuffle(seed=training_args.seed).select(range(data_args.max_eval_samples))
+            )
+        # Set the validation transforms
+        ds["validation"].set_transform(val_transforms)
+
+    # Initalize our trainer
+    trainer = Trainer(
+        model=model,
+        args=training_args,
+        train_dataset=ds["train"] if training_args.do_train else None,
+        eval_dataset=ds["validation"] if training_args.do_eval else None,
+        compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
+        tokenizer=feature_extractor,
+        data_collator=collate_fn,
+    )
+
+    # Training
+    if training_args.do_train:
+        checkpoint = None
+        if training_args.resume_from_checkpoint is not None:
+            checkpoint = training_args.resume_from_checkpoint
+        elif last_checkpoint is not None:
+            checkpoint = last_checkpoint
+        train_result = trainer.train(resume_from_checkpoint=checkpoint)
+        trainer.save_model()
+        trainer.log_metrics("train", train_result.metrics)
+        trainer.save_metrics("train", train_result.metrics)
+        trainer.save_state()
+
+    # Evaluation
+    if training_args.do_eval:
+        metrics = trainer.evaluate()
+        trainer.log_metrics("eval", metrics)
+        trainer.save_metrics("eval", metrics)
+
+    # Write model card and (optionally) push to hub
+    kwargs = {
+        "finetuned_from": model_args.model_name_or_path,
+        "tasks": "image-classification",
+        "dataset": data_args.dataset_name,
+        "tags": ["image-classification"],
+    }
+    if training_args.push_to_hub:
+        trainer.push_to_hub(**kwargs)
+    else:
+        trainer.create_model_card(**kwargs)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/test_examples.py b/examples/pytorch/test_examples.py
index 74f1cb28c1ef9c..200e398d0cf11e 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/test_examples.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/test_examples.py
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
         "question-answering",
         "summarization",
         "translation",
+        "image-classification",
     ]
 ]
 sys.path.extend(SRC_DIRS)
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@
     import run_clm
     import run_generation
     import run_glue
+    import run_image_classification
     import run_mlm
     import run_ner
     import run_qa as run_squad
@@ -340,3 +342,35 @@ def test_run_translation(self):
             run_translation.main()
             result = get_results(tmp_dir)
             self.assertGreaterEqual(result["eval_bleu"], 30)
+
+    def test_run_image_classification(self):
+        stream_handler = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
+        logger.addHandler(stream_handler)
+
+        tmp_dir = self.get_auto_remove_tmp_dir()
+        testargs = f"""
+            run_image_classification.py
+            --output_dir {tmp_dir}
+            --model_name_or_path google/vit-base-patch16-224-in21k
+            --train_dir tests/fixtures/tests_samples/cats_and_dogs/
+            --do_train
+            --do_eval
+            --learning_rate 2e-5
+            --per_device_train_batch_size 2
+            --per_device_eval_batch_size 1
+            --remove_unused_columns False
+            --overwrite_output_dir True
+            --dataloader_num_workers 16
+            --metric_for_best_model accuracy
+            --max_steps 30
+            --train_val_split 0.1
+            --seed 7
+        """.split()
+
+        if is_cuda_and_apex_available():
+            testargs.append("--fp16")
+
+        with patch.object(sys, "argv", testargs):
+            run_image_classification.main()
+            result = get_results(tmp_dir)
+            self.assertGreaterEqual(result["eval_accuracy"], 0.8)
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