Workaround for HuggingFace Trainer() Not Starting When Using Vertex AI Workbench
I encountered an issue where HuggingFace’s Trainer() would not start when using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Workbench. A similar bug was reported on the following page: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73415068/huggingface-trainer-does-nothing-only-on-vertex-ai-workbench-works-on-colab Initially, I had selected the “PyTorch” environment as shown below, and this is where the bug occurred: As described in the article above, switching to the “Python” environment resolved the issue: Note that when using this environment, you first need to run the following: ...