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This document is a quick introduction to using `datasets` with JAX, with a particular focus on how to get
`jax.Array` objects out of our datasets, and how to use them to train JAX models.
<Tip>
`jax` and `jaxlib` are required to reproduce to code above, so please make sure you
install them as `pip install datasets[jax]`.
</Tip>
## Dataset format
By default, datasets return regular Python objects: integers, floats, strings, lists, etc., and
string and binary objects are unchanged, since JAX only supports numbers.
To get JAX arrays (numpy-like) instead, you can set the format of the dataset to `jax`:
```py
>>> from datasets import Dataset
>>> data = [[1, 2], [3, 4]]
>>> ds = Dataset.from_dict({"data": data})
>>> ds = ds.with_format("jax")
>>> ds[0]
{'data': DeviceArray([1, 2], dtype=int32)}
>>> ds[:2]
{'data': DeviceArray([
[1, 2],
[3, 4]], dtype=int32)}
```
<Tip>
A [`Dataset`] object is a wrapper of an Arrow table, which allows fast reads from arrays in the dataset to JAX arrays.
</Tip>
Note that the exact same procedure applies to `DatasetDict` objects, so that
when setting the format of a `DatasetDict` to `jax`, all the `Dataset`s there
will be formatted as `jax`:
```py
>>> from datasets import DatasetDict
>>> data = {"train": {"data": [[1, 2], [3, 4]]}, "test": {"data": [[5, 6], [7, 8]]}}
>>> dds = DatasetDict.from_dict(data)
>>> dds = dds.with_format("jax")
>>> dds["train"][:2]
{'data': DeviceArray([
[1, 2],
[3, 4]], dtype=int32)}
```
Another thing you'll need to take into consideration is that the formatting is not applied
until you actually access the data. So if you want to get a JAX array out of a dataset,
you'll need to access the data first, otherwise the format will remain the same.
Finally, to load the data in the device of your choice, you can specify the `device` argument,
but note that `jaxlib.xla_extension.Device` is not supported as it's not serializable with neither
`pickle` not `dill`, so you'll need to use its string identifier instead:
```py
>>> import jax
>>> from datasets import Dataset
>>> data = [[1, 2], [3, 4]]
>>> ds = Dataset.from_dict({"data": data})
>>> device = str(jax.devices()[0]) # Not casting to `str` before passing it to `with_format` will raise a `ValueError`
>>> ds = ds.with_format("jax", device=device)
>>> ds[0]
{'data': DeviceArray([1, 2], dtype=int32)}
>>> ds[0]["data"].device()
TFRT_CPU_0
>>> assert ds[0]["data"].device() == jax.devices()[0]
True
```
Note that if the `device` argument is not provided to `with_format` then it will use the default
device which is `jax.devices()[0]`.
## N-dimensional arrays
If your dataset consists of N-dimensional arrays, you will see that by default they are considered as nested lists.
In particular, a JAX formatted dataset outputs a `DeviceArray` object, which is a numpy-like array, so it does not
need the [`Array`] feature type to be specified as opposed to PyTorch or TensorFlow formatters.
```py
>>> from datasets import Dataset
>>> data = [[[1, 2],[3, 4]], [[5, 6],[7, 8]]]
>>> ds = Dataset.from_dict({"data": data})
>>> ds = ds.with_format("jax")
>>> ds[0]
{'data': DeviceArray([[1, 2],
[3, 4]], dtype=int32)}
```
## Other feature types
[`ClassLabel`] data is properly converted to arrays:
```py
>>> from datasets import Dataset, Features, ClassLabel
>>> labels = [0, 0, 1]
>>> features = Features({"label": ClassLabel(names=["negative", "positive"])})
>>> ds = Dataset.from_dict({"label": labels}, features=features)
>>> ds = ds.with_format("jax")
>>> ds[:3]
{'label': DeviceArray([0, 0, 1], dtype=int32)}
```
String and binary objects are unchanged, since JAX only supports numbers.
The [`Image`] and [`Audio`] feature types are also supported.
<Tip>
To use the [`Image`] feature type, you'll need to install the `vision` extra as
`pip install datasets[vision]`.
</Tip>
```py
>>> from datasets import Dataset, Features, Image
>>> images = ["path/to/image.png"] * 10
>>> features = Features({"image": Image()})
>>> ds = Dataset.from_dict({"image": images}, features=features)
>>> ds = ds.with_format("jax")
>>> ds[0]["image"].shape
(512, 512, 3)
>>> ds[0]
{'image': DeviceArray([[[ 255, 255, 255],
[ 255, 255, 255],
...,
[ 255, 255, 255],
[ 255, 255, 255]]], dtype=uint8)}
>>> ds[:2]["image"].shape
(2, 512, 512, 3)
>>> ds[:2]
{'image': DeviceArray([[[[ 255, 255, 255],
[ 255, 255, 255],
...,
[ 255, 255, 255],
[ 255, 255, 255]]]], dtype=uint8)}
```
<Tip>
To use the [`Audio`] feature type, you'll need to install the `audio` extra as
`pip install datasets[audio]`.
</Tip>
```py
>>> from datasets import Dataset, Features, Audio
>>> audio = ["path/to/audio.wav"] * 10
>>> features = Features({"audio": Audio()})
>>> ds = Dataset.from_dict({"audio": audio}, features=features)
>>> ds = ds.with_format("jax")
>>> ds[0]["audio"]["array"]
DeviceArray([-0.059021 , -0.03894043, -0.00735474, ..., 0.0133667 ,
0.01809692, 0.00268555], dtype=float32)
>>> ds[0]["audio"]["sampling_rate"]
DeviceArray(44100, dtype=int32, weak_type=True)
```
## Data loading
JAX doesn't have any built-in data loading capabilities, so you'll need to use a library such
as [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/) to load your data using a `DataLoader` or [TensorFlow](https://www.tensorflow.org/)
using a `tf.data.Dataset`. Citing the [JAX documentation](https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/Neural_Network_and_Data_Loading.html#data-loading-with-pytorch) on this topic:
"JAX is laser-focused on program transformations and accelerator-backed NumPy, so we don’t
include data loading or munging in the JAX library. There are already a lot of great data loaders
out there, so let’s just use them instead of reinventing anything. We’ll grab PyTorch’s data loader,
and make a tiny shim to make it work with NumPy arrays.".
So that's the reason why JAX-formatting in `datasets` is so useful, because it lets you use
any model from the HuggingFace Hub with JAX, without having to worry about the data loading
part.
### Using `with_format('jax')`
The easiest way to get JAX arrays out of a dataset is to use the `with_format('jax')` method. Lets assume
that we want to train a neural network on the [MNIST dataset](http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/) available
at the HuggingFace Hub at https://huggingface.co/datasets/mnist.
```py
>>> from datasets import load_dataset
>>> ds = load_dataset("mnist")
>>> ds = ds.with_format("jax")
>>> ds["train"][0]
{'image': DeviceArray([[ 0, 0, 0, ...],
[ 0, 0, 0, ...],
...,
[ 0, 0, 0, ...],
[ 0, 0, 0, ...]], dtype=uint8),
'label': DeviceArray(5, dtype=int32)}
```
Once the format is set we can feed the dataset to the JAX model in batches using the `Dataset.iter()`
method:
```py
>>> for epoch in range(epochs):
... for batch in ds["train"].iter(batch_size=32):
... x, y = batch["image"], batch["label"]
... ...
```
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