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Load large text file for LM pre-training resulting in OOM

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I tried to pretrain Longformer using transformers and datasets. But I got OOM issues with loading a large text file. My script is almost like this:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

@dataclass
class DataCollatorForDatasetsLanguageModeling(DataCollatorForLanguageModeling):
"""
Data collator used for language modeling based on DataCollatorForLazyLanguageModeling
- collates batches of tensors, honoring their tokenizer's pad_token
- preprocesses batches for masked language modeling
"""

block_size: int = 512

def __call__(self, examples: List[dict]) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
examples = [example['text'] for example in examples]
batch, attention_mask = self._tensorize_batch(examples)
if self.mlm:
inputs, labels = self.mask_tokens(batch)
return {"input_ids": inputs, "labels": labels}
else:
labels = batch.clone().detach()
if self.tokenizer.pad_token_id is not None:
labels[labels == self.tokenizer.pad_token_id] = -100
return {"input_ids": batch, "labels": labels}

def _tensorize_batch(self, examples: List[str]) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:

if self.tokenizer._pad_token is None:
raise ValueError(
"You are attempting to pad samples but the tokenizer you are using"
f" ({self.tokenizer.__class__.__name__}) does not have one."
)

tensor_examples = self.tokenizer.batch_encode_plus(
[ex for ex in examples if ex],
max_length=self.block_size,
return_tensors="pt",
pad_to_max_length=True,
return_attention_mask=True,
truncation=True,
)

input_ids, attention_mask = tensor_examples["input_ids"], tensor_examples["attention_mask"]
return input_ids, attention_mask

dataset = load_dataset('text', data_files='train.txt',cache_dir="./", , split='train')
data_collator = DataCollatorForDatasetsLanguageModeling(tokenizer=tokenizer, mlm=True,
mlm_probability=0.15, block_size=tokenizer.max_len)
trainer = Trainer(model=model, args=args, data_collator=data_collator,
train_dataset=train_dataset, prediction_loss_only=True, )
trainer.train(model_path=model_path)
```
This train.txt is about 1.1GB and has 90k lines where each line is a sequence of 4k words.
During training, the memory usage increased fast as the following graph and resulted in OOM before the finish of training.

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/29704017/93292112-5576b280-f817-11ea-8da2-b2db9bf35665.png)

Could you please give me any suggestions on why this happened and how to fix it?
Thanks.

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