Custom local dataset features (#1085)

* Generalize prompt_feature and completion_feature for use in local datasets to facilitate compatibility with many other training dataset formats.

* Persist configured prompt/completion key

* rebase + nits

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Co-authored-by: Awni Hannun <awni@apple.com>

llms/mlx_lm/LORA.md

@@ -241,14 +241,25 @@ Refer to the documentation for the model you are fine-tuning for more details.
 {"prompt": "What is the capital of France?", "completion": "Paris."}
 ```
 
+For the `completions` data format, a different key can be used for the prompt
+and completion by specifying the following in the YAML config:
+
+```yaml
+prompt_feature: "input"
+completion_feature: "output"
+```
+
+Here, `"input"` is the expected key instead of the default `"prompt"`, and
+`"output"` is the expected key instead of `"completion"`. 
+
 `text`:
 
 ```jsonl
 {"text": "This is an example for the model."}
 ```
 
-Note, the format is automatically determined by the dataset. Note also, keys in
+Note, the format is automatically determined by the dataset. Note also, keys
-each line not expected by the loader will be ignored.
+in each line not expected by the loader will be ignored.
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > Each example in the datasets must be on a single line. Do not put more than
@@ -270,7 +281,7 @@ Otherwise, provide a mapping of keys in the dataset to the features MLX LM
 expects. Use a YAML config to specify the Hugging Face dataset arguments. For
 example:
 
-```
+```yaml
 hf_dataset:
   name: "billsum"
   prompt_feature: "text"

llms/mlx_lm/tuner/datasets.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import json
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Dict, List
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional
 
 from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizer
 
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ class CompletionsDataset:
         self,
         data: List[Dict[str, str]],
         tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer,
-        prompt_key: str = "prompt",
+        prompt_key: str,
-        completion_key: str = "completion",
+        completion_key: str,
     ):
         self._data = [
             tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
@@ -81,13 +81,19 @@ class CompletionsDataset:
         return len(self._data)
 
 
-def create_dataset(data, tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer):
+def create_dataset(
+    data,
+    tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer,
+    prompt_feature: Optional[str] = None,
+    completion_feature: Optional[str] = None,
+):
+    prompt_feature = prompt_feature or "prompt"
+    completion_feature = completion_feature or "completion"
     sample = data[0]
-
     if "messages" in sample:
         return ChatDataset(data, tokenizer)
-    elif "prompt" in sample and "completion" in sample:
+    elif prompt_feature in sample and completion_feature in sample:
-        return CompletionsDataset(data, tokenizer)
+        return CompletionsDataset(data, tokenizer, prompt_feature, completion_feature)
     elif "text" in sample:
         return Dataset(data, tokenizer)
     else:
@@ -97,20 +103,30 @@ def create_dataset(data, tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer):
         )
 
 
-def load_local_dataset(data_path: Path, tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer):
+def load_local_dataset(
+    data_path: Path,
+    tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer,
+    prompt_feature: Optional[str] = None,
+    completion_feature: Optional[str] = None,
+):
     def load_subset(path):
         if not path.exists():
             return []
         with open(path, "r") as fid:
             data = [json.loads(l) for l in fid]
-        return create_dataset(data, tokenizer)
+        return create_dataset(data, tokenizer, prompt_feature, completion_feature)
 
     names = ("train", "valid", "test")
     train, valid, test = [load_subset(data_path / f"{n}.jsonl") for n in names]
     return train, valid, test
 
 
-def load_hf_dataset(data_id: str, tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer):
+def load_hf_dataset(
+    data_id: str,
+    tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer,
+    prompt_feature: Optional[str] = None,
+    completion_feature: Optional[str] = None,
+):
     from datasets import exceptions, load_dataset
 
     try:
@@ -119,7 +135,13 @@ def load_hf_dataset(data_id: str, tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer):
         names = ("train", "valid", "test")
 
         train, valid, test = [
-            create_dataset(dataset[n], tokenizer) if n in dataset.keys() else []
+            (
+                create_dataset(
+                    dataset[n], tokenizer, prompt_feature, completion_feature
+                )
+                if n in dataset.keys()
+                else []
+            )
             for n in names
         ]
 
@@ -175,11 +197,18 @@ def load_dataset(args, tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer):
         train, valid, test = load_custom_hf_dataset(args, tokenizer)
     else:
         data_path = Path(args.data)
+
+        prompt_feature = getattr(args, "prompt_feature", None)
+        completion_feature = getattr(args, "completion_feature", None)
         if data_path.exists():
-            train, valid, test = load_local_dataset(data_path, tokenizer)
+            train, valid, test = load_local_dataset(
+                data_path, tokenizer, prompt_feature, completion_feature
+            )
         else:
             print(f"Loading Hugging Face dataset {args.data}.")
-            train, valid, test = load_hf_dataset(args.data, tokenizer)
+            train, valid, test = load_hf_dataset(
+                args.data, tokenizer, prompt_feature, completion_feature
+            )
 
     if args.train and len(train) == 0:
         raise ValueError(