load_data() with text_only or one type of tabular features (without categorical features)

[inimah]

1. Why do we need to keep initializing ``cat_cols'' and num_cols'' when we want to inspect how the model performs with text input only?
2. When categorical tabular features is not present (text and numerical features only), how do we initialize load_data_from_folder() function?
   I checked that the function requires the inputs to have at least one categorical features --> raising an error when discarding categorical initialization.

[akashsaravanan-georgian]

Hi @inimah,

• If you don't have categorical and numerical columns at all, you should use a normal BERT or other model instead of this one. However you can still set no cat or numerical columns in the config before using the model.
• If you have a trained model, the model expects all columns by nature.

2. Same as above, you can specify categorical columns as None and it won't be used.

Please let me know if you run into specific errors and I can help debug/fix them!

[akashsaravanan-georgian]

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