TF: T5 can now handle a padded past (i.e. XLA generation) #17969
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What does this PR do?
In TF T5, we now fetch the correct slice of
position_bias
-- the same way we do it in FLAX. The key difference is that FLAX relies on an external variable for the generated length that gets incremented every time past gets updated, and here the same value is obtained dynamically from the past array (latest filled past index = generated length - 1, where latest filled past index corresponds to the maximum index with non-0 values).All slow tests are passing and we no longer have length restrictions on the XLA beam search test, which means that: