Docs still mention text2text-generation / summarization / translation pipeline tasks which were removed in v5

[math-hiyoko]

System Info

Transformers version: 5.x

The issue is related to the documentation rather than a specific runtime environment.

Who can help?

@Rocketknight1 @stevhliu

Information

• The official example scripts
• My own modified scripts

Tasks

• An officially supported task in the examples folder (such as GLUE/SQuAD, ...)
• My own task or dataset (give details below)

Reproduction

This is a documentation inconsistency in Transformers v5.
text2text-generation / summarization / translation pipeline tasks (pipeline("text2text-generation"), pipeline("summarization") and pipeline("translation")) were removed in v5.
Despite this, the official documentation still contains multiple references to these tasks.

• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/ar/tasks/summarization#%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-inference
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/pipeline_tutorial?tasks=summarization#tasks
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/pegasus#pegasus
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/pegasus_x#pegasus-x
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/led#led
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/bartpho#bartpho
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/encoder-decoder#encoder-decoder-models
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/bigbird_pegasus#bigbirdpegasus
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/ja/tasks/translation#inference
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/ko/tasks/translation#inference
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/ja/task_summary#translation
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/zh/task_summary#%E7%BF%BB%E8%AF%91
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/es/task_summary#traducci%C3%B3n
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/fr/task_summary#traduction
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/zh/quicktour#pipeline
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/ar/task_summary#%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A9
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/ko/quicktour#pipeline
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/fr/quicktour#pipeline
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/t5#t5
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/t5gemma#t5gemma
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/switch_transformers#switch-transformers
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/tasks/prompting#best-practices
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/byt5#byt5
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/mt5#mt5
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/ko/tasks/prompting#types-of-models
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/bert-generation#bertgeneration
• https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/ja/tasks/prompting#types-of-models

Expected behavior

References to text2text-generation, summarization and translation as pipeline task names should be removed.

[math-hiyoko]

text2text-generation task also

[stevhliu]

nice, thanks! would you like to update these examples to use the text-generation task instead? nvm i see you've already opened a pr!

[math-hiyoko]

Am I correct that encoder–decoder models like T5 cannot be used with the text-generation task?

[stevhliu]

yeah thats correct, feel free to ignore my comment above :)