Added two fixes: omitting the labels/indices matching for student/tea…

…cher if teacher is a string; prioritizing teacher labels to student labels if teacher labels are string and student's int

src/sparseml/transformers/token_classification.py

@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ def main(**kwargs):
         },
     )
 
-    if teacher:
+    if teacher and not isinstance(teacher, str):
         # check whether teacher and student have the corresponding outputs
         label_to_id, label_list = _check_teacher_student_outputs(teacher, label_to_id)
 
@@ -597,7 +597,21 @@ def _check_teacher_student_outputs(
             f"student labels {student_labels}. Ignore this warning "
             "if this is expected behavior."
         )
-        label_list = student_labels
+        is_teacher_label_str = isinstance(teacher_labels[0], str)
+        is_student_label_str = isinstance(student_labels[0], str)
+
+        if is_teacher_label_str and not is_student_label_str:
+            # If the teacher labels are strings and the student labels are ints,
+            # we will assume that the teacher labels are the correct labels.
+            label_list = teacher_labels
+            models_labels_to_use = "teacher"
+        else:
+            label_list = student_labels
+            models_labels_to_use = "student"
+        _LOGGER.warning(
+            "From this point forward, the "
+            f"{models_labels_to_use}'s labels will be used."
+        )
     else:
         if student_ids != teacher_ids:
             _LOGGER.warning(