Add "_skipme" option to Lhotse Dataloading

nemo/collections/common/data/lhotse/dataloader.py

@@ -176,6 +176,8 @@ class LhotseDataLoadingConfig:
     # Enables iteration of NeMo non-tarred manifests that don't have a "sampling_rate" key without performing any I/O.
     # Note that this will not allow actual dataloading; it's only for manifest iteration as Lhotse objects.
     metadata_only: bool = False
+    # Forces to ignore the "_skipme" key in data entry resulting into not skipping loading of entries with "_skipme" set to 1.
+    ignore_skipme: bool = False
     # Forces the resulting CutSet to be finite, so that the iteration will end after a full single epoch.
     # Do not turn this on unless you're sure that you know what you're doing.
     # In most cases (such as regular multi-GPU training) it will result in a deadlock due to
@@ -443,6 +445,14 @@ def get_lhotse_sampler_from_config(config, global_rank, world_size, tokenizer=No
     cuts, use_iterable_dataset = read_cutset_from_config(config)
     use_iterable_dataset = determine_use_iterable_dataset(use_iterable_dataset, config)
 
+    if not config.ignore_skipme:
+        cuts = cuts.filter(lambda cut: not cut.custom.pop("_skipme", 0))
+    else:
+        logging.warning(
+            """You have chosen to ignore the '_skipme' keys in your manifest. 
+                This may lead to unintended behavior, potentially including some unwanted samples."""
+        )
+
     # Apply channel selector
     if config.channel_selector is not None:
         logging.info('Using channel selector %s.', config.channel_selector)