code: def fa_collate(t):
      "A replacement for PyTorch `default_collate` which maintains types and handles `Sequence`s"
      b = t[0]
      return (
          default_collate(t)
          if isinstance(b, _collate_types)
          else type(t[0])([fa_collate(s) for s in zip(*t)])
          if isinstance(b, Sequence)
          else default_collate(t)
      )
  
imports: from __future__ import annotations
  from ..torch_basics import *
  from torch.utils.data.dataloader import _MultiProcessingDataLoaderIter, _SingleProcessDataLoaderIter, _DatasetKind
label_desc: Use image node_id 2 for calling a global function with example usage: fa_collate(t) and returns: unknown