Adapt Question Answering processing for non-batched evaluation #98167
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The change from batch to iterative processing in elastic/ml-cpp#2538 had a side effect of changing the response format for Question Answering models where the input is longer than the max sequence length and must be spanned over multiple windows.
Previously the output was a 3d array of doubles with the 2 elements in the first dimension structured as:
Where
startis always 0,endalways 1 andspan_indexis no greater than the number of spans/windowsThe new format combines the span index and start/end in the 1st dimension and the 2nd dimension is always of size 1.
Closes #97917