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-image: gitlab-master.nvidia.com/dl/dgx/pytorch:20.12-py3-devel
+image: gitlab-master.nvidia.com/dl/dgx/pytorch:21.12-py3-devel
 
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   script:

README.md

-Megatron ([1](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08053.pdf) and [2](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.04473.pdf)) is a large, powerful transformer developed by the Applied Deep Learning Research team at NVIDIA. This repository is for ongoing research on training large transformer language models at scale. We developed efficient, model-parallel (tensor and pipeline), and multi-node pre-training of transformer based models such as [GPT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165), [BERT](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04805.pdf), and [T5](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683) using mixed precision.
+Megatron ([1](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08053.pdf), [2](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.04473.pdf), and [3](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.05198)) is a large, powerful transformer developed by the Applied Deep Learning Research team at NVIDIA. This repository is for ongoing research on training large transformer language models at scale. We developed efficient, model-parallel ([tensor](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08053.pdf), [sequence](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.05198), and [pipeline](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.04473.pdf)), and multi-node pre-training of transformer based models such as [GPT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165), [BERT](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04805.pdf), and [T5](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683) using mixed precision.
 
 Below are some of the projects where we have directly used Megatron:
 * [BERT and GPT Studies Using Megatron](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08053.pdf)
@@ -8,19 +8,26 @@ Below are some of the projects where we have directly used Megatron:
 * [Local Knowledge Powered Conversational Agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10150)
 * [MEGATRON-CNTRL: Controllable Story Generation with External Knowledge Using Large-Scale Language Models](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.226.pdf)
 * [RACE Reading Comprehension Dataset Leaderboard](http://www.qizhexie.com/data/RACE_leaderboard.html)
-* [Scaling Language Model Training to a Trillion Parameters Using Megatron](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.04473.pdf)
 * [Training Question Answering Models From Synthetic Data](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.468.pdf)
+* [Few-shot Instruction Prompts for Pretrained Language Models to Detect Social Biases](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07868)
+* [Exploring the Limits of Domain-Adaptive Training for Detoxifying Large-Scale Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04173)
+* [Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, A Large-Scale Generative Language Model](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11990)
+* [Multi-Stage Prompting for Knowledgeable Dialogue Generation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08745)
 
 Megatron is also used in [NeMo Megatron](https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-nemo#nemo-megatron), a framework to help enterprises overcome the challenges of building and training sophisticated natural language processing models with billions and trillions of parameters.
 
-Our codebase is capable of efficiently training very large (hundreds of billions of parameters) language models with both model and data parallelism. To demonstrate how the code scales with multiple GPUs and model sizes, we consider GPT models from 1 billion all the way to 1 trillion parameters. All models use a vocabulary size of 51,200 and a sequence length of 2048. We vary hidden size, number of attention heads, and number of layers to arrive at a specifc model size. As the model size increases, we also modestly increase the batch size. We leverage [NVIDIA's Selene supercomputer](https://www.top500.org/system/179842/) to perform scaling studies and use up to 3072 [A100](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/a100/) GPUs for the largest model. Each cluster node has 8 NVIDIA 80GB A100 GPUs. The table below shows the model configurations along with the achieved FLOPs (both per GPU and aggregate over all GPUs). Note that these results are from benchmark runs and these models were not trained to convergence; however, the FLOPs are measured for end-to-end training, i.e., includes all operations including data loading, optimization, and even logging.
+Our codebase is capable of efficiently training very large (hundreds of billions of parameters) language models with both model and data parallelism. To demonstrate how the code scales with multiple GPUs and model sizes, we consider GPT models from 1 billion all the way to 1 trillion parameters. All models use a vocabulary size of 51,200 and a sequence length of 2048. We vary hidden size, number of attention heads, and number of layers to arrive at a specifc model size. As the model size increases, we also modestly increase the batch size. We leverage [NVIDIA's Selene supercomputer](https://www.top500.org/system/179842/) to perform scaling studies and use up to 3072 [A100](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/a100/) GPUs for the largest model. Each cluster node has 8 NVIDIA 80GB A100 GPUs. The graph below shows that we scale nearly linear up to 1 trillion parameter models running on 3072 GPUs. Note that these results are from benchmark runs and these models were not trained to convergence; however, the FLOPs are measured for end-to-end training, i.e., includes all operations including data loading, optimization, and even logging.
 
-Additionally, the model parallel size column reports a combined tensor and pipeline parallelism degrees. For numbers larger than 8, typically tensor parallel of size 8 was used. So, for example, the 145B model reports the total model parallel size of 64, which means that this setup used TP=8 and PP=8.
+![Scaling Graph](images/Achieved_petaFLOPs.png)
 
-![Cases](images/cases_april2021.png)
-
-All the cases from 1 billion to 1 trillion parameters achieve more than 43% half precision utilization, which is high for an end-to-end application. We observe that initially the utilization remains constant but as hidden size increases for larger models, utilization starts increasing and reaches 52% for the largest model. We also note that achieved aggregate petaFLOPs across all GPUs increases almost linearly with number of GPUs, demonstrating good weak scaling.
+The following table shows both model (MFU) and hardware (HFU) FLOPs utilization for select configurations up to 1T parameters (see [our paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.05198) for a description of how these are calculated). As the model size increases, we achieve better GPU utilization and for the one trillion parameter model, we reach a MFU and HFU of 56.3% and 57.0%, respectively. Note that these numbers are also measured on benchmark runs and in this case are measured using a data parallel size of one. Data parallelism introduces some overhead due to the gradient all-reduce required between the data parallel groups. However, for large transformer models, this overhead is not large and can almost entirely eliminted by overlapping the gradient all-reduce with backpropagation.
 
+| Model Size | Model FLOPs Utilization | Hardware FLOPs Utilization |
+| :---: | :---: | :---: |
+| 22B   | 41.5% | 43.7% |
+| 175B  | 51.4% | 52.8% |
+| 530B  | 56.0% | 57.0% |
+| 1T    | 56.3% | 57.0% |
 
 # Contents
    * [Contents](#contents)
@@ -257,7 +264,9 @@ The `examples/pretrain_{bert,gpt,t5}_distributed.sh` scripts use the PyTorch dis
 
 We use two types of parallelism: data and model parallelism. We facilitate two distributed data parallel implementations: a simple one of our own that performs gradient all-reduce at the end of back propagation step, and Torch's distributed data parallel wrapper that overlaps gradient reduction with back propagation computation. To switch between these two options use `--DDP-impl local` or `--DDP-impl torch`, respectively. As expected, Torch distributed data parallelism is more efficient at larger model sizes. For example, for the 8.3 billion parameters model running on 512 GPUs, the scaling increases from 60% to 76% when Torch's distributed data parallel is used. However, the overlapping method requires more memory and for some configurations (e.g., 2.5 billion parameters using 2-way model parallel and 1.2 billion parameters with no model parallel) can make the overall training slower as a result. We empirically found that using a smaller model in those cases improves the training time.
 
-Second, we developed a simple and efficient two-dimensional model-parallel approach. To use tensor model parallelism (splitting execution of a single transformer module over multiple GPUs), add the `--tensor-model-parallel-size` flag to specify the number of GPUs among which to split the model, along with the arguments passed to the distributed launcher as mentioned above. To use pipeline model parallelism (sharding the transformer modules into stages with an equal number of transformer modules on each stage, and then pipelining execution by breaking the batch into smaller microbatches), use the `--pipeline-model-parallel-size` flag to specify the number of stages to split the model into (e.g., splitting a model with 24 transformer layers across 4 stages would mean each stage gets 6 transformer layers each).
+Second, we developed a simple and efficient two-dimensional model-parallel approach. To use tensor model parallelism (splitting execution of a single transformer module over multiple GPUs), add the `--tensor-model-parallel-size` flag to specify the number of GPUs among which to split the model, along with the arguments passed to the distributed launcher as mentioned above. To use sequence parallelism specify `--sequence-parallel`, which requires tensor model parallel as it split among the same GPUs.
+
+To use pipeline model parallelism (sharding the transformer modules into stages with an equal number of transformer modules on each stage, and then pipelining execution by breaking the batch into smaller microbatches), use the `--pipeline-model-parallel-size` flag to specify the number of stages to split the model into (e.g., splitting a model with 24 transformer layers across 4 stages would mean each stage gets 6 transformer layers each).
 
 <!-- The number of microbatches in a per-pipeline minibatch is controlled by the `--num-microbatches-in-minibatch` argument. With `WORLD_SIZE` GPUs, `TENSOR_MP_SIZE` tensor-model-parallel size, `PIPELINE_MP_SIZE` pipeline-model-parallel-size, `WORLD_SIZE`/(`TENSOR_MP_SIZE` * `PIPELINE_MP_SIZE`) GPUs will be used for data parallelism. The default values for `--tensor-model-parallel-size` and `--pipeline-model-parallel-size` is 1, which will not implement either form of model parallelism. -->
 
@@ -291,6 +300,7 @@ python -m torch.distributed.launch $DISTRIBUTED_ARGS ./pretrain_<model>.py \
                 --data-path $DATA_PATH \
                 --tensor-model-parallel-size $TENSOR_MP_SIZE \
                 --pipeline-model-parallel-size $PIPELINE_MP_SIZE \
+                --sequence-parallel \
                 --DDP-impl torch
 </pre>
 
@@ -298,11 +308,13 @@ The interleaved pipelining schedule (more details in Section 2.2.2 of [our paper
 
 ## Activation Checkpointing and Recomputation
 
-To reduce GPU memory usage so deploy a large model to a training system, we support activation checkpointing and recomputation. We use a Transformer layer as the unit of checkpointing because the activation size bloats in the middle of a Transformer layer so checkpointing the input of a Transformer layer is storage-efficient. We support two activation checkpointing methods: `uniform` and `block`.
+To reduce GPU memory usage so deploy a large model to a training system, we support activation checkpointing and recomputation. We support two levels of recompute granularity: `selective` and `full`. Selective recomputation is the default and recommended in almost all cases. It saves the activations that take less space and are expensive to recompute and recomputes activations that take a lot of space but are relatively cheap to recompute (see [our paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.05198) for details). To enable selective activation recompute simply use `--recompute-activations`.
 
-Uniform method uniformly divides the Transformer layers into groups of layers and stores the input activations of each group in the memory. The baseline group size is 1 and, in this case, the input activation of each Transformer layer is checkpointed. When the GPU memory is insufficient, increasing the number of layers per group reduces the memory usage thus enables running a bigger model. For example, when using the number of layers per group of 4, the input activation of each group of 4 Transformer layers is checkpointed.
+For cases where memory is very tight, `full` checkpointing saves just the inputs to a transformer layer, or a block of transformer layers, and recomputes everything else. To turn on full activation recompute use `--recompute-granularity full`. When using full activation recomputation, there are two methods: `uniform` and `block`, chosen using the `--recompute-method` argument.
 
-Block method checkpoints the input activations of a set number of individual Transformer layers per pipeline stage and do the rest of layers without any checkpointing. This method can be used to skip checkpointing some Transformer layers until the GPU memory is fully used, which is applicable only when there is unused GPU memory. Checkpointing fewer transformer layers avoids unnecessary activation recomputation in the backprop thus improves training performance. For example, when we specify 5 layers to checkpoint of 8 layers per pipeline stage, the input activations of only the first 5 Transformer layers are checkpointed and activation recomputation for the rest 3 layers is not needed in the backprop.
+* Uniform method uniformly divides the Transformer layers into groups of layers and stores the input activations of each group in the memory. The baseline group size is 1 and, in this case, the input activation of each Transformer layer is checkpointed. When the GPU memory is insufficient, increasing the number of layers per group reduces the memory usage thus enables running a bigger model. For example, when using the number of layers per group of 4, the input activation of each group of 4 Transformer layers is checkpointed.
+
+* Block method checkpoints the input activations of a set number of individual Transformer layers per pipeline stage and do the rest of layers without any checkpointing. This method can be used to skip checkpointing some Transformer layers until the GPU memory is fully used, which is applicable only when there is unused GPU memory. Checkpointing fewer transformer layers avoids unnecessary activation recomputation in the backprop thus improves training performance. For example, when we specify 5 layers to checkpoint of 8 layers per pipeline stage, the input activations of only the first 5 Transformer layers are checkpointed and activation recomputation for the rest 3 layers is not needed in the backprop.
 
 
 ## GPT-3 Example
@@ -398,29 +410,15 @@ python tools/create_doc_index.py \
 
 We provide several command line arguments, detailed in the scripts listed below, to handle various zero-shot and fine-tuned downstream tasks. However, you can also finetune your model from a pretrained checkpoint on other corpora as desired. To do so, simply add the `--finetune` flag and adjust the input files and training parameters within the original training script. The iteration count will be reset to zero, and the optimizer and internal state will be reinitialized. If the fine-tuning is interrupted for any reason, be sure to remove the `--finetune` flag before continuing, otherwise the training will start again from the beginning.
 
-Because evaluation requires substantially less memory than training, it may be advantageous to merge a model trained in parallel for use on a single GPU in downstream tasks. The following script accomplishes this. Currently only tensor model parallelism is supported on input and pipeline model parallelism on the output. This example reads in a model with 2-way tensor model parallelism and writes out a model with 2-way pipeline model parallelism.
+Because evaluation requires substantially less memory than training, it may be advantageous to merge a model trained in parallel for use on fewer GPUs in downstream tasks. The following script accomplishes this. This example reads in a GPT model with 4-way tensor and 4-way pipeline model parallelism and writes out a model with 2-way tensor and 2-way pipeline model parallelism.
 
 <pre>
-TENSOR_MODEL_PARALLEL_SIZE=2
-TARGET_PIPELINE_MODEL_PARALLEL_SIZE=2
-
-VOCAB_FILE=bert-vocab.txt
-CHECKPOINT_PATH=checkpoints/bert_345m
-
-WORLD_SIZE=$TENSOR_MODEL_PARALLEL_SIZE python tools/merge_mp_partitions.py \
-        --model-type BERT \
-        --tensor-model-parallel-size $TENSOR_MODEL_PARALLEL_SIZE \
-        --pipeline-model-parallel-size 1 \
-        --target-pipeline-model-parallel-size $TARGET_PIPELINE_MODEL_PARALLEL_SIZE \
-        --tokenizer-type BertWordPieceLowerCase \
-        --vocab-file $VOCAB_FILE \
-        --num-layers 24 \
-        --hidden-size 1024 \
-        --num-attention-heads 16 \
-        --seq-length 512 \
-        --max-position-embeddings 512 \
-        --load $CHECKPOINT_PATH
-        --save $CHECKPOINT_PATH/merged
+python tools/checkpoint_util.py \
+        --model-type GPT \
+        --load-dir checkpoints/gpt3_tp4_pp4 \
+        --save-dir checkpoints/gpt3_tp2_pp2 \
+        --target-tensor-parallel-size 2 \
+        --target-pipeline-paralle-size 2
 
 </pre>
 

docs/distrib_optimizer.md

+# Distributed Optimizer
+
+The motivation for the distributed optimizer is to save memory by distributing the optimizer state evenly across data parallel ranks, versus the current method of replicating the optimizer state across data parallel ranks. As described in https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02054, this branch specifically implements the following:
+
+- [yes] distribute all 'non-overlapping' optimizer state (i.e., model params already in fp32 are NOT distributed)
+- [no] distribute model gradients
+- [no] distribute model parameters
+
+Theoretical memory savings vary depending on the combination of the model's param dtype and grad dtype. In the current implementation, the theoretical number of bytes per parameter is (where 'd' is the data parallel size):
+
+|        | Non-distributed optim | Distributed optim |
+| ------ | ------ | ------ |
+| float16 param, float16 grads | 20 | 4 + 16/d |
+| float16 param, fp32 grads    | 18 | 6 + 12/d |
+| fp32 param, fp32 grads       | 16 | 8 + 8/d  |
+
+The implementation of the distributed optimizer is centered on using the contiguous grad buffer for communicating grads & params between the model state and the optimizer state. The grad buffer at any given moment either holds:
+
+1. all model grads
+2. a 1/d size _copy_ of the main grads (before copying to the optimizer state)
+3. a 1/d size _copy_ of the main params (after copying from the optimizer state)
+4. all model params
+5. zeros (or None), between iterations
+
+The grad buffer is used for performing reduce-scatter and all-gather operations, for passing grads & params between the model state and optimizer state. With this implementation, no dynamic buffers are allocated.
+
+The figures below illustrate the grad buffer's sharding scheme, and the key steps of the distributed optimizer's param update:
+
+## Data flow
+
+![Data flow](images/distrib_optimizer/data_flow.png)
+
+## Sharding scheme
+
+![Sharding scheme](images/distrib_optimizer/sharding_scheme.png)
+
+## Key steps
+
+_(note: using illustrations above, and assuming fp16 grads)_
+
+- Backward pass finishes (grad buffer holds 16 fp16 grad elements)
+- Call reduce-scatter on each DP rank
+- Each DP rank now has 4 elements within the grad buffer that are fully reduced (remaining 12 elements are garbage)
+- Each DP rank copies its relevant 4 fp16 grad elements from the grad buffer into 4 fp32 main grad elements (separate buffer, owned by the optimizer); i.e.
+  - DP rank 0 copies elements [0:4]
+  - DP rank 1 copies elements [4:8]
+  - DP rank 2 copies elements [8:12]
+  - DP rank 3 copies elements [12:16]
+- Optimizer.step()
+- Each DP rank copies its 4 fp32 main (/optimizer) param elements into the corresponding 4 fp16 elements in the grad buffer
+- Call all-gather on each DP rank
+- Grad buffer now contains all 16, fully updated, fp16 model param elements
+- Copy updated model params from grad buffer into their respective param tensors
+- (At this point, grad buffer is ready to be zero'd for the next iteration)

examples/pretrain_gpt_distributed_with_mp.sh

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ python -m torch.distributed.launch $DISTRIBUTED_ARGS \
        pretrain_gpt.py \
        --tensor-model-parallel-size 2 \
        --pipeline-model-parallel-size 2 \
+       --sequence-parallel \
        --num-layers 24 \
        --hidden-size 1024 \
        --num-attention-heads 16 \

megatron/__init__.py

@@ -23,24 +23,9 @@ from .global_vars import get_tokenizer
 from .global_vars import get_tensorboard_writer
 from .global_vars import get_adlr_autoresume
 from .global_vars import get_timers
+from .global_vars import get_global_memory_buffer
 from .initialize  import initialize_megatron
 
-def print_rank_0(message):
-    """If distributed is initialized, print only on rank 0."""
-    if torch.distributed.is_initialized():
-        if torch.distributed.get_rank() == 0:
-            print(message, flush=True)
-    else:
-        print(message, flush=True)
-
-def is_last_rank():
-    return torch.distributed.get_rank() == (
-        torch.distributed.get_world_size() - 1)
-
-def print_rank_last(message):
-    """If distributed is initialized, print only on last rank."""
-    if torch.distributed.is_initialized():
-        if is_last_rank():
-            print(message, flush=True)
-    else:
-        print(message, flush=True)
+from .utils import (print_rank_0,
+                    is_last_rank,
+                    print_rank_last)

megatron/arguments.py

@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ import os
 
 import torch
 
-def parse_args(extra_args_provider=None, defaults={},
-               ignore_unknown_args=False):
+def parse_args(extra_args_provider=None, ignore_unknown_args=False):
     """Parse all arguments."""
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Megatron-LM Arguments',
                                      allow_abbrev=False)
@@ -53,9 +52,13 @@ def parse_args(extra_args_provider=None, defaults={},
     else:
         args = parser.parse_args()
 
-    # Distributed args.
+    # Args from environment
     args.rank = int(os.getenv('RANK', '0'))
     args.world_size = int(os.getenv("WORLD_SIZE", '1'))
+        
+    return args
+
+def validate_args(args, defaults={}):
     # Tensor model parallel size.
     args.tensor_model_parallel_size = min(
         args.tensor_model_parallel_size, args.world_size)
@@ -103,14 +106,20 @@ def parse_args(extra_args_provider=None, defaults={},
     assert args.model_parallel_size is None, '--model-parallel-size is no ' \
         'longer valid, use --tensor-model-parallel-size instead'
     del args.model_parallel_size
+
     if args.checkpoint_activations:
-        args.activations_checkpoint_method = 'uniform'
+        args.recompute_granularity = 'full'
+        args.recompute_method = 'uniform'
         if args.rank == 0:
             print('--checkpoint-activations is no longer valid, '
-                  'use --activation-checkpoint-method instead. '
-                  'Defaulting to activation-checkpoint-method=uniform.')
+                  'use --recompute-granularity and --recompute-method  instead. '
+                  'Defaulting to recompute-granularity=full and recompute-method=uniform.')
     del args.checkpoint_activations
 
+    if args.recompute_activations:
+        args.recompute_granularity = 'selective'
+    del args.recompute_activations
+
     # Set input defaults.
     for key in defaults:
         # For default to be valid, it should not be provided in the
@@ -181,6 +190,12 @@ def parse_args(extra_args_provider=None, defaults={},
                       'gradient accumulation. Setting gradient_accumulation_fusion '
                       'to False', flush=True)
 
+    # If we use the distributed optimizer, we need to have local DDP
+    # and we should make sure use-contiguous-buffers-in-local-ddp is on.
+    if args.use_distributed_optimizer:
+        assert args.DDP_impl == 'local'
+        assert args.use_contiguous_buffers_in_local_ddp
+
     # For torch DDP, we do not use contiguous buffer
     if args.DDP_impl == 'torch':
         args.use_contiguous_buffers_in_local_ddp = False
@@ -278,19 +293,38 @@ def parse_args(extra_args_provider=None, defaults={},
                   'pytorch v1.11 (nvidia pytorch container paired with v1.11). '
                   'Defaulting to no_persist_layer_norm=True')
 
-    # Activation checkpointing.
-    if args.distribute_checkpointed_activations:
+    # Activation recomputing.
+    if args.distribute_saved_activations:
         assert args.tensor_model_parallel_size > 1, 'can distribute ' \
-            'checkpointed activations only across tensor model ' \
+            'recomputed activations only across tensor model ' \
             'parallel groups'
-        assert args.activations_checkpoint_method is not None, \
-            'for distributed checkpoint activations to work you '\
-            'need to use a activation-checkpoint method '
+        assert args.recompute_granularity == 'full', \
+            'distributed recompute activations is only '\
+            'application to full recompute granularity'
+        assert args.recompute_method is not None, \
+            'for distributed recompute activations to work you '\
+            'need to use a recompute method '
         assert TORCH_MAJOR >= 1 and TORCH_MINOR >= 10, \
-            'distributed checkpoint activations are supported for pytorch ' \
+            'distributed recompute activations are supported for pytorch ' \
             'v1.10 and above (Nvidia Pytorch container >= 21.07). Current ' \
             'pytorch version is v%s.%s.' % (TORCH_MAJOR, TORCH_MINOR)
 
+    if args.recompute_granularity == 'selective':
+        assert args.recompute_method is None, \
+            'recompute method is not yet supported for ' \
+            'selective recomputing granularity'
+
+    # disable sequence parallelism when tp=1
+    # to avoid change in numerics when
+    # sequence_parallelism is enabled.
+    if args.tensor_model_parallel_size == 1:
+        args.sequence_parallel = False
+
+    # disable async_tensor_model_parallel_allreduce when
+    # model parallel memory optimization is enabled
+    if args.sequence_parallel:
+        args.async_tensor_model_parallel_allreduce = False
+
     _print_args(args)
     return args
 
@@ -471,27 +505,40 @@ def _add_training_args(parser):
                        ' (1024 - 16) / 8 = 126 intervals will increase'
                        'the batch size linearly to 1024. In each interval'
                        'we will use approximately 300000 / 126 = 2380 samples.')
-    group.add_argument('--checkpoint-activations', action='store_true',
-                       help='Checkpoint activation to allow for training '
+    group.add_argument('--recompute-activations', action='store_true',
+                       help='recompute activation to allow for training '
                        'with larger models, sequences, and batch sizes.')
-    group.add_argument('--distribute-checkpointed-activations',
+    group.add_argument('--recompute-granularity', type=str, default=None,
+                       choices=['full', 'selective'],
+                       help='Checkpoint activations to allow for training '
+                       'with larger models, sequences, and batch sizes. '
+                       'It is supported at two granularities 1) full: '
+                       'whole transformer layer is recomputed, '
+                       '2) selective: core attention part of the transformer '
+                       'layer is recomputed.')
+    group.add_argument('--distribute-saved-activations',
                        action='store_true',
-                       help='If set, distribute checkpointed activations '
+                       help='If set, distribute recomputed activations '
                        'across model parallel group.')
-    group.add_argument('--activations-checkpoint-method', type=str, default=None,
+    group.add_argument('--recompute-method', type=str, default=None,
                        choices=['uniform', 'block'],
                        help='1) uniform: uniformly divide the total number of '
-                       'Transformer layers and checkpoint the input activation of '
-                       'each divided chunk, '
-                       '2) checkpoint the input activations of only a set number of '
+                       'Transformer layers and recompute the input activation of '
+                       'each divided chunk at specified granularity, '
+                       '2) recompute the input activations of only a set number of '
                        'individual Transformer layers per pipeline stage and do the '
-                       'rest without any checkpointing'
-                       'default) do not apply activations checkpoint to any layers')
-    group.add_argument('--activations-checkpoint-num-layers', type=int, default=1,
+                       'rest without any recomputing at specified granularity'
+                       'default) do not apply activations recompute to any layers')
+    group.add_argument('--recompute-num-layers', type=int, default=1,
                        help='1) uniform: the number of Transformer layers in each '
-                       'uniformly divided checkpoint unit, '
+                       'uniformly divided recompute unit, '
                        '2) block: the number of individual Transformer layers '
-                       'to checkpoint within each pipeline stage.')
+                       'to recompute within each pipeline stage.')
+
+    # deprecated
+    group.add_argument('--checkpoint-activations', action='store_true',
+                       help='Checkpoint activation to allow for training '
+                       'with larger models, sequences, and batch sizes.')
     group.add_argument('--train-iters', type=int, default=None,
                        help='Total number of iterations to train over all '
                        'training runs. Note that either train-iters or '
@@ -540,6 +587,8 @@ def _add_training_args(parser):
                        'This kernel supports only a set of hidden sizes. Please '
                        'check persist_ln_hidden_sizes if your hidden '
                        'size is supported.')
+    group.add_argument('--sequence-parallel', action='store_true',
+                       help='Enable sequence parallel optimization.')
     group.add_argument('--no-gradient-accumulation-fusion',
                        action='store_false',
                        help='Disable fusing gradient accumulation to weight '
@@ -633,6 +682,14 @@ def _add_checkpointing_args(parser):
                        help='Load model for finetuning. Do not load optimizer '
                        'or rng state from checkpoint and set iteration to 0. '
                        'Assumed when loading a release checkpoint.')
+    group.add_argument('--no-initialization', action='store_false',
+                       help='Do not perform initialization when building model, '
+                       'can reduce startup time when definitely loading from a '
+                       'checkpoint',
+                       dest='perform_initialization')
+    group.add_argument('--use-checkpoint-args', action='store_true',
+                       help='Override any command line arguments with arguments '
+                       'from the checkpoint')
 
     return parser
 
@@ -725,6 +782,9 @@ def _add_distributed_args(parser):
                        'is placed on its own pipeline stage, without any '
                        'transformer layers. (For T5, this flag currently only '
                        'affects the encoder embedding.)')
+    group.add_argument('--use-distributed-optimizer', action='store_true',
+                       help='Use distributed optimizer.')
+
     return parser
 
 

megatron/data/indexed_dataset.py

@@ -295,14 +295,19 @@ class IndexedDatasetBuilder(object):
         index = IndexedDataset(another_file)
         assert index.dtype == self.dtype
 
+        doc_offset = len(self.sizes)
+
         begin = self.data_offsets[-1]
-        for offset in index.data_offsets[1:]:
-            self.data_offsets.append(begin + offset)
+        for data_offset in index.data_offsets[1:]:
+            self.data_offsets.append(begin + data_offset)
         self.sizes.extend(index.sizes)
+
         begin = self.dim_offsets[-1]
         for dim_offset in index.dim_offsets[1:]:
             self.dim_offsets.append(begin + dim_offset)
 
+        self.doc_idx.extend((doc_offset + index.doc_idx)[1:])
+
         with open(data_file_path(another_file), 'rb') as f:
             while True:
                 data = f.read(1024)
@@ -556,8 +561,9 @@ class MMapIndexedDatasetBuilder(object):
         index = MMapIndexedDataset.Index(index_file_path(another_file))
         assert index.dtype == self._dtype
 
-        for size in index.sizes:
-            self._sizes.append(size)
+        offset = len(self._sizes)
+        self._sizes.extend(index.sizes)
+        self._doc_idx.extend((offset + index.doc_idx)[1:])
 
         # Concatenate data
         with open(data_file_path(another_file), 'rb') as f:

megatron/global_vars.py

@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 import os
 import sys
 import time
-
+from functools import reduce
+import operator
 import torch
 
 from megatron import dist_signal_handler
 from megatron.tokenizer import build_tokenizer
-from .arguments import parse_args
 from .microbatches import build_num_microbatches_calculator
 
 _GLOBAL_ARGS = None
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ _GLOBAL_TENSORBOARD_WRITER = None
 _GLOBAL_ADLR_AUTORESUME = None
 _GLOBAL_TIMERS = None
 _GLOBAL_SIGNAL_HANDLER = None
-
+_GLOBAL_MEMORY_BUFFER = None
 
 def get_args():
     """Return arguments."""
@@ -77,41 +77,47 @@ def get_timers():
     _ensure_var_is_initialized(_GLOBAL_TIMERS, 'timers')
     return _GLOBAL_TIMERS
 
+
 def get_signal_handler():
     _ensure_var_is_initialized(_GLOBAL_SIGNAL_HANDLER, 'signal handler')
     return _GLOBAL_SIGNAL_HANDLER
 
+
+def get_global_memory_buffer():
+    _ensure_var_is_initialized(_GLOBAL_MEMORY_BUFFER, 'global memory buffer')
+    return _GLOBAL_MEMORY_BUFFER
+
+
 def _set_signal_handler():
     global _GLOBAL_SIGNAL_HANDLER
     _ensure_var_is_not_initialized(_GLOBAL_SIGNAL_HANDLER, 'signal handler')
     _GLOBAL_SIGNAL_HANDLER = dist_signal_handler.DistributedSignalHandler().__enter__()
 
-def set_global_variables(extra_args_provider=None, args_defaults={},
-                         ignore_unknown_args=False):
+
+
+def set_global_variables(args):
     """Set args, tokenizer, tensorboard-writer, adlr-autoresume, and timers."""
-    args = _parse_args(extra_args_provider=extra_args_provider,
-                       defaults=args_defaults,
-                       ignore_unknown_args=ignore_unknown_args)
+
+    assert args is not None
+
+    _ensure_var_is_not_initialized(_GLOBAL_ARGS, 'args')
+    set_args(args)
+
     _build_num_microbatches_calculator(args)
     if args.vocab_file:
         _ = _build_tokenizer(args)
     _set_tensorboard_writer(args)
     _set_adlr_autoresume(args)
     _set_timers()
+    _set_global_memory_buffer()
 
     if args.exit_signal_handler:
         _set_signal_handler()
+    
 
-
-def _parse_args(extra_args_provider=None, defaults={},
-                ignore_unknown_args=False):
-    """Parse entire arguments."""
+def set_args(args):
     global _GLOBAL_ARGS
-    _ensure_var_is_not_initialized(_GLOBAL_ARGS, 'args')
-    _GLOBAL_ARGS = parse_args(extra_args_provider=extra_args_provider,
-                              defaults=defaults,
-                              ignore_unknown_args=ignore_unknown_args)
-    return _GLOBAL_ARGS
+    _GLOBAL_ARGS = args
 
 
 def _build_num_microbatches_calculator(args):
@@ -182,6 +188,12 @@ def _set_timers():
     _ensure_var_is_not_initialized(_GLOBAL_TIMERS, 'timers')
     _GLOBAL_TIMERS = Timers()
 
+def _set_global_memory_buffer():
+    """Initialize global buffer"""
+    global _GLOBAL_MEMORY_BUFFER
+    _ensure_var_is_not_initialized(_GLOBAL_MEMORY_BUFFER, 'global memory buffer')
+    _GLOBAL_MEMORY_BUFFER = GlobalMemoryBuffer()
+
 
 def _ensure_var_is_initialized(var, name):
     """Make sure the input variable is not None."""
@@ -273,3 +285,24 @@ class Timers:
                 print(string, flush=True)
         else:
             print(string, flush=True)
+
+
+class GlobalMemoryBuffer:
+    """Global buffer to avoid dynamic memory allocations.
+    Caller should ensure that buffers of the same name 
+    are not used concurrently."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.buffer = {}
+
+    def get_tensor(self, tensor_shape, dtype, name):
+        required_len = reduce(operator.mul, tensor_shape, 1)
+        if self.buffer.get((name, dtype), None) is None or \
+                self.buffer[(name, dtype)].numel() < required_len:
+            self.buffer[(name, dtype)] = \
+                torch.empty(required_len,
+                            dtype=dtype,
+                            device=torch.cuda.current_device(),
+                            requires_grad=False)
+
+        return self.buffer[(name, dtype)][0:required_len].view(*tensor_shape)

megatron/initialize.py

@@ -28,9 +28,13 @@ from megatron import get_adlr_autoresume
 from megatron import get_args
 from megatron import get_tensorboard_writer
 from megatron import mpu
+from megatron.arguments import (parse_args, validate_args)
+from megatron.checkpointing import load_args_from_checkpoint
 from megatron.global_vars import set_global_variables
 from megatron.mpu import (set_tensor_model_parallel_rank,
                           set_tensor_model_parallel_world_size)
+from megatron.model.transformer import bias_dropout_add_fused_train
+from megatron.model.fused_bias_gelu import bias_gelu
 
 
 def initialize_megatron(extra_args_provider=None, args_defaults={},
@@ -47,11 +51,18 @@ def initialize_megatron(extra_args_provider=None, args_defaults={},
         # Make sure cuda is available.
         assert torch.cuda.is_available(), 'Megatron requires CUDA.'
 
-    # Parse args, build tokenizer, and set adlr-autoresume,
+    # Parse arguments
+    args = parse_args(extra_args_provider, ignore_unknown_args)
+
+    if args.use_checkpoint_args or args_defaults.get('use_checkpoint_args', False):
+        assert args.load is not None, '--use-checkpoints-args requires --load argument'
+        load_args_from_checkpoint(args)
+
+    validate_args(args, args_defaults)
+        
+    # set global args, build tokenizer, and set adlr-autoresume,
     # tensorboard-writer, and timers.
-    set_global_variables(extra_args_provider=extra_args_provider,
-                         args_defaults=args_defaults,
-                         ignore_unknown_args=ignore_unknown_args)
+    set_global_variables(args)
 
     # torch.distributed initialization
     def finish_mpu_init():
@@ -64,9 +75,6 @@ def initialize_megatron(extra_args_provider=None, args_defaults={},
             print('> setting random seeds to {} ...'.format(args.seed))
         _set_random_seed(args.seed, args.data_parallel_random_init)
 
-    # Set pytorch JIT layer fusion options.
-    _set_jit_fusion_options()
-
     args = get_args()
     if  args.lazy_mpu_init:
         args.use_cpu_initialization=True
@@ -230,7 +238,7 @@ def write_args_to_tensorboard():
                             global_step=args.iteration)
 
 
-def _set_jit_fusion_options():
+def set_jit_fusion_options():
     """Set PyTorch JIT layer fusion options."""
     # flags required to enable jit fusion kernels
     TORCH_MAJOR = int(torch.__version__.split('.')[0])
@@ -251,3 +259,51 @@ def _set_jit_fusion_options():
         torch._C._jit_override_can_fuse_on_cpu(True)
         torch._C._jit_override_can_fuse_on_gpu(True)
 
+    _warmup_jit_function()
+
+
+def _warmup_jit_function():
+    """ Compilie JIT functions before the main training steps """
+    args = get_args()
+    if args.bf16:
+        dtype = torch.bfloat16
+    elif args.fp16:
+        dtype = torch.float16
+    else:
+        dtype = torch.float32
+
+    # Warmup fused bias+gelu
+    bias = torch.rand(args.ffn_hidden_size // args.tensor_model_parallel_size,
+                      dtype=dtype, device='cuda')
+    input = torch.rand((args.seq_length, args.micro_batch_size,
+                        args.ffn_hidden_size // args.tensor_model_parallel_size),
+                       dtype=dtype, device='cuda')
+    # Warmup JIT fusions with the input grad_enable state of both forward
+    # prop and recomputation
+    for bias_grad, input_grad in zip([True, True], [False, True]):
+        bias.requires_grad, input.requires_grad = bias_grad, input_grad
+        for _ in range(5):
+            output = bias_gelu(bias, input)
+    del bias, input, output
+
+    # Warmup fused bias+dropout+add
+    if args.sequence_parallel:
+        seq_length = args.seq_length // mpu.get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size()
+    else:
+        seq_length = args.seq_length
+    input = torch.rand((seq_length, args.micro_batch_size, args.hidden_size),
+                       dtype=dtype, device='cuda')
+    residual = torch.rand((seq_length, args.micro_batch_size, args.hidden_size),
+                          dtype=dtype, device='cuda')
+    bias = torch.rand((args.hidden_size), dtype=dtype, device='cuda').expand_as(residual)
+    dropout_rate = 0.1
+    # Warmup JIT fusions with the input grad_enable state of both forward
+    # prop and recomputation
+    for input_grad, bias_grad, residual_grad in zip([False, True], [True, True], [True, True]):
+        input.requires_grad = input_grad
+        bias.requires_grad = bias_grad
+        residual.requires_grad = residual_grad
+        for _ in range(5):
+            output = bias_dropout_add_fused_train(input, bias, residual, dropout_rate)
+    del bias, input, residual, output
+    torch.cuda.empty_cache()

megatron/model/bert_model.py

@@ -78,7 +78,12 @@ class BertLMHead(MegatronModule):
         self.parallel_output = parallel_output
 
         self.dense = get_linear_layer(hidden_size, hidden_size, init_method)
-        self.layernorm = LayerNorm(hidden_size, eps=layernorm_epsilon)
+        setattr(self.dense.weight, 'sequence_parallel', args.sequence_parallel)
+        setattr(self.dense.bias, 'sequence_parallel', args.sequence_parallel)
+
+        self.layernorm = LayerNorm(hidden_size,
+                                   eps=layernorm_epsilon,
+                                   sequence_parallel=args.sequence_parallel)
         self.gelu = torch.nn.functional.gelu
         if args.openai_gelu:
             self.gelu = openai_gelu
@@ -110,14 +115,20 @@ def post_language_model_processing(lm_output, pooled_output,
         binary_logits = binary_head(pooled_output)
 
     if lm_labels is None:
-        return lm_logits, binary_logits
+        # [s b h] => [b s h]
+        return lm_logits.transpose(0,1).contiguous(), binary_logits
     else:
+        # [b s] => [s b]
+        lm_labels = lm_labels.transpose(0,1).contiguous()
+        # lm_logits : [s, b, h] and lm_labels: [s, b]
         if fp16_lm_cross_entropy:
             assert lm_logits.dtype == torch.half
             lm_loss = mpu.vocab_parallel_cross_entropy(lm_logits, lm_labels)
         else:
             lm_loss = mpu.vocab_parallel_cross_entropy(lm_logits.float(),
                                                        lm_labels)
+        # [s, b] => [b s]
+        lm_loss = lm_loss.transpose(0,1).contiguous()
         return lm_loss, binary_logits
 
 

megatron/model/biencoder_model.py

@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ class PretrainedBertModel(MegatronModule):
         pool_mask = (input_ids == self.pad_id).unsqueeze(2)
 
         # Taking the representation of the [CLS] token of BERT
-        pooled_output = lm_output[:, 0, :]
+        pooled_output = lm_output[0, :, :]
 
         # Converting to float16 dtype
         pooled_output = pooled_output.to(lm_output.dtype)

megatron/model/distributed.py

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 from abc import ABC
 from abc import abstractmethod
+import math
 
 import torch
 from torch._utils import _flatten_dense_tensors, _unflatten_dense_tensors
@@ -24,18 +25,17 @@ from megatron import mpu
 from .module import MegatronModule
 
 
-
 class MemoryBuffer:
 
-    def __init__(self, numel, dtype):
+    def __init__(self, numel, numel_padded, dtype):
         self.numel = numel
+        self.numel_padded = numel_padded
         self.dtype = dtype
-        self.data = torch.zeros(self.numel,
+        self.data = torch.zeros(self.numel_padded,
                                 dtype=self.dtype,
                                 device=torch.cuda.current_device(),
                                 requires_grad=False)
 
-
     def zero(self):
         """Reset the buffer to zero."""
         self.data.zero_()
@@ -121,8 +121,11 @@ class DistributedDataParallel(DistributedDataParallelBase):
         # the case we use continuous buffers.
         # ===================================
         self._grad_buffers = None
+        self._grad_buffer_param_index_map = None
         if self.use_contiguous_buffers:
             self._grad_buffers = {}
+            self._grad_buffer_param_index_map = {}
+            data_parallel_world_size = mpu.get_data_parallel_world_size()
 
             # Simple function to define buffer type.
             def _get_buffer_type(param):
@@ -139,7 +142,18 @@ class DistributedDataParallel(DistributedDataParallelBase):
 
             # Allocate the buffer.
             for dtype, num_elements in type_num_elements.items():
-                self._grad_buffers[dtype] = MemoryBuffer(num_elements, dtype)
+
+                # If using distributed optimizer, pad memory buffer to be
+                # multiple of data_parallel_world_size. (This padding is done
+                # due to a constraint with the reduce_scatter op, which requires
+                # all tensors have equal size. See: optimizer.py.)
+                num_elements_padded = data_parallel_world_size * \
+                    int(math.ceil(num_elements / data_parallel_world_size))
+
+                # Allocate grad buffer.
+                self._grad_buffers[dtype] = MemoryBuffer(num_elements,
+                                                         num_elements_padded,
+                                                         dtype)
 
             # Assume the back prop order is reverse the params order,
             # store the start index for the gradients.
@@ -149,6 +163,12 @@ class DistributedDataParallel(DistributedDataParallelBase):
                     type_num_elements[dtype] -= param.data.nelement()
                     param.main_grad = self._grad_buffers[dtype].get(
                         param.data.shape, type_num_elements[dtype])
+                    if dtype not in self._grad_buffer_param_index_map:
+                        self._grad_buffer_param_index_map[dtype] = {}
+                    self._grad_buffer_param_index_map[dtype][param] = (
+                        type_num_elements[dtype],
+                        type_num_elements[dtype] + param.data.nelement(),
+                    )
 
             # Backward hook.
             # Accumalation function for the gradients. We need
@@ -164,6 +184,7 @@ class DistributedDataParallel(DistributedDataParallelBase):
                     grad_acc.register_hook(self._make_param_hook(param))
                     self.grad_accs.append(grad_acc)
 
+
     def _make_param_hook(self, param):
         """Create the all-reduce hook for backprop."""
         # Hook used for back-prop.

megatron/model/fused_layer_norm.py

@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ class FusedLayerNormAffineFunction(torch.autograd.Function):
 
 class MixedFusedLayerNorm(torch.nn.Module):
 
-  def __init__(self, normalized_shape, eps=1e-5, no_persist_layer_norm=True):
+  def __init__(self, normalized_shape, eps=1e-5,
+               no_persist_layer_norm=True,
+               sequence_parallel=False):
         super(MixedFusedLayerNorm, self).__init__()
 
         global fused_mix_prec_layer_norm_cuda
@@ -94,6 +96,11 @@ class MixedFusedLayerNorm(torch.nn.Module):
         self.bias = Parameter(torch.Tensor(*normalized_shape))
         self.reset_parameters()
         self.no_persist_layer_norm = no_persist_layer_norm
+        self.sequence_parallel = sequence_parallel
+        
+        # set sequence parallelism flag on weight and bias parameters
+        setattr(self.weight, 'sequence_parallel', self.sequence_parallel)
+        setattr(self.bias, 'sequence_parallel', self.sequence_parallel)
 
 
   def reset_parameters(self):

megatron/model/gpt_model.py

@@ -32,20 +32,26 @@ def post_language_model_processing(lm_output, labels, logit_weights,
                                    parallel_output,
                                    fp16_lm_cross_entropy):
 
-    # Output.
+    # Output. Format [s b h]
     output = parallel_lm_logits(
         lm_output,
         logit_weights,
         parallel_output)
 
     if labels is None:
-        return output
+        # [s b h] => [b s h]
+        return output.transpose(0,1).contiguous()
     else:
+        # [b s] => [s b]
+        labels = labels.transpose(0,1).contiguous()
         if fp16_lm_cross_entropy:
             assert output.dtype == torch.half
             loss = mpu.vocab_parallel_cross_entropy(output, labels)
         else:
             loss = mpu.vocab_parallel_cross_entropy(output.float(), labels)
+        
+        # [s b] => [b, s]
+        loss = loss.transpose(0,1).contiguous()
         return loss
 
 

megatron/model/language_model.py

@@ -26,23 +26,29 @@ from megatron.model.transformer import ParallelTransformer
 from megatron.model.utils import get_linear_layer
 from megatron.model.utils import init_method_normal, scaled_init_method_normal
 
+
 def parallel_lm_logits(input_, word_embeddings_weight, parallel_output,
                        bias=None):
     """LM logits using word embedding weights."""
     args = get_args()
     # Parallel logits.
-    if args.async_tensor_model_parallel_allreduce:
+    if args.async_tensor_model_parallel_allreduce or\
+            args.sequence_parallel:
         input_parallel = input_
-        async_grad_allreduce = mpu.get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size() > 1
+        model_parallel = mpu.get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size() > 1
+        async_grad_allreduce = args.async_tensor_model_parallel_allreduce and \
+            model_parallel and not args.sequence_parallel
     else:
         input_parallel = mpu.copy_to_tensor_model_parallel_region(input_)
         async_grad_allreduce = False
+
     # Matrix multiply.
-    logits_parallel = mpu.LinearWithGradAccumulationAndAsyncAllreduce.apply(
-            input_parallel, word_embeddings_weight, bias,
-            args.gradient_accumulation_fusion,
-            async_grad_allreduce)
+    logits_parallel = mpu.LinearWithGradAccumulationAndAsyncCommunication.apply(
+        input_parallel, word_embeddings_weight, bias,
+        args.gradient_accumulation_fusion,
+        async_grad_allreduce, args.sequence_parallel)
     # Gather if needed.
+
     if parallel_output:
         return logits_parallel
 
@@ -98,12 +104,23 @@ class Pooler(MegatronModule):
 
     def __init__(self, hidden_size, init_method):
         super(Pooler, self).__init__()
+        args = get_args()
         self.dense = get_linear_layer(hidden_size, hidden_size, init_method)
+        self.sequence_parallel = args.sequence_parallel
+
 
     def forward(self, hidden_states, sequence_index=0):
-        # hidden_states: [b, s, h]
+        # hidden_states: [s, b, h]
         # sequence_index: index of the token to pool.
-        pooled = hidden_states[:, sequence_index, :]
+
+        # gather data along sequence dimensions
+        # same pooler is run on all tensor parallel nodes
+        if self.sequence_parallel:
+            hidden_states = mpu.gather_from_sequence_parallel_region(
+                hidden_states,
+                tensor_parallel_output_grad=False)
+
+        pooled = hidden_states[sequence_index, :, :]
         pooled = self.dense(pooled)
         pooled = torch.tanh(pooled)
         return pooled
@@ -149,7 +166,8 @@ class Embedding(MegatronModule):
             max_sequence_length, self.hidden_size)
         self._position_embeddings_key = 'position_embeddings'
         # Initialize the position embeddings.
-        self.init_method(self.position_embeddings.weight)
+        if args.perform_initialization:
+            self.init_method(self.position_embeddings.weight)
 
         # Token type embedding.
         # Add this as an optional field that can be added through
@@ -160,10 +178,13 @@ class Embedding(MegatronModule):
             self.tokentype_embeddings = torch.nn.Embedding(self.num_tokentypes,
                                                            self.hidden_size)
             # Initialize the token-type embeddings.
-            self.init_method(self.tokentype_embeddings.weight)
+            if args.perform_initialization:
+                self.init_method(self.tokentype_embeddings.weight)
         else:
             self.tokentype_embeddings = None
 
+        self.fp32_residual_connection = args.fp32_residual_connection 
+        self.sequence_parallel = args.sequence_parallel
         # Embeddings dropout
         self.embedding_dropout = torch.nn.Dropout(embedding_dropout_prob)
 
@@ -205,8 +226,20 @@ class Embedding(MegatronModule):
         else:
             assert self.tokentype_embeddings is None
 
+        # Data format change to avoid explicit tranposes : [b s h] --> [s b h].
+        embeddings = embeddings.transpose(0, 1).contiguous()
+
+        # If the input flag for fp32 residual connection is set, convert for float.
+        if self.fp32_residual_connection:
+            embeddings = embeddings.float()
+
         # Dropout.
-        embeddings = self.embedding_dropout(embeddings)
+        if self.sequence_parallel:
+            embeddings = mpu.scatter_to_sequence_parallel_region(embeddings)
+            with mpu.get_cuda_rng_tracker().fork():
+                embeddings = self.embedding_dropout(embeddings)
+        else:
+            embeddings = self.embedding_dropout(embeddings)
 
         return embeddings
 

megatron/model/module.py

@@ -102,29 +102,32 @@ class MegatronModule(torch.nn.Module):
                 self.pre_process:
             self.language_model.embedding.zero_parameters()
 
+        if not torch.distributed.is_initialized():
+            if not getattr(MegatronModule, "embedding_warning_printed", False):
+                print("WARNING! Distributed processes aren't initialized, so "
+                      "word embeddings in the last layer are not initialized. "
+                      "If you are just manipulating a model this is fine, but "
+                      "this needs to be handled manually. If you are training "
+                      "something is definitely wrong.")
+                MegatronModule.embedding_warning_printed = True
+            return
+
         # Ensure that first and last stages have the same initial parameter
         # values.
-        if torch.distributed.is_initialized():
-            if mpu.is_rank_in_embedding_group():
-                torch.distributed.all_reduce(self.word_embeddings_weight().data,
-                                             group=mpu.get_embedding_group())
-
-            # Ensure that encoder(first stage) and decoder(split stage) position 
-            # embeddings have the same initial parameter values
-            # NOTE: We don't currently support T5 with the interleaved schedule.
-            if mpu.is_rank_in_position_embedding_group() and \
-                    args.pipeline_model_parallel_split_rank is not None:
-                # TODO: Support tokentype embedding.
-                self.language_model.embedding.cuda()
-                position_embeddings = self.language_model.embedding.position_embeddings
-                torch.distributed.all_reduce(position_embeddings.weight.data,
-                                             group=mpu.get_position_embedding_group())
-        else:
-            print("WARNING! Distributed processes aren't initialized, so "
-                  "word embeddings in the last layer are not initialized. "
-                  "If you are just manipulating a model this is fine, but "
-                  "this needs to be handled manually. If you are training "
-                  "something is definitely wrong.")
+        if mpu.is_rank_in_embedding_group():
+            torch.distributed.all_reduce(self.word_embeddings_weight().data,
+                                         group=mpu.get_embedding_group())
+
+        # Ensure that encoder(first stage) and decoder(split stage) position
+        # embeddings have the same initial parameter values
+        # NOTE: We don't currently support T5 with the interleaved schedule.
+        if mpu.is_rank_in_position_embedding_group() and \
+                args.pipeline_model_parallel_split_rank is not None:
+            # TODO: Support tokentype embedding.
+            self.language_model.embedding.cuda()
+            position_embeddings = self.language_model.embedding.position_embeddings
+            torch.distributed.all_reduce(position_embeddings.weight.data,
+                                         group=mpu.get_position_embedding_group())
 
 
 def conversion_helper(val, conversion):