Various speed optimizations.

megatron/arguments.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import argparse
 import os
 
 import torch
-
+from megatron import fused_kernels
 
 def parse_args(extra_args_provider=None, defaults={},
                ignore_unknown_args=False):
@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ def parse_args(extra_args_provider=None, defaults={},
             'for distribute-checkpointed-activations to work you '\
             'need to enable checkpoint-activations'
 
+    # load scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_fusion kernel
+    if args.scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_fusion:
+        fused_kernels.load_scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_fusion_kernel()
+
     _print_args(args)
     return args
 
@@ -221,6 +225,14 @@ def _add_training_args(parser):
                        'by this value.')
     group.add_argument('--tensorboard-dir', type=str, default=None,
                        help='Write TensorBoard logs to this directory.')
+    group.add_argument('--scaled-upper-triang-masked-softmax-fusion',
+                       action='store_true',
+                       help='Enable fusion of query_key_value_scaling '
+                       'time (upper diagonal) masking, softmax.')
+    group.add_argument('--bias-gelu-fusion', action='store_true',
+                        help='Enable bias and gelu fusion.')
+    group.add_argument('--bias-dropout-fusion', action='store_true',
+                       help='Enable bias and dropout fusion.')
 
     return parser
 

megatron/fused_kernels/__init__.py

+# coding=utf-8
+# Copyright (c) 2020, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import pathlib
+import subprocess
+from torch.utils import cpp_extension
+
+def load_scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_fusion_kernel():
+
+    def get_cuda_bare_metal_version(cuda_dir):
+        raw_output = subprocess.check_output([cuda_dir + "/bin/nvcc", "-V"], 
+                                             universal_newlines=True)
+        output = raw_output.split()
+        release_idx = output.index("release") + 1
+        release = output[release_idx].split(".")
+        bare_metal_major = release[0]
+        bare_metal_minor = release[1][0]
+
+        return raw_output, bare_metal_major, bare_metal_minor
+
+    # Check, if CUDA11 is installed for compute capability 8.0
+    cc_flag = []
+    _, bare_metal_major, _ = get_cuda_bare_metal_version(cpp_extension.CUDA_HOME)
+    if int(bare_metal_major) >= 11:
+        cc_flag.append('-gencode')
+        cc_flag.append('arch=compute_80,code=sm_80')
+
+    srcpath = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.absolute()
+    scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_cuda = cpp_extension.load(
+        name='scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_cuda', 
+        sources=[srcpath / 'scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax.cpp', 
+                 srcpath / 'scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_cuda.cu'], 
+        extra_cflags=['-O3',],
+        extra_cuda_cflags=['-O3',
+                           '-gencode', 'arch=compute_70,code=sm_70',
+                           '-U__CUDA_NO_HALF_OPERATORS__',
+                           '-U__CUDA_NO_HALF_CONVERSIONS__',
+                           '--expt-relaxed-constexpr',
+                           '--expt-extended-lambda',
+                           '--use_fast_math'] + cc_flag,
+        verbose=True)

megatron/fused_kernels/scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax.cpp

+/* coding=utf-8
+ * Copyright (c) 2020, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include <cuda_fp16.h>
+#include <torch/extension.h>
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace multihead_attn {
+namespace fused_softmax {
+namespace scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax {
+
+torch::Tensor fwd_cuda(
+    torch::Tensor const& input, 
+    float scale_factor);
+
+torch::Tensor bwd_cuda(
+    torch::Tensor const& output_grads, 
+    torch::Tensor const& softmax_results,
+    float scale_factor);
+
+torch::Tensor fwd(torch::Tensor const& input, float scale_factor) {
+  AT_ASSERTM(input.dim() == 3, "expected 3D tensor");
+  AT_ASSERTM(input.scalar_type() == at::ScalarType::Half, 
+      "Only HALF is supported");
+
+  return fwd_cuda(input, scale_factor);
+}
+
+torch::Tensor bwd(
+    torch::Tensor const& output_grads, 
+    torch::Tensor const& softmax_results,
+    float scale_factor) {
+
+  AT_ASSERTM(output_grads.dim() == 3, "expected 3D tensor");
+  AT_ASSERTM(softmax_results.dim() == 3, "expected 3D tensor");
+
+  AT_ASSERTM(output_grads.scalar_type() == at::ScalarType::Half, 
+      "Only HALF is supported");
+  AT_ASSERTM(softmax_results.scalar_type() == at::ScalarType::Half, 
+      "Only HALF is supported");
+
+  return bwd_cuda(output_grads, softmax_results, scale_factor);
+}
+
+} // end namespace scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax
+} // end namespace fused_softmax
+} // end namespace multihead_attn
+
+PYBIND11_MODULE(TORCH_EXTENSION_NAME, m) {
+  m.def("forward", 
+        &multihead_attn::fused_softmax::scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax::fwd, 
+	"Self Multihead Attention scaled, time masked softmax -- Forward.");
+  m.def("backward", 
+        &multihead_attn::fused_softmax::scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax::bwd,
+	"Self Multihead Attention scaled, time masked softmax -- Backward.");
+}

megatron/fused_kernels/scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax.h

+/* coding=utf-8
+ * Copyright (c) 2020, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <assert.h>
+#include <cuda_fp16.h>
+#include <cfloat>
+#include <limits>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <cuda_fp16.h>
+#include <c10/macros/Macros.h>
+
+namespace {
+
+int log2_ceil(int value) {
+    int log2_value = 0;
+    while ((1 << log2_value) < value) ++log2_value;
+    return log2_value;
+}
+
+template<typename T>
+struct Add {
+  __device__ __forceinline__ T operator()(T a, T b) const {
+    return a + b;
+  }
+};
+
+template<typename T>
+struct Max {
+  __device__ __forceinline__ T operator()(T a, T b) const {
+    return a < b ? b : a;
+  }
+};
+
+template <typename T>
+__device__ __forceinline__ T WARP_SHFL_XOR_NATIVE(T value, int laneMask, int width = warpSize, unsigned int mask = 0xffffffff)
+{
+#if CUDA_VERSION >= 9000
+    return __shfl_xor_sync(mask, value, laneMask, width);
+#else
+    return __shfl_xor(value, laneMask, width);
+#endif
+}
+
+template <typename acc_t, int WARP_BATCH, int WARP_SIZE, template<typename> class ReduceOp>
+__device__ __forceinline__ void warp_reduce(acc_t* sum) {
+    ReduceOp<acc_t> r;
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int offset = WARP_SIZE / 2; offset > 0; offset /= 2) {
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int i = 0;  i < WARP_BATCH;  ++i) {
+            acc_t b = WARP_SHFL_XOR_NATIVE(sum[i], offset, WARP_SIZE);
+            sum[i] = r(sum[i], b);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Extended softmax (from native aten pytorch) with following additional features
+ * 1) input scaling
+ * 2) Implicit time (diagonal masking)
+ */	
+template <typename input_t, typename output_t, typename acc_t, int log2_elements>
+__global__ void scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_forward(
+    output_t *dst, 
+    const input_t *src, 
+    const acc_t scale, 
+    int batch_size, 
+    int stride, 
+    int element_count) 
+{
+    // WARP_SIZE and WARP_BATCH must match the return values batches_per_warp and 
+    // warp_size of method warp_softmax_forward_kernel.
+    constexpr int next_power_of_two = 1 << log2_elements;
+    constexpr int WARP_SIZE = (next_power_of_two < C10_WARP_SIZE) ? next_power_of_two : C10_WARP_SIZE;
+    constexpr int WARP_ITERATIONS = next_power_of_two / WARP_SIZE;
+    constexpr int WARP_BATCH = (next_power_of_two <= 128) ? 2 : 1;
+
+    int first_batch = (blockDim.y * blockIdx.y + threadIdx.y) * gridDim.x * WARP_BATCH + blockIdx.x;
+    int local_seq = blockIdx.x + 1; 
+    int warp_iteration_limit = (local_seq + WARP_SIZE - 1)/WARP_SIZE;
+
+    // batch_size might not be a multiple of WARP_BATCH. Check how
+    // many batches have to computed within this WARP.
+    int local_batches = batch_size - first_batch;
+    if (local_batches > WARP_BATCH)
+        local_batches = WARP_BATCH;
+
+    // there might be multiple batches per warp. compute the index within the batch
+    int local_idx = threadIdx.x;
+
+    src += first_batch * stride + local_idx;
+    dst += first_batch * stride + local_idx;
+
+    // load data from global memory
+    acc_t elements[WARP_BATCH][WARP_ITERATIONS];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int i = 0;  i < WARP_BATCH;  ++i) {
+        int batch_element_count = (i >= local_batches) ? 0 : local_seq;
+
+	#pragma unroll
+        for (int it = 0;  it < WARP_ITERATIONS;  ++it) {
+            int element_index = local_idx + it * WARP_SIZE;
+            if (element_index < batch_element_count) {
+                elements[i][it] = (acc_t)src[i*element_count*stride+it*WARP_SIZE] * scale; 
+            } else {
+                elements[i][it] = -std::numeric_limits<acc_t>::infinity();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // compute max_value
+    acc_t max_value[WARP_BATCH];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int i = 0;  i < WARP_BATCH;  ++i) {
+        max_value[i] = elements[i][0];
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int it = 1;  it < WARP_ITERATIONS;  ++it) {
+            max_value[i] = (max_value[i] > elements[i][it]) ? max_value[i] : elements[i][it];
+        }
+    }
+    warp_reduce<acc_t, WARP_BATCH, WARP_SIZE, Max>(max_value);
+
+    acc_t sum[WARP_BATCH] { 0.0f };
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int i = 0;  i < WARP_BATCH;  ++i) {
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int it = 0;  it < WARP_ITERATIONS;  ++it) {
+	    if (it < warp_iteration_limit) {
+                elements[i][it] = std::exp((elements[i][it] - max_value[i]));
+                sum[i] += elements[i][it];
+	    } 
+        }
+    }
+    warp_reduce<acc_t, WARP_BATCH, WARP_SIZE, Add>(sum);
+
+    // store result
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int i = 0;  i < WARP_BATCH;  ++i) {
+        if (i >= local_batches)
+            break;
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int it = 0;  it < WARP_ITERATIONS;  ++it) {
+            int element_index = local_idx + it * WARP_SIZE;
+            if (element_index < local_seq) {
+                dst[i*element_count*stride+it*WARP_SIZE] = (output_t)(elements[i][it] / sum[i]);
+            } else if (element_index < element_count) {
+                dst[i*element_count*stride+it*WARP_SIZE] = 0;
+            } else {
+                break;
+            } 
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+template <typename input_t, typename output_t, typename acc_t, int log2_elements>
+__global__ void scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_backward(
+    output_t *gradInput, 
+    input_t *grad, 
+    const input_t *output,
+    acc_t scale, 
+    int batch_size, 
+    int stride, 
+    int element_count)
+{
+    // WARP_SIZE and WARP_BATCH must match the return values batches_per_warp and 
+    // warp_size of method warp_softmax_backward_kernel.
+    constexpr int next_power_of_two = 1 << log2_elements;
+    constexpr int WARP_SIZE = (next_power_of_two < C10_WARP_SIZE) ? next_power_of_two : C10_WARP_SIZE;
+    constexpr int WARP_ITERATIONS = next_power_of_two / WARP_SIZE;
+    constexpr int WARP_BATCH = (next_power_of_two <= 128) ? 2 : 1;
+
+    int first_batch = (blockDim.y * blockIdx.y + threadIdx.y) * gridDim.x * WARP_BATCH + blockIdx.x;
+    int local_seq = blockIdx.x + 1; 
+    
+    // batch_size might not be a multiple of WARP_BATCH. Check how
+    // many batches have to computed within this WARP.
+    int local_batches = batch_size - first_batch;
+    if (local_batches > WARP_BATCH)
+        local_batches = WARP_BATCH;
+
+    // there might be multiple batches per warp. compute the index within the batch
+    int local_idx = threadIdx.x;
+
+    // the first element to process by the current thread
+    int thread_offset = first_batch * stride + local_idx;
+    grad += thread_offset;
+    output += thread_offset;
+    gradInput += thread_offset;
+
+    // load data from global memory
+    acc_t grad_reg[WARP_BATCH][WARP_ITERATIONS] { 0.0f };
+    acc_t output_reg[WARP_BATCH][WARP_ITERATIONS];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int i = 0;  i < WARP_BATCH;  ++i) {
+        int batch_element_count = (i >= local_batches) ? 0 : local_seq;
+
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int it = 0;  it < WARP_ITERATIONS;  ++it) {
+            int element_index = local_idx + it * WARP_SIZE;
+	    if (element_index < batch_element_count) {
+                output_reg[i][it] = output[i*element_count*stride+it*WARP_SIZE];
+	    } else {
+                output_reg[i][it] = acc_t(0);
+            }
+        }
+
+       #pragma unroll
+        for (int it = 0;  it < WARP_ITERATIONS;  ++it) {
+            int element_index = local_idx + it * WARP_SIZE;
+	    if (element_index < batch_element_count) {
+                grad_reg[i][it] = (acc_t)grad[i*element_count*stride+it*WARP_SIZE] * output_reg[i][it];
+	    } else {
+                grad_reg[i][it] = acc_t(0);
+	    }
+        }
+    }
+   
+    acc_t sum[WARP_BATCH];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int i = 0;  i < WARP_BATCH;  ++i) {
+        sum[i] = grad_reg[i][0];
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int it = 1;  it < WARP_ITERATIONS;  ++it) {
+            sum[i] += grad_reg[i][it];
+        }
+    }
+    warp_reduce<acc_t, WARP_BATCH, WARP_SIZE, Add>(sum);
+
+    // store result
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int i = 0;  i < WARP_BATCH;  ++i) {
+        if (i >= local_batches)
+            break;
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int it = 0;  it < WARP_ITERATIONS;  ++it) {
+            int element_index = local_idx + it * WARP_SIZE;
+            if (element_index < element_count) {
+                // compute gradients
+                gradInput[i*element_count*stride+it*WARP_SIZE] = (output_t)(scale * (grad_reg[i][it] - output_reg[i][it] * sum[i]));
+            } 
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+} // end of anonymous namespace
+
+template<typename input_t, typename output_t, typename acc_t>
+void dispatch_scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_forward(
+    output_t *dst, 
+    const input_t *src, 
+    const input_t scale, 
+    int softmax_elements, 
+    int softmax_elements_stride, 
+    int attn_batches)
+{
+    TORCH_INTERNAL_ASSERT(softmax_elements >= 0 && softmax_elements <= 2048 );
+    if (softmax_elements == 0) {
+        return;
+    } else {
+        int log2_elements = log2_ceil(softmax_elements);
+        const int next_power_of_two = 1 << log2_elements;
+        int seq_len = softmax_elements;
+        int batch_count = attn_batches * seq_len;
+
+        // This value must match the WARP_SIZE constexpr value computed inside softmax_warp_forward.
+        int warp_size = (next_power_of_two < C10_WARP_SIZE) ? next_power_of_two : C10_WARP_SIZE;
+
+        // This value must match the WARP_BATCH constexpr value computed inside softmax_warp_forward.
+        int batches_per_warp = (next_power_of_two <= 128) ? 2 : 1;
+
+        // use 128 threads per block to maximimize gpu utilization
+        constexpr int threads_per_block = 128;
+
+        int warps_per_block = (threads_per_block / warp_size);
+        int batches_per_block = warps_per_block * batches_per_warp;
+        TORCH_INTERNAL_ASSERT(attn_batches % batches_per_block == 0);
+        int blocks_per_seq = attn_batches / batches_per_block;
+        dim3 blocks(seq_len, blocks_per_seq, 1);
+        dim3 threads(warp_size, warps_per_block, 1);
+        // Launch code would be more elegant if C++ supported FOR CONSTEXPR
+        switch (log2_elements) {
+            case 0: // 1
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_forward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 0>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(dst, src, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 1: // 2
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_forward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 1>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(dst, src, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 2: // 4
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_forward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 2>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(dst, src, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 3: // 8
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_forward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 3>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(dst, src, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 4: // 16
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_forward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 4>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(dst, src, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 5: // 32
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_forward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 5>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(dst, src, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 6: // 64
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_forward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 6>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(dst, src, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 7: // 128
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_forward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 7>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(dst, src, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 8: // 256
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_forward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 8>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(dst, src, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 9: // 512
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_forward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 9>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(dst, src, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 10: // 1024
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_forward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 10>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(dst, src, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 11: // 2048
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_forward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 11>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(dst, src, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            default:
+                break;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+template<typename input_t, typename output_t, typename acc_t>
+void dispatch_scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_backward(
+    output_t *grad_input, 
+    input_t *grad, 
+    const input_t *output, 
+    const acc_t scale, 
+    int softmax_elements, 
+    int softmax_elements_stride, 
+    int attn_batches)
+{
+    TORCH_INTERNAL_ASSERT( softmax_elements >= 0 && softmax_elements <= 2048 );
+    if (softmax_elements == 0) {
+       return;
+    } else {
+        int log2_elements = log2_ceil(softmax_elements);
+        const int next_power_of_two = 1 << log2_elements;
+        int seq_len = softmax_elements;
+        int batch_count = attn_batches * seq_len;
+
+        // This value must match the WARP_SIZE constexpr value computed inside softmax_warp_backward.
+        int warp_size = (next_power_of_two < C10_WARP_SIZE) ? next_power_of_two : C10_WARP_SIZE;
+
+        // This value must match the WARP_BATCH constexpr value computed inside softmax_warp_backward.
+        int batches_per_warp = (next_power_of_two <= 128) ? 2 : 1;
+
+        // use 128 threads per block to maximimize gpu utilization
+        constexpr int threads_per_block = 128;
+
+        int warps_per_block = (threads_per_block / warp_size);
+        int batches_per_block = warps_per_block * batches_per_warp;
+        TORCH_INTERNAL_ASSERT(attn_batches % batches_per_block == 0);
+        int blocks_per_seq = attn_batches / batches_per_block;
+        dim3 blocks(seq_len, blocks_per_seq, 1);
+        dim3 threads(warp_size, warps_per_block, 1);
+        // Launch code would be more elegant if C++ supported FOR CONSTEXPR
+        switch (log2_elements) {
+            case 0: // 1
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_backward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 0>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(grad_input, grad, output, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 1: // 2
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_backward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 1>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(grad_input, grad, output, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 2: // 4
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_backward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 2>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(grad_input, grad, output, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 3: // 8
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_backward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 3>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(grad_input, grad, output, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 4: // 16
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_backward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 4>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(grad_input, grad, output, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 5: // 32
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_backward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 5>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(grad_input, grad, output, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 6: // 64
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_backward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 6>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(grad_input, grad, output, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 7: // 128
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_backward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 7>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(grad_input, grad, output, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 8: // 256
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_backward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 8>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(grad_input, grad, output, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 9: // 512
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_backward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 9>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(grad_input, grad, output, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 10: // 1024
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_backward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 10>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(grad_input, grad, output, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            case 11: // 2048
+                scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_warp_backward<input_t, output_t, acc_t, 11>
+                    <<<blocks, threads, 0, at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(grad_input, grad, output, scale, batch_count, softmax_elements_stride, softmax_elements);
+                break;
+            default:
+                break;
+        }
+    }
+}

megatron/fused_kernels/scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_cuda.cu

+/* coding=utf-8
+ * Copyright (c) 2020, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include <ATen/ATen.h>
+#include <cuda.h>
+#include <cuda_runtime.h>
+#include <cuda_fp16.h>
+#include <cuda_profiler_api.h>
+#include "THC/THC.h"
+#include <ATen/cuda/CUDAContext.h>
+#include <torch/extension.h>
+#include "scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax.h"
+
+namespace multihead_attn {
+namespace fused_softmax {
+namespace scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax {
+
+torch::Tensor fwd_cuda(
+    torch::Tensor const& input, 
+    float scale_factor)
+{
+  // input is a 3d tensor with dimensions [attn_batches, seq_len, seq_len]
+  const int attn_batches = input.size(0);
+  const int seq_len = input.size(1);
+  TORCH_INTERNAL_ASSERT(seq_len <= 2048);
+
+  // Output 
+  auto act_options = input.options().requires_grad(false);
+  torch::Tensor softmax_results = 
+      torch::empty({attn_batches, seq_len, seq_len}, act_options);
+
+  // Softmax Intermediate Result Ptr
+  void* input_ptr = static_cast<void*>(input.data_ptr());
+  void* softmax_results_ptr = static_cast<void*>(softmax_results.data_ptr());
+
+  dispatch_scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_forward<half, half, float>(
+      reinterpret_cast<half*>(softmax_results_ptr),
+      reinterpret_cast<const half*>(input_ptr),
+      scale_factor,
+      seq_len,
+      seq_len,
+      attn_batches);
+  return softmax_results;
+}
+
+torch::Tensor bwd_cuda(
+    torch::Tensor const& output_grads_, 
+    torch::Tensor const& softmax_results_, 
+    float scale_factor)  {
+	
+  auto output_grads = output_grads_.contiguous();
+  auto softmax_results = softmax_results_.contiguous();
+
+  //output grads is a 3d tensor with dimensions [attn_batches, seq_len, seq_len]
+  const int attn_batches = output_grads.size(0);
+  const int seq_len = output_grads.size(1);
+  TORCH_INTERNAL_ASSERT(output_grads.size(1) == output_grads.size(2));
+
+  void* output_grads_ptr = static_cast<void*>(output_grads.data_ptr());
+
+  //Softmax Grad
+  dispatch_scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_backward<half, half, float>(
+      reinterpret_cast<half*>(output_grads_ptr), 
+      reinterpret_cast<half*>(output_grads_ptr), 
+      reinterpret_cast<half const*>(softmax_results.data_ptr()),
+      scale_factor,
+      seq_len,
+      seq_len,
+      attn_batches);
+  
+  //backward pass is completely in-place
+  return output_grads;
+}
+}
+}
+}

megatron/model/fused_bias_gelu.py

+# coding=utf-8
+# Copyright (c) 2020, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import torch
+
+torch._C._jit_set_profiling_mode(False)
+torch._C._jit_set_profiling_executor(False)
+torch._C._jit_override_can_fuse_on_cpu(True)
+torch._C._jit_override_can_fuse_on_gpu(True)
+
+###### BIAS GELU FUSION/ NO AUTOGRAD ################
+# 1/sqrt(2*pi)-> 0.3989423
+# 1/sqrt(2)   -> 0.70710678
+# sqrt(2/pi)  -> 0.79788456
+# this function is tanh approximation of gelu
+# actual gelu is:
+# x * 0.5 * (1.0 + torch.erf(x * 0.70710678))
+
+@torch.jit.script
+def bias_gelu(bias, y):
+    x = bias + y
+    return  x * 0.5 * (1.0 + torch.tanh(0.79788456 * x * (1 + 0.044715 * x * x)))
+
+# gradient of tanh approximation of gelu
+# gradient of actual gelu is:
+# 0.5 * (1. + torch.erf(x * 0.70710678)) + 0.3989423 * x * torch.exp(-0.5 * x * x)
+@torch.jit.script
+def bias_gelu_back(g, bias, y):
+    x = bias + y
+    tanh_out = torch.tanh(0.79788456 * x * (1 + 0.044715 * x * x))
+    # sqrt(2/pi) * 3 * 0.044715 -> 0.1070322243
+    ff = 0.5 * x * ((1 - tanh_out * tanh_out) * (0.79788456 + 0.1070322243 * x * x)) + 0.5 * (1 + tanh_out)
+    return ff*g
+
+class GeLUFunction(torch.autograd.Function):
+    @staticmethod
+    # bias is an optional argument
+    def forward(ctx, input, bias):
+        ctx.save_for_backward(input, bias)
+        return bias_gelu(bias, input)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def backward(ctx, grad_output):
+        input, bias = ctx.saved_tensors
+        tmp = bias_gelu_back(grad_output, bias, input)
+        return tmp, tmp
+
+bias_gelu_impl = GeLUFunction.apply

megatron/model/fused_softmax.py

+# coding=utf-8
+# Copyright (c) 2020, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import torch
+
+class ScaledUpperTriangMaskedSoftmax(torch.autograd.Function) :
+    """
+       Fused operation which performs following three operations in sequence
+       1. Scale the tensor. 
+       2. Apply upper triangular mask (typically used in gpt models).
+       3. Perform softmax.
+    """
+    @staticmethod
+    def forward(ctx, inputs, scale):
+        import scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_cuda
+        scale_t = torch.tensor([scale])
+
+        softmax_results =  \
+            scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_cuda.forward(inputs, scale_t[0])
+        ctx.save_for_backward(softmax_results, scale_t)
+        return softmax_results
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def backward(ctx, output_grads):
+        import scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_cuda
+        softmax_results, scale_t = ctx.saved_tensors
+
+        input_grads =   \
+            scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_cuda.backward(output_grads,                             
+                                                 softmax_results,                          
+                                                 scale_t[0])
+        return input_grads, None
+
+class FusedScaleMaskSoftmax(torch.nn.Module):
+    """
+       fused operation: scaling + mask + softmax
+       Arguments:
+           input_in_fp16: flag to indicate if input in fp16 data format.
+           upper_triang_mask: if true, apply upper triangular masking.
+                              (used in gpt family networks)
+           mask_func: mask function to be applied.
+           softmax_in_fp32: if true, softmax in performed at fp32 precision.
+           scale: scaling factor used in input tensor scaling.
+
+    """
+    def __init__(self, input_in_fp16, upper_triang_mask, 
+                 mask_func, softmax_in_fp32, scale):
+        super(FusedScaleMaskSoftmax, self).__init__()
+        self.input_in_fp16 = input_in_fp16
+        self.upper_triang_mask = upper_triang_mask
+        self.mask_func = mask_func
+        self.softmax_in_fp32 = softmax_in_fp32
+        self.scale = scale
+
+        assert self.scale is None or softmax_in_fp32, \
+            'softmax should be in fp32 when scaled'
+
+    def forward(self, input, mask):
+        # [b, np, s, s]
+        data_size = input.size()
+        assert input.dim() == 4 
+
+        # invoke custom kernel for implicit uuper triangular masking 
+        if self.input_in_fp16 and self.upper_triang_mask and \
+           data_size[-1] <= 2048 and input.size()[2] == input.size()[3]:
+            input = input.view(-1, data_size[2], data_size[3])
+            scale = self.scale if self.scale is not None  else 1.0
+            probs = ScaledUpperTriangMaskedSoftmax.apply(input, scale) 
+            probs = probs.view(*data_size)
+        else:
+            if self.input_in_fp16 and self.softmax_in_fp32:
+                input = input.float()
+
+            mask_output = self.mask_func(input, mask)           
+            if self.scale is not None:
+                mask_output = mask_output * self.scale             
+            probs = torch.nn.Softmax(dim=-1)(mask_output)
+
+            if self.input_in_fp16 and self.softmax_in_fp32:
+                probs = probs.half()
+
+        return probs

megatron/model/language_model.py

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ from megatron import get_args
 from megatron import mpu
 from megatron.module import MegatronModule
 from megatron.model.transformer import ParallelTransformer
-from megatron.model.utils import openai_gelu, erf_gelu
 from megatron.model.utils import get_linear_layer
 from megatron.model.utils import init_method_normal, scaled_init_method_normal
 
@@ -48,13 +47,6 @@ def get_language_model(attention_mask_func, num_tokentypes, add_pooler,
     """Build language model and return along with the key to save."""
     args = get_args()
 
-    # Use torch gelu unless otherwise forced.
-    gelu = F.gelu
-    if args.openai_gelu:
-        gelu = openai_gelu
-    elif args.onnx_safe:
-        gelu = erf_gelu
-    
     if init_method is None:
         init_method = init_method_normal(args.init_method_std)
 
@@ -64,7 +56,6 @@ def get_language_model(attention_mask_func, num_tokentypes, add_pooler,
     # Language model.
     language_model = TransformerLanguageModel(
         attention_mask_func=attention_mask_func,
-        mlp_activation_func=gelu,
         init_method=init_method,
         output_layer_init_method=scaled_init_method,
         num_tokentypes=num_tokentypes,
@@ -271,7 +262,6 @@ class TransformerLanguageModel(MegatronModule):
 
     def __init__(self,
                  attention_mask_func,
-                 mlp_activation_func,
                  init_method,
                  output_layer_init_method,
                  num_tokentypes=0,
@@ -295,8 +285,8 @@ class TransformerLanguageModel(MegatronModule):
 
         # Transformer
         self.transformer = ParallelTransformer(
-            attention_mask_func, mlp_activation_func,
-            self.init_method, output_layer_init_method)
+            attention_mask_func, self.init_method, 
+            output_layer_init_method)
         self._transformer_key = 'transformer'
 
         # Pooler

megatron/model/transformer.py

@@ -17,12 +17,21 @@
 
 import math
 import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
 
 from megatron import get_args
 from megatron import mpu
 from megatron.mpu import LayerNorm
 from megatron.module import MegatronModule
+from megatron.model.fused_softmax import FusedScaleMaskSoftmax
+from megatron.model.fused_bias_gelu import bias_gelu_impl
+from megatron.model.utils import openai_gelu, erf_gelu
 
+# flags required to enable jit fusion kernels
+torch._C._jit_set_profiling_mode(False)
+torch._C._jit_set_profiling_executor(False)
+torch._C._jit_override_can_fuse_on_cpu(True)
+torch._C._jit_override_can_fuse_on_gpu(True)
 
 """ We use the following notation throughout this file:
      h: hidden size
@@ -34,7 +43,7 @@ from megatron.module import MegatronModule
      b: batch size
      s: sequence length
      l: number of layers
-    Transformer takes input of size [b, s, h] and returns a
+    Transformer takes input of size [s, b, h] and returns a
     tensor of the same size. We use the following arguments:
         hyperparameters: transformer hyperparameters
         attention_mask_func: a function that takes `unmaksed-attention-scores`
@@ -45,7 +54,6 @@ from megatron.module import MegatronModule
                                      unmaksed-attention-scores, attention-mask)
 """
 
-
 class ParallelMLP(MegatronModule):
     """MLP.
 
@@ -55,8 +63,7 @@ class ParallelMLP(MegatronModule):
     applied.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, mlp_activation_func, init_method,
-                 output_layer_init_method):
+    def __init__(self, init_method, output_layer_init_method):
         super(ParallelMLP, self).__init__()
         args = get_args()
 
@@ -65,29 +72,40 @@ class ParallelMLP(MegatronModule):
             args.hidden_size,
             4 * args.hidden_size,
             gather_output=False,
-            init_method=init_method)
+            init_method=init_method,
+            skip_bias_add=True)
 
-        self.activation_func = mlp_activation_func
+        self.bias_gelu_fusion = args.bias_gelu_fusion
+        self.activation_func = F.gelu
+        if args.openai_gelu:
+            self.activation_func = openai_gelu
+        elif args.onnx_safe:
+            self.activation_func = erf_gelu
 
         # Project back to h.
         self.dense_4h_to_h = mpu.RowParallelLinear(
             4 * args.hidden_size,
             args.hidden_size,
             input_is_parallel=True,
-            init_method=output_layer_init_method)
-
-        self.dropout = torch.nn.Dropout(args.hidden_dropout)
+            init_method=output_layer_init_method,
+            skip_bias_add=True)
+         
 
     def forward(self, hidden_states):
 
-        # [b, s, 4hp]
-        intermediate_parallel = self.dense_h_to_4h(hidden_states)
-        intermediate_parallel = self.activation_func(intermediate_parallel)
+        # [s, b, 4hp]
+        intermediate_parallel, bias_parallel = self.dense_h_to_4h(hidden_states)
 
-        # [b, s, h]
-        output = self.dense_4h_to_h(intermediate_parallel)
-        output = self.dropout(output)
-        return output
+        if self.bias_gelu_fusion:
+             intermediate_parallel = \
+                     bias_gelu_impl(intermediate_parallel, bias_parallel)
+        else:
+            intermediate_parallel = \
+                self.activation_func(intermediate_parallel + bias_parallel)
+
+        # [s, b, h]
+        output, output_bias = self.dense_4h_to_h(intermediate_parallel)
+        return output, output_bias
 
 
 class ParallelSelfAttention(MegatronModule):
@@ -123,10 +141,22 @@ class ParallelSelfAttention(MegatronModule):
         self.query_key_value = mpu.ColumnParallelLinear(
             args.hidden_size,
             3 * args.hidden_size,
-            stride=3,
             gather_output=False,
             init_method=init_method)
 
+        coeff = None
+        self.norm_factor = math.sqrt(self.hidden_size_per_attention_head)
+        if self.apply_query_key_layer_scaling:
+            coeff = self.layer_number
+            self.norm_factor *= coeff
+
+        self.scale_mask_softmax = FusedScaleMaskSoftmax(
+            self.fp16,
+            args.scaled_upper_triang_masked_softmax_fusion,
+            self.attention_mask_func,
+            self.attention_softmax_in_fp32,
+            coeff)
+
         # Dropout. Note that for a single iteration, this layer will generate
         # different outputs on different number of parallel partitions but
         # on average it should not be partition dependent.
@@ -137,110 +167,85 @@ class ParallelSelfAttention(MegatronModule):
             args.hidden_size,
             args.hidden_size,
             input_is_parallel=True,
-            init_method=output_layer_init_method)
-        self.output_dropout = torch.nn.Dropout(args.hidden_dropout)
-
-    def _transpose_for_scores(self, tensor):
-        """Transpose a 3D tensor [b, s, np*hn] into a 4D tensor with
-        size [b, np, s, hn].
-        """
-        new_tensor_shape = tensor.size()[:-1] + \
-            (self.num_attention_heads_per_partition,
-             self.hidden_size_per_attention_head)
-        tensor = tensor.view(*new_tensor_shape)
-        return tensor.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
-
-    def _get_query_key_value(self, hidden_states):
-        """Get query, key, and value and transpose to
-        get size [b, np, s, hn].
-        """
-        # Attention heads. [b, s, hp]
-        mixed_x_layer = self.query_key_value(hidden_states)
-        (mixed_query_layer,
-         mixed_key_layer,
-         mixed_value_layer) = mpu.split_tensor_along_last_dim(mixed_x_layer, 3)
-
-        # Reshape and transpose [b, np, s, hn]
-        query_layer = self._transpose_for_scores(mixed_query_layer)
-        key_layer = self._transpose_for_scores(mixed_key_layer)
-        value_layer = self._transpose_for_scores(mixed_value_layer)
-
-        return query_layer, key_layer, value_layer
-
-    def _get_unmasked_attention_scores(self, query_layer, key_layer):
-        """Unmasked attention scores with size [b, np, s, s]."""
-        coeff = 1
-        if self.apply_query_key_layer_scaling:
-            coeff = self.layer_number
-        norm_factor = math.sqrt(coeff *
-                                math.sqrt(self.hidden_size_per_attention_head))
-        # Raw attention scores. [b, np, s, s]
-        return torch.matmul(query_layer / norm_factor,
-                            key_layer.transpose(-1, -2) / norm_factor)
-
-    def _get_attention_probs(self, attention_scores):
-        """Attention probabilies with dropout. The output has
-        the size [b, np, s, s].
-        """
-        # Attention probabilities. [b, np, s, s]
-        if self.apply_query_key_layer_scaling:
-            attention_scores = attention_scores * self.layer_number
-        attention_probs = torch.nn.Softmax(dim=-1)(attention_scores)
-        # This is actually dropping out entire tokens to attend to, which might
-        # seem a bit unusual, but is taken from the original Transformer paper.
-        with mpu.get_cuda_rng_tracker().fork():
-            attention_probs = self.attention_dropout(attention_probs)
+            init_method=output_layer_init_method,
+            skip_bias_add=True)
 
-        return attention_probs
 
-    def _get_attended_context(self, attention_probs, value_layer):
-        """Final attended tesnor and transposed back to [b, s, hp]."""
-        # Context layer.
-        # [b, np, s, hn]
-        context_layer = torch.matmul(attention_probs, value_layer)
-        # [b, s, np, hn]
-        context_layer = context_layer.permute(0, 2, 1, 3).contiguous()
-        new_context_layer_shape = context_layer.size()[:-2] + \
-            (self.hidden_size_per_partition,)
-        # [b, s, hp]
-        context_layer = context_layer.view(*new_context_layer_shape)
+    def forward(self, hidden_states, attention_mask, layer_past=None,
+                get_key_value=False):
+        # hidden_states: [s, b, h]
 
-        return context_layer
+        # =====================
+        # Query, Key, and Value
+        # =====================
 
-    def _get_output(self, context_layer):
-        """Output layer with dropout."""
-        # Output. [b, s, h]
-        output = self.dense(context_layer)
-        output = self.output_dropout(output)
+        # Attention heads [s, b, hp] --> [s, b, 3 * hp]
+        mixed_x_layer, _ = self.query_key_value(hidden_states)
 
-        return output
+        # [s, b, 3 * hp] --> [s, b, np, 3 * hn]  
+        new_tensor_shape = mixed_x_layer.size()[:-1] + \
+            (self.num_attention_heads_per_partition,
+             3 * self.hidden_size_per_attention_head)
+        mixed_x_layer = mixed_x_layer.view(*new_tensor_shape)
+
+        # [s, b, np, 3 * hn] --> 3 [s, b, np, hn]
+        (query_layer,
+         key_layer,
+         value_layer) = mpu.split_tensor_along_last_dim(mixed_x_layer, 3)
 
-    def forward(self, hidden_states, attention_mask, layer_past=None,
-                get_key_value=False):
-        # hidden_states: [b, s, h]
 
-        # Attention heads. [b, np, s, hn]
-        query_layer, key_layer, value_layer = self._get_query_key_value(
-            hidden_states)
+        # ==================================
+        # Adjust key and value for inference
+        # ==================================
 
         if layer_past is not None:
             past_key, past_value = layer_past
             key_layer = torch.cat((past_key.type_as(key_layer),
-                                   key_layer), dim=-2)
+                                   key_layer), dim=0)
             value_layer = torch.cat((past_value.type_as(value_layer),
-                                     value_layer), dim=-2)
+                                     value_layer), dim=0)
         if get_key_value:
             present = (key_layer, value_layer)
 
-        # Raw attention scores. [b, np, s, s]
-        attention_scores = self._get_unmasked_attention_scores(
-            query_layer, key_layer)
 
-        # fp32 conversion.
-        if self.fp16 and self.attention_softmax_in_fp32:
-            attention_scores = attention_scores.float()
+        # ===================================
+        # Raw attention scores. [b, np, s, s]
+        # ===================================
+        
+        # [b, np, s, s]
+        output_size = (query_layer.size(1), 
+                       query_layer.size(2), 
+                       query_layer.size(0), 
+                       key_layer.size(0))
+        
+        # [s, b, np, hn] -> [s, b * np, hn]
+        query_layer = query_layer.view(output_size[2],
+                                       output_size[0] * output_size[1], -1)
+        key_layer = key_layer.view(output_size[3],
+                                   output_size[0] * output_size[1], -1)
+
+        # preallocting result tensor: [b * np, s, s]
+        matmul_result = torch.empty(
+            output_size[0]*output_size[1], 
+            output_size[2], 
+            output_size[3],
+            dtype=query_layer.dtype, 
+            device=torch.cuda.current_device())
+
+        # Raw attention scores. [b * np, s, s]
+        matmul_result = torch.baddbmm(matmul_result, 
+            query_layer.transpose(0, 1),   # [b * np, s, hn]
+            key_layer.transpose(0,1).transpose(1, 2),  #[b * np, hn, s]
+            beta=0.0, alpha=(1.0/self.norm_factor))
+
+        # change view to [b, np, s, s]
+        attention_scores = matmul_result.view(*output_size)
+
+
+        # ==================================================
+        # Update attention mask for inference. [b, np, s, s]
+        # ==================================================
 
-        # Apply attention mask. [b, np, s, s]
         if get_key_value:
             with torch.no_grad():
                 if layer_past is not None:
@@ -253,26 +258,93 @@ class ParallelSelfAttention(MegatronModule):
                         ...,
                         :attention_scores.size(3),
                         :attention_scores.size(3)]
-        attention_scores = self.attention_mask_func(attention_scores,
-                                                    attention_mask)
 
-        # Attention probabilities. [b, np, s, s]
-        attention_probs = self._get_attention_probs(attention_scores)
 
-        # fp16 conversion
-        if self.fp16 and self.attention_softmax_in_fp32:
-            attention_probs = attention_probs.half()
+        # ===========================
+        # Attention probs and dropout
+        # ===========================
 
-        # Context layer. [b, s, hp]
-        context_layer = self._get_attended_context(attention_probs, value_layer)
+        # attention scores and attention mask [b, np, s, s]
+        attention_probs = self.scale_mask_softmax(attention_scores,
+                                                  attention_mask)
 
-        # Output. [b, s, h]
-        output = self._get_output(context_layer)
+        # This is actually dropping out entire tokens to attend to, which might
+        # seem a bit unusual, but is taken from the original Transformer paper.
+        with mpu.get_cuda_rng_tracker().fork():
+            attention_probs = self.attention_dropout(attention_probs)
+
+
+        # =========================
+        # Context layer. [s, b, hp]
+        # =========================
+
+                # value_layer -> context layer.
+        # [s, b, np, hn] --> [b, np, s, hn]
+
+        # context layer shape: [b, np, s, hn]
+        output_size = (value_layer.size(1), 
+                       value_layer.size(2), 
+                       value_layer.size(0), 
+                       value_layer.size(3)) 
+
+        # change view [s, b * np, hn] 
+        value_layer = value_layer.view(output_size[2],
+                                       output_size[0] * output_size[1], -1)
+        
+        # change view [b * np, s, s]
+        attention_probs = attention_probs.view(output_size[0] * output_size[1],
+                                               output_size[2], -1)
+        
+        # matmul: [b * np, s, hn]
+        context_layer = torch.bmm(attention_probs, value_layer.transpose(0,1))
+
+        # change view [b, np, s, hn]
+        context_layer = context_layer.view(*output_size)
+
+        # [b, np, s, hn] --> [s, b, np, hn]
+        context_layer = context_layer.permute(2, 0, 1, 3).contiguous()
+
+        # [s, b, np, hn] --> [s, b, hp]
+        new_context_layer_shape = context_layer.size()[:-2] + \
+            (self.hidden_size_per_partition,)
+        context_layer = context_layer.view(*new_context_layer_shape)
+
+
+        # =================
+        # Output. [s, b, h]
+        # =================
+
+        output, bias = self.dense(context_layer)
 
         if get_key_value:
             output = [output, present]
 
-        return output
+        return output, bias
+
+
+def bias_dropout_add(x, bias, residual, prob, training) :
+    # type: (Tensor, Tensor, Tensor, float, bool) -> Tensor
+    out = torch.nn.functional.dropout(x + bias, p=prob, training=training)
+    out = residual + out
+    return out
+
+
+def get_bias_dropout_add(training):
+    def _bias_dropout_add(x, bias, residual, prob):
+        return bias_dropout_add(x, bias, residual, prob, training)
+    return _bias_dropout_add
+
+
+@torch.jit.script
+def bias_dropout_add_fused_train(x, bias, residual, prob) :
+    # type: (Tensor, Tensor, Tensor, float) -> Tensor
+    return bias_dropout_add(x, bias, residual, prob, True)
+
+
+@torch.jit.script
+def bias_dropout_add_fused_inference(x, bias, residual, prob) :
+    # type: (Tensor, Tensor, Tensor, float) -> Tensor
+    return bias_dropout_add(x, bias, residual, prob, False)
 
 
 class ParallelTransformerLayer(MegatronModule):
@@ -282,8 +354,8 @@ class ParallelTransformerLayer(MegatronModule):
     output of the same size.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, attention_mask_func, mlp_activation_func,
-                 init_method, output_layer_init_method, layer_number):
+    def __init__(self, attention_mask_func, init_method, 
+                 output_layer_init_method, layer_number):
         args = get_args()
 
         super(ParallelTransformerLayer, self).__init__()
@@ -301,6 +373,8 @@ class ParallelTransformerLayer(MegatronModule):
         self.attention = ParallelSelfAttention(attention_mask_func, init_method,
                                                output_layer_init_method,
                                                layer_number)
+        self.hidden_dropout = args.hidden_dropout
+        self.bias_dropout_fusion = args.bias_dropout_fusion
 
         # Layernorm on the input data.
         self.post_attention_layernorm = LayerNorm(
@@ -308,7 +382,7 @@ class ParallelTransformerLayer(MegatronModule):
             eps=args.layernorm_epsilon)
 
         # MLP
-        self.mlp = ParallelMLP(mlp_activation_func, init_method,
+        self.mlp = ParallelMLP(init_method,
                                output_layer_init_method)
 
     def forward(self, hidden_states, attention_mask, layer_past=None,
@@ -318,28 +392,60 @@ class ParallelTransformerLayer(MegatronModule):
         # Layer norm at the begining of the transformer layer.
         layernorm_output = self.input_layernorm(hidden_states)
         # Self attention.
-        attention_output = self.attention(layernorm_output,
-                                          attention_mask,
-                                          layer_past=layer_past,
-                                          get_key_value=get_key_value)
+        attention_output, attention_bias = \
+            self.attention(layernorm_output,
+                           attention_mask,
+                           layer_past=layer_past,
+                           get_key_value=get_key_value)
+
         if get_key_value:
             attention_output, presents = attention_output
-
+    
         # Residual connection.
         if self.apply_residual_connection_post_layernorm:
-            layernorm_input = layernorm_output + attention_output
+            residual = layernorm_output
+        else:
+            residual = hidden_states
+
+        # jit scripting for a nn.module (with dropout) is not 
+        # trigerring the fusion kernel. For now, we use two 
+        # different nn.functional routines to account for varying
+        # dropout semantics during training and inference phases.
+        if self.bias_dropout_fusion:
+            if self.training:
+                bias_dropout_add_func = bias_dropout_add_fused_train
+            else:
+                bias_dropout_add_func = bias_dropout_add_fused_inference
         else:
-            layernorm_input = hidden_states + attention_output
+            bias_dropout_add_func = get_bias_dropout_add(self.training)
+
+        #re-enable torch grad to enable fused optimization.
+        with torch.enable_grad():
+            layernorm_input = bias_dropout_add_func(
+                attention_output,
+                attention_bias.expand_as(residual),
+                residual,
+                self.hidden_dropout)
+
         # Layer norm post the self attention.
         layernorm_output = self.post_attention_layernorm(layernorm_input)
 
         # MLP.
-        mlp_output = self.mlp(layernorm_output)
+        mlp_output, mlp_bias = self.mlp(layernorm_output)
+        
         # Second residual connection.
         if self.apply_residual_connection_post_layernorm:
-            output = layernorm_output + mlp_output
+            residual = layernorm_output
         else:
-            output = layernorm_input + mlp_output
+            residual = layernorm_input
+
+        #re-enable torch grad to enable fused optimization.
+        with torch.enable_grad():
+            output = bias_dropout_add_func(
+                mlp_output,
+                mlp_bias.expand_as(residual),
+                residual,
+                self.hidden_dropout)
 
         if get_key_value:
             output = [output, presents]
@@ -350,7 +456,7 @@ class ParallelTransformerLayer(MegatronModule):
 class ParallelTransformer(MegatronModule):
     """Transformer class."""
 
-    def __init__(self, attention_mask_func, mlp_activation_func,
+    def __init__(self, attention_mask_func,
                  init_method, output_layer_init_method):
         super(ParallelTransformer, self).__init__()
         args = get_args()
@@ -371,8 +477,8 @@ class ParallelTransformer(MegatronModule):
         # Transformer layers.
         def build_layer(layer_number):
             return ParallelTransformerLayer(
-                attention_mask_func, mlp_activation_func,
-                init_method, output_layer_init_method, layer_number)
+                attention_mask_func, init_method,
+                output_layer_init_method, layer_number)
         self.layers = torch.nn.ModuleList(
             [build_layer(i + 1) for i in range(self.num_unique_layers)])
 
@@ -435,6 +541,9 @@ class ParallelTransformer(MegatronModule):
                 'get_key_value does not work with ' \
                 'activation checkpointing'
 
+        # data format change to avoid explicit tranposes : [b s h] --> [s b h]
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.transpose(0, 1).contiguous()
+
         if self.checkpoint_activations:
             hidden_states = self._checkpointed_forward(hidden_states,
                                                        attention_mask)
@@ -453,6 +562,9 @@ class ParallelTransformer(MegatronModule):
                 if get_key_value:
                     hidden_states, present = hidden_states
                     presents.append(present)
+        
+        # reverting data format change [s b h] --> [b s h]
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.transpose(0, 1).contiguous()
 
         # Final layer norm.
         output = self.final_layernorm(hidden_states)

megatron/mpu/layers.py

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ def _initialize_affine_weight_gpu(weight, init_method,
     weight.model_parallel = True
     weight.partition_dim = partition_dim
     weight.partition_stride = stride
-
+    
     with get_cuda_rng_tracker().fork():
         init_method(weight)
 
@@ -186,11 +186,15 @@ class ColumnParallelLinear(torch.nn.Module):
         keep_master_weight_for_test: This was added for testing and should be
                                      set to False. It returns the master weights
                                      used for initialization.
+        skip_bias_add: This was added to enable performance optimations where bias
+                       can be fused with other elementwise operations. we skip 
+                       adding bias but instead return it.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, input_size, output_size, bias=True, gather_output=True,
                  init_method=init.xavier_normal_, stride=1,
-                 keep_master_weight_for_test=False):
+                 keep_master_weight_for_test=False,
+                 skip_bias_add=False):
         super(ColumnParallelLinear, self).__init__()
 
         # Keep input parameters
@@ -200,6 +204,7 @@ class ColumnParallelLinear(torch.nn.Module):
         # Divide the weight matrix along the last dimension.
         world_size = get_model_parallel_world_size()
         self.output_size_per_partition = divide(output_size, world_size)
+        self.skip_bias_add = skip_bias_add
 
         # Parameters.
         # Note: torch.nn.functional.linear performs XA^T + b and as a result
@@ -245,13 +250,16 @@ class ColumnParallelLinear(torch.nn.Module):
         # Set up backprop all-reduce.
         input_parallel = copy_to_model_parallel_region(input_)
         # Matrix multiply.
-        output_parallel = F.linear(input_parallel, self.weight, self.bias)
+
+        bias = self.bias if not self.skip_bias_add else None
+        output_parallel = F.linear(input_parallel, self.weight, bias)
         if self.gather_output:
             # All-gather across the partitions.
             output = gather_from_model_parallel_region(output_parallel)
         else:
-            output = output_parallel
-        return output
+            output = output_parallel 
+        output_bias = self.bias if self.skip_bias_add else None
+        return output, output_bias
 
 
 class RowParallelLinear(torch.nn.Module):
@@ -279,12 +287,16 @@ class RowParallelLinear(torch.nn.Module):
         keep_master_weight_for_test: This was added for testing and should be
                                      set to False. It returns the master weights
                                      used for initialization.
+        skip_bias_add: This was added to enable performance optimations where bias
+                       can be fused with other elementwise operations. we skip 
+                       adding bias but instead return it.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, input_size, output_size, bias=True,
                  input_is_parallel=False,
                  init_method=init.xavier_normal_, stride=1,
-                 keep_master_weight_for_test=False):
+                 keep_master_weight_for_test=False,
+                 skip_bias_add=False):
         super(RowParallelLinear, self).__init__()
 
         # Keep input parameters
@@ -294,6 +306,7 @@ class RowParallelLinear(torch.nn.Module):
         # Divide the weight matrix along the last dimension.
         world_size = get_model_parallel_world_size()
         self.input_size_per_partition = divide(input_size, world_size)
+        self.skip_bias_add = skip_bias_add
 
         # Parameters.
         # Note: torch.nn.functional.linear performs XA^T + b and as a result
@@ -340,8 +353,11 @@ class RowParallelLinear(torch.nn.Module):
         output_parallel = F.linear(input_parallel, self.weight)
         # All-reduce across all the partitions.
         output_ = reduce_from_model_parallel_region(output_parallel)
-        if self.bias is not None:
-            output = output_ + self.bias
+        if not self.skip_bias_add:
+            output = output_ + self.bias if self.bias is not None else output_
+            output_bias = None
         else:
             output = output_
-        return output
+            output_bias = self.bias
+        return output, output_bias
+

megatron/training.py

@@ -236,29 +236,35 @@ def backward_step(optimizer, model, loss):
     timers = get_timers()
 
     # Backward pass.
+    timers('backward-backward').start()
     optimizer.zero_grad(set_grads_to_None=True)
     if args.fp16:
         optimizer.backward(loss, update_master_grads=False)
     else:
         loss.backward()
+    timers('backward-backward').stop()
 
     # All-reduce if needed.
     if args.DDP_impl == 'local':
-        timers('allreduce').start()
+        timers('backward-allreduce').start()
         model.allreduce_params(reduce_after=False,
                                fp32_allreduce=args.fp32_allreduce)
-        timers('allreduce').stop()
+        timers('backward-allreduce').stop()
 
     # Update master gradients.
+    timers('backward-master-grad').start()
     if args.fp16:
         optimizer.update_master_grads()
+    timers('backward-master-grad').stop()
 
     # Clipping gradients helps prevent the exploding gradient.
+    timers('backward-clip-grad').start()
     if args.clip_grad > 0:
         if not args.fp16:
             mpu.clip_grad_norm(model.parameters(), args.clip_grad)
         else:
             optimizer.clip_master_grads(args.clip_grad)
+    timers('backward-clip-grad').stop()
 
 
 def train_step(forward_step_func, data_iterator,
@@ -311,7 +317,10 @@ def training_log(loss_dict, total_loss_dict, learning_rate, iteration,
             timers_to_log.append(name)
     add_to_logging('forward')
     add_to_logging('backward')
-    add_to_logging('allreduce')
+    add_to_logging('backward-backward')
+    add_to_logging('backward-allreduce')
+    add_to_logging('backward-master-grad')
+    add_to_logging('backward-clip-grad')
     add_to_logging('optimizer')
     add_to_logging('batch generator')
 

megatron/utils.py

@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ def report_memory(name):
         torch.cuda.memory_allocated() / mega_bytes)
     string += ' | max allocated: {}'.format(
         torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated() / mega_bytes)
-    string += ' | cached: {}'.format(torch.cuda.memory_cached() / mega_bytes)
-    string += ' | max cached: {}'.format(
-        torch.cuda.max_memory_cached() / mega_bytes)
+    string += ' | reserved: {}'.format(torch.cuda.memory_reserved() / mega_bytes)
+    string += ' | max reserved: {}'.format(
+        torch.cuda.max_memory_reserved() / mega_bytes)
     print_rank_0(string)
 
 

pretrain_gpt2.py

@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ from megatron.training import pretrain
 from megatron.utils import get_ltor_masks_and_position_ids
 from megatron.utils import reduce_losses
 
-
 def model_provider():
     """Build the model."""
 
@@ -80,10 +79,8 @@ def forward_step(data_iterator, model):
     tokens, labels, loss_mask, attention_mask, position_ids = get_batch(
         data_iterator)
     timers('batch generator').stop()
-
     # Forward model.
     losses = model(tokens, position_ids, attention_mask, labels=labels)
-    
     loss_mask = loss_mask.view(-1)
     loss = torch.sum(losses.view(-1) * loss_mask) / loss_mask.sum()