trainer.rst

..
    Copyright 2020 The HuggingFace Team. 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.

Trainer
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The :class:`~transformers.Trainer` and :class:`~transformers.TFTrainer` classes provide an API for feature-complete
training in most standard use cases. It's used in most of the :doc:`example scripts <../examples>`.

Before instantiating your :class:`~transformers.Trainer`/:class:`~transformers.TFTrainer`, create a
:class:`~transformers.TrainingArguments`/:class:`~transformers.TFTrainingArguments` to access all the points of
customization during training.

The API supports distributed training on multiple GPUs/TPUs, mixed precision through `NVIDIA Apex
<https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex>`__ and Native AMP for PyTorch and :obj:`tf.keras.mixed_precision` for TensorFlow.

Both :class:`~transformers.Trainer` and :class:`~transformers.TFTrainer` contain the basic training loop which supports
the above features. To inject custom behavior you can subclass them and override the following methods:

- **get_train_dataloader**/**get_train_tfdataset** -- Creates the training DataLoader (PyTorch) or TF Dataset.
- **get_eval_dataloader**/**get_eval_tfdataset** -- Creates the evaluation DataLoader (PyTorch) or TF Dataset.
- **get_test_dataloader**/**get_test_tfdataset** -- Creates the test DataLoader (PyTorch) or TF Dataset.
- **log** -- Logs information on the various objects watching training.
- **create_optimizer_and_scheduler** -- Sets up the optimizer and learning rate scheduler if they were not passed at
  init. Note, that you can also subclass or override the ``create_optimizer`` and ``create_scheduler`` methods
  separately.
- **create_optimizer** -- Sets up the optimizer if it wasn't passed at init.
- **create_scheduler** -- Sets up the learning rate scheduler if it wasn't passed at init.
- **compute_loss** - Computes the loss on a batch of training inputs.
- **training_step** -- Performs a training step.
- **prediction_step** -- Performs an evaluation/test step.
- **run_model** (TensorFlow only) -- Basic pass through the model.
- **evaluate** -- Runs an evaluation loop and returns metrics.
- **predict** -- Returns predictions (with metrics if labels are available) on a test set.

.. warning::

    The :class:`~transformers.Trainer` class is optimized for 🤗 Transformers models and can have surprising behaviors
    when you use it on other models. When using it on your own model, make sure:

    - your model always return tuples or subclasses of :class:`~transformers.file_utils.ModelOutput`.
    - your model can compute the loss if a :obj:`labels` argument is provided and that loss is returned as the first
      element of the tuple (if your model returns tuples)
    - your model can accept multiple label arguments (use the :obj:`label_names` in your
      :class:`~transformers.TrainingArguments` to indicate their name to the :class:`~transformers.Trainer`) but none
      of them should be named :obj:`"label"`.

Here is an example of how to customize :class:`~transformers.Trainer` using a custom loss function for multi-label
classification:

.. code-block:: python

    import torch
    from transformers import Trainer

    class MultilabelTrainer(Trainer):
        def compute_loss(self, model, inputs, return_outputs=False):
            labels = inputs.pop("labels")
            outputs = model(**inputs)
            logits = outputs.logits
            loss_fct = torch.nn.BCEWithLogitsLoss()
            loss = loss_fct(logits.view(-1, self.model.config.num_labels),
                            labels.float().view(-1, self.model.config.num_labels))
            return (loss, outputs) if return_outputs else loss

Another way to customize the training loop behavior for the PyTorch :class:`~transformers.Trainer` is to use
:doc:`callbacks <callback>` that can inspect the training loop state (for progress reporting, logging on TensorBoard or
other ML platforms...) and take decisions (like early stopping).


Trainer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. autoclass:: transformers.Trainer
    :members:


Seq2SeqTrainer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. autoclass:: transformers.Seq2SeqTrainer
    :members: evaluate, predict


TFTrainer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. autoclass:: transformers.TFTrainer
    :members:


TrainingArguments
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. autoclass:: transformers.TrainingArguments
    :members:


Seq2SeqTrainingArguments
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. autoclass:: transformers.Seq2SeqTrainingArguments
    :members:


TFTrainingArguments
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. autoclass:: transformers.TFTrainingArguments
    :members:


Trainer Integrations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



The :class:`~transformers.Trainer` has been extended to support libraries that may dramatically improve your training
time and fit much bigger models.

Currently it supports third party solutions, `DeepSpeed <https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed>`__ and `FairScale
<https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairscale/>`__, which implement parts of the paper `ZeRO: Memory Optimizations
Toward Training Trillion Parameter Models, by Samyam Rajbhandari, Jeff Rasley, Olatunji Ruwase, Yuxiong He
<https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02054>`__.

This provided support is new and experimental as of this writing.

Installation Notes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

As of this writing, both FairScale and Deepspeed require compilation of CUDA C++ code, before they can be used.

While all installation issues should be dealt with through the corresponding GitHub Issues of `FairScale
<https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairscale/issues>`__ and `Deepspeed
<https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/issues>`__, there are a few common issues that one may encounter while building
any PyTorch extension that needs to build CUDA extensions.

Therefore, if you encounter a CUDA-related build issue while doing one of the following or both:

.. code-block:: bash

    pip install fairscale
    pip install deepspeed

please, read the following notes first.

In these notes we give examples for what to do when ``pytorch`` has been built with CUDA ``10.2``. If your situation is
different remember to adjust the version number to the one you are after.

**Possible problem #1:**

While, Pytorch comes with its own CUDA toolkit, to build these two projects you must have an identical version of CUDA
installed system-wide.

For example, if you installed ``pytorch`` with ``cudatoolkit==10.2`` in the Python environment, you also need to have
CUDA ``10.2`` installed system-wide.

The exact location may vary from system to system, but ``/usr/local/cuda-10.2`` is the most common location on many
Unix systems. When CUDA is correctly set up and added to the ``PATH`` environment variable, one can find the
installation location by doing:

.. code-block:: bash

    which nvcc

If you don't have CUDA installed system-wide, install it first. You will find the instructions by using your favorite
search engine. For example, if you're on Ubuntu you may want to search for: `ubuntu cuda 10.2 install
<https://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+cuda+10.2+install>`__.

**Possible problem #2:**

Another possible common problem is that you may have more than one CUDA toolkit installed system-wide. For example you
may have:

.. code-block:: bash

    /usr/local/cuda-10.2
    /usr/local/cuda-11.0

Now, in this situation you need to make sure that your ``PATH`` and ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH`` environment variables contain
the correct paths to the desired CUDA version. Typically, package installers will set these to contain whatever the
last version was installed. If you encounter the problem, where the package build fails because it can't find the right
CUDA version despite you having it installed system-wide, it means that you need to adjust the 2 aforementioned
environment variables.

First, you may look at their contents:

.. code-block:: bash

    echo $PATH
    echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

so you get an idea of what is inside.

It's possible that ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH`` is empty.

``PATH`` lists the locations of where executables can be found and ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH`` is for where shared libraries
are to looked for. In both cases, earlier entries have priority over the later ones. ``:`` is used to separate multiple
entries.

Now, to tell the build program where to find the specific CUDA toolkit, insert the desired paths to be listed first by
doing:

.. code-block:: bash

    export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-10.2/bin:$PATH
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-10.2/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Note that we aren't overwriting the existing values, but prepending instead.

Of course, adjust the version number, the full path if need be. Check that the directories you assign actually do
exist. ``lib64`` sub-directory is where the various CUDA ``.so`` objects, like ``libcudart.so`` reside, it's unlikely
that your system will have it named differently, but if it is adjust it to reflect your reality.


**Possible problem #3:**

Some older CUDA versions may refuse to build with newer compilers. For example, you my have ``gcc-9`` but it wants
``gcc-7``.

There are various ways to go about it.

If you can install the latest CUDA toolkit it typically should support the newer compiler.

Alternatively, you could install the lower version of the compiler in addition to the one you already have, or you may
already have it but it's not the default one, so the build system can't see it. If you have ``gcc-7`` installed but the
build system complains it can't find it, the following might do the trick:

.. code-block:: bash

    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-7  /usr/local/cuda-10.2/bin/gcc
    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-7  /usr/local/cuda-10.2/bin/g++


Here, we are making a symlink to ``gcc-7`` from ``/usr/local/cuda-10.2/bin/gcc`` and since
``/usr/local/cuda-10.2/bin/`` should be in the ``PATH`` environment variable (see the previous problem's solution), it
should find ``gcc-7`` (and ``g++7``) and then the build will succeed.

As always make sure to edit the paths in the example to match your situation.

**If still unsuccessful:**

If after addressing these you still encounter build issues, please, proceed with the GitHub Issue of `FairScale
<https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairscale/issues>`__ and `Deepspeed
<https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/issues>`__, depending on the project you have the problem with.


FairScale
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

By integrating `FairScale <https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairscale/>`__ the :class:`~transformers.Trainer`
provides support for the following features from `the ZeRO paper <https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02054>`__:

1. Optimizer State Sharding
2. Gradient Sharding
3. Model Parameters Sharding (new and very experimental)
4. CPU offload (new and very experimental)

You will need at least two GPUs to use this feature.

To deploy this feature:

1. Install the library via pypi:

   .. code-block:: bash

       pip install fairscale

   or find more details on `the FairScale's GitHub page
   <https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairscale/#installation>`__.

2. To use the first version of Sharded data-parallelism, add ``--sharded_ddp simple`` to the command line arguments,
   and make sure you have added the distributed launcher ``-m torch.distributed.launch
   --nproc_per_node=NUMBER_OF_GPUS_YOU_HAVE`` if you haven't been using it already.

For example here is how you could use it for ``run_translation.py`` with 2 GPUs:

.. code-block:: bash

    python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=2 examples/seq2seq/run_translation.py \
    --model_name_or_path t5-small --per_device_train_batch_size 1   \
    --output_dir output_dir --overwrite_output_dir \
    --do_train --max_train_samples 500 --num_train_epochs 1 \
    --dataset_name wmt16 --dataset_config "ro-en" \
    --source_lang en --target_lang ro \
    --fp16 --sharded_ddp simple

Notes:

- This feature requires distributed training (so multiple GPUs).
- It is not implemented for TPUs.
- It works with ``--fp16`` too, to make things even faster.
- One of the main benefits of enabling ``--sharded_ddp simple`` is that it uses a lot less GPU memory, so you should be
  able to use significantly larger batch sizes using the same hardware (e.g. 3x and even bigger) which should lead to
  significantly shorter training time.

3. To use the second version of Sharded data-parallelism, add ``--sharded_ddp zero_dp_2`` or ``--sharded_ddp zero_dp_3`
   to the command line arguments, and make sure you have added the distributed launcher ``-m torch.distributed.launch
   --nproc_per_node=NUMBER_OF_GPUS_YOU_HAVE`` if you haven't been using it already.

For example here is how you could use it for ``run_translation.py`` with 2 GPUs:

.. code-block:: bash

    python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=2 examples/seq2seq/run_translation.py \
    --model_name_or_path t5-small --per_device_train_batch_size 1   \
    --output_dir output_dir --overwrite_output_dir \
    --do_train --max_train_samples 500 --num_train_epochs 1 \
    --dataset_name wmt16 --dataset_config "ro-en" \
    --source_lang en --target_lang ro \
    --fp16 --sharded_ddp zero_dp_2

:obj:`zero_dp_2` is an optimized version of the simple wrapper, while :obj:`zero_dp_3` fully shards model weights,
gradients and optimizer states.

Both are compatible with adding :obj:`cpu_offload` to enable ZeRO-offload (activate it like this: :obj:`--sharded_ddp
"zero_dp_2 cpu_offload"`).

Notes:

- This feature requires distributed training (so multiple GPUs).
- It is not implemented for TPUs.
- It works with ``--fp16`` too, to make things even faster.
- The ``cpu_offload`` additional option requires ``--fp16``.
- This is an area of active development, so make sure you have a source install of fairscale to use this feature as
  some bugs you encounter may have been fixed there already.

Known caveats:

- This feature is incompatible with :obj:`--predict_with_generate` in the `run_translation.py` script.
- Using :obj:`--sharded_ddp zero_dp_3` requires wrapping each layer of the model in the special container
  :obj:`FullyShardedDataParallelism` of fairscale. It should be used with the option :obj:`auto_wrap` if you are not
  doing this yourself: :obj:`--sharded_ddp "zero_dp_3 auto_wrap"`.


DeepSpeed
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

`DeepSpeed <https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed>`__ implements everything described in the `ZeRO paper
<https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02054>`__, except ZeRO's stage 3. "Parameter Partitioning (Pos+g+p)". Currently it provides
full support for:

1. Optimizer State Partitioning (ZeRO stage 1)
2. Add Gradient Partitioning (ZeRO stage 2)
3. Custom fp16 handling
4. A range of fast Cuda-extension-based Optimizers
5. ZeRO-Offload

ZeRO-Offload has its own dedicated paper: `ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
<https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06840>`__.

DeepSpeed is currently used only for training, as all the currently available features are of no use to inference.



Installation
=======================================================================================================================

Install the library via pypi:

.. code-block:: bash

    pip install deepspeed

or find more details on `the DeepSpeed's GitHub page <https://github.com/microsoft/deepspeed#installation>`__.

Deployment with multiple GPUs
=======================================================================================================================

To deploy this feature with multiple GPUs adjust the :class:`~transformers.Trainer` command line arguments as
following:

1. replace ``python -m torch.distributed.launch`` with ``deepspeed``.
2. add a new argument ``--deepspeed ds_config.json``, where ``ds_config.json`` is the DeepSpeed configuration file as
   documented `here <https://www.deepspeed.ai/docs/config-json/>`__. The file naming is up to you.

Therefore, if your original command line looked as following:

.. code-block:: bash

    python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=2 your_program.py <normal cl args>

Now it should be:

.. code-block:: bash

    deepspeed --num_gpus=2 your_program.py <normal cl args> --deepspeed ds_config.json

Unlike, ``torch.distributed.launch`` where you have to specify how many GPUs to use with ``--nproc_per_node``, with the
``deepspeed`` launcher you don't have to use the corresponding ``--num_gpus`` if you want all of your GPUs used. The
full details on how to configure various nodes and GPUs can be found `here
<https://www.deepspeed.ai/getting-started/#resource-configuration-multi-node>`__.

In fact, you can continue using ``-m torch.distributed.launch`` with DeepSpeed as long as you don't need to use
``deepspeed`` launcher-specific arguments. Typically if you don't need a multi-node setup you're not required to use
the ``deepspeed`` launcher. But since in the DeepSpeed documentation it'll be used everywhere, for consistency we will
use it here as well.

Here is an example of running ``run_translation.py`` under DeepSpeed deploying all available GPUs:

.. code-block:: bash

    deepspeed examples/seq2seq/run_translation.py \
    --deepspeed examples/tests/deepspeed/ds_config.json \
    --model_name_or_path t5-small --per_device_train_batch_size 1   \
    --output_dir output_dir --overwrite_output_dir --fp16 \
    --do_train --max_train_samples 500 --num_train_epochs 1 \
    --dataset_name wmt16 --dataset_config "ro-en" \
    --source_lang en --target_lang ro


Note that in the DeepSpeed documentation you are likely to see ``--deepspeed --deepspeed_config ds_config.json`` - i.e.
two DeepSpeed-related arguments, but for the sake of simplicity, and since there are already so many arguments to deal
with, we combined the two into a single argument.

For some practical usage examples, please, see this `post
<https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/8771#issuecomment-759248400>`__.



Deployment with one GPU
=======================================================================================================================

To deploy DeepSpeed with one GPU adjust the :class:`~transformers.Trainer` command line arguments as following:

.. code-block:: bash

    deepspeed --num_gpus=1 examples/seq2seq/run_translation.py \
    --deepspeed examples/tests/deepspeed/ds_config.json \
    --model_name_or_path t5-small --per_device_train_batch_size 1   \
    --output_dir output_dir --overwrite_output_dir --fp16 \
    --do_train --max_train_samples 500 --num_train_epochs 1 \
    --dataset_name wmt16 --dataset_config "ro-en" \
    --source_lang en --target_lang ro

This is almost the same as with multiple-GPUs, but here we tell DeepSpeed explicitly to use just one GPU. By default,
DeepSpeed deploys all GPUs it can see. If you have only 1 GPU to start with, then you don't need this argument. The
following `documentation <https://www.deepspeed.ai/getting-started/#resource-configuration-multi-node>`__ discusses the
launcher options.

Why would you want to use DeepSpeed with just one GPU?

1. It has a ZeRO-offload feature which can delegate some computations and memory to the host's CPU and RAM, and thus
   leave more GPU resources for model's needs - e.g. larger batch size, or enabling a fitting of a very big model which
   normally won't fit.
2. It provides a smart GPU memory management system, that minimizes memory fragmentation, which again allows you to fit
   bigger models and data batches.

While we are going to discuss the configuration in details next, the key to getting a huge improvement on a single GPU
with DeepSpeed is to have at least the following configuration in the configuration file:

.. code-block:: json

  {
    "zero_optimization": {
       "stage": 2,
       "allgather_partitions": true,
       "allgather_bucket_size": 2e8,
       "reduce_scatter": true,
       "reduce_bucket_size": 2e8,
       "overlap_comm": true,
       "contiguous_gradients": true,
       "cpu_offload": true
    },
  }

which enables ``cpu_offload`` and some other important features. You may experiment with the buffer sizes, you will
find more details in the discussion below.

For a practical usage example of this type of deployment, please, see this `post
<https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/8771#issuecomment-759176685>`__.

Notes:

- if you need to run on a specific GPU, which is different from GPU 0, you can't use ``CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES`` to limit
  the visible scope of available GPUs. Instead, you have to use the following syntax:

   .. code-block:: bash

       deepspeed --include localhost:1 examples/seq2seq/run_translation.py ...

   In this example, we tell DeepSpeed to use GPU 1 (second gpu).



Deployment in Notebooks
=======================================================================================================================

The problem with running notebook cells as a script is that there is no normal ``deepspeed`` launcher to rely on, so
under certain setups we have to emulate it.

Here is how you'd have to adjust your training code in the notebook to use DeepSpeed.

.. code-block:: python

    # DeepSpeed requires a distributed environment even when only one process is used.
    # This emulates a launcher in the notebook
    import os
    os.environ['MASTER_ADDR'] = 'localhost'
    os.environ['MASTER_PORT'] = '9994' # modify if RuntimeError: Address already in use
    os.environ['RANK'] = "0"
    os.environ['LOCAL_RANK'] = "0"
    os.environ['WORLD_SIZE'] = "1"

    # Now proceed as normal, plus pass the deepspeed config file
    training_args = TrainingArguments(..., deepspeed="ds_config.json")
    trainer = Trainer(...)
    trainer.train()

Note: `...` stands for the normal arguments that you'd pass to the functions.

If you want to create the config file on the fly in the notebook in the current directory, you could have a dedicated
cell with:

.. code-block:: python

    %%bash
    cat <<'EOT' > ds_config.json
    {
        "fp16": {
            "enabled": true,
            "loss_scale": 0,
            "loss_scale_window": 1000,
            "hysteresis": 2,
            "min_loss_scale": 1
        },

        "zero_optimization": {
            "stage": 2,
            "allgather_partitions": true,
            "allgather_bucket_size": 2e8,
            "overlap_comm": true,
            "reduce_scatter": true,
            "reduce_bucket_size": 2e8,
            "contiguous_gradients": true,
            "cpu_offload": true
        },

        "optimizer": {
            "type": "AdamW",
            "params": {
                "lr": 3e-5,
                "betas": [0.8, 0.999],
                "eps": 1e-8,
                "weight_decay": 3e-7
            }
        },

        "scheduler": {
            "type": "WarmupLR",
            "params": {
                "warmup_min_lr": 0,
                "warmup_max_lr": 3e-5,
                "warmup_num_steps": 500
            }
        },

        "steps_per_print": 2000,
        "wall_clock_breakdown": false
    }
    EOT


That's said if the script is not in the notebook cells, you can launch ``deepspeed`` normally via shell from a cell
with:

.. code-block::

   !deepspeed examples/seq2seq/run_translation.py ...

or with bash magic, where you can write a multi-line code for the shell to run:

.. code-block::

   %%bash

   cd /somewhere
   deepspeed examples/seq2seq/run_translation.py ...




Configuration
=======================================================================================================================

For the complete guide to the DeepSpeed configuration options that can be used in its configuration file please refer
to the `following documentation <https://www.deepspeed.ai/docs/config-json/>`__.

You can find dozens of DeepSpeed configuration examples that address various practical needs in `the DeepSpeedExamples
repo <https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeedExamples>`__:

.. code-block:: bash

  git clone https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeedExamples
  cd DeepSpeedExamples
  find . -name '*json'

Continuing the code from above, let's say you're looking to configure the Lamb optimizer. So you can search through the
example ``.json`` files with:

.. code-block:: bash

  grep -i Lamb $(find . -name '*json')

Some more examples are to be found in the `main repo <https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed>`__ as well.

When using DeepSpeed you always need to supply a DeepSpeed configuration file, yet some configuration parameters have
to be configured via the command line. You will find the nuances in the rest of this guide.

To get an idea of what DeepSpeed configuration file looks like, here is one that activates ZeRO stage 2 features,
enables FP16, uses ``AdamW`` optimizer and ``WarmupLR`` scheduler:

.. code-block:: json

    {
        "fp16": {
            "enabled": true,
            "loss_scale": 0,
            "loss_scale_window": 1000,
            "hysteresis": 2,
            "min_loss_scale": 1
        },

       "zero_optimization": {
           "stage": 2,
           "allgather_partitions": true,
           "allgather_bucket_size": 5e8,
           "overlap_comm": true,
           "reduce_scatter": true,
           "reduce_bucket_size": 5e8,
           "contiguous_gradients": true,
           "cpu_offload": true
       },

       "optimizer": {
         "type": "AdamW",
         "params": {
           "lr": 3e-5,
           "betas": [ 0.8, 0.999 ],
           "eps": 1e-8,
           "weight_decay": 3e-7
         }
       },

       "scheduler": {
         "type": "WarmupLR",
         "params": {
           "warmup_min_lr": 0,
           "warmup_max_lr": 3e-5,
           "warmup_num_steps": 500
         }
       }
    }

When you execute the program, DeepSpeed will log the configuration it received from the :class:`~transformers.Trainer`
to the console, so you can see exactly what was the final configuration passed to it.


Passing Configuration
=======================================================================================================================

As discussed in this document normally the DeepSpeed configuration is passed as a path to a json file, but if you're
not using the command line interface to configure the training, and instead instantiate the
:class:`~transformers.Trainer` via :class:`~transformers.TrainingArguments` then for the ``deepspeed`` argument you can
pass a nested ``dict``. This allows you to create the configuration on the fly and doesn't require you to write it to
the file system before passing it to :class:`~transformers.TrainingArguments`.

To summarize you can do:

.. code-block:: python

    TrainingArguments(..., deespeed="/path/to/ds_config.json")

or:

.. code-block:: python

    ds_config_dict=dict(scheduler=scheduler_params, optimizer=optimizer_params)
    TrainingArguments(..., deespeed=ds_config_dict)



Shared Configuration
=======================================================================================================================

Some configuration information is required by both the :class:`~transformers.Trainer` and DeepSpeed to function
correctly, therefore, to prevent conflicting definitions, which could lead to hard to detect errors, we chose to
configure those via the :class:`~transformers.Trainer` command line arguments.

Therefore, the following DeepSpeed configuration params shouldn't be used with the :class:`~transformers.Trainer`:

* ``train_batch_size``
* ``train_micro_batch_size_per_gpu``
* ``gradient_accumulation_steps``

as these will be automatically derived from the run time environment and the following 2 command line arguments:

.. code-block:: bash

    --per_device_train_batch_size 8 --gradient_accumulation_steps 2

which are always required to be supplied.

Of course, you will need to adjust the values in this example to your situation.



ZeRO
=======================================================================================================================

The ``zero_optimization`` section of the configuration file is the most important part (`docs
<https://www.deepspeed.ai/docs/config-json/#zero-optimizations-for-fp16-training>`__), since that is where you define
which ZeRO stages you want to enable and how to configure them.

.. code-block:: json

    {
       "zero_optimization": {
           "stage": 2,
           "allgather_partitions": true,
           "allgather_bucket_size": 5e8,
           "overlap_comm": true,
           "reduce_scatter": true,
           "reduce_bucket_size": 5e8,
           "contiguous_gradients": true,
           "cpu_offload": true
       }
    }

Notes:

- enabling ``cpu_offload`` should reduce GPU RAM usage (it requires ``"stage": 2``)
- ``"overlap_comm": true`` trades off increased GPU RAM usage to lower all-reduce latency. ``overlap_comm`` uses 4.5x
  the ``allgather_bucket_size`` and ``reduce_bucket_size`` values. So if they are set to 5e8, this requires a 9GB
  footprint (``5e8 x 2Bytes x 2 x 4.5``). Therefore, if you have a GPU with 8GB or less RAM, to avoid getting
  OOM-errors you will need to reduce those parameters to about ``2e8``, which would require 3.6GB. You will want to do
  the same on larger capacity GPU as well, if you're starting to hit OOM.
- when reducing these buffers you're trading communication speed to avail more GPU RAM. The smaller the buffer size,
  the slower the communication, and the more GPU RAM will be available to other tasks. So if a bigger batch size is
  important, getting a slightly slower training time could be a good trade.

This section has to be configured exclusively via DeepSpeed configuration - the :class:`~transformers.Trainer` provides
no equivalent command line arguments.



Optimizer and Scheduler
=======================================================================================================================

As long as you don't enable ``cpu_offload`` you can mix and match DeepSpeed and HuggingFace schedulers and optimizers,
with the exception of using the combination of HuggingFace scheduler and DeepSpeed optimizer:

+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| Combos       | HF Scheduler | DS Scheduler |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| HF Optimizer | Yes          | Yes          |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| DS Optimizer | No           | Yes          |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+

If ``cpu_offload`` is enabled you must use both DeepSpeed scheduler and DeepSpeed optimizer.



Optimizer
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""


DeepSpeed's main optimizers are Adam, AdamW, OneBitAdam, and Lamb. These have been thoroughly tested with ZeRO and are
thus recommended to be used. It, however, can import other optimizers from ``torch``. The full documentation is `here
<https://www.deepspeed.ai/docs/config-json/#optimizer-parameters>`__.

If you don't configure the ``optimizer`` entry in the configuration file, the :class:`~transformers.Trainer` will
automatically set it to ``AdamW`` and will use the supplied values or the defaults for the following command line
arguments: ``--learning_rate``, ``--adam_beta1``, ``--adam_beta2``, ``--adam_epsilon`` and ``--weight_decay``.

Here is an example of the pre-configured ``optimizer`` entry for ``AdamW``:

.. code-block:: json

    {
       "optimizer": {
           "type": "AdamW",
           "params": {
             "lr": 0.001,
             "betas": [0.8, 0.999],
             "eps": 1e-8,
             "weight_decay": 3e-7
           }
         }
    }

Note that the command line arguments will override the values in the configuration file. This is so that there is one
definitive source of the values and to avoid hard to find errors when for example, the learning rate is set to
different values in different places. Command line rules. The values that get overridden are:

- ``lr`` with the value of ``--learning_rate``
- ``betas`` with the value of ``--adam_beta1 --adam_beta2``
- ``eps`` with the value of ``--adam_epsilon``
- ``weight_decay`` with the value of ``--weight_decay``

Therefore please remember to tune the shared hyperparameters on the command line.

If you want to use another optimizer which is not listed above, you will have to add ``"zero_allow_untested_optimizer":
true`` to the top level configuration.

If you want to use one of the officially supported optimizers, configure them explicitly in the configuration file, and
make sure to adjust the values. e.g. if use Adam you will want ``weight_decay`` around ``0.01``.


Scheduler
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

DeepSpeed supports LRRangeTest, OneCycle, WarmupLR and WarmupDecayLR LR schedulers. The full documentation is `here
<https://www.deepspeed.ai/docs/config-json/#scheduler-parameters>`__.


Here is where the schedulers overlap between 🤗 Transformers and DeepSpeed:

* ``WarmupLR`` via ``--lr_scheduler_type constant_with_warmup``
* ``WarmupDecayLR`` via ``--lr_scheduler_type linear``. This is also the default value for ``--lr_scheduler_type``,
  therefore, if you don't configure the scheduler this is scheduler that will get configured by default.


If you don't configure the ``scheduler`` entry in the configuration file, the :class:`~transformers.Trainer` will use
the values of ``--lr_scheduler_type``, ``--learning_rate`` and ``--warmup_steps`` to configure a 🤗 Transformers version
of it.

Here is an example of the pre-configured ``scheduler`` entry for ``WarmupLR``:

.. code-block:: json

    {
       "scheduler": {
             "type": "WarmupLR",
             "params": {
                 "warmup_min_lr": 0,
                 "warmup_max_lr": 0.001,
                 "warmup_num_steps": 1000
             }
         }
    }

Note that the command line arguments will override the values in the configuration file. This is so that there is one
definitive source of the values and to avoid hard to find errors when for example, the learning rate is set to
different values in different places. Command line rules. The values that get overridden are:

- ``warmup_max_lr`` with the value of ``--learning_rate``
- ``warmup_num_steps`` with the value of ``--warmup_steps``
- ``total_num_steps`` with either the value of ``--max_steps`` or if it is not provided, derived automatically at run
  time based on the environment and the size of the dataset and other command line arguments (needed for
  ``WarmupDecayLR``).

Therefore please remember to tune the shared hyperparameters on the command line.

For example, for ``WarmupDecayLR``, you can use the following entry:

.. code-block:: json

    {
       "scheduler": {
             "type": "WarmupDecayLR",
             "params": {
                 "total_num_steps": 10,
                 "last_batch_iteration": -1,
                 "warmup_min_lr": 0,
                 "warmup_max_lr": 0.001,
                 "warmup_num_steps": 1000
             }
         }
    }

and ``warmup_max_lr``, ``warmup_num_steps`` and ``total_num_steps`` will be corrected at loading time.



Automatic Mixed Precision
=======================================================================================================================

You can work with FP16 in one of the following ways:

1. Pytorch native amp, as documented `here <https://www.deepspeed.ai/docs/config-json/#fp16-training-options>`__.
2. NVIDIA's apex, as documented `here
   <https://www.deepspeed.ai/docs/config-json/#automatic-mixed-precision-amp-training-options>`__.

If you want to use an equivalent of the Pytorch native amp, you can either configure the ``fp16`` entry in the
configuration file, or use the following command line arguments: ``--fp16 --fp16_backend amp``.

Here is an example of the ``fp16`` configuration:

.. code-block:: json

    {
        "fp16": {
            "enabled": true,
            "loss_scale": 0,
            "loss_scale_window": 1000,
            "hysteresis": 2,
            "min_loss_scale": 1
        },
    }

If you want to use NVIDIA's apex instead, you can can either configure the ``amp`` entry in the configuration file, or
use the following command line arguments: ``--fp16 --fp16_backend apex --fp16_opt_level 01``.

Here is an example of the ``amp`` configuration:

.. code-block:: json

    {
        "amp": {
            "enabled": true,
            "opt_level": "O1"
        }
    }


Gradient Accumulation
=======================================================================================================================

While normally DeepSpeed gets gradient accumulation configured with:

.. code-block:: json

    {
        "gradient_accumulation_steps": 3,
    }

in this case, to enable gradient accumulation, pass the command line `--gradient_accumulation_steps` argument as normal
and it will get injected into the DeepSpeed configuration.

If you try to add it directly to the configuration file, you will receive an error from the Trainer - this is because
this setting is needed by the Trainer too, and so this approach ensures that there is a single way of setting this
value and thus avoid potential subtle errors.






Gradient Clipping
=======================================================================================================================

If you don't configure the ``gradient_clipping`` entry in the configuration file, the :class:`~transformers.Trainer`
will use the value of the ``--max_grad_norm`` command line argument to set it.

Here is an example of the ``gradient_clipping`` configuration:

.. code-block:: json

    {
        "gradient_clipping": 1.0,
    }



Notes
=======================================================================================================================

* DeepSpeed works with the PyTorch :class:`~transformers.Trainer` but not TF :class:`~transformers.TFTrainer`.
* While DeepSpeed has a pip installable PyPI package, it is highly recommended that it gets installed from `source
  <https://github.com/microsoft/deepspeed#installation>`__ to best match your hardware and also if you need to enable
  certain features, like 1-bit Adam, which aren't available in the pypi distribution.
* You don't have to use the :class:`~transformers.Trainer` to use DeepSpeed with 🤗 Transformers - you can use any model
  with your own trainer, and you will have to adapt the latter according to `the DeepSpeed integration instructions
  <https://www.deepspeed.ai/getting-started/#writing-deepspeed-models>`__.

Main DeepSpeed Resources
=======================================================================================================================

- `Project's github <https://github.com/microsoft/deepspeed>`__
- `Usage docs <https://www.deepspeed.ai/getting-started/>`__
- `API docs <https://deepspeed.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html>`__
- `Blog posts <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/search/?q=deepspeed>`__

Papers:

- `ZeRO: Memory Optimizations Toward Training Trillion Parameter Models <https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02054>`__
- `ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training <https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06840>`__

Finally, please, remember that, HuggingFace :class:`~transformers.Trainer` only integrates DeepSpeed, therefore if you
have any problems or questions with regards to DeepSpeed usage, please, file an issue with `DeepSpeed GitHub
<https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/issues>`__.