Smangrul/accelerate mp integrate (#23148)

* mixed precision support via accelerate

* fix issues

* fix for the sharded ddp case

* fix flax and tf failing tests

* `refactor the place to create `Accelerator` object

* address comments by removing debugging print statements

src/transformers/trainer.py

@@ -212,6 +212,8 @@ if is_accelerate_available():
     if version.parse(accelerate_version) >= version.parse("0.16"):
         from accelerate import skip_first_batches
 
+    from accelerate import Accelerator
+
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     import optuna
@@ -337,6 +339,9 @@ class Trainer:
         self.deepspeed = None
         self.is_in_train = False
 
+        # create accelerator object
+        self.accelerator = Accelerator()
+
         # memory metrics - must set up as early as possible
         self._memory_tracker = TrainerMemoryTracker(self.args.skip_memory_metrics)
         self._memory_tracker.start()
@@ -607,7 +612,7 @@ class Trainer:
                         "but SageMaker Model Parallelism < 1.10 does not support FP16 in trainer."
                     )
 
-        if args.fp16 or args.bf16:
+        if (args.fp16 or args.bf16) and self.sharded_ddp is not None:
             if args.half_precision_backend == "auto":
                 if args.device == torch.device("cpu"):
                     if args.fp16:
@@ -624,6 +629,7 @@ class Trainer:
         self.do_grad_scaling = False
         if (args.fp16 or args.bf16) and not (args.deepspeed or is_sagemaker_mp_enabled()):
             # deepspeed and SageMaker Model Parallel manage their own half precision
+            if self.sharded_ddp is not None:
                 if args.half_precision_backend == "cuda_amp":
                     self.use_cuda_amp = True
                     self.amp_dtype = torch.float16 if args.fp16 else torch.bfloat16
@@ -647,7 +653,7 @@ class Trainer:
                 elif args.half_precision_backend == "cpu_amp":
                     self.use_cpu_amp = True
                     self.amp_dtype = torch.bfloat16
-            else:
+            elif args.half_precision_backend == "apex":
                 if not is_apex_available():
                     raise ImportError(
                         "Using FP16 with APEX but APEX is not installed, please refer to"
@@ -1801,6 +1807,11 @@ class Trainer:
         if delay_optimizer_creation:
             self.create_optimizer_and_scheduler(num_training_steps=max_steps)
 
+        # prepare using `accelerator` prepare
+        model, self.optimizer, self.lr_scheduler = self.accelerator.prepare(
+            self.model, self.optimizer, self.lr_scheduler
+        )
+
         # Check if saved optimizer or scheduler states exist
         self._load_optimizer_and_scheduler(resume_from_checkpoint)
 
@@ -2013,10 +2024,15 @@ class Trainer:
                         elif hasattr(model, "clip_grad_norm_"):
                             # Some models (like FullyShardedDDP) have a specific way to do gradient clipping
                             model.clip_grad_norm_(args.max_grad_norm)
-                        else:
+                        elif self.use_apex:
                             # Revert to normal clipping otherwise, handling Apex or full precision
                             nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(
-                                amp.master_params(self.optimizer) if self.use_apex else model.parameters(),
+                                amp.master_params(self.optimizer),
+                                args.max_grad_norm,
+                            )
+                        else:
+                            self.accelerator.clip_grad_norm_(
+                                model.parameters(),
                                 args.max_grad_norm,
                             )
 
@@ -2802,7 +2818,7 @@ class Trainer:
             # loss gets scaled under gradient_accumulation_steps in deepspeed
             loss = self.deepspeed.backward(loss)
         else:
-            loss.backward()
+            self.accelerator.backward(loss)
 
         return loss.detach()
 

src/transformers/training_args.py

@@ -1562,6 +1562,15 @@ class TrainingArguments:
                 FutureWarning,
             )
 
+        # if training args is specified, it will override the one specified in the accelerate config
+        if self.half_precision_backend != "apex" and len(self.sharded_ddp) == 0:
+            mixed_precision_dtype = os.environ.get("ACCELERATE_MIXED_PRECISION", "no")
+            if self.fp16:
+                mixed_precision_dtype = "fp16"
+            elif self.bf16:
+                mixed_precision_dtype = "bf16"
+            os.environ["ACCELERATE_MIXED_PRECISION"] = mixed_precision_dtype
+
     def __str__(self):
         self_as_dict = asdict(self)