train.py

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"""TFM common training driver."""

from absl import app
from absl import flags
import gin

from official.common import distribute_utils
# pylint: disable=unused-import
from official.common import registry_imports
# pylint: enable=unused-import
from official.common import flags as tfm_flags
from official.core import task_factory
from official.core import train_lib
from official.core import train_utils
from official.modeling import performance
from official.nlp import continuous_finetune_lib

FLAGS = flags.FLAGS

flags.DEFINE_integer(
    'pretrain_steps',
    default=None,
    help='The number of total training steps for the pretraining job.')


def main(_):
  gin.parse_config_files_and_bindings(FLAGS.gin_file, FLAGS.gin_params)
  params = train_utils.parse_configuration(FLAGS)
  model_dir = FLAGS.model_dir
  if 'train' in FLAGS.mode:
    # Pure eval modes do not output yaml files. Otherwise continuous eval job
    # may race against the train job for writing the same file.
    train_utils.serialize_config(params, model_dir)

  if FLAGS.mode == 'continuous_train_and_eval':
    continuous_finetune_lib.run_continuous_finetune(
        FLAGS.mode, params, model_dir, pretrain_steps=FLAGS.pretrain_steps)

  else:
    # Sets mixed_precision policy. Using 'mixed_float16' or 'mixed_bfloat16'
    # can have significant impact on model speeds by utilizing float16 in case
    # of GPUs, and bfloat16 in the case of TPUs. loss_scale takes effect only
    # when dtype is float16
    if params.runtime.mixed_precision_dtype:
      performance.set_mixed_precision_policy(
          params.runtime.mixed_precision_dtype)
    distribution_strategy = distribute_utils.get_distribution_strategy(
        distribution_strategy=params.runtime.distribution_strategy,
        all_reduce_alg=params.runtime.all_reduce_alg,
        num_gpus=params.runtime.num_gpus,
        tpu_address=params.runtime.tpu,
        **params.runtime.model_parallelism())
    with distribution_strategy.scope():
      task = task_factory.get_task(params.task, logging_dir=model_dir)

    train_lib.run_experiment(
        distribution_strategy=distribution_strategy,
        task=task,
        mode=FLAGS.mode,
        params=params,
        model_dir=model_dir)

  train_utils.save_gin_config(FLAGS.mode, model_dir)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  tfm_flags.define_flags()
  flags.mark_flags_as_required(['experiment', 'mode', 'model_dir'])
  app.run(main)