Improve handling of rng states in checkpoints.

megatron/arguments.py

@@ -494,9 +494,9 @@ def _add_checkpointing_args(parser):
                        help='Output directory to save checkpoints to.')
     group.add_argument('--save-interval', type=int, default=None,
                        help='Number of iterations between checkpoint saves.')
-    group.add_argument('--no-save-optim', action='store_true',
+    group.add_argument('--no-save-optim', action='store_true', default=None,
                        help='Do not save current optimizer.')
-    group.add_argument('--no-save-rng', action='store_true',
+    group.add_argument('--no-save-rng', action='store_true', default=None,
                        help='Do not save current rng state.')
     group.add_argument('--load', type=str, default=None,
                        help='Directory containing a model checkpoint.')

megatron/checkpointing.py

@@ -343,12 +343,15 @@ def load_checkpoint(model, optimizer, lr_scheduler, load_arg='load', strict=True
             np.random.set_state(state_dict['np_rng_state'])
             torch.set_rng_state(state_dict['torch_rng_state'])
             torch.cuda.set_rng_state(state_dict['cuda_rng_state'])
+            # Check for empty states array
+            if not state_dict['rng_tracker_states']:
+                raise KeyError
             mpu.get_cuda_rng_tracker().set_states(
                 state_dict['rng_tracker_states'])
         except KeyError:
-            print_rank_0('Unable to load optimizer from checkpoint {}. '
+            print_rank_0('Unable to load rng state from checkpoint {}. '
                          'Specify --no-load-rng or --finetune to prevent '
-                         'attempting to load the optimizer state, '
+                         'attempting to load the rng state, '
                          'exiting ...'.format(checkpoint_name))
             sys.exit()
 

tools/generate_samples_gpt.py

@@ -92,7 +92,9 @@ def main():
     """Main program."""
 
     initialize_megatron(extra_args_provider=add_text_generate_args,
-                        args_defaults={'tokenizer_type': 'GPT2BPETokenizer'})
+                        args_defaults={'tokenizer_type': 'GPT2BPETokenizer',
+                                       'no_load_rng': True,
+                                       'no_load_optim': True})
 
     # Set up model and load checkpoint.
     model = get_model(model_provider)

tools/merge_mp_partitions.py

@@ -200,6 +200,8 @@ def main():
                                           'micro_batch_size': 1,
                                           'no_load_optim': True,
                                           'no_load_rng': True,
+                                          'no_save_optim': True,
+                                          'no_save_rng': True,
                                           'save_interval': 1})
     args = get_args()