[Cherry-pick]Support skip data intervals

paddlenlp/trainer/argparser.py

@@ -24,7 +24,17 @@
 from enum import Enum
 from inspect import isclass
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any, Dict, Iterable, NewType, Optional, Tuple, Union, get_type_hints
+from typing import (
+    Any,
+    Dict,
+    Iterable,
+    NewType,
+    Optional,
+    Tuple,
+    Union,
+    get_args,
+    get_type_hints,
+)
 
 DataClass = NewType("DataClass", Any)
 DataClassType = NewType("DataClassType", Any)
@@ -129,7 +139,13 @@ def _parse_dataclass_field(parser: ArgumentParser, field: dataclasses.Field):
                 # This is the value that will get picked if we do --field_name (without value)
                 kwargs["const"] = True
         elif isclass(origin_type) and issubclass(origin_type, list):
-            kwargs["type"] = field.type.__args__[0]
+            # supprt one dimension list and two dimension list
+            if hasattr(get_args(field.type)[0], "__args__"):
+                kwargs["type"] = field.type.__args__[0].__args__[0]
+                kwargs["action"] = "append"
+            else:
+                kwargs["type"] = field.type.__args__[0]
+
             kwargs["nargs"] = "+"
             if field.default_factory is not dataclasses.MISSING:
                 kwargs["default"] = field.default_factory()

paddlenlp/trainer/trainer.py

@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@
     PREFIX_CHECKPOINT_DIR,
     EvalLoopOutput,
     EvalPrediction,
+    IntervalStrategy,
     IterableDatasetShard,
     OptimizerNames,
     PredictionOutput,
@@ -137,6 +138,7 @@
     get_scheduler,
     has_length,
     set_seed,
+    should_skip_data,
     speed_metrics,
 )
 from .training_args import TrainingArguments
@@ -274,9 +276,16 @@ def __init__(
 
         # Seed must be set before instantiating the model when using model
         set_seed(seed=self.args.seed)
-
+        self._skip_global_steps = 0  # total skip global steps
+        self._skip_steps_since_last_logged = 0  # skip steps since last logged
         if model is None:
-            raise RuntimeError("`Trainer` requires either a `model` or `model_init` argument")
+            logger.warning("Model is None.")
+            self.model = None
+            self.train_dataset = train_dataset
+            self.tokenizer = tokenizer
+            default_collator = default_data_collator if tokenizer is None else DataCollatorWithPadding(tokenizer)
+            self.data_collator = data_collator if data_collator is not None else default_collator
+            return
 
         if self.args.to_static:
             model = paddle.jit.to_static(model)
@@ -897,6 +906,7 @@ def _inner_training_loop(
             step_control = 0  # used in loop control, reset to 0 after every step
             self.control = self.callback_handler.on_epoch_begin(args, self.state, self.control)
 
+            step = -1
             for step, inputs in enumerate(epoch_iterator):
                 if self.args.use_hybrid_parallel and self.args.sep_parallel_degree > 1:
                     inputs = split_inputs_sequence_dim(inputs)
@@ -929,6 +939,44 @@ def _inner_training_loop(
                     steps_trained_progress_bar.close()
                     steps_trained_progress_bar = None
 
+                if should_skip_data(self.state.global_step, self.args.skip_data_intervals):
+                    # skip this step
+
+                    if (step_control + 1) % self.args.gradient_accumulation_steps == 0 or (
+                        # last step in epoch but step is always smaller than gradient_accumulation_steps
+                        steps_in_epoch <= args.gradient_accumulation_steps
+                        and (step + 1) == steps_in_epoch
+                    ):
+                        # update current global step and skip step
+                        self.state.global_step += 1
+                        self._skip_global_steps += 1
+                        self._skip_steps_since_last_logged += 1
+
+                        self.state.epoch = epoch + (step + 1) / steps_in_epoch
+
+                        if self.state.global_step == 1 and self.args.logging_first_step:
+                            self.control.should_log = True
+                        if (
+                            self.args.logging_strategy == IntervalStrategy.STEPS
+                            and self.state.global_step % self.args.logging_steps == 0
+                        ):
+                            self.control.should_log = True
+
+                        self.control.should_evaluate = False
+                        self.control.should_save = False
+
+                        # log loss and memeory usage
+                        self._maybe_log_save_evaluate(tr_loss, model, epoch, ignore_keys_for_eval, inputs=inputs)
+                        self._print_timer()
+                        step_control = 0
+                    else:
+                        step_control += 1
+                    if self.state.global_step >= self.state.max_steps:
+                        break
+
+                    self.timers and self.timers("read-data").start()
+                    continue
+
                 if step_control % args.gradient_accumulation_steps == 0:
                     self.control = self.callback_handler.on_step_begin(args, self.state, self.control)
                     self.timers and self.timers("forward-backward").start()
@@ -1146,7 +1194,13 @@ def fused_allreduce_gradients_no_sync(paramlist, hcg):
                         )
 
         self._total_loss_scalar += tr_loss.item()
-        train_loss = self._total_loss_scalar / self.state.global_step
+
+        # In case all steps were skipped, the total loss is set to 0.
+        if self.state.global_step == self._skip_global_steps:
+            logger.info("All steps were skipped, the total loss is set to 0.")
+            train_loss = 0.0
+        else:
+            train_loss = self._total_loss_scalar / (self.state.global_step - self._skip_global_steps)
 
         metrics = speed_metrics("train", start_time, num_samples=num_train_samples, num_steps=self.state.max_steps)
 
@@ -1261,14 +1315,19 @@ def _maybe_log_save_evaluate(self, tr_loss, model, epoch, ignore_keys_for_eval,
         if self.control.should_log:
 
             logs: Dict[str, float] = {}
-
+            num_steps = self.state.global_step - self._globalstep_last_logged - self._skip_steps_since_last_logged
+            self._skip_steps_since_last_logged = 0
             # all_gather + mean() to get average loss over all processes
             tr_loss_scalar = self._get_item_from_loss(self._nested_gather(tr_loss).mean())
 
             # reset tr_loss to zero
             tr_loss.subtract_(tr_loss)
+            # set loss to zero if all steps are skipped since last log
+            if num_steps == 0:
+                logs["loss"] = 0.0
+            else:
+                logs["loss"] = round(tr_loss_scalar / num_steps, 8)
 
-            logs["loss"] = round(tr_loss_scalar / (self.state.global_step - self._globalstep_last_logged), 8)
             logs["learning_rate"] = float("{0:.3e}".format(self._get_learning_rate()))
             logs["global_step"] = int(self.state.global_step)
 
@@ -1289,19 +1348,22 @@ def _maybe_log_save_evaluate(self, tr_loss, model, epoch, ignore_keys_for_eval,
             total_train_batch_size = (
                 self.args.train_batch_size * self.args.gradient_accumulation_steps * self.args.dataset_world_size
             )
-            num_steps = self.state.global_step - self._globalstep_last_logged
+
             seq_length = None
             if getattr(self, "is_pretraining", False) and hasattr(self.model, "config"):
                 seq_length = getattr(self.model.config, "seq_length", None)
-            logs.update(
-                speed_metrics(
-                    "interval",
-                    self._globalstep_last_start_time,
-                    num_samples=total_train_batch_size * num_steps,
-                    num_steps=num_steps,
-                    seq_length=seq_length,
+
+            # Do not log speed metrics if all steps are skipped since last log.
+            if num_steps > 0:
+                logs.update(
+                    speed_metrics(
+                        "interval",
+                        self._globalstep_last_start_time,
+                        num_samples=total_train_batch_size * num_steps,
+                        num_steps=num_steps,
+                        seq_length=seq_length,
+                    )
                 )
-            )
 
             self._total_loss_scalar += tr_loss_scalar
             self._globalstep_last_logged = self.state.global_step
@@ -3151,7 +3213,7 @@ def _set_signature_columns_if_needed(self):
             self._signature_columns += list(set(["label", "label_ids"] + self.label_names))
 
     def _remove_unused_columns(self, dataset: "datasets.Dataset", description: Optional[str] = None):
-        if not self.args.remove_unused_columns:
+        if not self.args.remove_unused_columns or self.model is None:
             return dataset
         if self._signature_columns is None:
             # Inspect model forward signature to keep only the arguments it accepts.

paddlenlp/trainer/trainer_utils.py

@@ -1092,3 +1092,20 @@ def set_hyrbid_parallel_seed(basic_seed, dataset_rank, tp_rank, pp_rank=0):
         tracker.add("global_seed", global_seed)
     if "local_seed" not in tracker.states_ and local_seed not in tracker.seeds_:
         tracker.add("local_seed", local_seed)
+
+
+def should_skip_data(global_step, skip_data_intervals):
+    """Whether to skip current step data"""
+
+    if skip_data_intervals is None:
+        return False
+    skip_flag = False
+    for interval in skip_data_intervals:
+        if len(interval) != 2 or interval[0] > interval[1] or interval[0] <= 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"Please check your skip interval {interval}")
+        start_global_step, end_global_step = interval[0], interval[1]
+        # start_global_step and end_global_step start from 1, while global_step start from 0
+        if start_global_step <= global_step + 1 <= end_global_step:
+            skip_flag = True
+            break
+    return skip_flag

paddlenlp/trainer/training_args.py

@@ -797,6 +797,10 @@ class TrainingArguments:
     release_grads: Optional[bool] = field(
         default=False, metadata={"help": "Whether to release gradients during training. Default is `False`."}
     )
+    skip_data_intervals: Optional[List[List[int]]] = field(
+        default=None,
+        metadata={"help": "The intervals to skip, pass start global step and end global step at each interval"},
+    )
 
     def __post_init__(self):
         env_local_rank = int(os.environ.get("PADDLE_RANK_IN_NODE", -1))