[GKD] 0 loss

[nivibilla]

System Info

pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git
pip install tokenizers==0.20.0
pip install accelerate==0.34.2
pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/trl.git
pip install datasets==3.0.1
pip install huggingface_hub==0.25.1
pip install peft==0.13.0
pip install databricks-cli==0.18.0
pip install bitsandbytes==0.44.1
pip install flash-attn==2.6.3 --no-build-isolation

Information

• The official example scripts
• My own modified scripts

Tasks

• An officially supported task in the examples folder
• My own task or dataset (give details below)

Reproduction

def qlora_gkd_train():
    import datasets
    import torch
    import transformers

    from trl import (
        GKDConfig,
        GKDTrainer,
        LogCompletionsCallback,
    )
    from peft import LoraConfig, TaskType, prepare_model_for_kbit_training

    import json

    with open('/local_disk0/training_config.json') as f:
        training_config = json.load(f)

    # # testing memory usage for batch size
    training_config['max_steps'] = 10
    # training_config['per_device_train_batch_size'] = 32
    print(json.dumps(training_config, indent=4))

    print("loading tokenizer")
    tokenizer = transformers.AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
        training_config['teacher_model_name_or_path'],
        padding_side="left",
        truncation_side="left",
    )
    tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token

    print("loading dataset")
    train_dataset = datasets.load_from_disk('/local_disk0/train')

    # Model    
    torch_dtype = torch.bfloat16
    quant_storage_dtype = torch.bfloat16

    quantization_config = transformers.BitsAndBytesConfig(
            load_in_4bit=True,
            bnb_4bit_use_double_quant=True,
            bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4",
            bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch_dtype,
            bnb_4bit_quant_storage=quant_storage_dtype,
        )
    
    print("loading teacher model")
    teacher_model = transformers.AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
        training_config['student_model_name_or_path'],
        quantization_config=quantization_config,
        attn_implementation="flash_attention_2", # use sdpa, alternatively use "flash_attention_2"
        torch_dtype=quant_storage_dtype,
        device_map = "auto"
    )

    teacher_model = prepare_model_for_kbit_training(teacher_model)

    print("create student config")
    student_model_kwargs = dict(
        trust_remote_code=True,
        attn_implementation="flash_attention_2", # use sdpa, alternatively use "flash_attention_2"
        torch_dtype=quant_storage_dtype,
        use_cache=training_config['gradient_checkpointing'],
        device_map="auto",
        # quantization_config=quantization_config,
    )

    print("create student config")
    student_model_kwargs = dict(
        trust_remote_code=True,
        attn_implementation="flash_attention_2", # use sdpa, alternatively use "flash_attention_2"
        torch_dtype=quant_storage_dtype,
        use_cache=training_config['gradient_checkpointing'],
        device_map="auto",
        # quantization_config=quantization_config,
    )

    lora_config = LoraConfig(
        r=training_config['lora_r'],
        # target_modules="all-linear",
        target_modules=["q_proj", "k_proj", "v_proj"],
        task_type=TaskType.CAUSAL_LM,
        lora_alpha=training_config['lora_alpha'],
        lora_dropout=0.05
    )

    training_arguments = GKDConfig(
        model_init_kwargs = student_model_kwargs,
        save_strategy='epoch',
        report_to='mlflow',
        # save_steps=training_config['save_steps'],
        ddp_find_unused_parameters=False,
        gradient_checkpointing=training_config['gradient_checkpointing'],
        per_device_train_batch_size=training_config['per_device_train_batch_size'],
        gradient_accumulation_steps=training_config['gradient_accumulation_steps'],
        num_train_epochs=training_config['num_train_epochs'],
        learning_rate=training_config['learning_rate'],
        warmup_ratio=training_config['warmup_ratio'],
        lr_scheduler_type="cosine",
        bf16=True,
        max_steps=training_config['max_steps'],
        logging_steps=training_config['logging_steps'],
        output_dir=training_config['output_dir'],
        gradient_checkpointing_kwargs={'use_reentrant':False},
        max_seq_length=training_config['max_seq_len'],
        use_liger=training_config['use_liger'],
        # optim="paged_adamw_8bit",
        dataset_text_field='prompt',
        packing=False,
        # # gkd params
        temperature=0.9,
        max_new_tokens=1024,
    )

    print("start training")
    trainer = GKDTrainer(
        model=training_config['student_model_name_or_path'],
        teacher_model=teacher_model,
        args=training_arguments,
        train_dataset=train_dataset,
        processing_class=tokenizer,
        peft_config=lora_config,
    )

    if training_config['resume']:
        trainer.train(resume_from_checkpoint=True)
    else:
        trainer.train()

os.environ['ACCELERATE_BYPASS_DEVICE_MAP'] = "true"

qlora_gkd_train()

{
    "teacher_model_name_or_path": "/local_disk0/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct",
    "student_model_name_or_path": "/local_disk0/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct",
    "learning_rate": 1e-05,
    "per_device_train_batch_size": 4,
    "gradient_accumulation_steps": 1,
    "logging_steps": 1,
    "num_train_epochs": 15,
    "gradient_checkpointing": true,
    "use_peft": true,
    "lora_r": 64,
    "lora_alpha": 16,
    "max_seq_len": 1382,
    "use_liger": false,
    "warmup_ratio": 0.1,
    "resume": false,
    "max_steps": -1
}

Im seeing 0 loss and grad norm. Is this expected?

Expected behavior

No 0 loss?

[nivibilla]

followup from #2215

[kashif]

@nivibilla what are the keys in your dataset, as currently the datacollator also checks if there is a prompt key to get the prompts only: https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/trl/trainer/utils.py#L265

[nivibilla]

I just have the prompt column with the name prompt

[kashif]

any update on this @nivibilla ? I suspect its the data issue?