Learning Goals
Often we want to adapt or customize foundation models to be more performant on our specific task. Fine-tuning refers to how we can modify the weights of a pre-trained foundation model with additional custom data. Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) refers to unfreezing all the weights and layers in our model and training on a newly labeled set of examples. We can fine-tune to incorporate new, domain-specific knowledge or teach the foundation model what type of response to provide. One specific type of SFT is also referred to as “instruction tuning” where we use SFT to teach a model to follow instructions better.
In this project, you’ll test out the supervised fine-tuning method on the Mixtral-8x7B model using an instructive dataset.
NeMo Tools and Resources
NeMo Framework Training container:
nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:24.03.framework
Software Requirements
Use the latest NeMo Framework Training container
This playbook has been tested using the container:
nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:24.03.frameworkon DGX Cloud. It is expected to work similarly on other environments.
Hardware Requirements
Minimum 8xA100 80G (4 nodes) for SFT on Mixtral-8x7B.
Data
Databricks-dolly-15k is an open-source dataset of instruction-following records generated by thousands of Databricks employees in several of the behavioral categories outlined in the InstructGPT paper, including brainstorming, classification, closed QA, generation, information extraction, open QA, and summarization For more details about the data refer to databricks-dolly-15k | Hugging Face
The following steps have been tested with this container: nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:24.03.framework
If you already have a .nemo file for the Mixtral-8x7B model, you can skip this step.
Step 1: Download Mixtral-8x7B from Huggingface-hub
First create the destination directory, then you can download by either using the CLI tool
mkdir mixtral-8x7B-hf
huggingface-cli download mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1 --local-dir mixtral-8x7B-hf
Or if you prefer using the huggingface API you can download the checkpoint using the following Python code
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
snapshot_download(repo_id="mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1",
local_dir="mixtral-8x7B-hf", local_dir_use_symlinks=False)
In this example, Mixtral-8x7B huggingface model will be downloaded to ./mixtral-8x7B-hf
Step 2: Convert to .nemo
Run the container using the following command
docker run --gpus device=1 --shm-size=2g --net=host --ulimit memlock=-1 --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/workspace -w /workspace -v ${PWD}/results:/results nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:24.03.framework bash
Convert the huggingface model to .nemo model
torchrun --nproc_per_node=1 /opt/NeMo/scripts/checkpoint_converters/convert_mixtral_hf_to_nemo.py --input_name_or_path=./mixtral-8x7B-hf/ --output_path=mixtral.nemo
The generated mixtral.nemo file uses distributed checkpointing and can be loaded with any tensor parallel (tp) or pipeline parallel (pp) combination without modifying (e.g. reshaping/splitting) the mixtral.nemo checkpoint.
Step 1: Download dataset
Download the dolly-15k dataset from huggingface
git clone https://huggingface.co/datasets/databricks/databricks-dolly-15k;
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/databricks/databricks-dolly-15k/resolve/main/databricks-dolly-15k.jsonl -O databricks-dolly-15k/databricks-dolly-15k.jsonl
Once downloaded, verify the size of the file (databricks-dolly-15k.jsonl)
$ du -sh databricks-dolly-15k/databricks-dolly-15k.jsonl
13M databricks-dolly-15k/databricks-dolly-15k.jsonl
In addition, you can verify the integrity of the file using checksum
$ sha256sum databricks-dolly-15k/databricks-dolly-15k.jsonl
2df9083338b4abd6bceb5635764dab5d833b393b55759dffb0959b6fcbf794ec databricks-dolly-15k/databricks-dolly-15k.jsonl
If the sizes or checksum do not match, please inspect the log to confirm all commands run successfully.
Step 2: Data Preprocessing
Next we need to pre-process the data to ensure it’s in the correct format.
The expected format is a JSONL file with {‘input’: ‘xxx’, ‘output’: ‘yyy’} pairs.
In order to run the pre-processing you will use the script that has already been prepared for you. Run this script and passing your jsonl file as –input. In order to run the script you need to launch the container.
If the container is not already running use the following command
docker run --gpus device=1 --shm-size=2g --net=host --ulimit memlock=-1 --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/workspace -w /workspace -v ${PWD}/results:/results nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:24.03.framework bash
And then run the following data preprocess script
python3 /opt/NeMo-Megatron-Launcher/launcher_scripts/nemo_launcher/collections/dataprep_scripts/dolly_dataprep/preprocess.py --input databricks-dolly-15k/databricks-dolly-15k.jsonl
Example output
Preprocessing data to jsonl format...
Data was successfully preprocessed and saved by databricks-dolly-15k/databricks-dolly-15k-output.jsonl .
Check that the output jsonl files exists
$ ls databricks-dolly-15k/
.git/
.gitattributes
README.md
databricks-dolly-15k-output.jsonl
databricks-dolly-15k.jsonl
Check the first example in the output jsonl file
$ head -n 1 databricks-dolly-15k/databricks-dolly-15k-output.jsonl
{"input": "Virgin Australia, the trading name of Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd, is an Australian-based airline. It is the largest airline by fleet size to use the Virgin brand. It commenced services on 31 August 2000 as Virgin Blue, with two aircraft on a single route. It suddenly found itself as a major airline in Australia's domestic market after the collapse of Ansett Australia in September 2001. The airline has since grown to directly serve 32 cities in Australia, from hubs in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.\n\nWhen did Virgin Australia start operating?", "output": "Virgin Australia commenced services on 31 August 2000 as Virgin Blue, with two aircraft on a single route.", "category": "closed_qa"}
Step 3: Split the data into train, validation and test
Generate the train, test and validation splits- you may use your own script to do this or create a new script and use the following sample split_train_val.py by copying it over in the databricks-dolly-15k directory
import json
import random
input_file = "databricks-dolly-15k-output.jsonl"
training_output_file = "training.jsonl"
validation_output_file = "validation.jsonl"
test_output_file = "test.jsonl"
# Specify the proportion of data for training and validation
train_proportion = 0.80
validation_proportion = 0.15
test_proportion = 0.05
# Read the JSONL file and shuffle the JSON objects
with open(input_file, "r") as f:
lines = f.readlines()
random.shuffle(lines)
# Calculate split indices
total_lines = len(lines)
train_index = int(total_lines * train_proportion)
val_index = int(total_lines * validation_proportion)
# Distribute JSON objects into training and validation sets
train_data = lines[:train_index]
validation_data = lines[train_index:train_index+val_index]
test_data = lines[train_index+val_index:]
# Write JSON objects to training file
with open(training_output_file, "w") as f:
for line in train_data:
f.write(line.strip() + "\n")
# Write JSON objects to validation file
with open(validation_output_file, "w") as f:
for line in validation_data:
f.write(line.strip() + "\n")
# Write JSON objects to training file
with open(test_output_file, "w") as f:
for line in test_data:
f.write(line.strip() + "\n")
Then go to the databricks-dolly-15k directory and generate the splits:
python3 split_train_val.py
Check for the train, test and validation jsonl files
$ ls
README.md
databricks-dolly-15k.jsonl
databricks-dolly-15k-output.jsonl
split_train_val.py
training.jsonl
validation.jsonl
test.jsonl
Set the environment variables, pass the paths to your train, test, and validation data files
MODEL="YOUR PATH TO mixtral.nemo"
TRAIN_DS="[YOUR PATH TO databricks-dolly-15k/train.jsonl]"
VALID_DS="[YOUR PATH TO databricks-dolly-15k/validation.jsonl]"
TEST_DS="[YOUR PATH TO databricks-dolly-15k/test.jsonl]"
VALID_NAMES="[databricks-dolly-15k]"
Set the concat sampling probability. This depends on the number of files being passed in the train set and how much percentage of the fine-tuning data would you like to use from each file. Note sum of concat sampling probabilities should be 1.0. For example, the following is an example for setting concat sampling probability for a train set with 2 jsonl files.
TRAIN_DS="[/path/to/dataset_1.jsonl,/path/to/dataset_2.jsonl]"
CONCAT_SAMPLING_PROBS="[0.3,0.7]"
In our example we are using 1 train file so CONCAT_SAMPLING_PROBS="[1.0]"
Set the tensor parallelism and pipeline parallelism values based on the model you are using.
CONCAT_SAMPLING_PROBS="[1]"
TP_SIZE=1
PP_SIZE=32
Run the SFT command by appropriately setting the values for the parameters such as the number of steps, model checkpoint path, batch sizes etc. For a full reference of parameter settings refer to the config file
torchrun --nproc_per_node=8 \
/opt/NeMo/examples/nlp/language_modeling/tuning/megatron_gpt_finetuning.py \
trainer.precision=bf16 \
trainer.devices=8 \
trainer.num_nodes=1 \
trainer.val_check_interval=0.1 \
trainer.max_steps=50 \
model.restore_from_path=${MODEL} \
model.micro_batch_size=1 \
model.global_batch_size=128 \
model.tensor_model_parallel_size=${TP_SIZE} \
model.pipeline_model_parallel_size=${PP_SIZE} \
model.megatron_amp_O2=True \
model.sequence_parallel=True \
model.activations_checkpoint_granularity=selective \
model.activations_checkpoint_method=uniform \
model.optim.name=distributed_fused_adam \
model.optim.lr=1e-6 \
model.answer_only_loss=True \
model.peft.peft_scheme=none \
model.data.train_ds.file_names=${TRAIN_DS} \
model.data.validation_ds.file_names=${VALID_DS} \
model.data.test_ds.file_names=${TEST_DS} \
model.data.train_ds.concat_sampling_probabilities=${CONCAT_SAMPLING_PROBS} \
model.data.train_ds.max_seq_length=2048 \
model.data.validation_ds.max_seq_length=2048 \
model.data.train_ds.micro_batch_size=1 \
model.data.train_ds.global_batch_size=128 \
model.data.validation_ds.micro_batch_size=1 \
model.data.validation_ds.global_batch_size=128 \
model.data.test_ds.micro_batch_size=1 \
model.data.test_ds.global_batch_size=256 \
model.data.train_ds.num_workers=0 \
model.data.validation_ds.num_workers=0 \
model.data.test_ds.num_workers=0 \
model.data.validation_ds.metric.name=loss \
model.data.test_ds.metric.name=loss \
exp_manager.create_wandb_logger=False \
exp_manager.explicit_log_dir=/results \
exp_manager.resume_if_exists=True \
exp_manager.resume_ignore_no_checkpoint=True \
exp_manager.create_checkpoint_callback=True \
exp_manager.checkpoint_callback_params.monitor=validation_loss \
exp_manager.checkpoint_callback_params.save_best_model=False \
exp_manager.checkpoint_callback_params.save_nemo_on_train_end=True \
exp_manager.checkpoint_callback_params.mode=min \
++cluster_type=BCP
Note: For running SFT on multiple nodes on a Slurm cluster, replace the torchrun --nproc_per_node=8 with python.
After completion of SFT, you should get an output similar to the following. If you want to get the wandb output, make sure to set exp_manager.create_wandb_logger=True and sign up for W&B to get the API key. You can follow the steps on the terminal to accomplish that.
wandb: Waiting for W&B process to finish... (success).
wandb:
wandb: Run history:
wandb: consumed_samples ▁▃▅▆█
wandb: epoch ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁
wandb: global_step ▁▃▅▆█
wandb: grad_norm █▃▄▃▁
wandb: lr ▁▁▁▁▁
wandb: reduced_train_loss █▅▇▆▁
wandb: train_backward_timing ▇█▅▁▇
wandb: train_step_timing ▃▁█▆▂
wandb: trainer/global_step ▁▁▁▂▂▂▂▂▂▃▃▃▃▃▃▄▄▄▄▄▅▅▅▅▅▅▆▆▆▆▆▇▇▇▇▇▇███
wandb: val_loss █▅▄▃▂▂▂▁▁▁
wandb: validation_loss █▅▄▃▂▂▂▁▁▁
wandb: validation_loss_databricks-dolly-15k █▅▄▃▂▂▂▁▁▁
wandb: validation_step_timing ▂██▂▂▆▃█▂██▂▂▆▇█▂██▂█▆▇█▂█▁▃█▆▇█▂▂▁▃█▆▇▇
wandb:
wandb: Run summary:
wandb: consumed_samples 6272.0
wandb: epoch 0
wandb: global_step 49.0
wandb: grad_norm 10.05424
wandb: lr 0.0
wandb: reduced_train_loss 1.66673
wandb: train_backward_timing 5e-05
wandb: train_step_timing 17.50282
wandb: trainer/global_step 49
wandb: val_loss 1.65022
wandb: validation_loss 1.65022
wandb: validation_loss_databricks-dolly-15k 1.65022
wandb: validation_step_timing 9.01902
wandb:
wandb: You can sync this run to the cloud by running:
wandb: wandb sync /results/wandb/offline-run-20230714_032640-iu65oacs
wandb: Find logs at: /results/wandb/offline-run-20230714_032640-iu65oacs/logs
Step 6: Run evaluation
Run evaluation using megatron_gpt_generate.py
Set the appropriate model checkpoint path, test file path, batch sizes, number of tokens etc. and run evaluation on the test file
PATH_TO_TRAINED_MODEL=/results/checkpoints/megatron_gpt_sft.nemo
TEST_DS="[YOUR PATH TO test.jsonl]"
python3 \
/opt/NeMo/examples/nlp/language_modeling/tuning/megatron_gpt_generate.py \
model.restore_from_path=${PATH_TO_TRAINED_MODEL} \
trainer.devices=8 \
model.data.test_ds.file_names=${TEST_DS} \
model.data.test_ds.names=['dolly-15k_test'] \
model.data.test_ds.global_batch_size=16 \
model.data.test_ds.micro_batch_size=2 \
model.data.test_ds.tokens_to_generate=20 \
model.tensor_model_parallel_size=1 \
model.pipeline_model_parallel_size=1 \
inference.greedy=True \
model.data.test_ds.output_file_path_prefix=/results/sft_results \
model.data.test_ds.write_predictions_to_file=True
Sample Output
$ tail -n 4 sft_results.jsonl
{"sentence": "What is Azure HDInsight? Azure HDInsight is a cloud service that provides a high-performance, scalable, and cost-effective way to run Apache Hadoop on the"}
{"sentence": "What is carnitine? Carnitine is a fatty acid that is found in the body. It is used to produce energy in the mitochondria of the cells. Carnit"}
{"sentence": "List some TV shows that Canadian actor William B. Davis has been in."}
{"sentence": "Identify which instrument is string or percussion: Handbell, Dobro, Drum"}
Note, This is only a sample output (based of a toy SFT example) and your output may vary. The performance can be further improved by fine-tuning the model for more steps.