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    Train Your Large Model on Multiple GPUs with Fully Sharded Data Parallelism

    AwaisBy AwaisJanuary 2, 2026No Comments7 Mins Read0 Views
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    import dataclasses

    import functools

    import os

     

    import datasets

    import tokenizers

    import torch

    import torch.distributed as dist

    import torch.nn as nn

    import torch.nn.functional as F

    import torch.optim.lr_scheduler as lr_scheduler

    import tqdm

    from torch import Tensor

    from torch.distributed.algorithms._checkpoint.checkpoint_wrapper import (

        apply_activation_checkpointing,

        checkpoint_wrapper,

    )

    from torch.distributed.checkpoint import load, save

    from torch.distributed.checkpoint.state_dict import (

        StateDictOptions,

        get_state_dict,

        set_state_dict,

    )

    from torch.distributed.fsdp import (

        CPUOffloadPolicy,

        FSDPModule,

        MixedPrecisionPolicy,

        fully_shard,

    )

    from torch.distributed.fsdp.wrap import transformer_auto_wrap_policy

    from torch.utils.data.distributed import DistributedSampler

     

     

    # Build the model

    @dataclasses.dataclass

    class LlamaConfig:

        “”“Define Llama model hyperparameters.”“”

        vocab_size: int = 50000  # Size of the tokenizer vocabulary

        max_position_embeddings: int = 2048  # Maximum sequence length

        hidden_size: int = 768  # Dimension of hidden layers

        intermediate_size: int = 4*768  # Dimension of MLP’s hidden layer

        num_hidden_layers: int = 12  # Number of transformer layers

        num_attention_heads: int = 12  # Number of attention heads

        num_key_value_heads: int = 3  # Number of key-value heads for GQA

     

     

    class RotaryPositionEncoding(nn.Module):

        “”“Rotary position encoding.”“”

     

        def __init__(self, dim: int, max_position_embeddings: int) -> None:

            “”“Initialize the RotaryPositionEncoding module.

     

            Args:

                dim: The hidden dimension of the input tensor to which RoPE is applied

                max_position_embeddings: The maximum sequence length of the input tensor

            ““”

            super().__init__()

            self.dim = dim

            self.max_position_embeddings = max_position_embeddings

            # compute a matrix of n\theta_i

            N = 10_000.0

            inv_freq = 1.0 / (N ** (torch.arange(0, dim, 2) / dim))

            inv_freq = torch.cat((inv_freq, inv_freq), dim=–1)

            position = torch.arange(max_position_embeddings)

            sinusoid_inp = torch.outer(position, inv_freq)

            # save cosine and sine matrices as buffers, not parameters

            self.register_buffer(“cos”, sinusoid_inp.cos())

            self.register_buffer(“sin”, sinusoid_inp.sin())

     

        def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:

            “”“Apply RoPE to tensor x.

     

            Args:

                x: Input tensor of shape (batch_size, seq_length, num_heads, head_dim)

     

            Returns:

                Output tensor of shape (batch_size, seq_length, num_heads, head_dim)

            ““”

            batch_size, seq_len, num_heads, head_dim = x.shape

            device = x.device

            dtype = x.dtype

            # transform the cosine and sine matrices to 4D tensor and the same dtype as x

            cos = self.cos.to(device, dtype)[:seq_len].view(1, seq_len, 1, –1)

            sin = self.sin.to(device, dtype)[:seq_len].view(1, seq_len, 1, –1)

            # apply RoPE to x

            x1, x2 = x.chunk(2, dim=–1)

            rotated = torch.cat((–x2, x1), dim=–1)

            output = (x * cos) + (rotated * sin)

            return output

     

     

    class LlamaAttention(nn.Module):

        “”“Grouped-query attention with rotary embeddings.”“”

     

        def __init__(self, config: LlamaConfig) -> None:

            super().__init__()

            self.hidden_size = config.hidden_size

            self.num_heads = config.num_attention_heads

            self.head_dim = self.hidden_size // self.num_heads

            self.num_kv_heads = config.num_key_value_heads  # GQA: H_kv < H_q

     

            # hidden_size must be divisible by num_heads

            assert (self.head_dim * self.num_heads) == self.hidden_size

     

            # Linear layers for Q, K, V projections

            self.q_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.num_heads * self.head_dim, bias=False)

            self.k_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.num_kv_heads * self.head_dim, bias=False)

            self.v_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.num_kv_heads * self.head_dim, bias=False)

            self.o_proj = nn.Linear(self.num_heads * self.head_dim, self.hidden_size, bias=False)

     

        def reset_parameters(self):

            self.q_proj.reset_parameters()

            self.k_proj.reset_parameters()

            self.v_proj.reset_parameters()

            self.o_proj.reset_parameters()

     

        def forward(self, hidden_states: Tensor, rope: RotaryPositionEncoding, attn_mask: Tensor) -> Tensor:

            bs, seq_len, dim = hidden_states.size()

     

            # Project inputs to Q, K, V

            query_states = self.q_proj(hidden_states).view(bs, seq_len, self.num_heads, self.head_dim)

            key_states = self.k_proj(hidden_states).view(bs, seq_len, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim)

            value_states = self.v_proj(hidden_states).view(bs, seq_len, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim)

     

            # Apply rotary position embeddings

            query_states = rope(query_states)

            key_states = rope(key_states)

     

            # Transpose tensors from BSHD to BHSD dimension for scaled_dot_product_attention

            query_states = query_states.transpose(1, 2)

            key_states = key_states.transpose(1, 2)

            value_states = value_states.transpose(1, 2)

     

            # Use PyTorch’s optimized attention implementation

            # setting is_causal=True is incompatible with setting explicit attention mask

            attn_output = F.scaled_dot_product_attention(

                query_states,

                key_states,

                value_states,

                attn_mask=attn_mask,

                dropout_p=0.0,

                enable_gqa=True,

            )

     

            # Transpose output tensor from BHSD to BSHD dimension, reshape to 3D, and then project output

            attn_output = attn_output.transpose(1, 2).reshape(bs, seq_len, self.hidden_size)

            attn_output = self.o_proj(attn_output)

            return attn_output

     

     

    class LlamaMLP(nn.Module):

        “”“Feed-forward network with SwiGLU activation.”“”

     

        def __init__(self, config: LlamaConfig) -> None:

            super().__init__()

            # Two parallel projections for SwiGLU

            self.gate_proj = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, config.intermediate_size, bias=False)

            self.up_proj = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, config.intermediate_size, bias=False)

            self.act_fn = F.silu  # SwiGLU activation function

            # Project back to hidden size

            self.down_proj = nn.Linear(config.intermediate_size, config.hidden_size, bias=False)

     

        def reset_parameters(self):

            self.gate_proj.reset_parameters()

            self.up_proj.reset_parameters()

            self.down_proj.reset_parameters()

     

        def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:

            # SwiGLU activation: multiply gate and up-projected inputs

            gate = self.act_fn(self.gate_proj(x))

            up = self.up_proj(x)

            return self.down_proj(gate * up)

     

     

    class LlamaDecoderLayer(nn.Module):

        “”“Single transformer layer for a Llama model.”“”

     

        def __init__(self, config: LlamaConfig) -> None:

            super().__init__()

            self.input_layernorm = nn.RMSNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=1e–5)

            self.self_attn = LlamaAttention(config)

            self.post_attention_layernorm = nn.RMSNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=1e–5)

            self.mlp = LlamaMLP(config)

     

        def reset_parameters(self):

            self.input_layernorm.reset_parameters()

            self.self_attn.reset_parameters()

            self.post_attention_layernorm.reset_parameters()

            self.mlp.reset_parameters()

     

        def forward(self, hidden_states: Tensor, rope: RotaryPositionEncoding, attn_mask: Tensor) -> Tensor:

            # First residual block: Self-attention

            residual = hidden_states

            hidden_states = self.input_layernorm(hidden_states)

            attn_outputs = self.self_attn(hidden_states, rope=rope, attn_mask=attn_mask)

            hidden_states = attn_outputs + residual

     

            # Second residual block: MLP

            residual = hidden_states

            hidden_states = self.post_attention_layernorm(hidden_states)

            hidden_states = self.mlp(hidden_states) + residual

            return hidden_states

     

     

    class LlamaModel(nn.Module):

        “”“The full Llama model without any pretraining heads.”“”

     

        def __init__(self, config: LlamaConfig) -> None:

            super().__init__()

            self.rotary_emb = RotaryPositionEncoding(

                config.hidden_size // config.num_attention_heads,

                config.max_position_embeddings,

            )

     

            self.embed_tokens = nn.Embedding(config.vocab_size, config.hidden_size)

            self.layers = nn.ModuleList([

                LlamaDecoderLayer(config) for _ in range(config.num_hidden_layers)

            ])

            self.norm = nn.RMSNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=1e–5)

     

        def reset_parameters(self):

            self.embed_tokens.reset_parameters()

            for layer in self.layers:

                layer.reset_parameters()

            self.norm.reset_parameters()

     

        def forward(self, input_ids: Tensor, attn_mask: Tensor) -> Tensor:

            # Convert input token IDs to embeddings

            hidden_states = self.embed_tokens(input_ids)

            # Process through all transformer layers, then the final norm layer

            for layer in self.layers:

                hidden_states = layer(hidden_states, rope=self.rotary_emb, attn_mask=attn_mask)

            hidden_states = self.norm(hidden_states)

            # Return the final hidden states

            return hidden_states

     

     

    class LlamaForPretraining(nn.Module):

        def __init__(self, config: LlamaConfig) -> None:

            super().__init__()

            self.base_model = LlamaModel(config)

            self.lm_head = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, config.vocab_size, bias=False)

     

        def reset_parameters(self):

            self.base_model.reset_parameters()

            self.lm_head.reset_parameters()

     

        def forward(self, input_ids: Tensor, attn_mask: Tensor) -> Tensor:

            hidden_states = self.base_model(input_ids, attn_mask)

            return self.lm_head(hidden_states)

     

     

    def create_causal_mask(batch: Tensor, dtype: torch.dtype = torch.float32) -> Tensor:

        “”“Create a causal mask for self-attention.

     

        Args:

            batch: Batch of sequences, shape (batch_size, seq_len)

            dtype: Data type of the mask

     

        Returns:

            Causal mask of shape (seq_len, seq_len)

        ““”

        batch_size, seq_len = batch.shape

        mask = torch.full((seq_len, seq_len), float(“-inf”), device=batch.device, dtype=dtype) \

                    .triu(diagonal=1)

        return mask

     

     

    def create_padding_mask(batch: Tensor, padding_token_id: int, dtype: torch.dtype = torch.float32) -> Tensor:

        “”“Create a padding mask for a batch of sequences for self-attention.

     

        Args:

            batch: Batch of sequences, shape (batch_size, seq_len)

            padding_token_id: ID of the padding token

            dtype: Data type of the mask

     

        Returns:

            Padding mask of shape (batch_size, 1, seq_len, seq_len)

        ““”

        padded = torch.zeros_like(batch, device=batch.device, dtype=dtype) \

                      .masked_fill(batch == padding_token_id, float(“-inf”))

        mask = padded[:,:,None] + padded[:,None,:]

        return mask[:, None, :, :]

     

     

    # Generator function to create padded sequences of fixed length

    class PretrainingDataset(torch.utils.data.Dataset):

        def __init__(self, dataset: datasets.Dataset, tokenizer: tokenizers.Tokenizer,

                     seq_length: int):

            self.dataset = dataset

            self.tokenizer = tokenizer

            self.seq_length = seq_length

            self.bot = tokenizer.token_to_id(“[BOT]”)

            self.eot = tokenizer.token_to_id(“[EOT]”)

            self.pad = tokenizer.token_to_id(“[PAD]”)

     

        def __len__(self):

            return len(self.dataset)

     

        def __getitem__(self, index: int) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:

            “”“Get a sequence of token ids from the dataset. [BOT] and [EOT] tokens

            are added. Clipped and padded to the sequence length.

            ““”

            seq = self.dataset[index][“text”]

            tokens: list[int] = [self.bot] + self.tokenizer.encode(seq).ids + [self.eot]

            # pad to target sequence length

            toklen = len(tokens)

            if toklen < self.seq_length+1:

                pad_length = self.seq_length+1 – toklen

                tokens += [self.pad] * pad_length

            # return the sequence

            x = torch.tensor(tokens[:self.seq_length], dtype=torch.int64)

            y = torch.tensor(tokens[1:self.seq_length+1], dtype=torch.int64)

            return x, y

     

     

    def load_checkpoint(model: nn.Module, optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer, scheduler: lr_scheduler.SequentialLR) -> None:

        dist.barrier()

        model_state, optimizer_state = get_state_dict(

            model, optimizer, options=StateDictOptions(full_state_dict=True, cpu_offload=cpu_offload),

        )

        load(

            {“model”: model_state, “optimizer”: optimizer_state},

            checkpoint_id=“checkpoint-dist”,

        )

        set_state_dict(

            model, optimizer,

            model_state_dict=model_state, optim_state_dict=optimizer_state,

            options=StateDictOptions(broadcast_from_rank0=True, full_state_dict=True, cpu_offload=cpu_offload),

        )

        scheduler.load_state_dict(

            torch.load(“checkpoint-dist/lrscheduler.pt”, map_location=device),

        )

        dist.barrier()

     

     

    def save_checkpoint(model: nn.Module, optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer, scheduler: lr_scheduler.SequentialLR) -> None:

        dist.barrier()

        model_state, optimizer_state = get_state_dict(

            model, optimizer, options=StateDictOptions(full_state_dict=True, cpu_offload=cpu_offload),

        )

        save(

            {“model”: model_state, “optimizer”: optimizer_state},

            checkpoint_id=“checkpoint-dist”,

        )

        if dist.get_rank() == 0:

            torch.save(scheduler.state_dict(), “checkpoint-dist/lrscheduler.pt”)

        dist.barrier()

     

     

    # Load the tokenizer and dataset

    tokenizer = tokenizers.Tokenizer.from_file(“bpe_50K.json”)

    dataset = datasets.load_dataset(“HuggingFaceFW/fineweb”, “sample-10BT”, split=“train”)

     

    # Initialize the distributed environment

    dist.init_process_group(backend=“nccl”)

    local_rank = int(os.environ[“LOCAL_RANK”])

    device = torch.device(f“cuda:{local_rank}”)

    rank = dist.get_rank()

    world_size = dist.get_world_size()

    print(f“World size {world_size}, rank {rank}, local rank {local_rank}. Using {device}”)

     

    # Create pretraining model on meta device, on all ranks

    with torch.device(“meta”):

        model_config = LlamaConfig()

        model = LlamaForPretraining(model_config)

     

    # Convert model from meta device to FSDP2, must shard every component

    cpu_offload = False

    fsdp_kwargs = {

        # optional: use mixed precision training

        “mp_policy”: MixedPrecisionPolicy(

            param_dtype=torch.bfloat16,

            reduce_dtype=torch.float32,

        ),

        # optional: CPU offloading

        “offload_policy”: CPUOffloadPolicy() if cpu_offload else None,

        # optional: discard all-gathered parameters after forward pass even on root modules

        # “reshard_after_forward”: True,

    }

    for layer in model.base_model.layers:

        fully_shard(layer, **fsdp_kwargs)

    fully_shard(model.base_model, **fsdp_kwargs)

    fully_shard(model, **fsdp_kwargs)

    model.to_empty(device=“cpu” if cpu_offload else device)

    model.reset_parameters()

    assert isinstance(model, FSDPModule), f“Expected FSDPModule, got {type(model)}”

     

    # Set explicit prefetching on models

    # more prefetching uses more memory, but allow more overlap of computation and communication

    num_prefetch = 1

    if num_prefetch > 1:

        modules = list(model.base_model.layers)

        for i, module in enumerate(modules):

            if i == len(modules) – 1:

                break

            module.set_modules_to_forward_prefetch(modules[i+1:i+num_prefetch+1])

        for i, module in enumerate(modules):

            if i == 0:

                continue

            module.set_modules_to_backward_prefetch(modules[max(0, i–num_prefetch):i])

     

    # Optional: Apply gradient checkpointing on a distributed model (all ranks)

    #wrap_policy = functools.partial(

    #    transformer_auto_wrap_policy,

    #    transformer_layer_cls={LlamaDecoderLayer, nn.Embedding},

    #)

    #apply_activation_checkpointing(

    #    model,

    #    checkpoint_wrapper_fn=checkpoint_wrapper,

    #    auto_wrap_policy=wrap_policy,

    #)

     

    # Training parameters

    epochs = 3

    learning_rate = 1e–3

    batch_size = 64 // world_size

    seq_length = 512

    num_warmup_steps = 1000

    PAD_TOKEN_ID = tokenizer.token_to_id(“[PAD]”)

    model.train()

     

    # DataLoader, optimizer, scheduler, and loss function

    # Sampler is needed to shard the dataset across world size

    dataset = PretrainingDataset(dataset, tokenizer, seq_length)

    sampler = DistributedSampler(dataset, shuffle=False, drop_last=True)

    dataloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(

        dataset,

        sampler=sampler,

        batch_size=batch_size,

        pin_memory=True,  # optional

        shuffle=False,

        num_workers=2,

        prefetch_factor=2,

    )

    num_training_steps = len(dataloader) * epochs

     

    optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(

        model.parameters(), lr=learning_rate, betas=(0.9, 0.99), eps=1e–8, weight_decay=0.1,

    )

    warmup_scheduler = lr_scheduler.LinearLR(

        optimizer,

        start_factor=0.1, end_factor=1.0, total_iters=num_warmup_steps,

    )

    cosine_scheduler = lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(

        optimizer,

        T_max=num_training_steps – num_warmup_steps,

        eta_min=0,

    )

    scheduler = lr_scheduler.SequentialLR(

        optimizer,

        schedulers=[warmup_scheduler, cosine_scheduler],

        milestones=[num_warmup_steps],

    )

    loss_fn = nn.CrossEntropyLoss(ignore_index=PAD_TOKEN_ID)

     

    # Optional: Compile the model and loss function

    #model = torch.compile(model)

    #loss_fn = torch.compile(loss_fn)

     

    # if checkpoint-dist dir exists, load the checkpoint to model and optimizer

    if os.path.exists(“checkpoint-dist”):

        load_checkpoint(model, optimizer, scheduler)

     

    # start training

    for epoch in range(epochs):

        pbar = tqdm.tqdm(dataloader, desc=f“Epoch {epoch+1}/{epochs}”)

        for batch_id, batch in enumerate(pbar):

            if batch_id % 1000 == 0:

                save_checkpoint(model, optimizer, scheduler)

            # Explicit prefetching before sending any data to model

            model.unshard()

            # Get batched data, move from CPU to GPU

            input_ids, target_ids = batch

            input_ids = input_ids.to(device)

            target_ids = target_ids.to(device)

            # create attention mask: causal mask + padding mask

            attn_mask = create_causal_mask(input_ids) + \

                        create_padding_mask(input_ids, PAD_TOKEN_ID)

            # Extract output from model

            logits = model(input_ids, attn_mask)

            # Compute loss: cross-entropy between logits and target, ignoring padding tokens

            loss = loss_fn(logits.view(–1, logits.size(–1)), target_ids.view(–1))

            # Backward with loss and gradient clipping by L2 norm to 1.0

            # Optimizer and gradient clipping works on DTensor

            optimizer.zero_grad(set_to_none=False if cpu_offload else True)

            loss.backward()

            # All-reduce fail if using CPU offloading

            if not cpu_offload:

                torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), 1.0)

            optimizer.step()

            scheduler.step()

            pbar.set_postfix(loss=loss.item())

            pbar.update(1)

        pbar.close()

     

    # Save the model

    save_checkpoint(model, optimizer, scheduler)

     

    # Clean up the distributed environment

    dist.destroy_process_group()

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