enable loss parallel in SP

torchtrain/config_manager.py

@@ -185,7 +185,13 @@ def init_args_from_command_line(
             "--training.sequence_parallel_degree",
             type=int,
             default=1,
-            help="Sequence Parallelism degree.  1 means disabled.",
+            help="Sequence Parallelism degree. 1 means disabled.",
+        )
+        parser.add_argument(
+            "--training.enable_loss_parallel",
+            default=True,
+            action="store_true",
+            help="whether to enable loss parallel when sequence parallel is enabled",
         )
         parser.add_argument(
             "--training.pipeline_parallel_degree",

torchtrain/parallelisms/__init__.py

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ class ParallelDims:
     sp: int
     pp: int
     world_size: int
+    enable_loss_parallel: bool
 
     def __post_init__(self):
         self._validate()
@@ -63,6 +64,10 @@ def sp_enabled(self):
     def pp_enabled(self):
         return self.pp > 1
 
+    @property
+    def loss_parallel_enabled(self):
+        return self.sp > 1 and self.enable_loss_parallel
+
     @cached_property
     def model_parallel_size(self):
         return self.sp * self.pp

torchtrain/parallelisms/parallelize_llama.py

@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ def parallelize_llama(model, world_mesh, parallel_dims, job_config: JobConfig):
         # First:
         # 1. parallelize the first embedding and the last linear proj layer
         # 2. shard the first layer of transformer block
-        # TODO: enable loss parallel once it's ready
         model = parallelize_module(
             model,
             tp_mesh,
@@ -145,7 +144,10 @@ def parallelize_llama(model, world_mesh, parallel_dims, job_config: JobConfig):
                 ),
                 "output": ColwiseParallel(
                     input_layouts=Shard(0),
-                    output_layouts=Replicate(),
+                    output_layouts=Shard(-1)
+                    if parallel_dims.loss_parallel_enabled
+                    else Replicate(),
+                    use_local_output=not parallel_dims.loss_parallel_enabled,
                 ),
                 "layers.0": PrepareModuleInput(
                     input_layouts=(Replicate(), None),

train.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
 # This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the Llama 2 Community License Agreement.
 
+import contextlib
 import os
 
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 from torch.distributed.fsdp import FullyShardedDataParallel as FSDP
 from torch.distributed.fsdp.sharded_grad_scaler import ShardedGradScaler
+from torch.distributed.tensor.parallel import loss_parallel
 
 from torchtrain.checkpoint import CheckpointManager, IntervalType
 from torchtrain.config_manager import JobConfig
@@ -92,6 +94,7 @@ def main(job_config: JobConfig):
         sp=job_config.training.sequence_parallel_degree,
         pp=job_config.training.pipeline_parallel_degree,
         world_size=world_size,
+        enable_loss_parallel=job_config.training.enable_loss_parallel,
     )
     world_mesh = parallel_dims.build_mesh(device_type="cuda")
     rank0_log(f"Starting job: {job_config.job.description}")
@@ -216,13 +219,12 @@ def main(job_config: JobConfig):
             start_timer.record()
 
             pred = model(input_ids)
-            tok_loss = F.cross_entropy(
-                pred.flatten(0, 1), labels.flatten(0, 1), reduction="none"
-            )
-            loss = tok_loss.mean()
 
-            # backward on scaled loss to create scaled gradients
-            scaler.scale(loss).backward()
+            with loss_parallel() if parallel_dims.loss_parallel_enabled else contextlib.nullcontext():
+                loss = F.cross_entropy(pred.flatten(0, 1), labels.flatten(0, 1))
+
+                # backward on scaled loss to create scaled gradients
+                scaler.scale(loss).backward()
 
             # clip gradients (after unscaling gradients of the optimizer's params)
             scaler.unscale_(optimizer)