better handling for tokenizers like flan that don't have a bos token

don't fail fast

.github/workflows/base.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     # this job needs to be run on self-hosted GPU runners...
     runs-on: self-hosted
     strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
           - cuda: "118"

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ jobs:
     if: github.repository_owner == 'OpenAccess-AI-Collective'
     # this job needs to be run on self-hosted GPU runners...
     strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
           - cuda: cu118

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ jobs:
   test:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         python_version: ["3.9", "3.10"]
     timeout-minutes: 10

README.md

@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Have dataset(s) in one of the following format (JSONL recommended):
   ```json
   {"instruction": "...", "input": "...", "output": "..."}
   ```
-- `sharegpt`: conversations
+- `sharegpt:chat`: conversations
   ```json
   {"conversations": [{"from": "...", "value": "..."}]}
   ```
@@ -264,6 +264,8 @@ See sample configs in [configs](configs) folder or [examples](examples) for quic
   bf16: true # require >=ampere
   fp16: true
   tf32: true # require >=ampere
+  bfloat16: true # require >=ampere, use instead of bf16 when you don't want AMP (automatic mixed precision)
+  float16: true # use instead of fp16 when you don't want AMP
   ```
   Note: Repo does not do 4-bit quantization.
 
@@ -420,7 +422,15 @@ log_sweep_max_lr:
 optimizer:
 # specify weight decay
 weight_decay:
+# adamw hyperparams
+adam_beta1:
+adam_beta2:
+adam_epsilon:
+# Gradient clipping max norm
+max_grad_norm:
 
+# whether to bettertransformers
+flash_optimum:
 # whether to use xformers attention patch https://github.com/facebookresearch/xformers:
 xformers_attention:
 # whether to use flash attention patch https://github.com/HazyResearch/flash-attention:
@@ -520,6 +530,12 @@ Add below flag to train command above
 --merge_lora --lora_model_dir="./completed-model" --load_in_8bit=False --load_in_4bit=False
 ```
 
+If you run out of CUDA memory, you can try to merge in system RAM with
+
+```bash
+CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="" python3 scripts/finetune.py ...
+```
+
 ## Common Errors 🧰
 
 > Cuda out of memory

data/README.md

@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ curl https://github.com/teknium1/GPTeacher/blob/main/Roleplay/roleplay-similarit
 ## Convert the JSON data files to JSONL.
 
 ```shell
-python3 ./scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py --input data/alpaca_data_gpt4.json > data/alpaca_data_gpt4.jsonl
+python3 ./scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py --file data/alpaca_data_gpt4.json --output data/alpaca_data_gpt4.jsonl
-python3 ./scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py --input data/raw/vicuna_cleaned.json > data/vicuna_cleaned.jsonl
+python3 ./scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py --file data/raw/vicuna_cleaned.json --output data/vicuna_cleaned.jsonl
-python3 ./scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py --input data/raw/roleplay-similarity_0.6-instruct-dataset.json > data/roleplay-similarity_0.6-instruct-dataset.jsonl
+python3 ./scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py --file data/raw/roleplay-similarity_0.6-instruct-dataset.json --output data/roleplay-similarity_0.6-instruct-dataset.jsonl
-python3 ./scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py --input data/raw/gpt4-instruct-similarity-0.6-dataset.json > data/gpt4-instruct-similarity-0.6-dataset.jsonl
+python3 ./scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py --file data/raw/gpt4-instruct-similarity-0.6-dataset.json --output data/gpt4-instruct-similarity-0.6-dataset.jsonl
 ```
 ---
 

examples/pythia-12b/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Pythia 12B
+
+- Single-GPU A100 only (?)
+
+```shell
+python scripts/finetune.py examples/pythia-12b/config.yml
+```
+
+⚠️ Multiple-GPU A100 - Doesn't seem to work with multi-gpu without causing OOM! ⚠️

examples/pythia-12b/config.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+base_model: EleutherAI/pythia-12b-deduped
+base_model_config: EleutherAI/pythia-12b-deduped
+base_model_ignore_patterns: pytorch*  # prefer safetensors
+model_type: GPTNeoXForCausalLM
+tokenizer_type: AutoTokenizer
+load_in_8bit: false
+load_in_4bit: false
+gptq: false
+device_map: auto
+datasets:
+  - path: vicgalle/alpaca-gpt4
+    type: alpaca
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0.05
+adapter:
+lora_model_dir:
+sequence_len: 2048
+max_packed_sequence_len: 2048
+lora_r: 64
+lora_alpha: 32
+lora_dropout: 0.0
+lora_target_modules:
+lora_target_linear: true
+lora_fan_in_fan_out: true  # pythia/GPTNeoX lora specific
+wandb_project:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_run_id:
+wandb_log_model:
+output_dir: ./pythia-12b
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 5
+learning_rate: 0.00003
+optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+train_on_inputs: false
+group_by_length: false
+bf16: false
+fp16: false
+float16: true
+tf32: true
+flash_optimum: true
+early_stopping_patience:
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+local_rank:
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+fsdp:
+fsdp_config:
+collator_pad_to_longest: true

examples/redpajama/config-3b.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 base_model: togethercomputer/RedPajama-INCITE-Chat-3B-v1
 base_model_config: togethercomputer/RedPajama-INCITE-Chat-3B-v1
 model_type: GPTNeoXForCausalLM
-tokenizer_type: GPTNeoXTokenizer
+tokenizer_type: AutoTokenizer
 trust_remote_code:
 load_in_8bit: false
 datasets:

requirements.txt

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ sentencepiece
 wandb
 einops
 xformers
+optimum
 # qlora things
 bert-score==0.3.13
 evaluate==0.4.0

scripts/finetune.py

@@ -12,13 +12,14 @@ from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union
 import fire
 import torch
 import yaml
-from transformers import GenerationConfig, TextStreamer
-
-from axolotl.utils.data import load_prepare_datasets
-from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
-from axolotl.utils.models import load_model, load_tokenizer
 
 # add src to the pythonpath so we don't need to pip install this
+from optimum.bettertransformer import BetterTransformer
+from transformers import GenerationConfig, TextStreamer
+
+from axolotl.utils.data import load_prepare_datasets, load_pretraining_dataset
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
+from axolotl.utils.models import load_model, load_tokenizer
 from axolotl.utils.tokenization import check_dataset_labels
 from axolotl.utils.trainer import setup_trainer
 from axolotl.utils.validation import validate_config
@@ -217,9 +218,20 @@ def train(
     if (
         check_not_in(["shard", "merge_lora"], kwargs) and not cfg.inference
     ):  # don't need to load dataset for these
-        train_dataset, eval_dataset = load_prepare_datasets(
+        if not cfg.pretraining_dataset:
-            tokenizer, cfg, DEFAULT_DATASET_PREPARED_PATH
+            train_dataset, eval_dataset = load_prepare_datasets(
-        )
+                tokenizer, cfg, DEFAULT_DATASET_PREPARED_PATH
+            )
+        else:
+            train_dataset = load_pretraining_dataset(
+                cfg.pretraining_dataset,
+                tokenizer,
+                max_tokens=cfg.sequence_len,
+                seed=cfg.seed,
+            )
+            # https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-use-huggingface-trainer-streaming-datasets-without-wrapping-it-with-torchdatas-iterablewrapper/25230
+            train_dataset = train_dataset.with_format("torch")
+            eval_dataset = None
 
     if cfg.debug or "debug" in kwargs:
         logging.info("check_dataset_labels...")
@@ -285,12 +297,15 @@ def train(
 
     # In case we want to stop early with ctrl+c, this is a nice to have to save the pretrained model
     if cfg.local_rank == 0:
+
+        def terminate_handler(_, __, model):
+            if cfg.flash_optimum:
+                model = BetterTransformer.reverse(model)
+            model.save_pretrained(cfg.output_dir)
+            sys.exit(0)
+
         signal.signal(
-            signal.SIGINT,
+            signal.SIGINT, lambda signum, frame: terminate_handler(signum, frame, model)
-            lambda signal, frame: (
-                model.save_pretrained(cfg.output_dir),
-                sys.exit(0),
-            ),
         )
 
     logging.info("Starting trainer...")
@@ -313,13 +328,21 @@ def train(
 
     if not Path(cfg.output_dir).is_dir():
         os.makedirs(cfg.output_dir, exist_ok=True)
-    trainer.train(resume_from_checkpoint=resume_from_checkpoint)
+    if cfg.flash_optimum:
+        with torch.backends.cuda.sdp_kernel(
+            enable_flash=True, enable_math=True, enable_mem_efficient=True
+        ):
+            trainer.train(resume_from_checkpoint=resume_from_checkpoint)
+    else:
+        trainer.train(resume_from_checkpoint=resume_from_checkpoint)
 
     logging.info(f"Training Completed!!! Saving pre-trained model to {cfg.output_dir}")
 
     # TODO do we need this fix? https://huggingface.co/docs/accelerate/usage_guides/fsdp#saving-and-loading
     # only save on rank 0, otherwise it corrupts output on multi-GPU when multiple processes attempt to write the same file
     if cfg.local_rank == 0:
+        if cfg.flash_optimum:
+            model = BetterTransformer.reverse(model)
         model.save_pretrained(cfg.output_dir)
 
     # trainer.save_model(cfg.output_dir)  # TODO this may be needed for deepspeed to work? need to review another time

src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/alpaca_chat.py

@@ -20,11 +20,36 @@ def load(tokenizer, cfg):
 
 class AlpacaConcisePrompter(AlpacaPrompter):
     """
-    Alpaca Prompter extending the system prompt to ask for concise answers
+    Alpaca Prompter extending the system prompt to ask for concise chat-instruct answers
     """
 
-    system_prompt = "Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that concisely and appropriately completes the request.\n\n"
+    system_prompt = "Below is an instruction from a USER that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. The ASSISTANT writes a response that concisely and appropriately completes the request.\n\n"
-    system_no_input_prompt = "Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately and concisely completes the request.\n\n"
+    system_no_input_prompt = "Below is an instruction from a USER that describes a task. The ASSISTANT writes a response that appropriately and concisely completes the request.\n\n"
+
+
+class AlpacaChatPrompter(AlpacaPrompter):
+    """
+    Alpaca Chat Prompter extending the system prompt to for chat-instruct answers
+    """
+
+    system_prompt = "Below is an instruction from a USER that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. The ASSISTANT writes a response that concisely and appropriately completes the request.\n\n"
+    system_no_input_prompt = "Below is an instruction from a USER that describes a task. The ASSISTANT writes a response that appropriately and concisely completes the request.\n\n"
+
+    def __init__(self):  # pylint: disable=super-init-not-called
+        self.prompt_style = PromptStyle.CHAT.value
+        self.match_prompt_style()
+
+
+class NoSystemPrompter(AlpacaPrompter):
+    """
+    Null Prompter with no system prompts
+    """
+
+    prompt_input = "{instruction} {input} "
+    prompt_no_input = "{instruction} "
+
+    def __init__(self):  # pylint: disable=super-init-not-called
+        pass
 
 
 class AlpacaQAPromptTokenizingStrategy(InstructionPromptTokenizingStrategy):
@@ -64,7 +89,7 @@ def load_concise(tokenizer, cfg):
 
 def load_qa(tokenizer, cfg):
     return AlpacaQAPromptTokenizingStrategy(
-        AlpacaPrompter(PromptStyle.CHAT.value),
+        AlpacaChatPrompter(),
         tokenizer,
         cfg.train_on_inputs,
         cfg.sequence_len,
@@ -73,7 +98,7 @@ def load_qa(tokenizer, cfg):
 
 def load_camel_ai(tokenizer, cfg):
     return CamelAIPromptTokenizingStrategy(
-        AlpacaPrompter(PromptStyle.CHAT.value),
+        AlpacaChatPrompter(),
         tokenizer,
         cfg.train_on_inputs,
         cfg.sequence_len,

src/axolotl/prompt_tokenizers.py

@@ -73,8 +73,17 @@ class PromptTokenizingStrategy(abc.ABC):
         ):
             result["input_ids"].append(self.tokenizer.eos_token_id)
             result["attention_mask"].append(1)
+        elif (  # some tokenizers automatically add an eos token, let's remove it
+            not add_eos_token and result["input_ids"][-1] == self.tokenizer.eos_token_id
+        ):
+            result["input_ids"] = result["input_ids"][:-1]
+            result["attention_mask"] = result["attention_mask"][:-1]
 
-        if result["input_ids"][0] == self.tokenizer.bos_token_id and strip_bos_token:
+        if (
+            self.tokenizer.bos_token_id
+            and result["input_ids"][0] == self.tokenizer.bos_token_id
+            and strip_bos_token
+        ):
             result["input_ids"] = result["input_ids"][1:]
             result["attention_mask"] = result["attention_mask"][1:]
 
@@ -96,25 +105,27 @@ class InstructionPromptTokenizingStrategy(PromptTokenizingStrategy):
             input,  # pylint: disable=redefined-builtin
             response,
         ) = self.parse_instruction_fields(prompt)
-        full_prompt = self._build_full_prompt(instruction, input, response)
+        user_prompt = next(
-        tokenized_full_prompt = self._tokenize(full_prompt)
+            iter(
-        if not self.train_on_inputs:
+                self.prompter.build_prompt(
-            user_prompt = next(
+                    instruction,
-                iter(
+                    input,
-                    self.prompter.build_prompt(
-                        instruction,
-                        input,
-                    )
                 )
             )
-            tokenized_user_prompt = self._tokenize(user_prompt, add_eos_token=False)
+        )
-            user_prompt_len = len(tokenized_user_prompt["input_ids"])
+        tokenized_prompt = self._tokenize(user_prompt, add_eos_token=False)
+        if not self.train_on_inputs:
+            user_prompt_len = len(tokenized_prompt["input_ids"])
             # TODO this could be sped up using numpy array slicing
-            tokenized_full_prompt["labels"] = [
+            tokenized_prompt["labels"] = [-100] * user_prompt_len
-                -100
+        tokenized_res_prompt = self._tokenize(
-            ] * user_prompt_len + tokenized_full_prompt["labels"][user_prompt_len:]
+            response, strip_bos_token=True, add_eos_token=True
+        )
+        tokenized_prompt["input_ids"] += tokenized_res_prompt["input_ids"]
+        tokenized_prompt["attention_mask"] += tokenized_res_prompt["attention_mask"]
+        tokenized_prompt["labels"] += tokenized_res_prompt["input_ids"]
 
-        return tokenized_full_prompt
+        return tokenized_prompt
 
     def _build_full_prompt(
         self, instruction, input, response  # pylint: disable=redefined-builtin
@@ -410,7 +421,11 @@ class ShareGPTPromptTokenizingStrategy(PromptTokenizingStrategy):
             result["input_ids"].append(self.tokenizer.eos_token_id)
             result["attention_mask"].append(1)
 
-        if result["input_ids"][0] == self.tokenizer.bos_token_id and strip_bos_token:
+        if (
+            self.tokenizer.bos_token_id
+            and result["input_ids"][0] == self.tokenizer.bos_token_id
+            and strip_bos_token
+        ):
             result["input_ids"] = result["input_ids"][1:]
             result["attention_mask"] = result["attention_mask"][1:]
 

src/axolotl/utils/callbacks.py

@@ -2,13 +2,14 @@
 
 import os
 
+from optimum.bettertransformer import BetterTransformer
 from transformers import (
     TrainerCallback,
     TrainerControl,
     TrainerState,
     TrainingArguments,
 )
-from transformers.trainer_utils import PREFIX_CHECKPOINT_DIR
+from transformers.trainer_utils import PREFIX_CHECKPOINT_DIR, IntervalStrategy
 
 
 class SavePeftModelCallback(TrainerCallback):  # pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods
@@ -30,3 +31,39 @@ class SavePeftModelCallback(TrainerCallback):  # pylint: disable=too-few-public-
         kwargs["model"].save_pretrained(peft_model_path)
 
         return control
+
+
+class SaveBetterTransformerModelCallback(
+    TrainerCallback
+):  # pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods
+    """Callback to save the BetterTransformer wrapped model"""
+
+    def on_step_end(
+        self,
+        args: TrainingArguments,
+        state: TrainerState,
+        control: TrainerControl,
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
+        # Save
+        if (
+            args.save_strategy == IntervalStrategy.STEPS
+            and args.save_steps > 0
+            and state.global_step % args.save_steps == 0
+        ):
+            control.should_save = True
+
+        if control.should_save:
+            checkpoint_folder = os.path.join(
+                args.output_dir,
+                f"{PREFIX_CHECKPOINT_DIR}-{state.global_step}",
+            )
+
+            model = BetterTransformer.reverse(kwargs["model"])
+            model.save_pretrained(checkpoint_folder)
+            # FIXME - need to cleanup old checkpoints
+
+            # since we're saving here, we don't need the trainer loop to attempt to save too b/c
+            # the trainer will raise an exception since it can't save a BetterTransformer wrapped model
+            control.should_save = False
+        return control

src/axolotl/utils/data.py

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 """Module containing data utilities"""
-
+import functools
 import logging
 from hashlib import md5
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import List, Tuple, Union
 
+import torch
 from datasets import Dataset, DatasetDict, load_dataset, load_from_disk
 from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
 from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizerBase
@@ -394,8 +395,127 @@ def load_prepare_datasets(
             index=cfg.dataset_shard_idx,
         )
 
-    dataset = dataset.train_test_split(test_size=cfg.val_set_size, shuffle=False)
+    if cfg.val_set_size:
-    train_dataset = dataset["train"]
+        dataset = dataset.train_test_split(test_size=cfg.val_set_size, shuffle=False)
-    eval_dataset = dataset["test"]
+        train_dataset = dataset["train"]
+        eval_dataset = dataset["test"]
+    else:
+        train_dataset = dataset
+        eval_dataset = None
 
     return train_dataset, eval_dataset
+
+
+def encode_pretraining(tokenizer, max_tokens, examples):
+    res = tokenizer(
+        examples["text"],
+        truncation=True,
+        max_length=max_tokens - 2,
+        add_special_tokens=True,
+    )
+    # Convert to PyTorch tensors
+    input_ids = [torch.tensor(seq) for seq in res["input_ids"]]
+    attention_mask = [torch.tensor(seq) for seq in res["attention_mask"]]
+    new_input_ids = []
+    new_attention_mask = []
+    # Append EOS and PAD tokens to input_ids, and correct attention_mask
+    for i, _ in enumerate(input_ids):
+        input_ids[i] = torch.cat(
+            (
+                input_ids[i],
+                torch.tensor([tokenizer.eos_token_id, tokenizer.pad_token_id]),
+            ),
+            dim=0,
+        )
+        attention_mask[i] = torch.cat((attention_mask[i], torch.tensor([1, 0])), dim=0)
+
+    # Concatenate tokens so that their lengths are less than max_tokens
+    buffer_input_ids = torch.tensor([], dtype=torch.long)
+    buffer_attention_mask = torch.tensor([], dtype=torch.long)
+
+    for ids, mask in zip(input_ids, attention_mask):
+        if buffer_input_ids.numel() == max_tokens:
+            new_input_ids.append(buffer_input_ids)
+            new_attention_mask.append(buffer_attention_mask)
+            buffer_input_ids = torch.tensor([], dtype=torch.long)
+            buffer_attention_mask = torch.tensor([], dtype=torch.long)
+            buffer_input_ids = torch.cat((buffer_input_ids, ids), dim=0)
+            buffer_attention_mask = torch.cat((buffer_attention_mask, mask), dim=0)
+        elif buffer_input_ids.numel() + ids.numel() <= max_tokens:
+            buffer_input_ids = torch.cat((buffer_input_ids, ids), dim=0)
+            buffer_attention_mask = torch.cat((buffer_attention_mask, mask), dim=0)
+        else:
+            buffer_input_ids = torch.cat(
+                (
+                    buffer_input_ids,
+                    torch.full(
+                        (max_tokens - buffer_input_ids.numel(),),
+                        tokenizer.pad_token_id,
+                        dtype=torch.long,
+                    ),
+                ),
+                dim=0,
+            )
+            buffer_attention_mask = torch.cat(
+                (
+                    buffer_attention_mask,
+                    torch.full(
+                        (max_tokens - buffer_attention_mask.numel(),),
+                        0,
+                        dtype=torch.long,
+                    ),
+                ),
+                dim=0,
+            )
+            new_input_ids.append(buffer_input_ids)
+            new_attention_mask.append(buffer_attention_mask)
+            buffer_input_ids = torch.tensor([], dtype=torch.long)
+            buffer_attention_mask = torch.tensor([], dtype=torch.long)
+
+            buffer_input_ids = torch.cat((buffer_input_ids, ids), dim=0)
+            buffer_attention_mask = torch.cat((buffer_attention_mask, mask), dim=0)
+
+    if buffer_input_ids.numel() > 0:  # for any leftover tokens
+        while buffer_input_ids.numel() < max_tokens:  # make all sequences equal in size
+            buffer_input_ids = torch.cat(
+                (
+                    buffer_input_ids,
+                    torch.full(
+                        (max_tokens - buffer_input_ids.numel(),),
+                        tokenizer.pad_token_id,
+                        dtype=torch.long,
+                    ),
+                ),
+                dim=0,
+            )
+            buffer_attention_mask = torch.cat(
+                (
+                    buffer_attention_mask,
+                    torch.full(
+                        (max_tokens - buffer_attention_mask.numel(),),
+                        0,
+                        dtype=torch.long,
+                    ),
+                ),
+                dim=0,
+            )
+        new_input_ids.append(buffer_input_ids)
+        new_attention_mask.append(buffer_attention_mask)
+
+    ret = {
+        "input_ids": [seq.tolist() for seq in new_input_ids],
+        "labels": [seq.tolist() for seq in new_input_ids],
+        "attention_mask": [seq.tolist() for seq in new_attention_mask],
+    }
+
+    logging.debug(len(ret["input_ids"]))
+    return ret
+
+
+def load_pretraining_dataset(path, tokenizer, max_tokens=2048, seed=42):
+    encode = functools.partial(encode_pretraining, tokenizer, max_tokens)
+    dataset = load_dataset(path, streaming=True, split="train")
+    dataset = dataset.shuffle(seed=seed, buffer_size=10_000)
+    # TODO dynamically figure out which columns/features to remove
+    dataset = dataset.map(encode, batched=True, remove_columns=["text", "meta"])
+    return dataset

src/axolotl/utils/models.py

@@ -10,13 +10,15 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional, Tuple  # noqa: F401
 import bitsandbytes as bnb
 import torch
 import transformers
-from transformers import PreTrainedModel  # noqa: F401
+from optimum.bettertransformer import BetterTransformer
 from transformers import (  # noqa: F401
     AutoConfig,
     AutoModelForCausalLM,
     AutoTokenizer,
     BitsAndBytesConfig,
     LlamaConfig,
+    PreTrainedModel,
+    PreTrainedTokenizerBase,
 )
 
 from axolotl.prompt_tokenizers import LLAMA_DEFAULT_PAD_TOKEN
@@ -70,7 +72,7 @@ def load_tokenizer(
 def load_model(
     base_model, base_model_config, model_type, tokenizer, cfg, adapter="lora"
 ):
-    # type: (str, str, str, AutoTokenizer, DictDefault, Optional[str]) -> Tuple[PreTrainedModel, Optional[PeftConfig]]
+    # type: (str, str, str, PreTrainedTokenizerBase, DictDefault, Optional[str]) -> Tuple[PreTrainedModel, Optional[PeftConfig]]
     """
     Load a model from a base model and a model type.
     """
@@ -121,9 +123,9 @@ def load_model(
         logging.info("patching with xpos rope")
         replace_llama_rope_with_xpos_rope()
 
-    if cfg.bf16:
+    if cfg.bf16 or cfg.bfloat16:
         torch_dtype = torch.bfloat16
-    elif cfg.load_in_8bit or cfg.fp16:
+    elif cfg.load_in_8bit or cfg.fp16 or cfg.float16:
         torch_dtype = torch.float16
     else:
         torch_dtype = torch.float32
@@ -251,11 +253,16 @@ def load_model(
             )
             # Shouldn't be a problem most of the time. will obviously error if the model doesn't support this
             # when training starts
-            if hasattr(config, "max_seq_len") and cfg.sequence_len > config.max_seq_len:
+            if (
+                hasattr(config, "max_seq_len")
+                and config.max_seq_len
+                and cfg.sequence_len > config.max_seq_len
+            ):
                 config.max_seq_len = cfg.sequence_len
                 logging.warning(f"increasing context length to {cfg.sequence_len}")
             elif (
                 hasattr(config, "max_sequence_length")
+                and config.max_sequence_length
                 and cfg.sequence_len > config.max_sequence_length
             ):
                 config.max_sequence_length = cfg.sequence_len
@@ -278,6 +285,7 @@ def load_model(
         model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
             base_model,
             load_in_8bit=cfg.load_in_8bit and cfg.adapter is not None,
+            load_in_4bit=cfg.load_in_4bit and cfg.adapter is not None,
             torch_dtype=torch_dtype,
             device_map=cfg.device_map,
             trust_remote_code=cfg.trust_remote_code or False,
@@ -287,6 +295,16 @@ def load_model(
     embeddings_len = math.ceil(len(tokenizer) / 32) * 32
     model.resize_token_embeddings(embeddings_len)
 
+    if (
+        hasattr(model.config, "max_position_embeddings")
+        and model.config.max_position_embeddings
+        and cfg.sequence_len >= model.config.max_position_embeddings
+    ):
+        logging.warning(
+            f"increasing model.config.max_position_embeddings to {cfg.sequence_len}"
+        )
+        model.config.max_position_embeddings = cfg.sequence_len
+
     if not cfg.gptq and (
         (cfg.adapter == "lora" and load_in_8bit)
         or (cfg.adapter == "qlora" and cfg.load_in_4bit)
@@ -332,6 +350,9 @@ def load_model(
         logging.warning("there are no parameters that require gradient updates")
     model.config.use_cache = False
 
+    if cfg.flash_optimum:
+        model = BetterTransformer.transform(model)
+
     # TODO resume_from_checkpoint handling
     return model, lora_config
 

src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py

@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ from torch.optim.lr_scheduler import OneCycleLR
 from transformers import EarlyStoppingCallback, Trainer
 from transformers.trainer_pt_utils import get_parameter_names
 
-from axolotl.utils.callbacks import SavePeftModelCallback
+from axolotl.utils.callbacks import (
+    SaveBetterTransformerModelCallback,
+    SavePeftModelCallback,
+)
 from axolotl.utils.schedulers import InterpolatingLogScheduler
 
 
@@ -112,6 +115,15 @@ def setup_trainer(cfg, train_dataset, eval_dataset, model, tokenizer):
             # TODO search Path("./") for one
             training_arguments_kwargs["deepspeed"] = "./ds_config.json"
 
+    if cfg.adam_beta1:
+        training_arguments_kwargs["adam_beta1"] = cfg.adam_beta1
+    if cfg.adam_beta2:
+        training_arguments_kwargs["adam_beta2"] = cfg.adam_beta2
+    if cfg.adam_epsilon:
+        training_arguments_kwargs["adam_epsilon"] = cfg.adam_epsilon
+    if cfg.max_grad_norm:
+        training_arguments_kwargs["max_grad_norm"] = cfg.max_grad_norm
+
     training_args = transformers.TrainingArguments(
         per_device_train_batch_size=cfg.micro_batch_size,
         per_device_eval_batch_size=cfg.eval_batch_size
@@ -228,6 +240,9 @@ def setup_trainer(cfg, train_dataset, eval_dataset, model, tokenizer):
     ]:  # only save in rank 0
         callbacks.append(SavePeftModelCallback)
 
+    if hasattr(model, "use_bettertransformer") and model.use_bettertransformer is True:
+        callbacks.append(SaveBetterTransformerModelCallback)
+
     data_collator_kwargs = {
         "padding": True,
     }

src/axolotl/utils/validation.py

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 import logging
 
+import torch
+
 
 def validate_config(cfg):
     if cfg.gradient_accumulation_steps and cfg.batch_size:
@@ -62,7 +64,42 @@ def validate_config(cfg):
     ) and cfg.gradient_checkpointing:
         raise ValueError("gradient_checkpointing is not supported for MPT models")
 
+    if cfg.flash_optimum is True:
+        if cfg.adapter:
+            logging.warning(
+                "BetterTransformers probably doesn't work with PEFT adapters"
+            )
+        if cfg.fp16 or cfg.bf16:
+            raise ValueError("AMP is not supported with BetterTransformer")
+        if cfg.float16 is not True and cfg.bloat16 is not True:
+            logging.warning(
+                "You should probably set bfloat16 or float16 to true to "
+                "load the model in float16 for BetterTransformers"
+            )
+        if int(torch.__version__.split(".")[0]) < 2:
+            logging.warning("torch>=2.0.0 required")
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"flash_optimum for BetterTransformers may not be used with {torch.__version__}"
+            )
+
+    if cfg.pretraining_dataset and cfg.group_by_length:
+        logging.warning(
+            "You probably want to disable group_by_length as it will force a streamed dataset to download completely."
+        )
+
+    if any([cfg.adamw_beta1, cfg.adamw_beta2, cfg.adamw_epsilon]) and (
+        not cfg.optimizer or "adamw" not in cfg.optimizer
+    ):
+        logging.warning("adamw hyperparameters found, but no adamw optimizer set")
+
     # TODO
     # MPT 7b
     # https://github.com/facebookresearch/bitsandbytes/issues/25
-    # no 8bit adamw w bf16
+    # no 8bit adaAmw w bf16
+
+    # GPT-NeoX
+    # evals broken when extending context len
+    # File "/root/miniconda3/envs/py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/transformers/models/gpt_neox/modeling_gpt_neox.py", line 162, in forward                        attn_output, attn_weights = self._attn(query, key, value, attention_mask, head_mask)
+    # File "/root/miniconda3/envs/py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/optimum/bettertransformer/models/attention.py", line 74, in gpt2_wrapped_scaled_dot_product
+    # attention_mask = causal_mask + attention_mask
+    # RuntimeError: The size of tensor a (2048) must match the size of tensor b (8132) at non-singleton dimension 3

tests/test_prompt_tokenizers.py

@@ -6,8 +6,12 @@ from pathlib import Path
 
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer
 
-from axolotl.prompt_tokenizers import ShareGPTPromptTokenizingStrategy
+from axolotl.prompt_strategies.alpaca_chat import NoSystemPrompter
-from axolotl.prompters import ShareGPTPrompter
+from axolotl.prompt_tokenizers import (
+    AlpacaPromptTokenizingStrategy,
+    ShareGPTPromptTokenizingStrategy,
+)
+from axolotl.prompters import AlpacaPrompter, ShareGPTPrompter
 
 logging.basicConfig(level="INFO")
 
@@ -29,7 +33,6 @@ class TestPromptTokenizationStrategies(unittest.TestCase):
         )
 
     def test_sharegpt_integration(self):
-        print(Path(__file__).parent)
         with open(
             Path(__file__).parent / "fixtures/conversation.json", encoding="utf-8"
         ) as fin:
@@ -53,6 +56,45 @@ class TestPromptTokenizationStrategies(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(len(example[fields]), len(tokenized_conversation[fields]))
             self.assertEqual(example[fields], tokenized_conversation[fields])
 
+    def test_no_sys_prompt(self):
+        """
+        tests the interface between the user and assistant parts
+        """
+        prompter = NoSystemPrompter()
+        # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
+        strat = AlpacaPromptTokenizingStrategy(
+            prompter,
+            self.tokenizer,
+            False,
+            2048,
+        )
+        sample = {
+            "instruction": "hello cruel. lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.",
+            "output": "world!",
+        }
+        example = strat.tokenize_prompt(sample)
+        world_idx = example["input_ids"].index(3186)
+        assert example["labels"][world_idx] == 3186
+        assert example["labels"][world_idx - 1] == -100
+
+    def test_alpaca(self):
+        """
+        tests the interface between the user and assistant parts
+        """
+        # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
+        prompter = AlpacaPrompter()
+        strat = AlpacaPromptTokenizingStrategy(
+            prompter,
+            self.tokenizer,
+            False,
+            2048,
+        )
+        sample = {"instruction": "hello!", "output": "Hi! How can I help?"}
+        example = strat.tokenize_prompt(sample)
+        world_idx = example["input_ids"].index(6324)
+        assert example["labels"][world_idx] == 6324
+        assert example["labels"][world_idx - 1] == -100
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()

tests/test_validation.py

@@ -212,3 +212,104 @@ class ValidationTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=regex_exp):
             validate_config(cfg)
+
+    def test_flash_optimum(self):
+        cfg = DictDefault(
+            {
+                "flash_optimum": True,
+                "adapter": "lora",
+            }
+        )
+
+        with self._caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING):
+            validate_config(cfg)
+            assert any(
+                "BetterTransformers probably doesn't work with PEFT adapters"
+                in record.message
+                for record in self._caplog.records
+            )
+
+        cfg = DictDefault(
+            {
+                "flash_optimum": True,
+            }
+        )
+
+        with self._caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING):
+            validate_config(cfg)
+            assert any(
+                "probably set bfloat16 or float16" in record.message
+                for record in self._caplog.records
+            )
+
+        cfg = DictDefault(
+            {
+                "flash_optimum": True,
+                "fp16": True,
+            }
+        )
+        regex_exp = r".*AMP is not supported.*"
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=regex_exp):
+            validate_config(cfg)
+
+        cfg = DictDefault(
+            {
+                "flash_optimum": True,
+                "bf16": True,
+            }
+        )
+        regex_exp = r".*AMP is not supported.*"
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=regex_exp):
+            validate_config(cfg)
+
+    def test_adamw_hyperparams(self):
+        cfg = DictDefault(
+            {
+                "optimizer": None,
+                "adamw_epsilon": 0.0001,
+            }
+        )
+
+        with self._caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING):
+            validate_config(cfg)
+            assert any(
+                "adamw hyperparameters found, but no adamw optimizer set"
+                in record.message
+                for record in self._caplog.records
+            )
+
+        cfg = DictDefault(
+            {
+                "optimizer": "adafactor",
+                "adamw_beta1": 0.0001,
+            }
+        )
+
+        with self._caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING):
+            validate_config(cfg)
+            assert any(
+                "adamw hyperparameters found, but no adamw optimizer set"
+                in record.message
+                for record in self._caplog.records
+            )
+
+        cfg = DictDefault(
+            {
+                "optimizer": "adamw_bnb_8bit",
+                "adamw_beta1": 0.0001,
+                "adamw_beta2": 0.0001,
+                "adamw_epsilon": 0.0001,
+            }
+        )
+
+        validate_config(cfg)
+
+        cfg = DictDefault(
+            {
+                "optimizer": "adafactor",
+            }
+        )
+
+        validate_config(cfg)