remove ref_model when peft model is passed into grpo trainer

* fix chat template splitting long samples across multiple rows

* make the preprocessing faster

docs/lora_optims.qmd

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ to leverage operator fusion and tensor re-use in order to improve speed and redu
 memory usage during the forward and backward passes of these calculations.
 
 We currently support several common model architectures, including (but not limited to):
+
 - `llama`
 - `mistral`
 - `qwen2`
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ lora_o_kernel: true
 ## Requirements
 
 - One or more NVIDIA or AMD GPUs (in order to use the Triton kernels)
-    - AMD can be used with experimental Triton support by setting the environment variable `TORCH_ROCM_AOTRITON_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL=1`
+    - Note: Set `TORCH_ROCM_AOTRITON_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL=1` to enable [memory-efficient attention on AMD GPUs](https://github.com/ROCm/aotriton/issues/16#issuecomment-2346675491)
 - Targeted LoRA adapters cannot use Dropout
     - This may limit model expressivity / cause overfitting
 - Targeted LoRA adapters cannot have bias terms

requirements.txt

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ liger-kernel==0.5.2
 packaging==23.2
 
 peft==0.14.0
-transformers==4.48.3
+transformers==4.49.0
 tokenizers>=0.21.0
 accelerate==1.3.0
 datasets==3.2.0

src/axolotl/__init__.py

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ import pkgutil
 
 __path__ = pkgutil.extend_path(__path__, __name__)  # Make this a namespace package
 
-__version__ = "0.7.0"
+__version__ = "0.8.0.dev0"

src/axolotl/core/trainers/grpo/trainer.py

@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ class AxolotlGRPOTrainer(SchedulerMixin, GRPOTrainer):
             self.model = self._enable_gradient_checkpointing(self.model, kwargs["args"])
         # pylint: enable=access-member-before-definition
 
+        # cleanup the ref_model if we have a peft model passed in
+        # TODO remove this after next major trl release
+        if (
+            self.ref_model  # pylint: disable=access-member-before-definition
+            and is_peft_model(self.model)
+        ):
+            del self.ref_model
+            self.ref_model = None
+
     def _enable_gradient_checkpointing(
         self, model: PreTrainedModel, args: GRPOConfig
     ) -> PreTrainedModel:

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/relora.py

@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ class ReLoRACallback(TrainerCallback):
         optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer,
         **_kwargs,
     ):
+        if not optimizer:
+            optimizer = state.optimizer
         if state.global_step > 0 and state.global_step % self.relora_steps == 0:
             checkpoint_folder = os.path.join(
                 args.output_dir,

src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/chat_template.py

@@ -272,8 +272,7 @@ class ChatTemplateStrategy(PromptTokenizingStrategy):
                 dict(zip(feature_names, row))
             )
             for key, val in tokenized_prompt.items():
-                for i in range(0, len(val), self.sequence_len):
+                res[key].append(val)
-                    res[key].append(val[i : i + self.sequence_len])
 
         # If there are no examples left, return an empty dictionary
         if not res:

src/axolotl/utils/data/utils.py

@@ -172,10 +172,11 @@ def drop_long_seq_in_dataset(dataset: Dataset, cfg: DictDefault):
     )
 
     try:
-        min_input_len = np.min(get_dataset_lengths(dataset))
+        ds_lengths = get_dataset_lengths(dataset, from_arrow=True)
-        LOG.debug(f"min_input_len: {min_input_len}")
+        min_input_len = np.min(ds_lengths)
-        max_input_len = np.max(get_dataset_lengths(dataset))
+        LOG.info(f"min_input_len: {min_input_len}")
-        LOG.debug(f"max_input_len: {max_input_len}")
+        max_input_len = np.max(ds_lengths)
+        LOG.info(f"max_input_len: {max_input_len}")
     except AttributeError:
         pass
 

src/axolotl/utils/samplers/utils.py

@@ -4,13 +4,17 @@ helper util to calculate dataset lengths
 import numpy as np
 
 
-def get_dataset_lengths(dataset):
+def get_dataset_lengths(dataset, from_arrow=False):
-    if "length" in dataset.data.column_names:
+    if "length" in dataset.column_names:
-        lengths = np.array(dataset.data.column("length"))
+        lengths = np.array(dataset["length"])
-    elif "position_ids" in dataset.data.column_names:
+    elif "position_ids" in dataset.column_names:
-        position_ids = dataset.data.column("position_ids")
+        position_ids = dataset["position_ids"]
         lengths = np.array([x[-1] + 1 for x in position_ids])
     else:
-        input_ids = dataset.data.column("input_ids")
+        if from_arrow:
-        lengths = np.vectorize(len)(np.array(input_ids, dtype=object))
+            input_ids = dataset.data.column("input_ids")
+            lengths = np.vectorize(len)(np.array(input_ids, dtype=object))
+        else:
+            input_ids = dataset["input_ids"]
+            lengths = np.array([len(seq) for seq in input_ids])
     return lengths

tests/prompt_strategies/conftest.py

@@ -125,6 +125,12 @@ def fixture_llama3_tokenizer():
     return tokenizer
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(name="smollm2_tokenizer", scope="session", autouse=True)
+def fixture_smollm2_tokenizer():
+    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M")
+    return tokenizer
+
+
 @pytest.fixture(name="mistralv03_tokenizer", scope="session", autouse=True)
 def fixture_mistralv03_tokenizer():
     tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(

tests/prompt_strategies/test_dpo_chatml.py

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+"""
+Tests for loading DPO preference datasets with chatml formatting
+"""
+import unittest
+
+import pytest
+
+from axolotl.prompt_strategies.dpo import load as load_dpo
+from axolotl.utils.data.rl import load_prepare_preference_datasets
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="minimal_dpo_cfg")
+def fixture_cfg():
+    return DictDefault(
+        {
+            "base_model": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M",
+            "tokenizer_config": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M",
+            "rl": "dpo",
+            "learning_rate": 0.000001,
+            "micro_batch_size": 1,
+            "gradient_accumulation_steps": 1,
+            "special_tokens": {
+                "pad_token": "<|endoftext|>",
+            },
+            "sequence_len": 2048,
+        }
+    )
+
+
+class TestDPOChatml:
+    """
+    Test loading DPO preference datasets with chatml formatting
+    """
+
+    def test_default(self, minimal_dpo_cfg):
+        cfg = DictDefault(
+            {
+                "datasets": [
+                    {
+                        "path": "argilla/distilabel-intel-orca-dpo-pairs",
+                        "type": "chatml",
+                        "split": "train[:1%]",
+                    }
+                ]
+            }
+            | minimal_dpo_cfg
+        )
+
+        # test that dpo.load works
+        load_dpo("chatml", cfg)
+        # now actually load the datasets with the strategy
+        train_ds, _ = load_prepare_preference_datasets(cfg)
+        assert train_ds[0]["prompt"].startswith("<|im_start|>")
+        assert train_ds[0]["prompt"].endswith("<|im_start|>assistant\n")
+        assert "chosen" in train_ds[0]
+        assert "rejected" in train_ds[0]
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()

tests/test_packed_batch_sampler.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from transformers import AutoTokenizer
 from axolotl.datasets import TokenizedPromptDataset
 from axolotl.prompt_strategies.completion import load
 from axolotl.utils.collators import V2BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq
+from axolotl.utils.data.utils import drop_long_seq_in_dataset
 from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
 from axolotl.utils.samplers import MultipackBatchSampler, get_dataset_lengths
 
@@ -18,11 +19,6 @@ def fixture_tokenizer():
     return tokenizer
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(name="max_seq_length")
-def fixture_max_seq_length():
-    return 4096
-
-
 class TestBatchedSamplerPacking:
     """
     Test class for packing streaming dataset sequences
@@ -37,6 +33,7 @@ class TestBatchedSamplerPacking:
             (2, 2),
         ],
     )
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("max_seq_length", [4096, 512])
     def test_packing(self, batch_size, num_workers, tokenizer, max_seq_length):
         import axolotl.monkeypatch.data.batch_dataset_fetcher  # pylint: disable=unused-import  # noqa: F401
 
@@ -62,6 +59,9 @@ class TestBatchedSamplerPacking:
             dataset,
         )
         train_dataset = concatenate_datasets([dataset_wrapper])
+
+        train_dataset = drop_long_seq_in_dataset(train_dataset, cfg)
+
         lengths = get_dataset_lengths(train_dataset)
         batch_sampler = MultipackBatchSampler(
             sampler=RandomSampler(train_dataset),
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ class TestBatchedSamplerPacking:
                 batch_idxs.extend(pack)
 
         for batch in loader:
-            assert len(batch["input_ids"]) <= batch_size * max_seq_length
+            assert batch["input_ids"].numel() <= batch_size * max_seq_length
             assert batch["input_ids"].shape[1] == max_seq_length
 
         original_idxs = set(range(len(train_dataset)))