/* GPT-2 Transformer Neural Net trained in raw CUDA GPT-2 Transformer Neural Net trained in raw CUDA Non-trivial notes to be aware of: We are being clever in the backward pass to conserve memory. In particular, all parameters use a += in the backward pass, so we can later do gradient accumulation. But all activations have = instead of += because these are faster (just read, no write). This is okay for all activations except for those in the residual stream, where the gradients have to add. We make sure that those parts work out ok and that we do a += as necessary. E.g., the layernorms are connected to the residuals so we += in layernorm backward. In this file we are using Mixed Precision training, so different activations, parameters, grads and buffers may be kept at different precisions, to take advantage of the fast low-precision hardware in the latest GPUs (bf16/fp16), and fp8 (coming soon^TM). Compile: make train_gpt2cu Example launch using bfloat16 on 1 GPU batch size 8, sample/eval every 200 steps: Also we're using TinyStories here for example as it is a bigger dataset ./train_gpt2cu -b 8 -v 200 -s 200 -i data/TinyStories Example launch using bfloat16 on 4 GPUs, same as above: mpirun -np 4 ./train_gpt2cu -b 8 -v 200 -s 200 -i data/TinyStories If you'd like to see train_gpt2.cu produce identical results to `python train_gpt2.py`, you can run it like this: make train_gpt2cu && ./train_gpt2cu -b 4 -t 64 -l 1e-4 -v 200 -s 200 -a 1 -x 10 -f 0 make train_gpt2cu PRECISION=FP32 && ./train_gpt2cu -b 4 -t 64 -l 1e-4 -v 200 -s 200 -a 1 -x 10 -f 0 This reads & runs in fp32, B=4, T=64, LR=1e-4, val/sample never (200), -a 1 is "overfit single batch", -x 10 is 10 iterations, and -f 0 disables tf32 */ #include #include #include #include // GPU / CUDA related #include #include #include #include #include // Multi-GPU related #ifdef MULTI_GPU #include #include #endif // our own utilities // defines: fopenCheck, freadCheck, fcloseCheck, fseekCheck, mallocCheck #include "utils.h" // defines: tokenizer_init, tokenizer_decode, tokenizer_free #include "tokenizer.h" // defines: dataloader_init, dataloader_reset, dataloader_next_batch, dataloader_free #include "dataloader.h" // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // CUDA precision settings enum PrecisionMode { PRECISION_FP32, PRECISION_FP16, PRECISION_BF16 }; // Specific configurations based on the enabled precision #if defined(ENABLE_FP32) typedef float floatX; #define CUBLAS_LOWP CUDA_R_32F #define PRECISION_MODE PRECISION_FP32 #ifdef MULTI_GPU const ncclDataType_t ncclFloatX = ncclFloat; #endif // use fp16 (note: this may require gradient scaler, currently not implemented!) #elif defined(ENABLE_FP16) typedef half floatX; #define CUBLAS_LOWP CUDA_R_16F #define PRECISION_MODE PRECISION_FP16 #ifdef MULTI_GPU const ncclDataType_t ncclFloatX = ncclHalf; #endif #else // Default to bfloat16 typedef __nv_bfloat16 floatX; #define CUBLAS_LOWP CUDA_R_16BF #define PRECISION_MODE PRECISION_BF16 #ifdef MULTI_GPU const ncclDataType_t ncclFloatX = ncclBfloat16; #endif #endif // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // CUDA utils // Profiler utils class NvtxRange { public: NvtxRange(const char* s) { nvtxRangePush(s); } NvtxRange(const std::string& base_str, int number) { std::string range_string = base_str + " " + std::to_string(number); nvtxRangePush(range_string.c_str()); } ~NvtxRange() { nvtxRangePop(); } }; #define NVTX_RANGE_FN() NvtxRange nvtx_range(__FUNCTION__) // try to make sure that 2 blocks fit on A100/H100 to maximise latency tolerance // this needs to be defines rather than queried to be used for __launch_bounds__ #if __CUDA_ARCH__ == 800 || __CUDA_ARCH__ >= 900 #define MAX_1024_THREADS_BLOCKS 2 #else #define MAX_1024_THREADS_BLOCKS 1 #endif // WarpSize is not a compile time constant, this allows the compiler to optimize #define WARP_SIZE 32U // cuBLAS workspace. Hardcoding to 32MiB but only Hopper needs 32, for others 4 is OK const size_t cublaslt_workspace_size = 32 * 1024 * 1024; void* cublaslt_workspace = NULL; cublasComputeType_t cublas_compute = CUBLAS_COMPUTE_32F; cublasLtHandle_t cublaslt_handle; cublasHandle_t cublas_handle; cudaDeviceProp deviceProp; // convenience macro for calculating grid/block dimensions for kernels #define CEIL_DIV(M, N) (((M) + (N)-1) / (N)) // CUDA error checking void cudaCheck(cudaError_t error, const char *file, int line) { if (error != cudaSuccess) { printf("[CUDA ERROR] at file %s:%d:\n%s\n", file, line, cudaGetErrorString(error)); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } }; #define cudaCheck(err) (cudaCheck(err, __FILE__, __LINE__)) // cuBLAS error checking void cublasCheck(cublasStatus_t status, const char *file, int line) { if (status != CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS) { printf("[cuBLAS ERROR]: %d %s %d\n", status, file, line); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } } #define cublasCheck(status) { cublasCheck((status), __FILE__, __LINE__); } #ifdef MULTI_GPU void nccl_check(ncclResult_t status, const char *file, int line) { if (status != ncclSuccess) { printf("[NCCL ERROR] at file %s:%d:\n%s\n", file, line, ncclGetErrorString(status)); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } } #define ncclCheck(err) (nccl_check(err, __FILE__, __LINE__)) void mpi_check(int status, const char *file, int line) { if (status != MPI_SUCCESS) { char mpi_error[4096]; int mpi_error_len = 0; assert(MPI_Error_string(status, &mpi_error[0], &mpi_error_len) == MPI_SUCCESS); printf("[MPI ERROR] at file %s:%d:\n%.*s\n", file, line, mpi_error_len, mpi_error); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } } #define mpiCheck(err) (mpi_check(err, __FILE__, __LINE__)) #endif // older nvcc does not provide __ldcs and __stcs for bfloat16, despite these actually just being unsigned shorts. // we need to be careful here to only define our own versions if none already exist, otherwise the compiler will // complain. // If not, you easily get "no viable overload" (for sm52) and "function already exists" (sm_80) #if defined(ENABLE_BF16) && (__CUDACC_VER_MAJOR__ < 12) && !((__CUDA_ARCH__ >= 800) || !defined(__CUDA_ARCH__)) __device__ floatX __ldcs(const floatX* address) { unsigned short bf = __ldcs(reinterpret_cast(address)); return __nv_bfloat16_raw{bf}; } __device__ void __stcs(floatX* address, floatX value) { __stcs(reinterpret_cast(address), ((__nv_bfloat16_raw)value).x); } #endif // warp-level reduction for summing values __device__ float warpReduceSum(float val) { for (int offset = 16; offset > 0; offset /= 2) { val += __shfl_xor_sync(0xFFFFFFFF, val, offset); } return val; } // warp-level reduction for finding the maximum value __device__ float warpReduceMax(float val) { for (int offset = 16; offset > 0; offset /= 2) { val = fmaxf(val, __shfl_xor_sync(0xFFFFFFFF, val, offset)); } return val; } // requires all 32 threads in the warp to be active, but should work for any block size // uses non-dynamic shared memory so every call increases shared memory requirements by 128 bytes // the fact it's unique shared memory allows us to avoid an extra __syncthreads() call at the end // but if called inside a loop, the shared memory will be implicitly reused, so set final_sync to 1 using reduction_func_t = float (*) (float); template __device__ float blockReduce(float val, bool final_sync=false, float out_of_bounds=0.0f) { // two reductions of up to 1024 threads: // 1) inside warp (shuffle), 2) cross-warp (shared memory), 3) inside warp (shuffle) __shared__ float shared_val[WARP_SIZE]; const int lane_id = threadIdx.x % WARP_SIZE; const int warp_id = threadIdx.x / WARP_SIZE; const int num_warps = blockDim.x / WARP_SIZE; float warp_val = warp_reduction(val); if (lane_id == 0) { shared_val[warp_id] = warp_val; } __syncthreads(); warp_val = (lane_id < num_warps) ? shared_val[lane_id] : out_of_bounds; float block_val = warp_reduction(warp_val); if (final_sync) { __syncthreads(); // only needed in loops when effectively reusing shared memory etc. } return block_val; } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Packed128 data structure, which forces the compiler to use 128-bit loads/stores // in GPUs that support (the LDG.128 and STS.128 instructions) // This is a bit similar to the use of float4 in the case of 32-bit floats, but // supports arbitrary precision. template struct alignas(16) Packed128 { Packed128() = default; __device__ explicit Packed128(int4 bits) { static_assert(sizeof(bits) == sizeof(payload), "Size mismatch."); memcpy(&payload, &bits, sizeof(bits)); } __device__ ElementType& operator[](int index) { return payload[index]; } __device__ const ElementType& operator[](int index) const { return payload[index]; } __device__ int4 get_bits() const { int4 bits; static_assert(sizeof(bits) == sizeof(payload), "Size mismatch."); memcpy(&bits, &payload, sizeof(bits)); return bits; } static constexpr const size_t size = sizeof(int4) / sizeof(ElementType); ElementType payload[size]; }; // load a Packed128 from an aligned memory address template __device__ Packed128 load128(const ElementType* address) { return Packed128{*reinterpret_cast(address)}; } // load a Packed128 from an aligned memory address with streaming cache hint template __device__ Packed128 load128cs(const ElementType* address) { return Packed128{__ldcs(reinterpret_cast(address))}; } // store a Packed128 to an aligned memory address template __device__ void store128(ElementType* target, Packed128 value) { *reinterpret_cast(target) = value.get_bits(); } // store a Packed128 to an aligned memory address with streaming cache hint template __device__ void store128cs(ElementType* target, Packed128 value) { __stcs(reinterpret_cast(target), value.get_bits()); } // store a Packed128 to an aligned memory address while caching in L2 but bypassing L1 template __device__ void store128cg(ElementType* target, Packed128 value) { __stcg(reinterpret_cast(target), value.get_bits()); } // short-form typedefs typedef Packed128 f128; typedef Packed128 x128; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Random Number Generatiom // Simple xorshift RNG __device__ __host__ unsigned int random_u32(unsigned long long *state) { // xorshift rng: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift#xorshift.2A *state ^= *state >> 12; *state ^= *state << 25; *state ^= *state >> 27; return (*state * 0x2545F4914F6CDD1Dull) >> 32; } __device__ __host__ float random_f32(unsigned long long *state) { // random float32 in [0,1) return (random_u32(state) >> 8) / 16777216.0f; } // SquirrelNoise5 - Squirrel's Raw Noise utilities (version 5) // This gives us a random number from threadIdx/blockIdx + a single seed for the entire GPU // todo - possibly overkill and we don't need such high quality random numbers? (tbd) // http://eiserloh.net/noise/SquirrelNoise5.hpp __device__ __host__ constexpr unsigned int SquirrelNoise5(int positionX, unsigned int seed) { constexpr unsigned int SQ5_BIT_NOISE1 = 0xd2a80a3f; // 11010010101010000000101000111111 constexpr unsigned int SQ5_BIT_NOISE2 = 0xa884f197; // 10101000100001001111000110010111 constexpr unsigned int SQ5_BIT_NOISE3 = 0x6C736F4B; // 01101100011100110110111101001011 constexpr unsigned int SQ5_BIT_NOISE4 = 0xB79F3ABB; // 10110111100111110011101010111011 constexpr unsigned int SQ5_BIT_NOISE5 = 0x1b56c4f5; // 00011011010101101100010011110101 unsigned int mangledBits = (unsigned int) positionX; mangledBits *= SQ5_BIT_NOISE1; mangledBits += seed; mangledBits ^= (mangledBits >> 9); mangledBits += SQ5_BIT_NOISE2; mangledBits ^= (mangledBits >> 11); mangledBits *= SQ5_BIT_NOISE3; mangledBits ^= (mangledBits >> 13); mangledBits += SQ5_BIT_NOISE4; mangledBits ^= (mangledBits >> 15); mangledBits *= SQ5_BIT_NOISE5; mangledBits ^= (mangledBits >> 17); return mangledBits; } __device__ __host__ constexpr unsigned int Get2dNoiseUint(int indexX, int indexY, unsigned int seed) { constexpr int PRIME_NUMBER = 198491317; // Large prime number with non-boring bits return SquirrelNoise5(indexX + (PRIME_NUMBER * indexY), seed); } // stochastic rounding built on top of Squirel Noise above (with seed updated per step via xorshift) __device__ __forceinline__ void stochastic_rounding(float in, __nv_bfloat16 *out, unsigned int seed) { // todo - is this stochastic rounding *too good*? can we cut any corners? unsigned int random = Get2dNoiseUint(threadIdx.x, blockIdx.x, seed); unsigned int threshold = random & 0xFFFF; unsigned int float_bits = __float_as_uint(in); unsigned int rounded_bits = float_bits & 0x0000FFFF; float_bits = (rounded_bits > threshold) ? (float_bits | 0xFFFF) : (float_bits & ~0xFFFF); *out = __float2bfloat16_rn(__uint_as_float(float_bits)); } __device__ __forceinline__ void stochastic_rounding(float in, half *out, unsigned int random) { *out = (float)in; // todo - implement this... } __device__ __forceinline__ void stochastic_rounding(float in, float *out, unsigned int random) { *out = in; // dummy function for when floatX is float (FP32 mode) } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // MPI / multi-processing setup // Parameters specific to training on multiple GPUs. typedef struct { int process_rank; // Rank of this process among all MPI processes. 0 if no multi-GPU. int num_processes; // Total number of processes. 1 if no multi-GPU. int local_device_idx; // This process GPU index on current machine. 0 if no multi-GPU. // Zero Redundancy Optimizer stage - https://fairscale.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deep_dive/oss_sdp_fsdp.html // 0-Disabled // 1-Optimizer State Sharding (OSS) // 2-Optimizer + Gradient State Sharding (SDP) // 3-Optimizer + Gradient + Horizontal Model Sharding (FSDP) int zero_stage; size_t shard_num_parameters; size_t shard_offset; #ifdef MULTI_GPU ncclComm_t nccl_comm; // NCCL communication primitive, used for collective multi-GPU work. #endif } MultiGpuConfig; // one global variable to hold the multi-GPU configuration for this process MultiGpuConfig multi_gpu_config; #ifdef MULTI_GPU // Determine which GPU this process should use. // Processes on the same machines use different GPU indicies. Processes on other machines don't. // Copied from NCCL examples: https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/nccl/user-guide/docs/examples.html#example-2-one-device-per-process-or-thread int multi_gpu_get_local_device_idx(int process_rank, int num_processes) { char hostname[1024]; hostname[1023] = '\0'; // All processes on the same machine will share the same hostname. gethostname(hostname, 1023); for (int i=0; i < 1024; i++) { if (hostname[i] == '.') { hostname[i] = '\0'; break; } } uint64_t hostname_hash = 5381; for (int c = 0; hostname[c] != '\0'; c++){ hostname_hash = ((hostname_hash << 5) + hostname_hash) ^ hostname[c]; } // Distribute all hostname hashes to all processes. uint64_t* all_hostsname_hashes = (uint64_t*)malloc(num_processes * sizeof(uint64_t)); all_hostsname_hashes[process_rank] = hostname_hash; mpiCheck(MPI_Allgather(MPI_IN_PLACE, 0, MPI_DATATYPE_NULL, all_hostsname_hashes, sizeof(uint64_t), MPI_BYTE, MPI_COMM_WORLD)); // Identify which GPU we need to use. int local_device_idx = 0; for (int current_process = 0; current_process < num_processes; ++current_process) { if (current_process == process_rank) { // Found my gpu, local_device_idx now has my target GPU index. break; } if (all_hostsname_hashes[current_process] == all_hostsname_hashes[process_rank]) { // This process ID runs on the same machine, but it's not me, skip this GPU local_device_idx++; } } free(all_hostsname_hashes); return local_device_idx; } #endif MultiGpuConfig multi_gpu_config_init(int *argc, char ***argv) { #ifdef MULTI_GPU // Initialize MPI. MultiGpuConfig result; mpiCheck(MPI_Init(argc, argv)); mpiCheck(MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &result.process_rank)); mpiCheck(MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &result.num_processes)); result.local_device_idx = multi_gpu_get_local_device_idx(result.process_rank, result.num_processes); cudaCheck(cudaSetDevice(result.local_device_idx)); ncclUniqueId nccl_id; if (result.process_rank == 0) { ncclCheck(ncclGetUniqueId(&nccl_id)); } mpiCheck(MPI_Bcast((void *)&nccl_id, sizeof(nccl_id), MPI_BYTE, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD)); ncclCheck(ncclCommInitRank(&result.nccl_comm, result.num_processes, nccl_id, result.process_rank)); return result; #else printf("Multi-GPU support is disabled. Using a single GPU.\n"); cudaCheck(cudaSetDevice(0)); MultiGpuConfig result; result.process_rank = 0; result.num_processes = 1; result.local_device_idx = 0; return result; #endif } void multi_gpu_config_free(const MultiGpuConfig* multi_gpu_config) { #ifdef MULTI_GPU ncclCheck(ncclCommDestroy(multi_gpu_config->nccl_comm)); mpiCheck(MPI_Finalize()); #endif } // convenience function that only prints if the rank of process is zero void printf0(const char *format, ...) { if (multi_gpu_config.process_rank == 0) { va_list args; va_start(args, format); vprintf(format, args); va_end(args); } } void set_zero_configs(MultiGpuConfig* multi_gpu_config, int zero_stage, size_t total_parameters) { multi_gpu_config->zero_stage = 0; multi_gpu_config->shard_num_parameters = total_parameters; multi_gpu_config->shard_offset = 0; // Check the Zero Stage and define sharding parameters if (zero_stage == 0) { printf0("| Zero Optimization is disabled |\n"); } else if (zero_stage == 1) { if (total_parameters % multi_gpu_config->num_processes != 0) { printf0("| Zero Optimization is disabled, Can't equally partition parameters |\n"); multi_gpu_config->zero_stage = 0; } else { printf0("| Zero Stage1 is enabled |\n"); multi_gpu_config->zero_stage = 1; multi_gpu_config->shard_num_parameters = total_parameters / multi_gpu_config->num_processes; multi_gpu_config->shard_offset = multi_gpu_config->process_rank * multi_gpu_config->shard_num_parameters; } } else{ printf0("| Disabling Zero Optimization, Zero Stage2 and Stage3 are not yet supported |\n"); multi_gpu_config->zero_stage = 0; } } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // cuDNN path #ifdef ENABLE_CUDNN // functions defined in cudnn_att.cu void create_cudnn(); void destroy_cudnn(); void attention_forward_cudnn(floatX* out, // output: (B, T, NH, HS) float* stats, // output for backward pass: (B, NH, T) floatX* inp, // input: (B, T, 3, NH, HS) QKV int B, int T, int NH, int C); void attention_backward_cudnn(floatX* dqkvr, // output floatX* dout, floatX* qkvr, floatX* o, float* stats, // inputs int B, int T, int NH, int C); #else void create_cudnn() {} void destroy_cudnn() {} #endif // ENABLE_CUDNN // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // all the kernels __global__ void encoder_forward_kernel3(floatX* out, const int* inp, const floatX* wte, const floatX* wpe, int B, int T, int C) { int idx = (blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x) * x128::size; int N = B * T * C; if (idx >= N) { return; } int bt = idx / C; int b = bt / T; int t = bt % T; int c = idx % C; int ix = inp[b * T + t]; floatX* out_btc = out + b * T * C + t * C + c; const floatX* wte_ix = wte + ix * C + c; const floatX* wpe_tc = wpe + t * C + c; x128 packed_out; x128 wte128 = load128cs(wte_ix); x128 wpe128 = load128cs(wpe_tc); for (int k = 0; k < x128::size; k++) { packed_out[k] = (floatX)((float)wte128[k] + (float)wpe128[k]); } store128(out_btc, packed_out); } template __device__ void atomicStochasticAdd(T* address, float val0, float val1, unsigned int seed) { static_assert(sizeof(T) == 2, "Only 16-bit atomicStochasticAdd supported."); float2 val = make_float2(val0, val1); unsigned int* address_as_uint = (unsigned int*)address; unsigned int old = *address_as_uint, assumed; unsigned int random = Get2dNoiseUint(threadIdx.x, blockIdx.x, seed); do { assumed = old; float2 new_fp32 = make_float2((float)(reinterpret_cast(&old)[0]) + val.x, (float)(reinterpret_cast(&old)[1]) + val.y); T new_rounded[2]; stochastic_rounding(new_fp32.x, &new_rounded[0], random); stochastic_rounding(new_fp32.y, &new_rounded[1], random >> 16); old = atomicCAS(address_as_uint, assumed, *(unsigned int*)&new_rounded); } while (assumed != old); } __device__ void atomicStochasticAdd(float* address, float val0, float val1, unsigned int seed) { atomicAdd(address, val0); atomicAdd(address + 1, val1); } __global__ void encoder_backward_kernel(floatX* dwte, floatX* dwpe, const floatX* dout, const int* inp, int B, int T, int C, unsigned int seed) { int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; int N = B * T * C; idx *= 2; // 2 elements per thread if (idx >= N) { return; } int bt = idx / C; int b = bt / T; int t = bt % T; int c = idx % C; int ix = inp[b * T + t]; const floatX* dout_btc = dout + b * T * C + t * C + c; floatX* dwte_ix = dwte + ix * C + c; floatX* dwpe_tc = dwpe + t * C + c; float2 dout_data = make_float2(dout_btc[0], dout_btc[1]); atomicStochasticAdd(dwte_ix, dout_data.x, dout_data.y, seed); atomicStochasticAdd(dwpe_tc, dout_data.x, dout_data.y, seed ^ 0xFFFFFFFF); } __global__ void layernorm_forward_kernel3(floatX* __restrict__ out, floatX* __restrict__ mean, floatX* __restrict__ rstd, const floatX* __restrict__ inp, const floatX* __restrict__ weight, const floatX* __restrict__ bias, int N, int C) { int lane_id = threadIdx.x % WARP_SIZE; int warp_id = threadIdx.x / WARP_SIZE; int num_warps = blockDim.x / WARP_SIZE; int idx = blockIdx.x * num_warps + warp_id; if(idx >= N) { return; } // guard // the row of input that this group of threads is responsible for const floatX* x = inp + idx * C; // mean float sum = 0.0f; for (int i = lane_id; i < C; i += WARP_SIZE) { sum += (float)x[i]; } sum = warpReduceSum(sum); float m = sum / C; if(lane_id == 0 && mean != nullptr) { __stcs(mean + idx, (floatX)m); } // rstd sum = 0.0f; for (int i = lane_id; i < C; i += WARP_SIZE) { float diff = (float)x[i] - m; sum += diff * diff; } sum = warpReduceSum(sum); float s = rsqrtf(sum / C + 1e-5f); if(lane_id == 0 && rstd != nullptr) { __stcs(rstd + idx, (floatX)s); } // final normalization and scaling by weight/bias floatX* o = out + idx * C; for (int c = lane_id; c < C; c += WARP_SIZE) { // load and store using the .cs "streaming" hint to the compiler, // indicating that this data will not be reused soon, and can be streamed through the caches // this allows the threads to get more cache-hits for the (shared) weight and bias parameters float n = s * ((float)__ldcs(x+c) - m); __stcs(o+c, (floatX)(n * (float)weight[c] + (float)bias[c])); } } __global__ void fused_residual_forward_kernel5(floatX* residual, floatX* normed, floatX* mean, floatX* rstd, const floatX* inp1, const floatX* inp2, const floatX* weight, const floatX* bias, int N, int C) { assert(blockDim.x == WARP_SIZE); // load weights and biases into shared memory // do this before we allow any threads to exit! extern __shared__ char* params[]; // load128/store128 sometimes generated multiple instructions when the types here were floatX*, so // let's keep everything as x128 x128* s_weight = reinterpret_cast(params); x128* s_bias = reinterpret_cast(params) + (C / x128::size); x128* s_res = reinterpret_cast(params) + ((2 + threadIdx.y) * C / x128::size); int sidx = (threadIdx.x + WARP_SIZE * threadIdx.y) * x128::size; for(int i = sidx; i < C; i += blockDim.y * WARP_SIZE * x128::size) { s_weight[i/x128::size] = load128(weight + i); s_bias[i/x128::size] = load128(bias + i); } __syncthreads(); int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.y + threadIdx.y; if(idx > N) return; // adjust pointers to current token residual += C * idx; normed += C * idx; inp1 += C * idx; inp2 += C * idx; const float eps = 1e-5f; float sum = 0.0f; for(int c = threadIdx.x * x128::size; c < C; c += WARP_SIZE * x128::size) { const x128 in1 = load128cs(inp1 + c); const x128 in2 = load128cs(inp2 + c); x128 out; for(int k = 0; k < x128::size; ++k) { out[k] = (float)in1[k] + (float)in2[k]; sum += (float)out[k]; } store128cs(residual + c, out); s_res[c / x128::size] = out; } sum = warpReduceSum(sum); float m = sum / C; float v = 0.f; for(int c = threadIdx.x * x128::size; c < C; c += WARP_SIZE * x128::size) { const x128 res = s_res[c / x128::size]; for(int k = 0; k < x128::size; ++k) { v += ((float)res[k] - m) * ((float)res[k] - m); } } v = warpReduceSum(v) / C; float s = rsqrtf(v + eps); for(int c = threadIdx.x * x128::size; c < C; c += WARP_SIZE * x128::size) { const x128 res = s_res[c / x128::size]; const x128 w = s_weight[c / x128::size]; const x128 b = s_bias[c / x128::size]; x128 out; for(int k = 0; k < x128::size; ++k) { float n = s * ((float)res[k] - m); // normalized output float o = n * (float)w[k] + (float)b[k]; // scale and shift it out[k] = o; } store128cs(normed + c, out); } // cache the mean and rstd for the backward pass later if(threadIdx.x == 0) { mean[idx] = m; rstd[idx] = s; } } // inputs floatX, outputs FP32 (for current FP32-only activation path for this WIP) __global__ void permute_kernel(floatX* q, floatX* k, floatX* v, const floatX* inp, int B, int N, int NH, int d) { // okay so now, this kernel wants Q,K,V to all be of shape (B, NH, N, d) // but instead, we have a single tensor QKV (inp) of shape (B, N, 3, NH, d) int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; if (idx >= B * NH * N * d) { return; } // Q[b][nh_][n][d_] = inp[b][n][0][nh_][d_] int b = idx / (NH * N * d); int rest = idx % (NH * N * d); int nh_ = rest / (N * d); rest = rest % (N * d); int n = rest / d; int d_ = rest % d; int inp_idx = (b * N * 3 * NH * d) + (n * 3 * NH * d) + (0 * NH * d) + (nh_ * d) + d_; q[idx] = __ldcs(&inp[inp_idx]); k[idx] = __ldcs(&inp[inp_idx + NH * d]); v[idx] = __ldcs(&inp[inp_idx + 2 * (NH * d)]); } __global__ void permute_kernel_backward(floatX* dinp, const floatX* dq, const floatX* dk, const floatX* dv, int B, int N, int NH, int d) { int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; if (idx >= B * NH * N * d) { return; } int b = idx / (NH * N * d); int rest = idx % (NH * N * d); int nh_ = rest / (N * d); rest = rest % (N * d); int n = rest / d; int d_ = rest % d; int inp_idx = (b * N * 3 * NH * d) + (n * 3 * NH * d) + (0 * NH * d) + (nh_ * d) + d_; dinp[inp_idx] = dq[idx]; dinp[inp_idx + NH * d] = dk[idx]; dinp[inp_idx + 2 * (NH * d)] = dv[idx]; } __global__ void unpermute_kernel(floatX* inp, floatX *out, int B, int N, int NH, int d) { // out has shape (B, nh, N, d) but we need to unpermute it to (B, N, nh, d) int idx = (blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x); // out[b][n][nh_][d_] <- inp[b][nh_][n][d_] if (idx >= B * NH * N * d) { return; } int b = idx / (NH * N * d); int rest = idx % (NH * N * d); int nh_ = rest / (N * d); rest = rest % (N * d); int n = rest / d; int d_ = rest % d; int other_idx = (b * NH * N * d) + (n * NH * d) + (nh_ * d) + d_; out[other_idx] = __ldcs(&inp[idx]); } __global__ void unpermute_kernel_backward(floatX* dinp, const floatX *dout, int B, int N, int NH, int d) { int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; if (idx >= B * NH * N * d) { return; } int b = idx / (NH * N * d); int rest = idx % (NH * N * d); int nh_ = rest / (N * d); rest = rest % (N * d); int n = rest / d; int d_ = rest % d; int other_idx = (b * NH * N * d) + (n * NH * d) + (nh_ * d) + d_; dinp[idx] = (floatX)dout[other_idx]; } __global__ void softmax_forward_kernel5(floatX* out, float inv_temperature, const floatX* inp, int N, int T) { // inp, out shape: (N, T, T), where N = B * NH // fuses the multiplication by scale inside attention // directly autoregressive, so we only compute the lower triangular part // uses the online softmax algorithm assert(T % 4 == 0); const int warp_size = 32; int lane_id = threadIdx.x % warp_size; int warp_id = threadIdx.x / warp_size; int num_warps = blockDim.x / warp_size; // micro-optimization: we iterate backwards so that // after the softmax backward operation completes, the cache retains the // part of the matrix close to the upper left corner, which benefits the // matmul operation that immediately follows. // int idx = blockIdx.x * warp.meta_group_size() + warp.meta_group_rank(); // forward order int idx = (gridDim.x - blockIdx.x - 1) * num_warps + warp_id; // backward order if(idx >= N * T) { return; } int own_pos = idx % T; int pos_by_4 = own_pos / 4; // one row of inp, i.e. inp[idx, :] of shape (T,) const floatX* x = inp + idx * T; // not INF, so we don't get NaNs accidentally when subtracting two values. const float flt_max = 340282346638528859811704183484516925440.0f; // to avoid including float.h float maxval = -flt_max; float sumval = 0.0f; const floatX* x_aligned = reinterpret_cast(__builtin_assume_aligned(x, 16)); for (int i = lane_id; i < pos_by_4; i += warp_size) { float regarray[4]; for (int k = 0; k < 4; ++k) { regarray[k] = (float)x_aligned[4*i + k]; } float old_maxval = maxval; for(int k = 0; k < 4; ++k) { maxval = fmaxf(maxval, regarray[k]); } sumval *= expf(inv_temperature * (old_maxval - maxval)); for(int k = 0; k < 4; ++k) { sumval += expf(inv_temperature * (regarray[k] - maxval)); } } if(4*pos_by_4 + lane_id <= own_pos) { float old_maxval = maxval; maxval = fmaxf(maxval, (float)x[4*pos_by_4 + lane_id]); sumval *= expf(inv_temperature * (old_maxval - maxval)); sumval += expf(inv_temperature * ((float)x[4*pos_by_4 + lane_id] - maxval)); } float global_maxval = warpReduceMax(maxval); sumval *= expf(inv_temperature * (maxval - global_maxval)); float sum = warpReduceSum(sumval); float norm = 1.f / sum; // divide the whole row by the sum for (int i = lane_id; i <= own_pos; i += warp_size) { // recalculation is faster than doing the round-trip through memory. float ev = expf(inv_temperature * ((float)__ldcs(x + i) - global_maxval)); __stcs(out + idx * T + i, (floatX)(ev * norm)); } } __global__ void residual_forward_kernel(floatX* out, const floatX* inp1, const floatX* inp2) { int idx = (blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x) * x128::size; x128 packed_out; x128 packed_inp1 = load128cs(inp1 + idx); x128 packed_inp2 = load128cs(inp2 + idx); for (int k = 0; k < packed_inp1.size; k++) { packed_out[k] = (floatX)((float)packed_inp1[k] + (float)packed_inp2[k]); } store128(out + idx, packed_out); } #define GELU_SCALING_FACTOR sqrtf(2.0f / M_PI) __global__ void gelu_forward_kernel2(floatX* out, const floatX* inp) { int idx = (blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x) * x128::size; x128 packed_out; x128 packed_inp = load128cs(inp + idx); // load and do not keep in cache for(int k = 0; k < packed_inp.size; ++k) { float xi = (float)packed_inp[k]; float cube = 0.044715f * xi * xi * xi; packed_out[k] = (floatX)(0.5f * xi * (1.0f + tanhf(GELU_SCALING_FACTOR * (xi + cube)))); } // store instead of storecs (without cache streaming) in case it is useful for the // data to be in the cache for the next operation after this GeLU store128(out + idx, packed_out); } __global__ void gelu_backward_kernel(floatX* dinp, const floatX* inp, const floatX* dout) { int idx = (blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x) * x128::size; x128 packed_dinp; x128 packed_inp = load128cs(inp + idx); x128 packed_dout = load128cs(dout + idx); for (int k = 0; k < packed_inp.size; ++k) { float x = (float)packed_inp[k]; float cube = 0.044715f * x * x * x; float tanh_arg = GELU_SCALING_FACTOR * (x + cube); float tanh_out = tanhf(tanh_arg); float coshf_out = coshf(tanh_arg); float sech_out = 1.0f / (coshf_out * coshf_out); float local_grad = 0.5f * (1.0f + tanh_out) + x * 0.5f * sech_out * GELU_SCALING_FACTOR * (1.0f + 3.0f * 0.044715f * x * x); packed_dinp[k] = (floatX)(local_grad * (float)packed_dout[k]); } store128(dinp + idx, packed_dinp); } template __global__ void matmul_backward_bias_kernel9(OutFloat* dbias, const floatX* dout, int B, int T, int OC, std::bool_constant) { constexpr const int bdx = 4; constexpr const int bdy = WARP_SIZE / bdx; assert(blockDim.x == bdx); assert(blockDim.y == bdy); int warp_d = (int)threadIdx.x; int warp_c = (int)threadIdx.y; int block_d = (int)threadIdx.z; const int OC_per_warp = bdy * x128::size; // 64 at BF16 int local_oc = warp_c * x128::size; int global_oc = blockIdx.x * OC_per_warp + local_oc; int local_bt = warp_d + bdx * block_d; int bt_per_block = bdx * blockDim.z; float accumulators[x128::size]; for (int k = 0; k < x128::size; k++) { accumulators[k] = 0.0f; } if(global_oc < OC) { // sum up over all bt within registers for (int idx = blockIdx.y * bt_per_block + local_bt; idx < B * T; idx += gridDim.y * bt_per_block) { x128 packed_dout = load128(dout + global_oc + idx*OC); for (int k = 0; k < x128::size; k++) { accumulators[k] += (float)packed_dout[k]; } } } __shared__ float sub_results[x128::size][WARP_SIZE][bdy]; // reduce within-warp results for (int k = 0; k < x128::size; k++) { float v = accumulators[k]; v += __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, v, 1, 4); v += __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, v, 2, 4); if(warp_d == 0) { sub_results[k][block_d][warp_c] = v; } } __syncthreads(); // block-wide reductions for (int k = block_d; k < x128::size; k += blockDim.z) { float a = 0.f; for (int r = warp_d; r < blockDim.z; r += bdx) { float v = sub_results[k][r][warp_c]; v += __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, v, 1, 4); v += __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, v, 2, 4); a += v; } if(warp_d == 0 && global_oc < OC) { if constexpr (!UseAuxBuffer) { dbias[global_oc + k] = (OutFloat)(a + (float)dbias[global_oc + k]); } else { dbias[global_oc + k + blockIdx.y * OC] = a; } } } } __global__ void reduce_add_sum_kernel(floatX* dst, const float* src, size_t n, size_t m) { const size_t idx = (blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x) * f128::size; assert(n % x128::size == 0); if (idx < n) { f128 acc; for(int k = 0; k < f128::size; ++k) { acc[k] = 0.f; } for(int l = 0; l < m; ++l) { f128 s = load128(src + idx + n * l); for(int k = 0; k < f128::size; ++k) { acc[k] += s[k]; } } for(int k = 0; k < f128::size; ++k) { dst[idx + k] = (floatX) ((float)dst[idx + k] + acc[k]); } } } __global__ void __launch_bounds__(512, 3) // todo - any warnings on Turing with only 1024 threads? layernorm_backward_kernel8(floatX* dinp, floatX* dweight, floatX* dbias, float* scratch, const floatX* dout, const floatX* inp, const floatX* weight, const floatX* mean, const floatX* rstd, int B, int T, int C) { extern __shared__ float shared[]; // size = 2 * C + 1 int warpId = threadIdx.x / WARP_SIZE; // warp index within a block int warpsInBlock = blockDim.x / WARP_SIZE; //number of warps in block int baseIdx = blockIdx.x * warpsInBlock + warpId; int warpThreadIdx = threadIdx.x % WARP_SIZE; // Thread index within the warp int warpsInGrid = gridDim.x * warpsInBlock; int C_per_iteration = WARP_SIZE * x128::size; int iterations_C = C / C_per_iteration; // the first half of shared memory is bias, second is weight float* dbias_shared = shared; float* dweight_shared = shared + C; // init shared memory to zero for(int i = threadIdx.x; i < C; i+= blockDim.x){ dbias_shared[i] = 0.0f; dweight_shared[i] = 0.0f; } unsigned int *tmp_flag = (unsigned int*)(shared + C*2); __syncthreads(); for (int idx = baseIdx; idx < B * T; idx += warpsInGrid) { int b = idx / T; int t = idx % T; const floatX* dout_bt = dout + b * T * C + t * C; const floatX* inp_bt = inp + b * T * C + t * C; floatX* dinp_bt = dinp + b * T * C + t * C; const float mean_bt = (float)mean[b * T + t]; const float rstd_bt = (float)rstd[b * T + t]; // first: two reduce operations float dnorm_mean = 0.0f; float dnorm_norm_mean = 0.0f; for (int i = warpThreadIdx * x128::size; i < C; i += WARP_SIZE * x128::size) { x128 dout128_i = load128(dout_bt + i); x128 inp128_i = load128(inp_bt + i); x128 weight128_i = load128(weight + i); for (int k = 0; k < x128::size; k++) { float norm_bti = ((float)inp128_i[k] - mean_bt) * rstd_bt; float dnorm_i = (float)weight128_i[k] * (float)dout128_i[k]; dnorm_mean += dnorm_i; dnorm_norm_mean += dnorm_i * norm_bti; } } dnorm_mean = warpReduceSum(dnorm_mean) / C; dnorm_norm_mean = warpReduceSum(dnorm_norm_mean) / C; // now iterate again and accumulate all the gradients // unfortunately we cannot use the same index for x128 arrays and shared memory // as atomics can only be 32-bit rather than 128-bit (at least pre-SM90/Hopper) // so this would result in an 8-way bank conflict, and kill performance // so instead, we use a shared memory friendly index, and reorder before the final write for (int i = 0; i < iterations_C; i++) { int global_index = (warpThreadIdx * x128::size) + (i * C_per_iteration); int shared_index = warpThreadIdx + (i * C_per_iteration); x128 dout128 = load128cs(dout_bt + global_index); x128 inp128 = load128cs(inp_bt + global_index); x128 dinp128 = load128(dinp_bt + global_index); x128 weight128 = load128(weight + global_index); for (int x = 0; x < x128::size; x++) { float dout_i = (float)dout128[x]; float norm_bti = ((float)inp128[x] - mean_bt) * rstd_bt; float dnorm_i = (float)weight128[x] * dout_i; // gradient contribution to bias (using shared memory friendly index) atomicAdd(&dbias_shared[shared_index + x*WARP_SIZE], dout_i); // gradient contribution to weight (using shared memory friendly index) atomicAdd(&dweight_shared[shared_index + x*WARP_SIZE], norm_bti * dout_i); // gradient contribution to input float dval = 0.0f; dval += dnorm_i; // term 1 dval -= dnorm_mean; // term 2 dval -= norm_bti * dnorm_norm_mean; // term 3 dval *= rstd_bt; // final scale dinp128[x] = (floatX)((float)dinp128[x] + dval); } // cache in L2 as this is read by the next kernel, but bypass L1 to minimise thrashing store128cg(dinp_bt + global_index, dinp128); } } // Accumulate into a FP32 scratchpad // BF16 atomics are potentially much slower... and this is more precise! // todo - could potentially avoid the extra copy if floatX is FP32, fairly negligible though __syncthreads(); float* scratch_dbias = scratch; float* scratch_dweight = scratch + C; unsigned int* scratchFlag = (unsigned int*)(scratch + (2 * C)); for(int i = threadIdx.x; i < C; i+= blockDim.x) { // global atomics in the same "shared memory banking friendly" order atomicAdd(&scratch_dbias[i], dbias_shared[i]); atomicAdd(&scratch_dweight[i], dweight_shared[i]); } __syncthreads(); if (threadIdx.x == 0) { *tmp_flag = atomicInc(scratchFlag, gridDim.x); } __syncthreads(); if (*tmp_flag == gridDim.x-1) { for (int i = warpId; i < iterations_C; i += warpsInBlock) { // reorder from atomic/shared memory-friendly index to real global memory index // and convert from float/FP32 to floatX/BF16 for the final write int global_index = (warpThreadIdx * x128::size) + (i * C_per_iteration); int shared_index = warpThreadIdx + (i * C_per_iteration); x128 dbias128 = load128(dbias + global_index); x128 dweight128 = load128(dweight + global_index); for (int x = 0; x < x128::size; x++) { float s_db = scratch_dbias[shared_index + x*WARP_SIZE]; float s_dw = scratch_dweight[shared_index + x*WARP_SIZE]; dbias128[x] = (floatX)(s_db + (float)dbias128[x]); dweight128[x] = (floatX)(s_dw + (float)dweight128[x]); } store128(dbias + global_index, dbias128); store128(dweight + global_index, dweight128); } } } __global__ void softmax_autoregressive_backward_kernel(floatX* dpreatt, const floatX* datt, const floatX* att, int B, int T, int C, float scale) { constexpr const int BlockSize = 256; constexpr int T_per_block = 4; // go through blocks in reverse order, so the slowest block starts first int t0 = T - 1 - T_per_block*blockIdx.x; int idx = blockIdx.y; att += idx * T * T; datt += idx * T * T; dpreatt += idx * T * T; for(int to = 0; to < T_per_block; ++to) { int t = t0 - to; if(t < 0) return; const floatX* att_bth = att + t * T; const floatX* datt_bth = datt + t * T; floatX* dpreatt_bth = dpreatt + t * T; float local_sum = 0; for (int t2 = threadIdx.x; t2 <= t; t2 += BlockSize) { local_sum += (float)att_bth[t2] * (float)datt_bth[t2]; } local_sum = blockReduce(local_sum); for (int t3 = threadIdx.x; t3 <= t; t3 += BlockSize) { // don't touch the cache. Some parts will still be here from the previous loop, and // we want to exploit those. float acc = (float)__ldcs(att_bth + t3) * ((float)__ldcs(datt_bth + t3) - local_sum); __stcs(dpreatt_bth + t3, (floatX)(scale * acc)); } } } // Implements linear interpolation using only two floating-point operations (as opposed to three in a naive implementation). // Reference: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/lerp-faster-cuda __device__ float lerp(float start, float end, float weight) { return fma(weight, end, fma(-weight, start, start)); } template __global__ void adamw_kernel3(Tp* params_memory, float* master_params_memory, Tg* grads_memory, float* m_memory, float* v_memory, size_t num_parameters, float learning_rate, float beta1, float beta2, float beta1_correction, float beta2_correction, float eps, float weight_decay, float grad_scale, unsigned int seed) { int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; if (idx >= num_parameters) { return; } // guard // get the gradient, m, and v for this parameter float grad = grad_scale * (float)grads_memory[idx]; float m = m_memory[idx]; float v = v_memory[idx]; // update the first moment (momentum) m = lerp(grad, m, beta1); m_memory[idx] = m; // update the second moment (RMSprop) v = lerp(grad * grad, v, beta2); v_memory[idx] = v; m /= beta1_correction; // m_hat v /= beta2_correction; // v_hat // fetch the old value of this parameter as a float, from either source float old_param = (master_params_memory != NULL) ? master_params_memory[idx] : (float)params_memory[idx]; // update this parameter float param = old_param - (learning_rate * (m / (sqrtf(v) + eps) + weight_decay * old_param)); // update our low precision version of the parameters using stochastic rounding // this will be used in the next forward pass // TODO: simply doing `params_memory[i] = (floatX)param;` breaks everything (why?) unsigned int random = Get2dNoiseUint(threadIdx.x, blockIdx.x, seed); stochastic_rounding(param, ¶ms_memory[idx], random); // write the full, float version of the param into our master copy, if we maintain one // this will be used in the next update if (master_params_memory != NULL) { master_params_memory[idx] = param; } } template __global__ void global_norm_squared_kernel(float* out, const T* data, size_t count) { // we want as few atomics as possible, so each block tries to do // the maximum amount of work (so no fixed chunk, but instead iterating // until we run out of data), and then we reduce inside the block // and finally have just one atomic per block. // out will be updated atomically from all thread blocks. It is a float, so the // atomic op is unproblematic size_t index = threadIdx.x + blockDim.x * blockIdx.x; size_t grid_width = blockDim.x * gridDim.x; float accumulator = 0.f; for(size_t i = index; i < count; i += grid_width) { accumulator += (float)data[i] * (float)data[i]; } // warp-level reduce float block_sum = blockReduce(accumulator); if(threadIdx.x == 0) { atomicAdd(out, block_sum); } } struct SoftmaxParams { float Scale; float Offset; }; __device__ SoftmaxParams prepare_softmax_blockwide3(int idx, const floatX* inp, int V, int P) { // same but not float4 // one row of inp, i.e. inp[idx, :] of shape (V,) const floatX* x = inp + idx * P; float thread_maxval = -INFINITY; float thread_sumval = 0.0f; int i = (V+x128::size-1)/x128::size + threadIdx.x - blockDim.x; // special-case loop to handle the unaligned elements at the end of the array // this lets us skip the bounds check in the main loop below, which improves performance while ((i+1)*x128::size > V) { for(int k = 0; k < x128::size; ++k) { if (i*x128::size+k >= V) { break; // bounds checking against real V (rather than padded P) } float v = (float)x[i*x128::size+k]; float old_maxval = thread_maxval; thread_maxval = fmaxf(thread_maxval, v); thread_sumval *= expf((old_maxval - thread_maxval)); thread_sumval += expf(v - thread_maxval); } i -= blockDim.x; } // main loop for the bulk of the iterations (no bounds checking required!) for (; i >= 0; i -= blockDim.x) { x128 packed_x = load128(x + i * x128::size); // load and keep in cache until fused_classifier loop for(int k = 0; k < x128::size; ++k) { float v = (float)packed_x[k]; float old_maxval = thread_maxval; thread_maxval = fmaxf(thread_maxval, v); thread_sumval *= expf((old_maxval - thread_maxval)); thread_sumval += expf(v - thread_maxval); } } // Block Max Reduction -> Maths -> Block Sum Reduction float block_maxval = blockReduce(thread_maxval, false, -INFINITY); thread_sumval *= expf(thread_maxval - block_maxval); float block_sumval = blockReduce(thread_sumval); // return the softmax parameters return SoftmaxParams{1.f / block_sumval, block_maxval}; } // will _update_ logits to logit gradients // uses template to decide whether to write logits and probs // split both loops in "multiple-of-x128-size" and "bounds-checked remainder" parts template __global__ void __launch_bounds__(1024, MAX_1024_THREADS_BLOCKS) fused_classifier_kernel5(floatX* logits, floatX* losses, floatX* probs, const float dloss, const int* targets, int B, int T, int V, int P) { int idx = gridDim.x - (blockIdx.x+1); // reverse order for cache hits on matmul data int ix = targets[idx]; // softmax (reading B * T * V, same logits read again below, hopefully still in cache) SoftmaxParams sp = prepare_softmax_blockwide3(idx, logits, V, P); // calculate the probability needed for the loss and update (single-threaded) if(threadIdx.x == 0) { float prob = expf((float)logits[idx * P + ix] - sp.Offset) * sp.Scale; losses[idx] = (floatX)(-logf(prob)); } // calculate the gradients directly, saves bandwidth from probs during training // but also supports writing probs for inference-only and debugging const floatX* logits_vec = logits + idx * P; for (int i = threadIdx.x; i < V/x128::size; i += blockDim.x) { // this is the 2nd read of logits after the one in prepare_softmax2 // it will be overwritten by the logits gradients which is when we reduce cache persistence x128 packed_logits_vec = load128(logits_vec + i * x128::size); // rely on cs of store128cs x128 packed_probs; for(int k = 0; k < x128::size; ++k) { int element = i*x128::size + k; float prob = expf((float)packed_logits_vec[k] - sp.Offset) * sp.Scale; packed_probs[k] = (floatX)prob; float indicator = (element == ix) ? 1.0f : 0.0f; packed_logits_vec[k] = (floatX)((prob - indicator) * dloss); } if (WriteLogits){ // reduce cache persistence for the overwritten logits // to maximise probability that logits remain in cache between prepare_softmax and here store128cs(logits + idx * P + i * x128::size, packed_logits_vec); } if (WriteProbs) { store128(probs + idx * P + i * x128::size, packed_probs); } } // handle remaining elements after the last multiple of x128::size // e.g. if V = 8003, and x128::size = 8, we need to handle the last 3 elements int unaligned_start = V & ~(x128::size - 1); // round down to multiple of x128::size for (int i = threadIdx.x + unaligned_start; i < V; i++) { float prob = expf((float)logits_vec[i] - sp.Offset) * sp.Scale; float indicator = (i == ix) ? 1.0f : 0.0f; float dlogit = (prob - indicator) * dloss; if (WriteLogits){ __stcs(logits + idx * P + i, (floatX)dlogit); } if (WriteProbs) { probs[idx * P + i] = (floatX)prob; } } } // device functions and the kernel to cast data between types template __device__ Td cast_value(Ts val); template<> __device__ float cast_value(float val) { return val; } template<> __device__ float cast_value(half val) { return __half2float(val); } template<> __device__ float cast_value(__nv_bfloat16 val) { return __bfloat162float(val); } template __global__ void copy_and_cast_kernel(Td* dst, const Ts* src, size_t n) { int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; // need to try grid stride looping for more perf later if (idx < n) { dst[idx] = cast_value(src[idx]); } } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // kernel launchers void encoder_forward(floatX* out, const int* inp, const floatX* wte, const floatX* wpe, int B, int T, int C) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); const int block_size = 256; const int N = B * T * C; const int grid_size = CEIL_DIV(N, (int)(block_size * x128::size)); encoder_forward_kernel3<<>>(out, inp, wte, wpe, B, T, C); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } void encoder_backward(floatX* dwte, floatX* dwpe, const floatX* dout, const int* inp, int B, int T, int C, unsigned int seed) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); const int N = B * T * C; const int block_size = 256; const int grid_size = CEIL_DIV(N, block_size * 2); // each thread handles 2 elements encoder_backward_kernel<<>>(dwte, dwpe, dout, inp, B, T, C, seed); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } void layernorm_forward(floatX* out, floatX* mean, floatX* rstd, floatX* inp, const floatX* weight, const floatX* bias, int B, int T, int C) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); const int block_size = 512; const int N = B * T; const int grid_size = CEIL_DIV(N * WARP_SIZE, block_size); layernorm_forward_kernel3<<>>(out, mean, rstd, inp, weight, bias, N, C); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } // https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cublas/#cublasltmatmul void matmul_forward_cublaslt(floatX* out, floatX* inp, floatX* weight, floatX* bias, int B, int T, int C, int OC) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); int has_bias = (bias != NULL); // check bias alignment if(((uintptr_t)bias % 16) != 0) { printf("Bias pointer is not aligned (cuBLASLt requirement)!\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } // these need to be in FP16 if and only if alpha/beta are CUBLAS_COMPUTE_16F const float alpha = 1.0f, beta = 0.0f; int returnedResults = 0; cublasLtMatmulDesc_t operationDesc; cublasLtMatmulPreference_t preference; cublasLtMatrixLayout_t weightLayout; cublasLtMatrixLayout_t inputLayout; cublasLtMatrixLayout_t outputLayout; cublasLtMatrixLayout_t biasLayout; cublasLtMatmulHeuristicResult_t heuristic; // create the operation descriptor cublasOperation_t opNoTranspose = CUBLAS_OP_N; cublasOperation_t opTranspose = CUBLAS_OP_T; cublasLtEpilogue_t epilogueBias = has_bias ? CUBLASLT_EPILOGUE_BIAS : CUBLASLT_EPILOGUE_DEFAULT; cublasCheck(cublasLtMatmulDescCreate(&operationDesc, cublas_compute, CUDA_R_32F)); // FP16 if CUBLAS_COMPUTE_16F cublasCheck(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(operationDesc, CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_TRANSA, &opTranspose, sizeof(opTranspose))); cublasCheck(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(operationDesc, CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_TRANSB, &opNoTranspose, sizeof(opNoTranspose))); cublasCheck(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(operationDesc, CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_EPILOGUE, &epilogueBias, sizeof(epilogueBias))); cublasCheck(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(operationDesc, CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_BIAS_POINTER, &bias, sizeof(bias))); // define matrix layouts cublasCheck(cublasLtMatrixLayoutCreate(&weightLayout, CUBLAS_LOWP, C, OC, C)); cublasCheck(cublasLtMatrixLayoutCreate(&inputLayout, CUBLAS_LOWP, C, B*T, C)); cublasCheck(cublasLtMatrixLayoutCreate(&outputLayout, CUBLAS_LOWP, OC, B*T, OC)); cublasCheck(cublasLtMatrixLayoutCreate(&biasLayout, CUBLAS_LOWP, OC, 1, OC)); // create a preference handle with specified max workspace cublasCheck(cublasLtMatmulPreferenceCreate(&preference)); cublasCheck(cublasLtMatmulPreferenceSetAttribute(preference, CUBLASLT_MATMUL_PREF_MAX_WORKSPACE_BYTES, &cublaslt_workspace_size, sizeof(cublaslt_workspace_size))); // find a suitable algorithm cublasCheck(cublasLtMatmulAlgoGetHeuristic(cublaslt_handle, operationDesc, weightLayout, inputLayout, outputLayout, outputLayout, preference, 1, &heuristic, &returnedResults)); if (returnedResults == 0) { printf("No cuBLASLt algorithm: B: %d, T: %d, C: %d, OC: %d, bias: %d\n", B, T, C, OC, has_bias); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } // call the matmul cublasCheck(cublasLtMatmul(cublaslt_handle, operationDesc, &alpha, weight, weightLayout, inp, inputLayout, &beta, out, outputLayout, out, outputLayout, &heuristic.algo, cublaslt_workspace, cublaslt_workspace_size, 0)); // cleanups cublasCheck(cublasLtMatmulPreferenceDestroy(preference)); cublasCheck(cublasLtMatmulDescDestroy(operationDesc)); cublasCheck(cublasLtMatrixLayoutDestroy(weightLayout)); cublasCheck(cublasLtMatrixLayoutDestroy(inputLayout)); cublasCheck(cublasLtMatrixLayoutDestroy(outputLayout)); cublasCheck(cublasLtMatrixLayoutDestroy(biasLayout)); } void attention_forward(floatX* out, floatX* qkvr, floatX* att, floatX* inp, int B, int T, int C, int NH) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); // Note: `inp` is not needed for backward pass, so we re-use it as a scratch buffer. // Its contents will be overwritten by this function. const int block_size = 256; const float alpha = 1.0f, beta = 0.0f; // inp is (B, T, 3C) QKV // preatt, att are (B, NH, T, T) // output is (B, T, C) int HS = C / NH; // head size // permute and separate inp from (B, T, 3, NH, HS) to 3X (B, NH, T, HS) floatX *q, *k, *v; q = qkvr + 0 * B * T * C; k = qkvr + 1 * B * T * C; v = qkvr + 2 * B * T * C; int total_threads = B * NH * T * HS; int num_blocks = CEIL_DIV(total_threads, block_size); permute_kernel<<>>(q, k, v, inp, B, T, NH, HS); floatX* preatt = inp; cublasCheck(cublasGemmStridedBatchedEx(cublas_handle, CUBLAS_OP_T, CUBLAS_OP_N, T, T, HS, &alpha, k, CUBLAS_LOWP, HS, T * HS, q, CUBLAS_LOWP, HS, T * HS, &beta, preatt, CUBLAS_LOWP, T, T * T, B * NH, cublas_compute, CUBLAS_GEMM_DEFAULT)); // multiply all elements of preatt elementwise by scale float scale = 1.0 / sqrtf(HS); int grid_size = CEIL_DIV(B * NH * T * 32, block_size); softmax_forward_kernel5<<>>(att, scale, preatt, B * NH, T); // new approach: first cuBLAS another batched matmul floatX* vaccum = inp; // y = att @ v # (B, nh, T, T) @ (B, nh, T, hs) -> (B, nh, T, hs) cublasCheck(cublasGemmStridedBatchedEx(cublas_handle, CUBLAS_OP_N, CUBLAS_OP_N, HS, T, T, &alpha, v, CUBLAS_LOWP, HS, T * HS, att, CUBLAS_LOWP, T, T * T, &beta, vaccum, CUBLAS_LOWP, HS, T * HS, B * NH, cublas_compute, CUBLAS_GEMM_DEFAULT)); // now unpermute // y = y.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().view(B, T, C) # re-assemble all head outputs side by side num_blocks = CEIL_DIV(B * T * C, block_size); unpermute_kernel<<>>(vaccum, out, B, T, NH, HS); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } void residual_forward(floatX* out, const floatX* inp1, const floatX* inp2, int N) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); const int block_size = 256; assert(N % block_size == 0); const int grid_size = CEIL_DIV(N, block_size * x128::size); residual_forward_kernel<<>>(out, inp1, inp2); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } void fused_residual_forward5(floatX* residual, floatX* normed, floatX* mean, floatX* rstd, const floatX* inp1, const floatX* inp2, const floatX* weight, const floatX* bias, int N, int C) { const int block_size = 256; int block_y = block_size / WARP_SIZE; const int grid_size = CEIL_DIV(N, block_y); size_t smem = (2 + block_y) * C * sizeof(floatX); // in order to use more than 48 KiB of smem, need to call cudaFuncSetAttribute // this may fail, in which case we fall back to the smem free implementation. cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); auto status = cudaFuncSetAttribute(fused_residual_forward_kernel5, cudaFuncAttributeMaxDynamicSharedMemorySize, smem); cudaGetLastError(); if(status == cudaSuccess) { fused_residual_forward_kernel5<<>>(residual, normed, mean, rstd, inp1, inp2, weight, bias, N, C); } else { residual_forward(residual, inp1, inp2, N*C); layernorm_forward(normed, mean, rstd, residual, weight, bias, N, 1, C); } cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } void gelu_forward(floatX* out, const floatX* inp, int N) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); const int block_size = 512; assert(N % block_size == 0); const int grid_size = CEIL_DIV(N, block_size * x128::size); gelu_forward_kernel2<<>>(out, inp); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } void gelu_backward(floatX* dinp, const floatX* inp, const floatX* dout, const int N) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); const int block_size = 128; assert(N % block_size == 0); const int grid_size = CEIL_DIV(N, block_size * x128::size); gelu_backward_kernel<<>>(dinp, inp, dout); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } void matmul_backward(floatX* dinp, floatX* dweight, floatX* dbias, floatX* dout, floatX* inp, floatX* weight, float* dbias_buffer, int B, int T, int C, int OC) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); float one = 1.0f, zero = 0.0f; // backward to bias, if given, does a += if (dbias != NULL) { // Each warp is responsible for 8 * "x128::size" = 64 OCs at BF16 (OC must be a multiple of 64!) // Block size is 1024 | 768 threads (32|24 warps) and we reduce those values into 1 at the end const int block_size = deviceProp.maxThreadsPerMultiProcessor == 1536 ? 768 : 1024; dim3 block_dim = {4, 8, (unsigned)block_size/WARP_SIZE}; const int OC_per_warp = block_dim.y * x128::size; // 64 at BF16 const int grid_size_x = CEIL_DIV(OC, OC_per_warp); // e.g. 12 horizontal blocks for 768 OCs at BF16 const int grid_size_y = max(1, deviceProp.maxThreadsPerMultiProcessor * deviceProp.multiProcessorCount / (block_size * grid_size_x)); // full GPU! // If we have enough OC that we don't need cross-block reductions, we can skip the bias_buffer accumulation // and write results directly to the output. if(grid_size_y == 1) { matmul_backward_bias_kernel9<<>>(dbias, dout, B, T, OC, std::bool_constant{}); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } else { // kernel 9 overwrites temp buffer, so no need to memset matmul_backward_bias_kernel9<<>>(dbias_buffer, dout, B, T, OC, std::bool_constant{}); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); reduce_add_sum_kernel<<>>(dbias, dbias_buffer, OC, grid_size_y); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } } // backward to input, uses = in the backward pass (set the gradient) cublasCheck(cublasGemmEx(cublas_handle, CUBLAS_OP_N, CUBLAS_OP_N, C, B*T, OC, &one, weight, CUBLAS_LOWP, C, dout, CUBLAS_LOWP, OC, &zero, dinp, CUBLAS_LOWP, C, cublas_compute, CUBLAS_GEMM_DEFAULT_TENSOR_OP)); // backward to weight, uses += in the backward pass (accumulate the gradient) by setting alpha=one cublasCheck(cublasGemmEx(cublas_handle, CUBLAS_OP_N, CUBLAS_OP_T, C, OC, B*T, &one, inp, CUBLAS_LOWP, C, dout, CUBLAS_LOWP, OC, &one, dweight, CUBLAS_LOWP, C, cublas_compute, CUBLAS_GEMM_DEFAULT_TENSOR_OP)); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } void layernorm_backward(floatX* dinp, floatX* dweight, floatX* dbias, float* scratch, const floatX* dout, const floatX* inp, const floatX* weight, const floatX* mean, const floatX* rstd, int B, int T, int C) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); // todo - forcing 3 x 512 threads per SM maximum is a bit hacky, but more than that results in // cache thrashing and lower performance on A100... is there a better way? const int block_size = 512; const int blocks_per_sm = min(3, (deviceProp.maxThreadsPerMultiProcessor / 1024)); const int grid_size = blocks_per_sm * deviceProp.multiProcessorCount; size_t shared_mem_size = (2 * C + 1) * sizeof(float); cudaMemset(scratch, 0, (2 * C + 1) * sizeof(float)); layernorm_backward_kernel8<<>>(dinp, dweight, dbias, scratch, dout, inp, weight, mean, rstd, B, T, C); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } // the sequence of transformations in this compound op is: // inp (B,T,3C) -> qkvr (B,T,3C) -> preatt (B,NH,T,T) -> att (B,NH,T,T) -> vaccum (B,T,C) -> out (B,T,C) void attention_backward(floatX* dinp, floatX* dqkvr, floatX* dpreatt, floatX* datt, floatX* scratch, const floatX* dout, const floatX* qkvr, const floatX* att, int B, int T, int C, int NH) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); const int block_size = 256; int HS = C / NH; // head size const float alpha = 1.0f, beta = 0.0f; // unpack convenience pointers into q, k, v const floatX *q, *k, *v; q = qkvr + 0 * B * T * C; k = qkvr + 1 * B * T * C; v = qkvr + 2 * B * T * C; floatX *dq, *dk, *dv; dq = dqkvr + 0 * B * T * C; dk = dqkvr + 1 * B * T * C; dv = dqkvr + 2 * B * T * C; // backward through the unpermute operation int num_blocks = CEIL_DIV(B * T * C, block_size); unpermute_kernel_backward<<>>(scratch, dout, B, T, NH, HS); // backward into datt cublasCheck(cublasGemmStridedBatchedEx(cublas_handle, CUBLAS_OP_T, CUBLAS_OP_N, T, T, HS, &alpha, v, CUBLAS_LOWP, HS, T * HS, scratch, CUBLAS_LOWP, HS, T * HS, &beta, datt, CUBLAS_LOWP, T, T * T, B * NH, cublas_compute, CUBLAS_GEMM_DEFAULT)); // backward into dv cublasCheck(cublasGemmStridedBatchedEx(cublas_handle, CUBLAS_OP_N, CUBLAS_OP_T, HS, T, T, &alpha, scratch, CUBLAS_LOWP, HS, T * HS, att, CUBLAS_LOWP, T, T * T, &beta, dv, CUBLAS_LOWP, HS, T * HS, B * NH, cublas_compute, CUBLAS_GEMM_DEFAULT)); // backward into preatt int hs = C / NH; // head size float scale = 1.0f / sqrtf(hs); softmax_autoregressive_backward_kernel<<>>(dpreatt, datt, att, B, T, C, scale); // backward into q cublasCheck(cublasGemmStridedBatchedEx(cublas_handle, CUBLAS_OP_N, CUBLAS_OP_N, HS, T, T, &alpha, k, CUBLAS_LOWP, HS, T * HS, dpreatt, CUBLAS_LOWP, T, T * T, &beta, dq, CUBLAS_LOWP, HS, T * HS, B * NH, cublas_compute, CUBLAS_GEMM_DEFAULT)); // backward into k cublasCheck(cublasGemmStridedBatchedEx(cublas_handle, CUBLAS_OP_N, CUBLAS_OP_T, HS, T, T, &alpha, q, CUBLAS_LOWP, HS, T * HS, dpreatt, CUBLAS_LOWP, T, T * T, &beta, dk, CUBLAS_LOWP, HS, T * HS, B * NH, cublas_compute, CUBLAS_GEMM_DEFAULT)); // backward into inp num_blocks = CEIL_DIV(B * NH * T * HS, block_size); permute_kernel_backward<<>>(dinp, dq, dk, dv, B, T, NH, HS); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } // replaces logits with logit gradients template void fused_classifier(Type* logits, Type* losses, const float dloss, const int* targets, int B, int T, int V, int P) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); const int block_size = 1024; const int N = B * T; const int grid_size = N; fused_classifier_kernel5<<>>(logits, losses, (floatX*)NULL, dloss, targets, B, T, V, P); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } template void global_norm_squared(float* out, const T* values, size_t count) { const int block_size = 512; // launch just enough blocks to fill the grid. deliberately no DIV_CEIL. // having one block less than possible is a tiny performance hit, having // one block too many is catastrophic, since it only can start once all the other // blocks finish. anyway, I think cuda_threads_per_SM should be a multiple of 512 // on all gpus, so the division really is going to be exact. const int grid_size = deviceProp.maxThreadsPerMultiProcessor * deviceProp.multiProcessorCount / block_size; assert(grid_size > 0); // gives a better error than letting the call below fail // initialize out with zero cudaCheck(cudaMemset(out, 0, sizeof(float))); global_norm_squared_kernel<<>>(out, values, count); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // GPT-2 model definition typedef struct { int max_seq_len; // max sequence length, e.g. 1024 int vocab_size; // vocab size, e.g. 50257 int padded_vocab_size; // padded to e.g. %128==0, 50304 int num_layers; // number of layers, e.g. 12 int num_heads; // number of heads in attention, e.g. 12 int channels; // number of channels, e.g. 768 } GPT2Config; // the parameters of the model constexpr const int NUM_PARAMETER_TENSORS = 16; typedef struct { floatX* wte; // (V, C) floatX* wpe; // (maxT, C) floatX* ln1w; // (L, C) floatX* ln1b; // (L, C) floatX* qkvw; // (L, 3*C, C) floatX* qkvb; // (L, 3*C) floatX* attprojw; // (L, C, C) floatX* attprojb; // (L, C) floatX* ln2w; // (L, C) floatX* ln2b; // (L, C) floatX* fcw; // (L, 4*C, C) floatX* fcb; // (L, 4*C) floatX* fcprojw; // (L, C, 4*C) floatX* fcprojb; // (L, C) floatX* lnfw; // (C) floatX* lnfb; // (C) } ParameterTensors; static_assert(sizeof(ParameterTensors) == NUM_PARAMETER_TENSORS * sizeof(void*), "Inconsistent sizes!"); void fill_in_parameter_sizes(size_t* param_sizes, size_t* param_sizeof, GPT2Config config) { size_t Vp = config.padded_vocab_size; size_t C = config.channels; size_t maxT = config.max_seq_len; size_t L = config.num_layers; param_sizes[0] = Vp * C; // wte param_sizes[1] = maxT * C; // wpe param_sizes[2] = L * C; // ln1w param_sizes[3] = L * C; // ln1b param_sizes[4] = L * (3 * C) * C; // qkvw param_sizes[5] = L * (3 * C); // qkvb param_sizes[6] = L * C * C; // attprojw param_sizes[7] = L * C; // attprojb param_sizes[8] = L * C; // ln2w param_sizes[9] = L * C; // ln2b param_sizes[10] = L * (4 * C) * C; // fcw param_sizes[11] = L * (4 * C); // fcb param_sizes[12] = L * C * (4 * C); // fcprojw param_sizes[13] = L * C; // fcprojb param_sizes[14] = C; // lnfw param_sizes[15] = C; // lnfb // populate the parameter sizes in bytes (all the same for now, keeping for future use) for (int i = 0; i < NUM_PARAMETER_TENSORS; i++) { param_sizeof[i] = sizeof(floatX); } } // allocate memory for the parameters and point the individual tensors to the right places void* malloc_and_point_parameters(ParameterTensors* params, size_t* param_elements, size_t *param_sizeof) { // calculate the total number of parameters and bytes across all tensors size_t num_parameters = 0; size_t num_parameters_bytes = 0; for (int i = 0; i < NUM_PARAMETER_TENSORS; i++) { num_parameters += param_elements[i]; num_parameters_bytes += param_elements[i] * param_sizeof[i]; } // malloc all parameters all at once on the device void* params_memory; cudaCheck(cudaMalloc((void**)¶ms_memory, num_parameters_bytes)); // assign all the tensors their place in the array floatX** ptrs[] = { ¶ms->wte, ¶ms->wpe, ¶ms->ln1w, ¶ms->ln1b, ¶ms->qkvw, ¶ms->qkvb, ¶ms->attprojw, ¶ms->attprojb, ¶ms->ln2w, ¶ms->ln2b, ¶ms->fcw, ¶ms->fcb, ¶ms->fcprojw, ¶ms->fcprojb, ¶ms->lnfw, ¶ms->lnfb }; char* params_memory_iterator = (char*)params_memory; for (int i = 0; i < NUM_PARAMETER_TENSORS; i++) { *(ptrs[i]) = (floatX*)params_memory_iterator; params_memory_iterator += param_elements[i] * param_sizeof[i]; } return params_memory; } #define NUM_ACTIVATION_TENSORS 21 typedef struct { floatX* encoded; // (B, T, C) floatX* ln1; // (L, B, T, C) floatX* ln1_mean; // (L, B, T) floatX* ln1_rstd; // (L, B, T) floatX* atty; // (L, B, T, C) floatX* att; // (L, B, NH, T, T) (smaller with cuDNN) floatX* attproj; // (L, B, T, C) floatX* residual2; // (L, B, T, C) floatX* ln2; // (L, B, T, C) floatX* ln2_mean; // (L, B, T) floatX* ln2_rstd; // (L, B, T) floatX* fch; // (L, B, T, 4*C) floatX* fch_gelu; // (L, B, T, 4*C) floatX* fcproj; // (L, B, T, C) floatX* residual3; // (L, B, T, C) floatX* lnf; // (B, T, C) floatX* lnf_mean; // (B, T) floatX* lnf_rstd; // (B, T) floatX* losses; // (B, T) // adding these two compared to the CPU .c code, needed for attention kernel as buffers floatX* qkvr; // (L, B, T, 3*C) // in inference mode, this buffer will store the logits // in training mode, this buffer will contain the *gradients* of the logits. // during the processing of transformer blocks, we will also use this as a // general scratchpad buffer. Allocation is made large enough to hold (B, T, 3C), // (B, NH, T, T), and (B, T, V) shaped tensors. floatX* output; } ActivationTensors; void fill_in_activation_sizes(size_t* act_sizes, size_t B, size_t T, GPT2Config config, int recompute) { size_t Vp = config.padded_vocab_size; size_t L = config.num_layers; size_t NH = config.num_heads; size_t C = config.channels; act_sizes[0] = B * T * C; // encoded act_sizes[1] = L * B * T * C; // ln1 act_sizes[2] = L * B * T; // ln1_mean act_sizes[3] = L * B * T; // ln1_rstd act_sizes[4] = L * B * T * C; // atty #ifdef ENABLE_CUDNN // FP32 stats tensor for cuDNN to be passed to backward pass act_sizes[5] = L * B * NH * T * (sizeof(float) / sizeof(floatX)); #else act_sizes[5] = L * B * NH * T * T; // att #endif act_sizes[6] = L * B * T * C; // attproj act_sizes[7] = L * B * T * C; // residual2 act_sizes[8] = L * B * T * C; // ln2 act_sizes[9] = L * B * T; // ln2_mean act_sizes[10] = L * B * T; // ln2_rstd act_sizes[11] = L * B * T * 4*C; // fch // if recompute >= 1 then we will recompute gelu_forward during backward and use this as scratch buffer act_sizes[12] = (recompute == 0) ? L * B * T * 4*C : B * T * 4*C; act_sizes[13] = L * B * T * C; // fcproj act_sizes[14] = L * B * T * C; // residual3 act_sizes[15] = B * T * C; // lnf act_sizes[16] = B * T; // lnf_mean act_sizes[17] = B * T; // lnf_rstd act_sizes[18] = B * T; // losses act_sizes[19] = L * B * T * 3*C; // qkvr act_sizes[20] = B * T * max(3*C, max(NH*T, Vp)); // output / scratch } // Backward pass is conceptually quite different from forward, because we can discard // the activations of a layer as soon as we're done with it. This lets us aggressively // reuse memory, so that we need far fewer tensors for backward state. #ifdef ENABLE_CUDNN #define NUM_BACKWARD_TENSORS 2 #else #define NUM_BACKWARD_TENSORS 3 #endif typedef struct { floatX* bt4c; // (B, T, 4*C) floatX* residual3; // (B, T, C) #ifndef ENABLE_CUDNN floatX* preatt; // (B, NH, T, T) #endif } GradActTensors; void fill_in_grad_act_sizes(size_t* act_sizes, size_t B, size_t T, GPT2Config config) { size_t C = config.channels; act_sizes[0] = B * T * 4 * C; // bt4c act_sizes[1] = B * T * C; // residual3 #ifndef ENABLE_CUDNN size_t NH = config.num_heads; act_sizes[2] = B * NH * T * T; // preatt #endif } void* malloc_and_point(floatX** targets[], const size_t* act_sizes, size_t n) { size_t num_activations = 0; for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++) { num_activations += act_sizes[i]; } void* acts_memory; cudaCheck(cudaMalloc((void**)&acts_memory, num_activations * sizeof(floatX))); char* acts_memory_iterator = (char*)acts_memory; for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++) { *(targets[i]) = (floatX*)acts_memory_iterator; acts_memory_iterator += act_sizes[i] * sizeof(floatX); } return acts_memory; } void* malloc_and_point_activations(ActivationTensors* acts, const size_t* act_sizes) { floatX** ptrs[] = { &acts->encoded, &acts->ln1, &acts->ln1_mean, &acts->ln1_rstd, &acts->atty, &acts->att, &acts->attproj, &acts->residual2, &acts->ln2, &acts->ln2_mean, &acts->ln2_rstd, &acts->fch, &acts->fch_gelu, &acts->fcproj, &acts->residual3, &acts->lnf, &acts->lnf_mean, &acts->lnf_rstd, &acts->losses, &acts->qkvr, &acts->output }; return malloc_and_point(ptrs, act_sizes, NUM_ACTIVATION_TENSORS); } void* malloc_and_point_backward(GradActTensors* acts, const size_t* act_sizes) { floatX** ptrs[] = { &acts->bt4c, &acts->residual3, #ifndef ENABLE_CUDNN &acts->preatt, #endif }; return malloc_and_point(ptrs, act_sizes, NUM_BACKWARD_TENSORS); } typedef struct { GPT2Config config; // the weights of the model, and their sizes ParameterTensors params; size_t param_elements[NUM_PARAMETER_TENSORS]; size_t param_sizeof[NUM_PARAMETER_TENSORS]; void* params_memory; size_t num_parameters; size_t num_parameters_bytes; // gradients of the weights ParameterTensors grads; void* grads_memory; // buffers for the AdamW optimizer float* m_memory; float* v_memory; float* master_weights; // is NULL unless fp32 weights is enabled. // the activations of the model, and their sizes ActivationTensors acts; size_t act_sizes[NUM_ACTIVATION_TENSORS]; void* acts_memory; size_t num_activations; // gradients of the activations GradActTensors grads_acts; size_t num_grad_acts; void* grads_acts_memory; // other run state configuration int batch_size; // the batch size (B) of current forward pass int seq_len; // the sequence length (T) of current forward pass int* inputs; // the input tokens for the current forward pass int* targets; // the target tokens for the current forward pass float mean_loss; // after a forward pass with targets, will be populated with the mean loss float accumulated_mean_loss; // Mean loss after aggregating it on all GPUs floatX* cpu_losses; // CPU buffer to copy the losses to, allocated with cudaMallocHost unsigned long long rng_state; // the RNG state for seeding stochastic rounding etc. int use_master_weights; int recompute; } GPT2; void gpt2_build_from_checkpoint(GPT2 *model, const char* checkpoint_path) { if (PRECISION_MODE == PRECISION_FP16) { // TODO for later perhaps, would require us dynamically converting the // model weights from fp32 to fp16 online, here in this function, or writing // the fp16 weights directly from Python, which we only do for fp32/bf16 atm. fprintf(stderr, "build_from_checkpoint() does not support fp16 right now.\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } // read in model from a checkpoint file FILE *model_file = fopenCheck(checkpoint_path, "rb"); int model_header[256]; freadCheck(model_header, sizeof(int), 256, model_file); if (model_header[0] != 20240326) { printf("Bad magic model file\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } int version = model_header[1]; if (!(version == 3 || version == 5)) { // 3 = fp32, padded vocab // 5 = bf16, padded vocab, layernorms also in bf16 fprintf(stderr, "Bad version in model file\n"); fprintf(stderr, "---> HINT: try to re-run `python train_gpt2.py`\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } if (PRECISION_MODE == PRECISION_BF16 && version != 5) { fprintf(stderr, "Precision is configured as BF16 but model at %s is not.\n", checkpoint_path); fprintf(stderr, "---> HINT: are you sure you're loading a _bf16.bin file?\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } if (PRECISION_MODE == PRECISION_FP32 && version != 3) { fprintf(stderr, "Precision is configured as FP32 but model at %s is not.\n", checkpoint_path); fprintf(stderr, "---> HINT: to turn on FP32 you have to compile like: `make train_gpt2cu PRECISION=FP32`\n"); fprintf(stderr, "---> HINT: are you sure you're loading a .bin file without any _bf16 in the name?\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } // read in hyperparameters model->config.max_seq_len = model_header[2]; model->config.vocab_size = model_header[3]; model->config.num_layers = model_header[4]; model->config.num_heads = model_header[5]; model->config.channels = model_header[6]; model->config.padded_vocab_size = model_header[7]; // allocate space for all the parameters and read them in fill_in_parameter_sizes(model->param_elements, model->param_sizeof, model->config); model->num_parameters = 0; model->num_parameters_bytes = 0; for (int i = 0; i < NUM_PARAMETER_TENSORS; i++) { model->num_parameters += model->param_elements[i]; model->num_parameters_bytes += model->param_elements[i] * model->param_sizeof[i]; } // create memory for model parameters on the device model->params_memory = malloc_and_point_parameters(&model->params, model->param_elements, model->param_sizeof); // read in all the parameters from file and copy them to device float* params_memory_cpu = (float*)mallocCheck(model->num_parameters_bytes); freadCheck(params_memory_cpu, 1, model->num_parameters_bytes, model_file); cudaCheck(cudaMemcpy(model->params_memory, params_memory_cpu, model->num_parameters_bytes, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice)); free(params_memory_cpu); fcloseCheck(model_file); // other inits model->acts_memory = NULL; model->grads_memory = NULL; model->m_memory = NULL; model->v_memory = NULL; model->master_weights = NULL; model->grads_acts_memory = NULL; model->inputs = NULL; model->targets = NULL; model->cpu_losses = NULL; model->batch_size = 0; model->seq_len = 0; model->mean_loss = -1.0f; // -1.0f will designate no loss model->rng_state = 13371337; model->use_master_weights = 1; // keep master weights copy in float for optim update? model->recompute = 1; // default to recompute gelu during backward } void gpt2_forward(GPT2 *model, int* inputs, int* targets, size_t B, size_t T, int grad_accum_steps=1) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); // targets are optional and could be NULL // in this function we must be careful and use size_t instead of int, otherwise // we could overflow int. E.g. l * B * NH * T * T overflows int at B 16. // ensure the model was initialized or error out if (model->params_memory == NULL) { printf("Error: model was not initialized properly.\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } // convenience parameters size_t V = model->config.vocab_size; size_t Vp = model->config.padded_vocab_size; size_t L = model->config.num_layers; size_t NH = model->config.num_heads; size_t C = model->config.channels; // validate inputs, all indices must be in the range [0, V) for(int i = 0; i < B * T; i++) { assert(0 <= inputs[i] && inputs[i] < V); if (targets != NULL) { assert(0 <= targets[i] && targets[i] < V); } } // allocate space for all the activations if needed (done here, lazily) if(model->acts_memory == NULL) { // record the current B,T as well model->batch_size = B; model->seq_len = T; // allocate the space fill_in_activation_sizes(model->act_sizes, B, T, model->config, model->recompute); size_t num_activations = 0; for (size_t i = 0; i < NUM_ACTIVATION_TENSORS; i++) { num_activations += model->act_sizes[i]; } model->num_activations = num_activations; printf0("allocating %d MiB for activations\n", (int)round(num_activations * sizeof(floatX) / (1024 * 1024))); model->acts_memory = malloc_and_point_activations(&model->acts, model->act_sizes); // also create memory for caching inputs and targets cudaCheck(cudaMalloc((void**)&model->inputs, B * T * sizeof(int))); cudaCheck(cudaMalloc((void**)&model->targets, B * T * sizeof(int))); cudaCheck(cudaMallocHost((void**)&model->cpu_losses, B * T * sizeof(floatX))); } else { // validate B,T is consistent with how we've allocated the memory before // in principle we could get more clever here in the future, for now this is safest if (B != model->batch_size || T != model->seq_len) { printf("Model: B=%d T=%d, Desired: B=%d T=%d\n", model->batch_size, model->seq_len, (int)B, (int)T); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } } // copy inputs/targets to the model // todo - inputs is copied on default stream so this synchronises CPU/GPU for now cudaCheck(cudaMemcpy(model->inputs, inputs, B * T * sizeof(int), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice)); if (targets != NULL) { cudaCheck(cudaMemcpy(model->targets, targets, B * T * sizeof(int), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice)); } // forward pass ParameterTensors params = model->params; // for brevity ActivationTensors acts = model->acts; encoder_forward(acts.encoded, model->inputs, params.wte, params.wpe, B, T, C); // encoding goes into residual[0] // first layernorm isn't fused layernorm_forward(acts.ln1, acts.ln1_mean, acts.ln1_rstd, acts.encoded, params.ln1w, params.ln1b, B, T, C); for (int l = 0; l < L; l++) { NvtxRange layer_range("Layer", l); floatX* residual = l == 0 ? acts.encoded : acts.residual3 + (l-1) * B * T * C; // get the pointers of the weights for this layer floatX* l_qkvw = params.qkvw + l * 3*C * C; floatX* l_qkvb = params.qkvb + l * 3*C; floatX* l_attprojw = params.attprojw + l * C * C; floatX* l_attprojb = params.attprojb + l * C; floatX* l_ln2w = params.ln2w + l * C; floatX* l_ln2b = params.ln2b + l * C; floatX* l_fcw = params.fcw + l * 4*C * C; floatX* l_fcb = params.fcb + l * 4*C; floatX* l_fcprojw = params.fcprojw + l * C * 4*C; floatX* l_fcprojb = params.fcprojb + l * C; // get the pointers of the activations for this layer floatX* l_ln1 = acts.ln1 + l * B * T * C; floatX* l_qkvr = acts.qkvr + l * B * T * 3*C; floatX* l_atty = acts.atty + l * B * T * C; floatX* l_attproj = acts.attproj + l * B * T * C; floatX* l_residual2 = acts.residual2 + l * B * T * C; floatX* l_ln2 = acts.ln2 + l * B * T * C; floatX* l_ln2_mean = acts.ln2_mean + l * B * T; floatX* l_ln2_rstd = acts.ln2_rstd + l * B * T; floatX* l_fch = acts.fch + l * B * T * 4*C; // reuse the same activation buffer at each layer, as we'll re-compute the gelu during backward // very useful because we dramatically reduce VRAM usage, and may be able to fit larger batch size floatX* l_fch_gelu = (model->recompute == 0) ? acts.fch_gelu + l * B * T * 4*C : acts.fch_gelu; floatX* l_fcproj = acts.fcproj + l * B * T * C; floatX* l_residual3 = acts.residual3 + l * B * T * C; // now do the forward pass #ifdef ENABLE_CUDNN float* l_att = (float*)acts.att + l * B * NH * T; // cuDNN needs a smaller FP32 tensor matmul_forward_cublaslt(l_qkvr, l_ln1, l_qkvw, l_qkvb, B, T, C, 3*C); attention_forward_cudnn(l_atty, (float*)l_att, l_qkvr, B, T, NH, C); #else floatX* l_att = acts.att + l * B * NH * T * T; // these are only needed as scratchpads for the forward pass, but // need not be stored for backward floatX* scratch = (floatX*)acts.output; matmul_forward_cublaslt(scratch, l_ln1, l_qkvw, l_qkvb, B, T, C, 3*C); attention_forward(l_atty, l_qkvr, l_att, scratch, B, T, C, NH); #endif matmul_forward_cublaslt(l_attproj, l_atty, l_attprojw, l_attprojb, B, T, C, C); fused_residual_forward5(l_residual2, l_ln2, l_ln2_mean, l_ln2_rstd, residual, l_attproj, l_ln2w, l_ln2b, B*T, C); matmul_forward_cublaslt(l_fch, l_ln2, l_fcw, l_fcb, B, T, C, 4*C); gelu_forward(l_fch_gelu, l_fch, B*T*4*C); matmul_forward_cublaslt(l_fcproj, l_fch_gelu, l_fcprojw, l_fcprojb, B, T, 4*C, C); // OK, fusion across blocks. if(l+1 != L) { floatX* l_ln1 = acts.ln1 + (l + 1) * B * T * C; floatX* l_ln1_mean = acts.ln1_mean + (l + 1) * B * T; floatX* l_ln1_rstd = acts.ln1_rstd + (l + 1) * B * T; const floatX* l_ln1w = params.ln1w + (l + 1) * C; const floatX* l_ln1b = params.ln1b + (l + 1) * C; fused_residual_forward5(l_residual3, l_ln1, l_ln1_mean, l_ln1_rstd, l_residual2, l_fcproj, l_ln1w, l_ln1b, B * T, C); } else { fused_residual_forward5(l_residual3, acts.lnf, acts.lnf_mean, acts.lnf_rstd, l_residual2, l_fcproj, params.lnfw, params.lnfb, B * T, C); } } matmul_forward_cublaslt(acts.output, acts.lnf, params.wte, NULL, B, T, C, Vp); // also forward the cross-entropy loss function if we have the targets if (targets != NULL) { NvtxRange classifier_and_loss_range("classifier_and_loss"); // fused classifier: does the forward pass and first part of the backward pass const float dloss = 1.0f / (B * T * grad_accum_steps); // results in the uniform average loss over all elements fused_classifier(acts.output, acts.losses, dloss, model->targets, B, T, V, Vp); // for convenience also evaluate the mean loss (TODO re-think this compute+sync point) cudaCheck(cudaMemcpy(model->cpu_losses, acts.losses, B * T * sizeof(floatX), cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost)); float mean_loss = 0.0f; for (int i = 0; i < B*T; i++) { mean_loss += (float)(model->cpu_losses[i]); } mean_loss /= B*T*grad_accum_steps; model->mean_loss = mean_loss; } else { // if we don't have targets, we don't have loss model->mean_loss = -1.0f; } } void gpt2_zero_grad(GPT2 *model) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); if (model->grads_memory != NULL) { cudaCheck(cudaMemset(model->grads_memory, 0, model->num_parameters * sizeof(floatX))); } } void gpt2_backward(GPT2 *model) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); // double check we forwarded previously, with targets if (model->mean_loss == -1.0f) { printf("Error: must forward with targets before backward\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } // lazily allocate the memory for gradients of the weights and activations, if needed if (model->grads_memory == NULL) { // allocate buffers for weight gradients printf0("allocating %d MiB for parameter gradients\n", (int)round(model->num_parameters * sizeof(floatX) / (1024 * 1024))); model->grads_memory = malloc_and_point_parameters(&model->grads, model->param_elements, model->param_sizeof); // we're going to be clever for the activations backward pass. we don't need to exactly // mirror the forward pass activations and we will save memory. size_t bw_act_sizes[NUM_ACTIVATION_TENSORS]; fill_in_grad_act_sizes(bw_act_sizes, model->batch_size, model->seq_len, model->config); // count up and allocate the space model->num_grad_acts = 0; for (size_t i = 0; i < NUM_BACKWARD_TENSORS; i++) { model->num_grad_acts += bw_act_sizes[i]; } printf0("allocating %d MiB for activation gradients\n", (int)round(model->num_grad_acts * sizeof(floatX) / (1024 * 1024))); model->grads_acts_memory = malloc_and_point_backward(&model->grads_acts, bw_act_sizes); // init gradients of parameters and activations to zero gpt2_zero_grad(model); } // convenience shortcuts, size_t instead of int so that pointer arithmetics don't overflow size_t B = model->batch_size; size_t T = model->seq_len; size_t Vp = model->config.padded_vocab_size; size_t L = model->config.num_layers; size_t NH = model->config.num_heads; size_t C = model->config.channels; // backward pass: go in the reverse order of the forward pass, and call backward() functions ParameterTensors params = model->params; // for brevity ParameterTensors grads = model->grads; ActivationTensors acts = model->acts; GradActTensors grads_acts = model->grads_acts; // reset residual stream gradients (put here to work with gradient accumulation) cudaCheck(cudaMemset(model->grads_acts.residual3, 0, B * T * C * sizeof(floatX))); // re-use the output buffer of the forward pass as a scratchpad during backward pass float* scratchF = (float*)acts.output; // we kick off the chain rule by filling in dlosses with 1.0f/(B*T) // this was done in the fused classifier kernel as last step of forward pass // technically that is a small, inline backward() pass of calculating // total, final loss as the mean over all losses over all (B,T) positions in the batch // next: backward the classifier matmul matmul_backward(grads_acts.bt4c, grads.wte, NULL, acts.output, acts.lnf, params.wte, NULL, B, T, C, Vp); // backward the final layernorm floatX* residual = acts.residual3 + (L-1) * B * T * C; // last residual is in residual3 floatX* dresidual = (floatX*)grads_acts.residual3; // the main buffer holding the gradient in the backward pass layernorm_backward(dresidual, grads.lnfw, grads.lnfb, scratchF, grads_acts.bt4c, residual, params.lnfw, acts.lnf_mean, acts.lnf_rstd, B, T, C); // now backward all the layers for (int l = L-1; l >= 0; l--) { NvtxRange layer_range("Layer", l); residual = l == 0 ? acts.encoded : acts.residual3 + (l-1) * B * T * C; // get the pointers of the weights for this layer floatX* l_ln1w = params.ln1w + l * C; floatX* l_qkvw = params.qkvw + l * 3*C * C; floatX* l_attprojw = params.attprojw + l * C * C; floatX* l_ln2w = params.ln2w + l * C; floatX* l_fcw = params.fcw + l * 4*C * C; floatX* l_fcprojw = params.fcprojw + l * C * 4*C; // get the pointers of the gradients of the weights for this layer floatX* dl_ln1w = grads.ln1w + l * C; floatX* dl_ln1b = grads.ln1b + l * C; floatX* dl_qkvw = grads.qkvw + l * 3*C * C; floatX* dl_qkvb = grads.qkvb + l * 3*C; floatX* dl_attprojw = grads.attprojw + l * C * C; floatX* dl_attprojb = grads.attprojb + l * C; floatX* dl_ln2w = grads.ln2w + l * C; floatX* dl_ln2b = grads.ln2b + l * C; floatX* dl_fcw = grads.fcw + l * 4*C * C; floatX* dl_fcb = grads.fcb + l * 4*C; floatX* dl_fcprojw = grads.fcprojw + l * C * 4*C; floatX* dl_fcprojb = grads.fcprojb + l * C; // get the pointers of the activations for this layer floatX* l_ln1 = acts.ln1 + l * B * T * C; floatX* l_ln1_mean = acts.ln1_mean + l * B * T; floatX* l_ln1_rstd = acts.ln1_rstd + l * B * T; floatX* l_qkvr = acts.qkvr + l * B * T * 3*C; floatX* l_atty = acts.atty + l * B * T * C; floatX* l_residual2 = acts.residual2 + l * B * T * C; floatX* l_ln2 = acts.ln2 + l * B * T * C; floatX* l_ln2_mean = acts.ln2_mean + l * B * T; floatX* l_ln2_rstd = acts.ln2_rstd + l * B * T; floatX* l_fch = acts.fch + l * B * T * 4*C; floatX* l_fch_gelu = (model->recompute == 0) ? acts.fch_gelu + l * B * T * 4*C : acts.fch_gelu; // get the pointers of the gradients of the activations for this layer // notice that there is no l *, because we just have a single copy, and keep // re-using this memory in every Transformer block as we calculate backward pass // we need a B x T x C buffer; thankfully, the forward activation for lnf isn't needed anymore, // so we can co-opt it here. floatX* dl_btc = (floatX*)acts.lnf; floatX* dl_bt4c = (floatX*)grads_acts.bt4c; // start the backward pass for this layer if(model->recompute >= 1) { // recompute >= 1 means we recompute gelu. in this case, // l_fch_gelu is just a buffer, so re-compute the gelu from l_fch here gelu_forward(l_fch_gelu, l_fch, B*T*4*C); } matmul_backward(dl_bt4c, dl_fcprojw, dl_fcprojb, dresidual, l_fch_gelu, l_fcprojw, scratchF, B, T, 4*C, C); gelu_backward(dl_bt4c, l_fch, dl_bt4c, B*T*4*C); matmul_backward(dl_btc, dl_fcw, dl_fcb, dl_bt4c, l_ln2, l_fcw, scratchF, B, T, C, 4 * C); // layernorm backward does += to the dresidual, so it correctly accumulates grad from the MLP block above layernorm_backward(dresidual, dl_ln2w, dl_ln2b, scratchF, dl_btc, l_residual2, l_ln2w, l_ln2_mean, l_ln2_rstd, B, T, C); matmul_backward(dl_btc, dl_attprojw, dl_attprojb, dresidual, l_atty, l_attprojw, scratchF, B, T, C, C); #ifdef ENABLE_CUDNN float* l_att = (float*)acts.att + l * B * NH * T; // cuDNN needs a smaller FP32 tensor attention_backward_cudnn(dl_bt4c, dl_btc, l_qkvr, l_atty, (float*)l_att, B, T, NH, C); #else floatX* l_att = acts.att + l * B * NH * T * T; // we need B x T x (4)C buffers. l_atty and l_fch aren't needed anymore at this point, so reuse their memory floatX* buffer_a = l_atty; floatX* buffer_b = l_fch; // this is B x T x 4C, so even larger than what we need floatX* dl_preatt = (floatX*)grads_acts.preatt; // dedicated scratchpad allocation floatX* scratchX = (floatX*)acts.output; attention_backward(dl_bt4c, buffer_b, dl_preatt, scratchX, buffer_a, dl_btc, l_qkvr, l_att, B, T, C, NH); #endif // QKV parameter gradients matmul_backward(dl_btc, dl_qkvw, dl_qkvb, dl_bt4c, l_ln1, l_qkvw, scratchF, B, T, C, 3 * C); // layernorm backward does += to dresidual, so it correctly accumulates gradient for the Attention block above layernorm_backward(dresidual, dl_ln1w, dl_ln1b, scratchF, dl_btc, residual, l_ln1w, l_ln1_mean, l_ln1_rstd, B, T, C); } encoder_backward(grads.wte, grads.wpe, dresidual, model->inputs, B, T, C, random_u32(&model->rng_state)); } // Compute a mean of a single CPU value across all GPU processes. No-op when multi-GPU is disabled. float multi_gpu_cpu_float_mean(float value, const MultiGpuConfig* multi_gpu_config) { #ifdef MULTI_GPU // MPI doesn't support all reduce with mean, so we sum up, then divide. float result; mpiCheck(MPI_Allreduce(&value, &result, 1, MPI_FLOAT, MPI_SUM, MPI_COMM_WORLD)); return result / multi_gpu_config->num_processes; #else return value; #endif } // Averages out the loss and gradients across all GPUs. No-op when multi-GPU is disabled. // todo - this version only works if all the parameters are the same size (floatX) void gpt2_multi_gpu_accumulate(GPT2* model, MultiGpuConfig* multi_gpu_config) { #ifdef MULTI_GPU NVTX_RANGE_FN(); if (multi_gpu_config->num_processes == 1) { return; } // Average all losses. model->accumulated_mean_loss = multi_gpu_cpu_float_mean(model->mean_loss, multi_gpu_config); if(multi_gpu_config->zero_stage == 0) { // no ZERO == standard DDP: Average all gradients. ncclCheck(ncclAllReduce(model->grads_memory, model->grads_memory, model->num_parameters, ncclFloatX, ncclAvg, multi_gpu_config->nccl_comm, 0)); } else if (multi_gpu_config->zero_stage == 1) { // ZERO-1: Get average gradient for local shard floatX* local_grads_memory = (floatX*) model->grads_memory + multi_gpu_config->shard_offset; ncclCheck(ncclReduceScatter(model->grads_memory, local_grads_memory, multi_gpu_config->shard_num_parameters, ncclFloatX, ncclAvg, multi_gpu_config->nccl_comm, 0)); } #endif } float gpt2_update(GPT2 *model, float learning_rate, float beta1, float beta2, float eps, float weight_decay, float grad_clip, int t, MultiGpuConfig* multi_gpu_config) { NVTX_RANGE_FN(); size_t num_parameters = multi_gpu_config->shard_num_parameters; floatX* params_memory = (floatX*)model->params_memory + multi_gpu_config->shard_offset; floatX* grads_memory = (floatX*)model->grads_memory + multi_gpu_config->shard_offset; if (model->m_memory == NULL) { printf0("allocating %zu MiB for AdamW optimizer state m\n", (num_parameters * sizeof(float)) >> 20); printf0("allocating %zu MiB for AdamW optimizer state v\n", (num_parameters * sizeof(float)) >> 20); cudaCheck(cudaMalloc((void**)&model->m_memory, num_parameters * sizeof(float))); cudaCheck(cudaMalloc((void**)&model->v_memory, num_parameters * sizeof(float))); cudaCheck(cudaMemset(model->m_memory, 0, num_parameters * sizeof(float))); cudaCheck(cudaMemset(model->v_memory, 0, num_parameters * sizeof(float))); if (model->use_master_weights == 1) { printf0("allocating %zu MiB for master copy of params\n", (num_parameters * sizeof(float)) >> 20); cudaCheck(cudaMalloc((void**)&model->master_weights, num_parameters * sizeof(float))); copy_and_cast_kernel<<>>(model->master_weights, params_memory, num_parameters); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } } // gradient clipping // repurposing this buffer (which isn't needed now) to write grad norm into it float* grad_norm_squared = (float*)model->acts.output; global_norm_squared(grad_norm_squared, (floatX*)model->grads_memory, model->num_parameters); // transfer the gradient norm to CPU float grad_norm_squared_cpu = 0.0f; cudaCheck(cudaMemcpy(&grad_norm_squared_cpu, grad_norm_squared, sizeof(float), cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost)); if(!isfinite(grad_norm_squared_cpu)) { // may happen due to some issue (e.g. overflow?) // TODO: later may want to keep a global counter of instabilities like this printf0("[WARNING]: grad norm is not finite, skipping AdamW update\n"); return -1.0f; } float grad_norm_cpu = sqrtf(grad_norm_squared_cpu); float grad_scale = (grad_norm_cpu > grad_clip) ? grad_clip / grad_norm_cpu : 1.0f; // AdamW update int block_size = 512; int num_blocks = CEIL_DIV(num_parameters, block_size); float beta1_correction = 1.0f - powf(beta1, t); float beta2_correction = 1.0f - powf(beta2, t); unsigned int seed = random_u32(&model->rng_state); adamw_kernel3<<>>(params_memory, model->master_weights, grads_memory, model->m_memory, model->v_memory, num_parameters, learning_rate, beta1, beta2, beta1_correction, beta2_correction, eps, weight_decay, grad_scale, seed); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); return grad_norm_cpu; } void gpt2_multi_gpu_gather(GPT2 *model, MultiGpuConfig* multi_gpu_config) { #ifdef MULTI_GPU if (multi_gpu_config->num_processes == 1) { return; } // 1 process => noop if (multi_gpu_config->zero_stage == 1) { // gather updated shards of model->params_memory from each process ncclCheck(ncclAllGather((floatX*)model->params_memory + multi_gpu_config->shard_offset, (floatX*)model->params_memory, multi_gpu_config->shard_num_parameters, ncclFloatX, multi_gpu_config->nccl_comm, 0)); } cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); #endif } void gpt2_free(GPT2 *model) { cudaCheck(cudaFree(model->params_memory)); cudaCheck(cudaFree(model->grads_memory)); cudaCheck(cudaFree(model->m_memory)); cudaCheck(cudaFree(model->v_memory)); cudaCheck(cudaFree(model->master_weights)); cudaCheck(cudaFree(model->acts_memory)); cudaCheck(cudaFree(model->grads_acts_memory)); cudaCheck(cudaFree(model->inputs)); cudaCheck(cudaFree(model->targets)); cudaFreeHost(model->cpu_losses); } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // common init & free code for train/test/profile void common_start(bool override_enable_tf32 = true, bool print_device_info = true) { cudaGetDeviceProperties(&deviceProp, multi_gpu_config.local_device_idx); if (print_device_info) { printf("[System]\n"); printf("Device %d: %s\n", multi_gpu_config.local_device_idx, deviceProp.name); } // set up cuBLAS and cuBLASLt (and cuDNN if enabled) cublasCheck(cublasCreate(&cublas_handle)); cublasCheck(cublasLtCreate(&cublaslt_handle)); cudaCheck(cudaMalloc(&cublaslt_workspace, cublaslt_workspace_size)); // TF32 precision is equivalent to torch.set_float32_matmul_precision('high') bool enable_tf32 = PRECISION_MODE == PRECISION_FP32 && deviceProp.major >= 8 && override_enable_tf32; cublasCheck(cublasSetMathMode(cublas_handle, enable_tf32 ? CUBLAS_TF32_TENSOR_OP_MATH : CUBLAS_DEFAULT_MATH)); cublas_compute = enable_tf32 ? CUBLAS_COMPUTE_32F_FAST_TF32 : CUBLAS_COMPUTE_32F; create_cudnn(); } void common_free(GPT2 &model) { gpt2_free(&model); cudaCheck(cudaFree(cublaslt_workspace)); cublasCheck(cublasDestroy(cublas_handle)); cublasCheck(cublasLtDestroy(cublaslt_handle)); create_cudnn(); } #ifndef TESTING // if we are TESTING (see test_gpt2.cu), we'll skip everything below this point // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // sampler: takes probabilities and samples integers from them int sample_softmax(const float* logits, int n, float coin) { // sample index from logits (converted to probabilities using softmax) // coin is a random number in [0, 1), usually from random_f32() double norm = 0; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { norm += expf(logits[i]); } // instead of dividing all exp(logits), we can just multiply coin. coin *= norm; float cdf = 0.0f; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { cdf += expf(logits[i]); if (coin < cdf) { return i; } } return n - 1; // in case of rounding errors } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Logger lite, will probably grow/change some over time typedef struct { FILE *logfile; int flush_every; // every how many steps to flush the log } Logger; void logger_init(Logger *logger, const char *filename) { logger->flush_every = 20; logger->logfile = NULL; if (filename != NULL) { logger->logfile = fopenCheck(filename, "w"); } } void logger_log_val(Logger *logger, int step, float val_loss) { if (logger->logfile != NULL) { fprintf(logger->logfile, "s:%d tel:%.4f\n", step, val_loss); } } void logger_log_train(Logger *logger, int step, float train_loss) { if (logger->logfile != NULL) { fprintf(logger->logfile, "s:%d trl:%.4f\n", step, train_loss); if (step % 10 == 0) { fflush(logger->logfile); } } } void logger_free(Logger *logger) { if (logger->logfile != NULL) { fclose(logger->logfile); } } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // CLI, poor man's argparse void error_usage() { // default run = debugging run with TinyShakespeare // bigger run = train on TinyStories! e.g. val/sample less often, but sample more tokens, write to logfile fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ./train_gpt2cu [options]\n"); fprintf(stderr, "Example: ./train_gpt2cu -i dev/data/tinystories/TinyStories -v 100 -s 100 -g 144 -o stories.log\n"); fprintf(stderr, "Options:\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -i input dataset prefix (default = dev/data/tinyshakespeare/tiny_shakespeare)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -e input model filename (default = gpt2_124M_bf16.bin)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -o output log file (default = NULL)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -b (per-GPU, micro) batch size B (default = 4)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -t sequence length T (default = 1024)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -d total desired batch size (default = B * T * num_processes, i.e. no grad accumulation\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -l learning rate (default = 3e-4f)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -x max_steps of optimization to run (-1 (default) = disable, run 1 epoch)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -v val_loss_every, how often we evaluate val loss (default = 20)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -m val_max_batches, up to how many val batches to estimate val loss? (default = 20)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -s sample_every, how often we inference the model (default = 20)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -g genT, how many steps of inference we do (default = 64)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -a overfit a single batch? 0/1. useful for debugging\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -f enable_tf32 override (default: 1, set to 0 to disable tf32)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -w keep f32 copy of weights for the optimizer? (default: 1)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -z zero_stage, Zero Optimization Stage, 0,1,2,3 (default = 0)\n"); fprintf(stderr, " -r recompute: saves memory at cost of speed. (default = 1), 0 = none. 1 = recompute gelu\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // main training loop int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { multi_gpu_config = multi_gpu_config_init(&argc, &argv); // read in the (optional) command line arguments const char* input_dataset_prefix = "dev/data/tinyshakespeare/tiny_shakespeare"; // or e.g. data/TinyStories const char* load_filename = "gpt2_124M_bf16.bin"; // bf16 weights of the model const char* output_log_file = NULL; int B = 4; // batch size int T = 1024; // sequence length max int total_batch_size = -1; // will be calculated down below later, if not provided float learning_rate = 3e-4f; int val_loss_every = 20; // every how many steps do we eval validation loss? int val_max_batches = 20; // how many batches max do we eval for validation loss? int sample_every = 20; // every how many steps to do inference? int genT = 64; // number of steps of inference we will do int overfit_single_batch = 0; // useful for debugging, 1 = only load a single data batch once int max_steps = -1; int override_enable_tf32 = 1; int use_master_weights = 1; int recompute = 1; // recompute during backward setting, 0 = none, 1 = recompute gelu int zero_stage = 0; // Zero Optimization Stage for Multi-GPU training float grad_clip = 1.0f; for (int i = 1; i < argc; i+=2) { if (i + 1 >= argc) { error_usage(); } // must have arg after flag if (argv[i][0] != '-') { error_usage(); } // must start with dash if (strlen(argv[i]) != 2) { error_usage(); } // must be -x (one dash, one letter) // read in the args if (argv[i][1] == 'i') { input_dataset_prefix = argv[i+1]; } else if (argv[i][1] == 'e') { load_filename = argv[i+1]; } else if (argv[i][1] == 'o') { output_log_file = argv[i+1]; } else if (argv[i][1] == 'b') { B = atoi(argv[i+1]); } // Per-GPU (micro) batch size else if (argv[i][1] == 't') { T = atoi(argv[i+1]); } else if (argv[i][1] == 'd') { total_batch_size = atoi(argv[i+1]); } else if (argv[i][1] == 'l') { learning_rate = atof(argv[i+1]); } else if (argv[i][1] == 'x') { max_steps = atoi(argv[i+1]); } else if (argv[i][1] == 'v') { val_loss_every = atoi(argv[i+1]); } else if (argv[i][1] == 'm') { val_max_batches = atoi(argv[i+1]); } else if (argv[i][1] == 's') { sample_every = atoi(argv[i+1]); } else if (argv[i][1] == 'g') { genT = atoi(argv[i+1]); } else if (argv[i][1] == 'a') { overfit_single_batch = atoi(argv[i+1]); } else if (argv[i][1] == 'f') { override_enable_tf32 = atoi(argv[i+1]); } else if (argv[i][1] == 'w') { use_master_weights = atoi(argv[i+1]); } else if (argv[i][1] == 'c') { grad_clip = atof(argv[i+1]); } else if (argv[i][1] == 'z') { zero_stage = atoi(argv[i+1]); } else if (argv[i][1] == 'r') { recompute = atoi(argv[i+1]); } else { error_usage(); } } // calculate a sensible default for total batch size by assuming no gradient accumulation if (total_batch_size == -1) { total_batch_size = B * T * multi_gpu_config.num_processes; } printf0("+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------------+\n"); printf0("| Parameter | Value |\n"); printf0("+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------------+\n"); printf0("| input dataset prefix | %-50s |\n", input_dataset_prefix); printf0("| output log file | %-50s |\n", output_log_file == NULL ? "NULL" : output_log_file); printf0("| micro batch size B | %-50d |\n", B); printf0("| sequence length T | %-50d |\n", T); printf0("| total batch size | %-50d |\n", total_batch_size); printf0("| learning rate | %-50e |\n", learning_rate); printf0("| grad_clip | %-50e |\n", grad_clip); printf0("| max_steps | %-50d |\n", max_steps); printf0("| val_loss_every | %-50d |\n", val_loss_every); printf0("| val_max_batches | %-50d |\n", val_max_batches); printf0("| sample_every | %-50d |\n", sample_every); printf0("| genT | %-50d |\n", genT); printf0("| overfit_single_batch | %-50d |\n", overfit_single_batch); printf0("| use_master_weights | %-50s |\n", use_master_weights ? "enabled" : "disabled"); printf0("| recompute | %-50d |\n", recompute); printf0("+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------------+\n"); common_start(override_enable_tf32, false); // common init code for train/test/profile const char* precision_str = (PRECISION_MODE == PRECISION_FP32) ? (cublas_compute == CUBLAS_COMPUTE_32F_FAST_TF32 ? "TF32" : "FP32") : (PRECISION_MODE == PRECISION_FP16 ? "FP16" : "BF16"); printf0("| device | %-50s |\n", deviceProp.name); printf0("| precision | %-50s |\n", precision_str); printf0("+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------------+\n"); // build the GPT-2 model from a checkpoint GPT2 model; gpt2_build_from_checkpoint(&model, load_filename); model.use_master_weights = use_master_weights; model.recompute = recompute; printf0("| load_filename | %-50s |\n", load_filename); printf0("| max_sequence_length T | %-50d |\n", model.config.max_seq_len); printf0("| vocab_size V | %-50d |\n", model.config.vocab_size); printf0("| padded_vocab_size Vp | %-50d |\n", model.config.padded_vocab_size); printf0("| num_layers L | %-50d |\n", model.config.num_layers); printf0("| num_heads NH | %-50d |\n", model.config.num_heads); printf0("| channels C | %-50d |\n", model.config.channels); printf0("| num_parameters | %-50zu |\n", model.num_parameters); printf0("+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------------+\n"); // build DataLoaders for both train and val char train_tokens_filename[128], val_tokens_filename[128]; assert(strlen(input_dataset_prefix) < 100); // being bit lazy here, make sure we don't overflow // if we're only overfitting a single batch for debugging, let's overfit the first batch // from val instead of train split, because val is smaller and a bit faster const char* train_split = (overfit_single_batch == 1) ? "val" : "train"; sprintf(train_tokens_filename, "%s_%s.bin", input_dataset_prefix, train_split); sprintf(val_tokens_filename, "%s_val.bin", input_dataset_prefix); DataLoader train_loader, val_loader; dataloader_init(&train_loader, train_tokens_filename, B, T, multi_gpu_config.process_rank, multi_gpu_config.num_processes); dataloader_init(&val_loader, val_tokens_filename, B, T, multi_gpu_config.process_rank, multi_gpu_config.num_processes); int train_num_batches = (max_steps == -1) ? train_loader.num_batches : max_steps; // default = 1 epoch int val_num_batches = train_loader.num_batches < val_max_batches ? train_loader.num_batches : val_max_batches; printf0("| train_num_batches | %-50d |\n", train_num_batches); printf0("| val_num_batches | %-50d |\n", val_num_batches); printf0("+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------------+\n"); // pretty print in a table the multi-gpu configuration as well set_zero_configs(&multi_gpu_config, zero_stage, model.num_parameters); printf0("| num_processes | %-50d |\n", multi_gpu_config.num_processes); printf0("| zero_stage | %-50d |\n", multi_gpu_config.zero_stage); printf0("+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------------+\n"); // more prints related to allocations from gpt2_build_from_checkpoint down here to not mess up our table above printf0("num_parameters: %zu => bytes: %zu\n", model.num_parameters, model.num_parameters_bytes); printf0("allocated %d MiB for model parameters\n", (int)round(model.num_parameters_bytes / (1024 * 1024))); // figure out gradient accumulation from the desired total batch size int tokens_per_fwdbwd = B * T * multi_gpu_config.num_processes; // one micro-batch processes this many tokens assert(total_batch_size % tokens_per_fwdbwd == 0); int grad_accum_steps = total_batch_size / tokens_per_fwdbwd; printf0("batch_size B=%d * seq_len T=%d * num_processes=%d and total_batch_size=%d\n", B, T, multi_gpu_config.num_processes, total_batch_size); printf0("=> setting grad_accum_steps=%d\n", grad_accum_steps); // set up the Logger & Tokenizer Logger logger; logger_init(&logger, output_log_file); Tokenizer tokenizer; tokenizer_init(&tokenizer, "gpt2_tokenizer.bin"); // some memory for generating samples from the model unsigned long long rng_state = 1337; int* gen_tokens = (int*)mallocCheck(B * T * sizeof(int)); floatX* cpu_logits_raw = (floatX*)mallocCheck(model.config.vocab_size * sizeof(floatX)); float* cpu_logits = (float*)mallocCheck(model.config.vocab_size * sizeof(float)); // train cudaEvent_t start, end; cudaCheck(cudaEventCreate(&start)); cudaCheck(cudaEventCreate(&end)); cudaCheck(cudaProfilerStart()); double total_sum_iteration_time_s = 0.0; float ema_tokens_per_second = 0.0f; for (int step = 0; step <= train_num_batches; step++) { NvtxRange step_range("Train step", step); int last_step = step == train_num_batches; // once in a while estimate the validation loss if (step % val_loss_every == 0 || last_step) { NvtxRange validation_range("validation"); float val_loss = 0.0f; dataloader_reset(&val_loader); for (int i = 0; i < val_num_batches; i++) { dataloader_next_batch(&val_loader); gpt2_forward(&model, val_loader.inputs, val_loader.targets, B, T); val_loss += model.mean_loss; } val_loss /= val_num_batches; val_loss = multi_gpu_cpu_float_mean(val_loss, &multi_gpu_config); printf0("val loss %f\n", val_loss); logger_log_val(&logger, step, val_loss); } // once in a while do model inference to print generated text if (multi_gpu_config.process_rank == 0 && (step > 0 && (step % sample_every) == 0 || last_step)) { NvtxRange generation_range("generation"); // fill up gen_tokens with the <|endoftext|> token, which kicks off the generation int eot_token = tokenizer.eot_token; for(int i = 0; i < B * T; ++i) { gen_tokens[i] = eot_token; } // now sample from the model autoregressively printf("generating:\n---\n"); for (int t = 1; t < genT; t++) { NvtxRange generation_range("Generation step", t); // note that inference is very wasteful here because for each token // we re-calculate the forward pass for all of (B,T) positions from scratch // but the inference here is just for sanity checking anyway // and we can maybe optimize a bit more later, with careful tests gpt2_forward(&model, gen_tokens, NULL, B, T); // furthermore, below we're only using b=0 (i.e. the first row) of all B rows // we're in principle running B "inference streams" in parallel here // only using position 0 because it's a bit faster (copy less probs from GPU -> CPU) // get the V-dimensional vector probs[0, t-1, :] floatX* logits = model.acts.output + (t - 1) * model.config.padded_vocab_size; // move probs back to CPU and sample (note we only move the first vocab_size logits, ignoring the padding) cudaCheck(cudaMemcpy(cpu_logits_raw, logits, model.config.vocab_size * sizeof(floatX), cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost)); // convert to FP32 into cpu_logits (this does nothing useful if floatX == float) for (int i = 0; i < model.config.vocab_size; i++) { cpu_logits[i] = (float)cpu_logits_raw[i]; } float coin = random_f32(&rng_state); int next_token = sample_softmax(cpu_logits, model.config.vocab_size, coin); gen_tokens[t] = next_token; // print the generated token, either using the Tokenizer or a fallback if (tokenizer.init_ok) { const char* token_str = tokenizer_decode(&tokenizer, next_token); safe_printf(token_str); } else { // fall back to printing the token id printf("%d ", next_token); } fflush(stdout); } printf("\n---\n"); } // bit confusing: we want to make sure to eval and sample on 0th iteration // but also after the very last iteration. so we loop for step <= train_num_batches // instead of just < train_num_batches (one extra due to <=), only to do // the validation/sampling one last time, and then we break right here as we're done. if (last_step) { break; } // --------------- TRAINING SECTION BEGIN ----------------- // do one training step, doing forward/backward/update on total_batch_size tokens cudaEventRecord(start); // gradient accumulation loop over micro-batches float lossf = 0.0f; // for getting the mean loss over the accumulation steps for (int micro_step = 0; micro_step < grad_accum_steps; micro_step++) { // fetch the next data batch // and if we're overfitting a single batch, we'll only call this a single time if (overfit_single_batch == 0 || (overfit_single_batch == 1 && step == 0 && micro_step == 0)) { dataloader_next_batch(&train_loader); } // forward pass. note that we pass in grad_accum_steps, which scales down the loss gpt2_forward(&model, train_loader.inputs, train_loader.targets, B, T, grad_accum_steps); lossf += model.mean_loss; // the mean_loss was normalized by grad_accum_steps inside gpt2_forward // backward pass. all model params accumulate gradients with += inside this inner loop gpt2_backward(&model); } // override the mean loss, accounting for the gradient accumulation loop // this is esp important to do here in multigpu update below, where model.mean_loss gets allreduced model.mean_loss = lossf; // update the parameters gpt2_multi_gpu_accumulate(&model, &multi_gpu_config); float grad_norm = gpt2_update(&model, learning_rate, 0.9f, 0.999f, 1e-8f, 0.0f, grad_clip, step+1, &multi_gpu_config); gpt2_multi_gpu_gather(&model, &multi_gpu_config); // zero out the gradients for the next iteration gpt2_zero_grad(&model); cudaEventRecord(end); cudaCheck(cudaEventSynchronize(end)); // wait for the end event to finish to get correct timings // --------------- TRAINING SECTION END ------------------- // everything that follows now is just diagnostics, prints, logging, etc. // todo - move or double-buffer all of this timing logic to avoid idling the GPU at this point! float time_elapsed_ms; cudaCheck(cudaEventElapsedTime(&time_elapsed_ms, start, end)); size_t tokens_processed = (size_t)multi_gpu_config.num_processes * B * T * grad_accum_steps; float tokens_per_second = tokens_processed / time_elapsed_ms * 1000.0; float bias_corrected_ema_tokens_per_second = tokens_per_second; // by default set to non-ema version if (step > 0) { // consider the first batch to be a warmup (e.g. cuBLAS/cuDNN initialisation) total_sum_iteration_time_s += time_elapsed_ms / 1000.0; // smooth out the tok/s with an exponential moving average, and bias correct just like in AdamW ema_tokens_per_second = 0.95f * ema_tokens_per_second + 0.05f * tokens_per_second; bias_corrected_ema_tokens_per_second = ema_tokens_per_second / (1.0f - powf(0.95f, step)); } float accumulated_loss = multi_gpu_config.num_processes == 1 ? model.mean_loss : model.accumulated_mean_loss; printf0("step %4d/%d: train loss %f norm %.4f (%.2f ms, %.0f tok/s)\n", step + 1, train_num_batches, accumulated_loss, grad_norm, time_elapsed_ms, bias_corrected_ema_tokens_per_second); logger_log_train(&logger, step, model.mean_loss); // disable the profiler after 3 steps of optimization if (step == 3) { cudaProfilerStop(); } } // add a total average, for optimizations that are only mild improvements (excluding 1st batch as warmup) printf0("total average iteration time: %f ms\n", total_sum_iteration_time_s / (train_num_batches-1) * 1000); // free and destroy everything cudaCheck(cudaEventDestroy(end)); cudaCheck(cudaEventDestroy(start)); dataloader_free(&train_loader); dataloader_free(&val_loader); tokenizer_free(&tokenizer); free(cpu_logits_raw); free(cpu_logits); free(gen_tokens); logger_free(&logger); multi_gpu_config_free(&multi_gpu_config); common_free(model); return 0; } #endif