ray.train.huggingface.HuggingFaceTrainer#

class ray.train.huggingface.HuggingFaceTrainer(*args, **kwargs)[source]#

Bases: ray.train.torch.torch_trainer.TorchTrainer

A Trainer for data parallel HuggingFace Transformers on PyTorch training.

This Trainer runs the transformers.Trainer.train() method on multiple Ray Actors. The training is carried out in a distributed fashion through PyTorch DDP. These actors already have the necessary torch process group already configured for distributed PyTorch training. If you have PyTorch >= 1.12.0 installed, you can also run FSDP training by specifying the fsdp argument in TrainingArguments. For more information on configuring FSDP, refer to Hugging Face documentation.

The training function ran on every Actor will first run the specified trainer_init_per_worker function to obtain an instantiated transformers.Trainer object. The trainer_init_per_worker function will have access to preprocessed train and evaluation datasets.

If the datasets dict contains a training dataset (denoted by the “train” key), then it will be split into multiple dataset shards, with each Actor training on a single shard. All the other datasets will not be split.

Please note that if you use a custom transformers.Trainer subclass, the get_train_dataloader method will be wrapped around to disable sharding by transformers.IterableDatasetShard, as the dataset will already be sharded on the Ray AIR side.

HuggingFace loggers will be automatically disabled, and the local_rank argument in TrainingArguments will be automatically set. Please note that if you want to use CPU training, you will need to set the no_cuda argument in TrainingArguments manually - otherwise, an exception (segfault) may be thrown.

This Trainer requires transformers>=4.19.0 package.

Example

# Based on
# huggingface/notebooks/examples/language_modeling_from_scratch.ipynb

# Hugging Face imports
from datasets import load_dataset
import transformers
from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

import ray
from ray.train.huggingface import HuggingFaceTrainer
from ray.air.config import ScalingConfig

# If using GPUs, set this to True.
use_gpu = False

model_checkpoint = "gpt2"
tokenizer_checkpoint = "sgugger/gpt2-like-tokenizer"
block_size = 128

datasets = load_dataset("wikitext", "wikitext-2-raw-v1")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_checkpoint)

def tokenize_function(examples):
    return tokenizer(examples["text"])

tokenized_datasets = datasets.map(
    tokenize_function, batched=True, num_proc=1, remove_columns=["text"]
)

def group_texts(examples):
    # Concatenate all texts.
    concatenated_examples = {
        k: sum(examples[k], []) for k in examples.keys()
    }
    total_length = len(concatenated_examples[list(examples.keys())[0]])
    # We drop the small remainder, we could add padding if the model
    # supported it.
    # instead of this drop, you can customize this part to your needs.
    total_length = (total_length // block_size) * block_size
    # Split by chunks of max_len.
    result = {
        k: [
            t[i : i + block_size]
            for i in range(0, total_length, block_size)
        ]
        for k, t in concatenated_examples.items()
    }
    result["labels"] = result["input_ids"].copy()
    return result

lm_datasets = tokenized_datasets.map(
    group_texts,
    batched=True,
    batch_size=1000,
    num_proc=1,
)
ray_train_ds = ray.data.from_huggingface(lm_datasets["train"])
ray_evaluation_ds = ray.data.from_huggingface(
    lm_datasets["validation"]
)

def trainer_init_per_worker(train_dataset, eval_dataset, **config):
    model_config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model_checkpoint)
    model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_config(model_config)
    args = transformers.TrainingArguments(
        output_dir=f"{model_checkpoint}-wikitext2",
        evaluation_strategy="epoch",
        save_strategy="epoch",
        logging_strategy="epoch",
        learning_rate=2e-5,
        weight_decay=0.01,
        no_cuda=(not use_gpu),
    )
    return transformers.Trainer(
        model=model,
        args=args,
        train_dataset=train_dataset,
        eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
    )

scaling_config = ScalingConfig(num_workers=3, use_gpu=use_gpu)
trainer = HuggingFaceTrainer(
    trainer_init_per_worker=trainer_init_per_worker,
    scaling_config=scaling_config,
    datasets={"train": ray_train_ds, "evaluation": ray_evaluation_ds},
)
result = trainer.fit()
Parameters

  • trainer_init_per_worker – The function that returns an instantiated transformers.Trainer object and takes in the following arguments: train Torch.Dataset, optional evaluation Torch.Dataset and config as kwargs. The Torch Datasets are automatically created by converting the Ray Datasets internally before they are passed into the function.

  • datasets – Any Ray Datasets to use for training. Use the key “train” to denote which dataset is the training dataset and (optionally) key “evaluation” to denote the evaluation dataset. Can only contain a training dataset and up to one extra dataset to be used for evaluation. If a preprocessor is provided and has not already been fit, it will be fit on the training dataset. All datasets will be transformed by the preprocessor if one is provided.

  • trainer_init_config – Configurations to pass into trainer_init_per_worker as kwargs.

  • torch_config – Configuration for setting up the PyTorch backend. If set to None, use the default configuration. This replaces the backend_config arg of DataParallelTrainer. Same as in TorchTrainer.

  • scaling_config – Configuration for how to scale data parallel training.

  • dataset_config – Configuration for dataset ingest.

  • run_config – Configuration for the execution of the training run.

  • preprocessor – A ray.data.Preprocessor to preprocess the provided datasets.

  • resume_from_checkpoint – A checkpoint to resume training from.

PublicAPI (alpha): This API is in alpha and may change before becoming stable.