Stas Bekman

stas

https://stasosphere.com/machine-learning/

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Toolmaker. Software creator, optimizer and harmonizer. Makes things work and fly at Snowflake AI Research Training LLM/RAG/Generative AI/Machine Learning/Scalability

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posted an update about 23 hours ago

Good news! Ulysses Sequence Parallelism from the Snowflake AI Research and the Deepspeed teams has been integrated into HuggingFace Trainer, Accelerate and TRL For extensive details please see this writeup: https://huggingface.co/blog/ulysses-sp Thanks a lot to Kashif Rasul for helping make it happen. Also the others in the HF team who helped with integration.

published an article 3 days ago

Ulysses Sequence Parallelism: Training with Million-Token Contexts

authored a paper about 1 month ago

Arctic Long Sequence Training: Scalable And Efficient Training For Multi-Million Token Sequences

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posted an update about 23 hours ago

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Good news! Ulysses Sequence Parallelism from the Snowflake AI Research and the Deepspeed teams has been integrated into
HuggingFace Trainer, Accelerate and TRL

For extensive details please see this writeup:
https://huggingface.co/blog/ulysses-sp

Thanks a lot to Kashif Rasul for helping make it happen. Also the others in the HF team who helped with integration.

posted an update about 1 year ago

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Do you want ArcticTraining at @SnowflakeDB to add an ability to post-train DeepSeek V3/R1 models with DPO using just a few GPU nodes?

Please vote here and tell others about it: https://github.com/snowflakedb/ArcticTraining/discussions/58

ArcticTraining is an open-source, easy to use post-training framework for NVIDIA GPUs built on top of DeepSpeed.

posted an update over 1 year ago

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If you remember my work on MAMF - to find the realistic TFLOPS achievable ceiling - the Intel AI team has shared their measurements and they scored ...

an incredible 99.4% TFLOPS efficiency for Gaudi 2!

That's quite amazing! Your ROI on these accelerators will be very high.

The full table is here: https://github.com/stas00/ml-engineering/tree/master/compute/accelerator#maximum-achievable-matmul-flops-comparison-table

As we have seen the competitors get their achievable efficiency worse with each new generation, I'm looking forward to see if Gaudi 3 will keep the high bar!

Thanks to Avi Rubin, Lakshman Chari, Imtiaz Sajwani, Ramy J and Zhiqi Tao for helping to get these numbers to the community.

posted an update over 1 year ago

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The Universal Checkpointing paper is out! https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18820

If you remember the Bigscience BLOOM-176B training, Tunji Ruwase and I co-invented this technology for Megatron-Deepspeed in order to enable to quickly scale up and down node topology while continuing training.

Since then the DeepSpeed team continued improving on that and it has now been fully integrated into Deepspeed.

The blog post is here: https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/blob/master/blogs/deepspeed-ucp/README.md

reacted to their post with 🤗 almost 2 years ago

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A combined effort from the IBM + Pytorch teams achieved an incredible training performance with ZeRO/FSDP on par with 3D parallelism on H100s, while having just 800Gbps inter-node connection.

This is because they got an almost full overlap between comms and compute and have introduced a novel selective activation recomputation method which recalculates only large but inexpensive activations.

Check out their post here: https://pytorch.org/blog/maximizing-training/

posted an update almost 2 years ago

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posted an update almost 2 years ago

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If you're trying to run MoE Mixtral-8x7b under DeepSpeed w/ HF Transformers it's likely to hang on the first forward.

The solution is here https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/4966?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US#issuecomment-1989671378

and you need deepspeed>=0.13.0

Thanks to Masahiro Tanaka for the fix.

replied to their post about 2 years ago

I pinged Elio to see if he wants to join.

posted an update about 2 years ago

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Hear, hear, AMD MI300Xs have started to emerge much sooner than expected.

Here is a 2-part benchmarks report on performing BLOOM-176B inference using @MSFTDeepSpeed optimized for AMD MI300X.

1. https://www.evp.cloud/post/diving-deeper-insights-from-our-llm-inference-testing
2. https://www.evp.cloud/post/diving-deeper-insights-from-our-llm-inference-testing-part-2

This was published in response to our BLOOM-176B super-fast inference blog post https://huggingface.co/blog/bloom-inference-pytorch-scripts

Note that these have 192GB of HBM!

The NVIDIA monopoly is strong, but it'll have to start sharing the pie and hopefully drive the costs down at least somewhat.

Thanks to https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliovp for sharing this writeup with me.

p.s. at the PyTorch conference in the fall, the AMD representative said we will see MI300X available to us mortals in Q4-2024/Q1-2025.

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replied to their post about 2 years ago

Thank you for the kind words, Jeff!

We are still waiting for BLOOM v2.0 from HF!

posted an update about 2 years ago

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"The Case for Co-Designing Model Architectures with Hardware"

This is a long overdue paper that we have started discussing back when training BLOOM-176.

Basically this paper tells you how to design your model's dimensions for an optimal training throughput.

Fantastic!

Yours truly contributed the SwiGLU section ;)

https://twitter.com/QuentinAnthon15/status/1752393989813375119

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14489

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reacted to clem's post with ❤️ about 2 years ago

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Google + Hugging Face + Open-Source AI = 🔥🔥🔥

https://huggingface.co/blog/gcp-partnership

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/google-hugging-face-alliance-spur-173016882.html

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050445/google-cloud-hugging-face-ai-developer-access

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-25/google-to-team-up-with-startup-hugging-face-to-host-ai-software

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-cloud-partners-with-hugging-face-attract-ai-developers-2024-01-25/

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reacted to freddyaboulton's post with 🤯 about 2 years ago

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New in Gradio 4.16.0 - Galleries as Input 🖼️

Now your users can upload multiple images as input to your AI application and view them in a slick gallery!

Attached is a demo of how this new feature can be used in a photomaker-type application: TencentARC/PhotoMaker

Shout out @abidlabs and @akhaliq who proposed this feature after seeing some of the workarounds gradio developers were using in the wild to upload multiple images.

The gradio team works hard to stay up to date with the latest trends in AI! If there's something missing from the library, file an issue on github! https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/issues

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posted an update about 2 years ago

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Do you have a hidden massive storage leak thanks to HF hub models and datasets revisions adding up and not getting automatically deleted?

Here is how to delete all old revisions and only keeping main in a few quick steps and no tedious manual editing.

In terminal A:

$ pip install huggingface_hub["cli"] -U
$ huggingface-cli delete-cache --disable-tui
File to edit: /tmp/tmpundr7lky.txt
0 revisions selected counting for 0.0. Continue ? (y/N)

Do not answer the prompt and proceed with my instructions.

(note your tmp file will have a different path, so adjust it below)

In terminal B:

$ cp /tmp/tmpedbz00ox.txt cache.txt
$ perl -pi -e 's|^#(.*detached.*)|$1|' cache.txt
$ cat cache.txt >>  /tmp/tmpundr7lky.txt

The perl one-liner uncommented out all lines that had (detached) in it - so can be wiped out. And then we pasted it back into the tmp file huggingface-cli expects to be edited.

Now go back to terminal A and hit: N, Y, Y, so it looks like:

0 revisions selected counting for 0.0. Continue ? (y/N) n
89 revisions selected counting for 211.7G. Continue ? (y/N) y
89 revisions selected counting for 211.7G. Confirm deletion ? (Y/n) y

Done.

If you messed up with the prompt answering you still have cache.txt file which you can feed again to the new tmp file it'll create when you run huggingface-cli delete-cache --disable-tui again.

For more details and additional techniques please see https://github.com/stas00/ml-engineering/tree/master/storage#huggingface-hub-caches

Stas Bekman

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