Draft
Conversation
This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Summary
Reduce GPU memory usage during training so the train batch size can be increased without changing the input token counts.
This PR keeps the existing model inputs intact and focuses on memory reductions in the training path.
Changes
bf16autocast during training when the GPU supports itneed_weights=Falseon the attention layers used in the encoder and DiT blocksExpected Effect
These changes target different parts of the memory footprint:
bf16: reduces activation memory and temporary tensor size during trainingneed_weights=False: avoids materializing unused attention-weight tensorsEMA on CPU: frees one extra model copy from GPU memoryactivation checkpointing: trades extra recomputation for lower activation memoryIn practice, the main memory savings are expected to come from
bf16and activation checkpointing.Notes
use_bf16anduse_activation_checkpointingare configurable and default to enabledValidation
python3 -m py_compile