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Non-DP runs default to float32 precision #630

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carmocca opened this issue Oct 18, 2024 · 1 comment
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Non-DP runs default to float32 precision #630

carmocca opened this issue Oct 18, 2024 · 1 comment
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@carmocca
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The training script relies on FSDP's MixedPrecisionPolicy to take care of dtypes.

But when data-parallelism is not used (for example when running in a single node with TP 8) then this does not happen and training runs in float32.

This is a bit unintuitive especially when comparing against runs with DP enabled.
If I'm not mistaken, the default training script does not even call torch.set_float32_matmul_precision() so it's currently missing out on speedups.

Do you agree that this should be changed? Thanks!
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You are right that currently mixed precision is only supported in FSDP.
For general support by AMP, I think it's being worked on in #591

@tianyu-l tianyu-l added the enhancement New feature or request label Oct 18, 2024
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