Research model for Sparse Query Attention experiments - extension to Grouped Query Attention, that's also reducing the number of used query heads, instead of further reducing key/value heads count (up to Multi Query Attention). That approach results in huge computational complexity reduction and much faster training, while the performance stays on GQA level (almost unnoticeable decrease, when compared to GQA, and noticeable better than MQA).
This version is using an extreme 4x query heads reduction factor to achieve even greater computational efficiency gains. However, the training time difference isn't as big as between SQA and GQA/MQA, while performance is noticeable worse, but still a little better, than reference MQA.
This model was only trained for research purposes, on a small number of training steps.
Validation mean loss/accuracy:
Training time / time per batch:
O(N*d * N*d)O(N*d * N*(d/heads*groups))O(N*d * N*(d/heads))O(N*(d/heads*query_groups) * N*(d/heads*groups))SQA has reduced two factors instead of one. That means it will better scale for longer sequences and training time gains will be even greater.
SQA has reduced dimensions of query heads linear projection and output projection, which results in a little smaller model sizes:
Model requires RxNN framework for training/inference. It's integrated with HuggingFace Hub and libraries.
pip install rxnn torch transformers tokenizersimport torch
from rxnn.experimental.models import ExperimentalAttentionTransformer
from rxnn.transformers.sampler import Sampler, SampleDecoder
from rxnn.training.tokenizer import load_tokenizer_from_hf_hub
model = ExperimentalAttentionTransformer.from_pretrained('ReactiveAI/xSQAT-m')
tokenizer = load_tokenizer_from_hf_hub('ReactiveAI/xSQAT-m')
sampler = Sampler(model, torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu'), end_token_id=3)
sample = SampleDecoder(sampler, tokenizer)
# 0.1 and 0.9 are default values for temperature and top_p
generated = sample('Example model input for text generation...', temperature=0.1, top_p=0.9, max_seq_len=1024)
sample('Example model input for text generation - print streamed response...', temperature=0.1, top_p=0.9, max_seq_len=1024, print_stream=True)
pip install rxnn torch transformers tokenizers tensorboard (tensorboard is optional)import torch
from rxnn.experimental.models import ExperimentalAttentionTransformer
from rxnn.training.tokenizer import load_tokenizer_from_hf_hub
from rxnn.training.dataset import AutoregressiveLMDataset
from rxnn.training.bml import AutoregressiveTrainer
from rxnn.training.callbacks import PrintLossCallback, PrintAccuracyCallback, TokenCounterCallback, ModelSaveCallback
from rxnn.training.scheduler import get_transformer_lr_scheduler
model = ExperimentalAttentionTransformer.from_pretrained('ReactiveAI/xSQAT-m')
tokenizer = load_tokenizer_from_hf_hub('ReactiveAI/xSQAT-m')
device = torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')
batch_size = 128 # Require ~40GB GPU Memory (trained on L40S)
epochs = 1
gradient_acc_steps = 1
seq_len = 1024
vocab_size = 10_000
peak_lr = 5e-4 * gradient_acc_steps
train_dataset = AutoregressiveLMDataset.from_hf_hub('hf-dataset-id', 'subset', tokenizer=tokenizer, max_seq_len=seq_len) # split is 'train' by default
valid_dataset = AutoregressiveLMDataset.from_hf_hub('hf-dataset-id', split='validation', tokenizer=tokenizer, max_seq_len=seq_len)
dataset_len = len(train_dataset)
steps_per_epoch = int(dataset_len / batch_size - 1)
total_steps = int((epochs * steps_per_epoch) / gradient_acc_steps)
warmup_steps = int(0.25 * steps_per_epoch)
logs_dir = './tensorboard_logs' # require tensorboard `pip install tensorboard`
print_cb = PrintLossCallback(batches_per_epoch=steps_per_epoch)
count_cb = TokenCounterCallback()
acc_cb = PrintAccuracyCallback()
save_cb = ModelSaveCallback('./path/to/save', push_to_hub=True,
hub_model_id='your-model-id', private_repo=True,
push_checkpoint_weights=True, final_commit_message='Final commit message', hf_token=YOUR_HF_TOKEN)
trainer = AutoregressiveTrainer(model, device, dataset=train_dataset, validation_dataset=valid_dataset,
vocab_size=vocab_size, callbacks=[print_cb, acc_cb, count_cb, save_cb], use_amp=True,
dtype=torch.bfloat16, log_dir=logs_dir, gradient_accumulation_steps=gradient_acc_steps)
optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=peak_lr, weight_decay=0.01)
scheduler = get_transformer_lr_scheduler(
optimizer,
warmup_steps=warmup_steps,
num_training_steps=total_steps
)
trainer(epochs=epochs, batch_size=batch_size, optimizer=optimizer, scheduler=scheduler)
According to experiment results, this variant of SparseQueryAttention has greater training time reduction gains and still a little better performance than MQA. However, the regular and symmetric version of SQA seems to provide better cost-effective results - slightly slower, but almost the GQA level performance