This repo contains an MLOps-supported training pipeline to help users build their own large language model (LLM) on proprietary/private data. This repo aims to provide a minimalist example of efficient LLM training/fine-tuning and to illustrate how to use FedML Launch and fine-tuning. We leverage Pythia 7B by default and recently added support for Llama 2.

The repo contains:

• A minimalist PyTorch implementation for conventional/centralized LLM training, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
  • The training and evaluation logic follows transformers.Trainer.
  • LoRA integration from peft.
  • Supports DeepSpeed.
  • Dataset implementation with datasets.

Our example uses Pythia by default, but we recently added support for Llama2. If you'd like to use Llama2, please see the following instructions before getting started.

To use Llama 2, you need to apply access from Meta and request Meta's private Hugging Face repo access.

1. Make sure your transformers version is 4.31.0 or newer. You could update your transformers via pip install --upgrade transformers.
2. Please visit the Meta website and apply for access.
3. Apply for Meta's private repo on Hugging Face. See below image for detail.
4. Once both access are granted, you can start using Llama by passing --model_name "meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf" to the training script.

Warning Since Llama 2 is on a private Hugging Face repo, you need to either login to Hugging Face or provide your access token.

• To login to huggingface (see https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens for detail), run huggingface-cli login in command line.
• To pass an access token, you need to do one of the following:
  • Set environment variable HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN="<your access token>"
  • For centralized/conventional training, pass --auth_token "<your access token>" in the command line.

Clone the repo then go to the project directory:

# clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/FedML-AI/llm-finetune.git

# go to the project directory
cd llm-finetune

Install dependencies with the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

See Dependencies for more information on the dependency versions.

The run_train.py contains a minimal example for conventional/centralized LLM training and fine-tuning on databricks-dolly-15k dataset.

Example scripts:

# train on a single GPU
bash scripts/train.sh \
  ... # additional arguments

# train with PyTorch DDP
bash scripts/train_ddp.sh \
  ... # additional arguments

# train with DeepSpeed
bash scripts/train_deepspeed.sh \
  ... # additional arguments

Note If you have an Amper or newer GPU (e.g., RTX 3000 series or newer), you could turn on bf16 to have more efficient training by passing --bf16 "True" in the command line.

Warning when using PyTorch DDP with LoRA and gradient checkpointing, you need to turn off find_unused_parameters by passing --ddp_find_unused_parameters "False" in the command line.

We have tested our implement with the following setup:

• Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS and 22.04.2 LTS
• CUDA 12.2, 11.8, 11.7 and 11.6
• Python 3.8.13 and 3.9.16
  • fedml>=0.8.4a7
  • torch>=2.0.0,<=2.1.0
  • torchvision>=0.15.1,<=0.16.0
  • transformers>=4.31.0,<=4.34.0
  • peft>=0.4.0,<=0.5.0
  • datasets>=2.11.0,<=2.14.5
  • deepspeed>=0.9.1,<=0.10.3
  • numpy>=1.24.3,<=1.24.4
  • tensorboard>=2.12.2,<=2.13.0
  • mpi4py>=3.1.4,<=3.1.5