Can't run Llama 8B with higher sequence length and batch size for Multi GPU finetuning on Gaudi 3

[ajscalers]

System Info

Optimum habana version: v1.15.0
Synapse AI version: 1.19.0-2427ed8
Gaudi pytorch container version: vault.habana.ai/gaudi-docker/1.19.0/ubuntu22.04/habanalabs/pytorch-installer-2.5.1:1.19.0-561

Information

• The official example scripts
• My own modified scripts

Tasks

• An officially supported task in the examples folder (such as GLUE/SQuAD, ...)
• My own task or dataset (give details below)

Reproduction

1. Run the Gaudi pytorch container: docker run -it --runtime habana -e HABANA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all -e OMPI_MCA_btl_vader_single_copy_mechanism=none --entrypoint /bin/bash vault.habana.ai/gaudi-docker/1.19.0/ubuntu22.04/habanalabs/pytorch-installer-2.5.1:1.19.0-561
2. Install the required dependencies for the question answering examples directory (in https://github.com/huggingface/optimum-habana/tree/main/examples/question-answering).
3. Run the example, but change the model to Llama 3.1 8B, increase the batch size and max sequence length:

python ../gaudi_spawn.py \
  --world_size 8 --use_deepspeed run_qa.py \
  --model_name_or_path meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct \
  --gaudi_config_name Habana/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking \
  --dataset_name squad \
  --do_train \
  --do_eval \
  --per_device_train_batch_size 16 \
  --per_device_eval_batch_size 8 \
  --learning_rate 3e-5 \
  --num_train_epochs 2 \
  --max_seq_length 512 \
  --doc_stride 128 \
  --output_dir /tmp/squad_output/ \
  --use_habana \
  --use_lazy_mode \
  --use_hpu_graphs_for_inference \
  --throughput_warmup_steps 3 \
  --max_train_samples 45080 \
  --deepspeed ../../tests/configs/deepspeed_zero_2.json \
  --sdp_on_bf16

This throws an out of memory error on Gaudi 3 with 8 GPUs.

Expected behavior

This should run to completion, as a 8B model with 512 sequence length and a batch size of >= 64 can run on other GPUs with similar per GPU memory.

[yafshar]

@ajscalers, have you tried running this example on other GPUs? Many libraries use options like gradient checkpointing by default, which can help reduce memory usage. This issue is not a bug, for this example, please enable that option.

Below are the results on Gaudi2 (Gaudi3 has 128 GB of HBM2e memory, which is 33% more than the 96 GB available in Gaudi2),

>>> python ../gaudi_spawn.py \
  --world_size 8 --use_deepspeed run_qa.py \
  --model_name_or_path meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct \
  --gaudi_config_name Habana/bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking \
  --dataset_name squad \
  --do_train \
  --do_eval \
  --per_device_train_batch_size 16 \
  --per_device_eval_batch_size 8 \
  --learning_rate 3e-5 \
  --num_train_epochs 2 \
  --max_seq_length 512 \
  --doc_stride 128 \
  --output_dir /tmp/squad_output/ \
  --use_habana \
  --use_lazy_mode \
  --use_hpu_graphs_for_inference \
  --throughput_warmup_steps 3 \
  --max_train_samples 45080 \
  --deepspeed ../../tests/configs/deepspeed_zero_2.json \
  --sdp_on_bf16 \
  --gradient_checkpointing

Training completed. Do not forget to share your model on huggingface.co/models =)

...

***** train metrics *****
  epoch                       =          2.0
  max_memory_allocated (GB)   =         94.2
  memory_allocated (GB)       =        29.96
  total_flos                  = 1804539232GF
  total_memory_available (GB) =        94.62

...

***** eval metrics *****
  epoch                           =        2.0
  eval_exact_match                =     0.0757
  eval_f1                         =     0.6021
  eval_graph_compliation_duration =     4.9983

...

If this resolves your question, please close the issue and remove the bug flag. Thank you!

[yafshar]

@ajscalers Could you please confirm if the solution is working for you? If everything is resolved, kindly remove the bug flag and close the issue. Thank you!