components.md

Components

Models

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
model	gpt2	GPT2LLM	GPT2LLMConfig	NNModel	GPT2 model for language modeling
model	huggingface_pretrained_model	HuggingFacePretrainedModel	HuggingFacePretrainedModelConfig	NNModel	HuggingFace pretrained model for language modeling
model	checkpointed	ModelFactory.get_checkpointed_model	CheckpointedModelConfig	nn.Module	Checkpointed Model instance
model	fsdp_wrapped	ModelFactory.get_fsdp_wrapped_model	FSDPWrappedModelConfig	NNModel	Model that has been sharded via FSDP
model	model_initialized	ModelFactory.get_weight_initalized_model	WeightInitializedModelConfig	nn.Module	Model with initialized weights
model	coca	CoCa	CoCaConfig	NNModel	CoCa Model (Contrastive Captioners)

Weight Initialization

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
model_initialization	composed	ComposedInitializationRoutines.get_composed_model_initializer	ComposedModelInitializationConfig	ModelInitializationIF	Component for initializing model weights in place

Losses

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
loss	clm_cross_entropy_loss	CLMCrossEntropyLoss	CLMCrossEntropyLossConfig	Loss	Cross-entropy loss function

Optimizers

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
optimizer	adam	OptimizerFactory.get_adam	AdamOptimizerConfig	Optimizer	ADAM optimizer
optimizer	adam_w	OptimizerFactory.get_adam_w	AdamWOptimizerConfig	Optimizer	ADAMW Optimizer
optimizer	checkpointed	OptimizerFactory.get_checkpointed_optimizer	CheckpointedOptimizerConfig	Optimizer	Optimizer instantiated from checkpoint

LR Scheduling

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
scheduler	dummy_lr	DummyLRScheduler	DummyLRSchedulerConfig	LRScheduler	Fake lr scheduler not adapting the lr rate
scheduler	step_lr	StepLR	StepLRSchedulerConfig	LRScheduler	Decays the learning rate of each parameter group by gamma every step_size steps
scheduler	constant_lr	ConstantLR	ConstantLRSchedulerConfig	LRScheduler	Multiplies the learning rate of each parameter group by a small constant factor until the number of steps reaches a pre-defined milestone
scheduler	onecycle_lr	OneCycleLR	OneCycleLRSchedulerConfig	LRScheduler	Sets the learning rate of each parameter group according to the 1cycle learning rate policy.
scheduler	cosine_annealing_lr	CosineAnnealingLR	CosineAnnealingLRSchedulerConfig	LRScheduler	Set the learning rate of each parameter group using a cosine annealing schedule

Tokenization

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
tokenizer	pretrained_hf_tokenizer	PreTrainedHFTokenizer	PreTrainedHFTokenizerConfig	TokenizerWrapper	Pretrained Huggingface tokenizer
tokenizer	pretrained_sp_tokenizer	PreTrainedSPTokenizer	PreTrainedSPTokenizerConfig	TokenizerWrapper	Pretrained SentencePiece tokenizer

Datasets

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
dataset	mem_map_dataset	DatasetFactory.get_mem_map_dataset	MemMapDatasetConfig	Dataset	MemMap Dataset
dataset	packed_mem_map_dataset_continuous	DatasetFactory.get_packed_mem_map_dataset_continuous	PackedMemMapDatasetContinuousConfig	Dataset	Packed Memory Mapped Dataset Continuous
dataset	dummy_dataset	DatasetFactory.get_dummy_dataset	DummyDatasetConfig	Dataset	Dummy dataset creating random samples of specified shape

Data sampling

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
sampler	distributed_sampler	DistributedSampler	DistributedSamplerConfig	Sampler	Sampler that restricts data loading to a subset of the dataset for distributed training
batch_sampler	default	BatchSampler	BatchSamplerConfig	Sampler	Wraps another sampler to yield a mini-batch of indices.

Data collation

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
collate_fn	gpt_2_llm_collator	GPT2LLMCollateFn	GPT2LLMCollateFnConfig	CollateFnIF	Data collator for the GPT2 model
collate_fn	coca_collator	CoCaCollatorFn	CoCaCollateFnConfig	CollateFnIF	Data collator for the CoCa model

Data loaders

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
data_loader	default	DataloaderFactory.get_dataloader	LLMDataLoaderConfig	DataLoader	LLM Data loader extending pytorch data loader functionality
data_loader	repeating_data_loader	DataloaderFactory.get_repeating_dataloader	RepeatingDataLoaderConfig	DataLoader	Data loader that repeats the given dataloader for the specified number of epochs.

Checkpointing

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
checkpoint_saving	default	CheckpointSaving	CheckpointSavingConfig	--	Component for saving checkpoints based on a savig and execution strategy.
checkpoint_saving_strategy	save_every_k_steps_checkpointing_strategy	SaveEveryKStepsCheckpointingStrategy	SaveEveryKStepsCheckpointingStrategyConfig	CheckpointSavingStrategyIF	Checkpointing strategy saving a checkpoint every k steps
checkpoint_saving_strategy	save_k_most_recent_checkpoints_strategy	SaveKMostRecentCheckpointsStrategy	SaveKMostRecentCheckpointsStrategyConfig	CheckpointSavingStrategyIF	Checkpointing strategy saving only the last k checkpoints and deleting the previous ones
checkpoint_saving_execution	fsdp	FSDPCheckpointSaving	FSDPCheckpointSavingConfig	CheckpointSavingExecutionABC	FSDPCheckpointSaving class for saving checkpoints of FSDP models and optimizers.
checkpoint_loading	fsdp	FSDPCheckpointLoading	FSDPCheckpointLoadingConfig	CheckpointLoadingIF	Component for loading FSDP checkpoints
checkpoint_loading	torch	TorchCheckpointLoading	TorchCheckpointLoadingConfig	CheckpointLoadingIF	Component for loading PyTorch checkpoints

Logging

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
progress_subscriber	dummy	ProgressSubscriberFactory.get_dummy_progress_subscriber	DummyProgressSubscriberConfig	MessageSubscriberIF	Dummy Progress subscriber not consuming any messages
progress_subscriber	rich	ProgressSubscriberFactory.get_rich_progress_subscriber	RichProgressSubscriberConfig	MessageSubscriberIF	Subscriber for writing out rich-formatted console outputs w.r.t. to training and evaluation progress
results_subscriber	wandb	ProgressSubscriberFactory.get_wandb_result_subscriber	WandBEvaluationResultSubscriberConfig	MessageSubscriberIF	Subscriber for logging evaluation results to Weights and Biases

Layer Norms

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
layer_norm	rms_norm	RMSLayerNorm	RMSLayerNormConfig	nn.Module	RMS Layer norm
layer_norm	layer_norm	nn.LayerNorm	LayerNormConfig	nn.Module	Layer norm

Gradient Clipping

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
gradient_clipper	fsdp	FSDPGradientClipper	FSDPGradientClipperConfig	GradientClipperIF	FSDP Gradient Clipper
gradient_clipper	fsdp_logging_only	FSDPLoggingOnlyGradientClipper	FSDPGradientClipperConfig	GradientClipperIF	Clipper that is responsible for logging the gradient norms without actually clipping the gradients
gradient_clipper	dummy	DummyGradientClipper	DummyGradientClipperConfig	GradientClipperIF	Dummy clipper that does not apply any gradient clipping.

Number conversions

Component type	Component Version	Implementation	Configuration	Component Interface	Description
number_conversion	local_num_batches_from_num_samples	NumberConversion.get_local_num_batches_from_num_samples	LocalNumBatchesFromNumSamplesConfig	--	Calculates the number of local batches for each rank, given the global number of samples and number of ranks.
number_conversion	local_num_batches_from_num_tokens	NumberConversion.get_local_num_batches_from_num_tokens	LocalNumBatchesFromNumTokensConfig	--	Calculates the number of local batches for each rank, given the global number of tokens and number of ranks.
number_conversion	num_steps_from_num_samples	NumberConversion.get_num_steps_from_num_samples	NumStepsFromNumSamplesConfig	--	Calculates the number of steps given the global number of samples, local micro batch size and number of ranks.
number_conversion	num_steps_from_num_tokens	NumberConversion.get_num_steps_from_num_tokens	NumStepsFromNumTokensConfig	--	Calculates the number of steps given the global number of tokens, local micro batch size and number of ranks.
number_conversion	num_tokens_from_num_steps	NumberConversion.get_num_tokens_from_num_steps	NumTokensFromNumStepsConfig	--	Calculates the number of tokens from the number of steps, number of ranks, local micro batch size, global number of tokens, squence length and gradient accumulation steps
number_conversion	last_step_from_checkpoint_path	NumberConversion.get_num_seen_steps_from_checkpoint_path	NumberConversionFromCheckpointPathConfig	--	Get the last step id from a model or checkpoint file path.
number_conversion	global_num_target_tokens_from_checkpoint_path	NumberConversion.get_global_num_target_tokens_from_checkpoint_path	NumberConversionFromCheckpointPathConfig	--	Get the number of target tokens from a model or checkpoint file path.
number_conversion	num_tokens_from_packed_mem_map_dataset_continuous	NumberConversion.get_num_tokens_from_packed_mem_map_dataset_continuous	NumTokensFromPackedMemMapDatasetContinuousConfig	--	Get the number of tokens stored in a packed mem map continuous dataset from the respective dataset file path.
number_conversion	num_steps_from_raw_dataset_index	NumberConversion.get_num_steps_from_raw_dataset_index	NumStepsFromRawDatasetIndexConfig	--	Get the number of steps partially from the raw index of a raw JSONL dataset. Requires the file path to index, number of ranks, local micro batch size and gardient accumulation steps.