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FasterTransformer
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Train Your AI Model Once and Deploy on Any Cloud
https://docs.nvidia.com/ai-enterprise/overview/0.1.0/platfor...
RIVA: NVIDIA® Riva, a premium edition of NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, is a GPU-accelerated speech and translation AI SDK
FasterTransformer: https://github.com/NVIDIA/FasterTransformer an
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Whether the ML computation engineering expertise will be valuable, is the question.
There could be some spectrum of this expertise. For instance, https://github.com/NVIDIA/FasterTransformer, https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed
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Optimized implementation of training/fine-tuning of LLMs [D]
Have anyone tried to optimize the forward and backward using custom Cuda code or fused kernel to speed up the training time of current LLMs? I only have seen FasterTransformer ( NVIDIA/FasterTransformer) and other similar tools but they're only focusing on inference.
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Exploring Ghostwriter, a GitHub Copilot alternative
Replit built Ghostwriter on the open source scene based on Salesforce’s Codegen, using Nvidia’s FasterTransformer and Triton server for highly optimized decoders, and the knowledge distillation process of the CodeGen model from two billion parameters to a faster model of one billion parameters.
- Why are self attention not as deployment friendly?
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[P] What we learned by making T5-large 2X faster than Pytorch (and any autoregressive transformer)
Nvidia FasterTransformer is a mix of Pytorch and CUDA/C++ dedicated code. The performance boost is huge on T5, they report a 10X speedup like TensorRT. However, the speedup is computed on a translation task where sequences are 25 tokens long on average. In our experience, improvement on very short sequences tend to decrease by large margins on longer ones. Still we plan to dig deeper into this project as it implements very interesting ideas.
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[P] Python library to optimize Hugging Face transformer for inference: < 0.5 ms latency / 2850 infer/sec
On the other side of the spectrum, there is Nvidia demos (here or there) showing us how to build manually a full Transformer graph (operator by operator) in TensorRT to get best performance from their hardware. It’s out of reach for many NLP practitioners and it’s time consuming to debug/maintain/adapt to a slightly different architecture (I tried). Plus, there is a secret: the very optimized model only works for specific sequence lengths and batch sizes. Truth is that, so far (and it will improve soon), it’s mainly for MLPerf benchmark (the one used to compare DL hardware), marketing content, and very specialized engineers.
fastT5
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Speeding up T5
I've tried https://github.com/Ki6an/fastT5 but it works with CPU only.
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Convert Pegasus model to ONNX
I am working on a project where I fine-tuned a Pegasus model on the Reddit dataset. Now, I need to convert the fine-tuned model to ONNX for the deployment stage. I have followed this guide from Huggingface to convert to the ONNX model for unsupported architects. I got it done but the ONNX model can't generate text. Turned out that Pegasus is an encoder-decoder model and most guides are for either encoder-model (e.g. BERT) or decoder-model (e.g. GPT2). I found the only example of converting an encoder-decoder model to ONNX from here https://github.com/Ki6an/fastT5.
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[P] What we learned by making T5-large 2X faster than Pytorch (and any autoregressive transformer)
Microsoft Onnx Runtime T5 export tool / FastT5: to support caching, it exports 2 times the decoder part, one with cache, and one without (for the first generated token). So the memory footprint is doubled, which makes the solution difficult to use for these large transformer models.
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Conceptually, what are the "Past key values" in the T5 Decoder?
Here is the fastT5 model code for reference code:https://github.com/Ki6an/fastT5/blob/master/fastT5/onnx_models.py
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[P] boost T5 models speed up to 5x & reduce the model size by 3x using fastT5.
for more information on the project refer to the repository here.
What are some alternatives?
TensorRT - NVIDIA® TensorRT™ is an SDK for high-performance deep learning inference on NVIDIA GPUs. This repository contains the open source components of TensorRT.
Questgen.ai - Question generation using state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing algorithms
onnxruntime - ONNX Runtime: cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator
mt5-M2M-comparison - Comparing M2M and mT5 on a rare language pairs, blog post: https://medium.com/@abdessalemboukil/comparing-facebooks-m2m-to-mt5-in-low-resources-translation-english-yoruba-ef56624d2b75
transformer-deploy - Efficient, scalable and enterprise-grade CPU/GPU inference server for 🤗 Hugging Face transformer models 🚀
json-translate - Translate json files with DeepL or AWS
parallelformers - Parallelformers: An Efficient Model Parallelization Toolkit for Deployment
frame-semantic-transformer - Frame Semantic Parser based on T5 and FrameNet
wenet - Production First and Production Ready End-to-End Speech Recognition Toolkit
OpenSeeFace - Robust realtime face and facial landmark tracking on CPU with Unity integration
DeepSpeed - DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training and inference easy, efficient, and effective.
sparktorch - Train and run Pytorch models on Apache Spark.