OSLO: Open Source framework for Large-scale transformer Optimization

What’s New:

• December 21, 2021 Released OSLO 1.0.

What is OSLO about?

OSLO is a framework that provides various GPU based optimization features for large-scale modeling. As of 2021, the Hugging Face Transformers is being considered de facto standard.
However, it does not best fit the purposes of large-scale modeling yet.
This is where OSLO comes in. OSLO is designed to make it easier to train large models with the Transformers.
For example, you can fine-tune GPTJ on the Hugging Face Model Hub without many extra efforts using OSLO. Currently, GPT2, GPTNeo, and GPTJ are supported, but we plan to support more soon.

Installation

OSLO can be easily installed using the pip package manager.
All the dependencies such as torch, transformers, dacite,
ninja and pybind11 should be installed automatically with the following command.
Be careful that the ‘core’ in the PyPI project name.

pip install oslo-core

Some of features rely on the C++ language.
So we provide an option, CPP_AVAILABLE, to decide whether or not you install them.

• If the C++ is available:

CPP_AVAILABLE=1 pip install oslo-core

• If the C++ is not available:

CPP_AVAILABLE=0 pip install oslo-core

Note that the default value of CPP_AVAILABLE is 0 in Windows and 1 in Linux.

Key Features

import deepspeed 
from oslo import GPTJForCausalLM

# 1. 3D Parallelism
model = GPTJForCausalLM.from_pretrained_with_parallel(
    "EleutherAI/gpt-j-6B", tensor_parallel_size=2, pipeline_parallel_size=2,
)

# 2. Kernel Fusion
model = model.fuse()

# 3. DeepSpeed Support
engines = deepspeed.initialize(
    model=model.gpu_modules(), model_parameters=model.gpu_paramters(), ...,
)

# 4. Data Processing
from oslo import (
    DatasetPreprocessor, 
    DatasetBlender, 
    DatasetForCausalLM, 
    ...    
)

OSLO offers the following features.

• 3D Parallelism: The state-of-the-art technique for training a large-scale model with multiple GPUs.
• Kernel Fusion: A GPU optimization method to increase training and inference speed.
• DeepSpeed Support: We support DeepSpeed which provides ZeRO data parallelism.
• Data Processing: Various utilities for efficient large-scale data processing.

See USAGE.md to learn how to use them.

Administrative Notes

Citing OSLO

If you find our work useful, please consider citing:

@misc{oslo,
  author       = {Ko, Hyunwoong and Kim, Soohwan and Park, Kyubyong},
  title        = {OSLO: Open Source framework for Large-scale transformer Optimization},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/tunib-ai/oslo}},
  year         = {2021},
}

Licensing

The Code of the OSLO project is licensed under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.

Copyright 2021 TUNiB Inc. http://www.tunib.ai All Rights Reserved.

Acknowledgements

The OSLO project is built with GPU support from the AICA (Artificial Intelligence Industry Cluster Agency).

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