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TorchScale - A Library of Foundation Architectures

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TorchScale is a PyTorch library that allows researchers and developers to scale up Transformers efficiently and effectively.

Fundamental research to develop new architectures for foundation models and A(G)I, focusing on modeling generality and capability, as well as training stability and efficiency.

The Revolution of Model Architecture

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Installation

To install:

pip install torchscale

Alternatively, you can develop it locally:

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/torchscale.git
cd torchscale
pip install -e .

For faster training install Flash Attention for Turing, Ampere, Ada, or Hopper GPUs:

pip install flash-attn

or xFormers for Volta, Turing, Ampere, Ada, or Hopper GPUs:

# cuda 11.8 version
pip3 install -U xformers --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
# cuda 12.1 version
pip3 install -U xformers --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121

Getting Started

It takes only several lines of code to create a model with the above fundamental research features enabled. Here is how to quickly obtain a BERT-like encoder:

>>> from torchscale.architecture.config import EncoderConfig
>>> from torchscale.architecture.encoder import Encoder

>>> config = EncoderConfig(vocab_size=64000)
>>> model = Encoder(config)

>>> print(model)

We also support the Decoder architecture and the EncoderDecoder architecture:

# Creating a decoder model
>>> from torchscale.architecture.config import DecoderConfig
>>> from torchscale.architecture.decoder import Decoder

>>> config = DecoderConfig(vocab_size=64000)
>>> decoder = Decoder(config)
>>> print(decoder)

# Creating a encoder-decoder model
>>> from torchscale.architecture.config import EncoderDecoderConfig
>>> from torchscale.architecture.encoder_decoder import EncoderDecoder

>>> config = EncoderDecoderConfig(vocab_size=64000)
>>> encdec = EncoderDecoder(config)
>>> print(encdec)

It takes only several lines of code to create a RetNet model:

# Creating a RetNet model
>>> import torch
>>> from torchscale.architecture.config import RetNetConfig
>>> from torchscale.architecture.retnet import RetNetDecoder

>>> config = RetNetConfig(vocab_size=64000)
>>> retnet = RetNetDecoder(config)

>>> print(retnet)

For LongNet models (Flash Attention required):

>>> import torch
>>> from torchscale.architecture.config import EncoderConfig, DecoderConfig
>>> from torchscale.model.longnet import LongNetEncoder, LongNetDecoder

# Creating a LongNet encoder with the dilated pattern of segment_length=[2048,4096] and dilated_ratio=[1,2]
>>> config = EncoderConfig(vocab_size=64000, segment_length='[2048,4096]', dilated_ratio='[1,2]', flash_attention=True)
>>> longnet = LongNetEncoder(config)

# Creating a LongNet decoder with the dilated pattern of segment_length=[2048,4096] and dilated_ratio=[1,2]
>>> config = DecoderConfig(vocab_size=64000, segment_length='[2048,4096]', dilated_ratio='[1,2]', flash_attention=True)
>>> longnet = LongNetDecoder(config)

Key Features

Most of the features above can be used by simply passing the corresponding parameters to the config. For example:

>>> from torchscale.architecture.config import EncoderConfig
>>> from torchscale.architecture.encoder import Encoder

>>> config = EncoderConfig(vocab_size=64000, deepnorm=True, multiway=True)
>>> model = Encoder(config)

>>> print(model)

Examples

We have examples of how to use TorchScale in the following scenarios/tasks:

We plan to provide more examples regarding different tasks (e.g. vision pretraining and speech recognition) and various deep learning toolkits (e.g. DeepSpeed and Megatron-LM). Any comments or PRs are welcome!

Acknowledgments

Some implementations in TorchScale are either adapted from or inspired by the FairSeq repository and the UniLM repository.

Citations

If you find this repository useful, please consider citing our work:

@article{torchscale,
  author    = {Shuming Ma and Hongyu Wang and Shaohan Huang and Wenhui Wang and Zewen Chi and Li Dong and Alon Benhaim and Barun Patra and Vishrav Chaudhary and Xia Song and Furu Wei},
  title     = {{TorchScale}: {Transformers} at Scale},
  journal   = {CoRR},
  volume    = {abs/2211.13184},
  year      = {2022}
}
@article{deepnet,
  author    = {Hongyu Wang and Shuming Ma and Li Dong and Shaohan Huang and Dongdong Zhang and Furu Wei},
  title     = {{DeepNet}: Scaling {Transformers} to 1,000 Layers},
  journal   = {CoRR},
  volume    = {abs/2203.00555},
  year      = {2022},
}
@article{magneto,
  author    = {Hongyu Wang and Shuming Ma and Shaohan Huang and Li Dong and Wenhui Wang and Zhiliang Peng and Yu Wu and Payal Bajaj and Saksham Singhal and Alon Benhaim and Barun Patra and Zhun Liu and Vishrav Chaudhary and Xia Song and Furu Wei},
  title     = {Foundation {Transformers}},
  journal   = {CoRR},
  volume    = {abs/2210.06423},
  year      = {2022}
}
@inproceedings{xmoe,
  title={On the Representation Collapse of Sparse Mixture of Experts},
  author={Zewen Chi and Li Dong and Shaohan Huang and Damai Dai and Shuming Ma and Barun Patra and Saksham Singhal and Payal Bajaj and Xia Song and Xian-Ling Mao and Heyan Huang and Furu Wei},
  booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year={2022},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=mWaYC6CZf5}
}
@article{retnet,
  author={Yutao Sun and Li Dong and Shaohan Huang and Shuming Ma and Yuqing Xia and Jilong Xue and Jianyong Wang and Furu Wei},
  title     = {Retentive Network: A Successor to {Transformer} for Large Language Models},
  journal   = {ArXiv},
  volume    = {abs/2307.08621},
  year      = {2023}
}
@article{longnet,
  author={Jiayu Ding and Shuming Ma and Li Dong and Xingxing Zhang and Shaohan Huang and Wenhui Wang and Nanning Zheng and Furu Wei},
  title     = {{LongNet}: Scaling Transformers to 1,000,000,000 Tokens},
  journal   = {ArXiv},
  volume    = {abs/2307.02486},
  year      = {2023}
}
@article{longvit,
  title     = {When an Image is Worth 1,024 x 1,024 Words: A Case Study in Computational Pathology},
  author    = {Wenhui Wang and Shuming Ma and Hanwen Xu and Naoto Usuyama and Jiayu Ding and Hoifung Poon and Furu Wei},
  journal   = {ArXiv},
  volume    = {abs/2312.03558},
  year      = {2023}
}

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

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This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information, see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact Furu Wei and Shuming Ma with any additional questions or comments.

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