Lightning-AI / Lightning-AI/lit-llama

Fixing the pretrain script for Loss Averaging and no_backward_sync()

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Description

I think #357 should be applied to the pretrain script as well.

Thank you so much lightning team for this amazing repository.

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Research direction

Start by reading issue #357 and locating the repository's pretrain script. Compare the pretrain path with the changes described there, focusing on loss averaging and no_backward_sync(). Done means the pretrain script applies the intended behavior consistently with #357, with relevant tests or validation run if available.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
distributed-systems, machine-learning
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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