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