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ValueError: Attempting to unscale FP16 gradients when fully finetunning on LLM without LoRA?

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Description

dear all:
when i disable the lora and set whole Mistral LLm weights requires_grad=True, it gives me the error:

ValueError: Attempting to unscale FP16 gradients

anyone give some tips?

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Start by reproducing the reported error with the Mistral LLM fully fine-tuned and LoRA disabled, then trace the FP16 gradient unscaling path. Confirm the training configuration and determine what change allows full fine-tuning to proceed without the ValueError.

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Tech stack
python
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machine-learning
Issue type
Bug
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4/5
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