deepspeedai / deepspeedai/DeepSpeed
How to get average loss across all ranks using custom loss function
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Description
Below is a simple training code
for i, (inputs, labels) in enumerate(trainloader):
inputs = inputs.to(device)
labels = labels.to(device)
pred = model(inputs)
loss = criterion(pred, labels)
optimizer.zero_grad()
model.backward(loss)
optimizer.step()
In this code, although the gradient descent of the model can be performed automatically.
But the loss is different in each rank. So how do I get the average loss under all ranks?
Thank you.
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Start with the provided training loop, especially criterion, model.backward(loss), and the per-rank loss behavior. Read the project's distributed-training guidance and identify how a custom loss can be aggregated across ranks. Done means the documentation explains how to obtain the average loss and clarifies whether the reported value is per-rank or global.
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- Tech stack
- python
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- distributed-systems, machine-learning
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- Documentation
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