deepspeedai / deepspeedai/DeepSpeed

[BUG] Can't pickle local object 'instrument_w_nvtx.<locals>.wrapped_fn'

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Description

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bug occurs while calling dataloader with multi num workers.
Here, ’trainer‘ is initialized from transformers. If I only debug with dataloader as follows, the code works.
‘’‘
for _, data in tqdm(enumerate(trainer.get_train_dataloader())):
print('dataloader: ', _, data.keys())
’‘’

However, if running trainer.train(), then the code throws the error as the title.

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Research direction

Start with the trainer.train() path and the instrument_w_nvtx.<locals>.wrapped_fn shown in the error, then reproduce it with the multi-worker dataloader described. Done means training no longer raises the pickle error; the issue names no file or test, so inspect the relevant DeepSpeed and PyTorch integration paths first.

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Assessment

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