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zero3 training hangs with mixed multimodal dataset

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Description

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zero3 qwen2-vl training hangs when with mixed multimodal dataset.
When different GPUs have different modalities of mini-batch, multimodal related variables have different shapes among GPUs.
For example, video related tensor video_grid_thw have values on GPU0, but is None on GPU1.
The training hangs when dealing with this variable.

The hanging DOES NOT occur when using zero-2.
Is it caused by variable comunication between GPUs in zero-3?
What's the right way to train mixed modality data with zero-3?

dataset: mixure of pure-text, image-text
model: qwen2-vl
training on: 8xA100
stage3 config:

{
  "fp16": {
    "enabled": "auto",
    "loss_scale": 0,
    "loss_scale_window": 1000,
    "initial_scale_power": 16,
    "hysteresis": 2,
    "min_loss_scale": 1
  },
  "bf16": {
    "enabled": "auto"
  },
  "optimizer": {
    "type": "AdamW",
    "params": {
      "lr": "auto",
      "betas": "auto",
      "eps": "auto",
      "weight_decay": "auto"
    }
  },
  "zero_optimization": {
    "stage": 3,
    "overlap_comm": true,
    "contiguous_gradients": true,
    "sub_group_size": 1e9,
    "reduce_bucket_size": "auto",
    "stage3_prefetch_bucket_size": "auto",
    "stage3_param_persistence_threshold": "auto",
    "stage3_max_live_parameters": 1e9,
    "stage3_max_reuse_distance": 1e9,
    "stage3_gather_16bit_weights_on_model_save": true
  },
  "gradient_accumulation_steps": "auto",
  "gradient_clipping": "auto",
  "steps_per_print": 100,
  "train_batch_size": "auto",
  "train_micro_batch_size_per_gpu": "auto",
  "wall_clock_breakdown": false
}

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Start by reproducing mixed pure-text and image-text Qwen2-VL training on 8 A100 GPUs with the supplied ZeRO-3 configuration, then compare it with ZeRO-2. Inspect how the video_grid_thw value is handled when it is a tensor on one rank and None on another. Done means mixed-modality training completes without hanging under ZeRO-3.

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python, pytorch
Domain
distributed-systems, machine-learning
Issue type
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Estimated time
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