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Actor loss nan and Resizing model embedding
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The model I use is GPT-2 124M. When resizing model embeddings during the training of STF and RW, I often encounter issues where the generated answers consist entirely of zeros. This causes both the log probabilities and actor loss to become NaN (Not a Number). I have noticed that resizing the embeddings can lead to the generation of token IDs that exceed the vocabulary size. I suspect this may be contributing to the problem. However, when I don't resize the model's embeddings and train STF and RW, I do not experience this issue during RLHF training. I don't know why.
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Reproduce the GPT-2 124M training case with embedding resizing enabled for STF and RW, then inspect generated token IDs, vocabulary bounds, zero-only outputs, log probabilities, and actor loss. Compare the same training without resizing. Done means the resizing-related cause is identified and the training behavior is verified without invalid token IDs or NaN losses.
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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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- 3-5 days
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- Needs clarification
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