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+*.pyc
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+"""Submission file for an Schedule Free AdamW optimizer in Jax."""
+
+from typing import Dict, Iterator, List, Tuple
+
+import jax
+import jax.numpy as jnp
+import optax
+from flax import jax_utils
+from optax.contrib import schedule_free_adamw
+
+from algoperf import spec
+from jax.sharding import NamedSharding, PartitionSpec as P
+
+
+_GRAD_CLIP_EPS = 1e-6
+
+HPARAMS = {
+  'dropout_rate': 0.1,
+  'learning_rate': 0.0025,
+  'one_minus_beta1': 0.1,
+  'beta2': 0.9955159689799007,
+  'weight_decay': 0.08121616522670176,
+  'warmup_factor': 0.02,
+  'weight_lr_power': 2,
+  'label_smoothing': 0.2,
+  'r': 0.75,
+  'eps': 1e-8,
+}
+
+
+def init_optimizer_state(
+  workload: spec.Workload,
+  model_params: spec.ParameterContainer,
+  model_state: spec.ModelAuxiliaryState,
+  hyperparameters: spec.Hyperparameters,
+  rng: spec.RandomState,
+) -> spec.OptimizerState:
+  """Creates an AdamW optimizer and a learning rate schedule."""
+  model_params
+  del model_state
+  del rng
+
+  opt_init_fn, opt_update_fn = schedule_free_adamw(
+    learning_rate=HPARAMS['learning_rate'],
+    warmup_steps=int(HPARAMS['warmup_factor'] * workload.step_hint * 0.75),
+    b1=1.0 - HPARAMS['one_minus_beta1'],
+    b2=HPARAMS['beta2'],
+    eps=HPARAMS['eps'],
+    weight_decay=HPARAMS['weight_decay'],
+    weight_lr_power=HPARAMS['weight_lr_power'],
+    # state_dtype=jnp.bfloat16
+  )
+
+  model_params = jax_utils.unreplicate(model_params)
+  optimizer_state = opt_init_fn(model_params)
+
+  return optimizer_state, opt_update_fn
+
+
+def train_step(
+  workload,
+  opt_update_fn,
+  model_state,
+  optimizer_state,
+  current_param_container,
+  batch,
+  rng,
+  grad_clip,
+  label_smoothing,
+):
+  def _loss_fn(params):
+    """Loss function used for training."""
+    logits, new_model_state = workload.model_fn(
+      params,
+      batch,
+      model_state,
+      spec.ForwardPassMode.TRAIN,
+      rng,
+      update_batch_norm=True,
+    )
+    loss_dict = workload.loss_fn(
+      label_batch=batch['targets'],
+      logits_batch=logits,
+      mask_batch=batch.get('weights'),
+      label_smoothing=label_smoothing,
+    )
+    summed_loss = loss_dict['summed']
+    n_valid_examples = loss_dict['n_valid_examples']
+    return summed_loss, (n_valid_examples, new_model_state)
+
+  grad_fn = jax.value_and_grad(_loss_fn, has_aux=True)
+  (summed_loss, (n_valid_examples, new_model_state)), grad = grad_fn(
+    current_param_container
+  )
+
+  loss = summed_loss / n_valid_examples
+  grad = jax.tree_map(lambda x: x / n_valid_examples, grad)
+
+  grad_norm = jnp.sqrt(
+    sum(jnp.sum(g**2) for g in jax.tree_util.tree_leaves(grad))
+  )
+
+  # Extract the leaves of the pytree
+  # leaves = jax.tree_util.tree_leaves(grad)
+
+  # Count the total number of elements in all leaves
+  # total_size = sum(jnp.size(leaf) for leaf in leaves)
+
+  # jax.debug.print('GRAD NORM {}', grad_norm)
+  # jax.debug.print('NUM PARAMS {}', total_size)
+
+  if grad_clip is not None:
+    grad_scaling_factor = grad_clip / (grad_norm + _GRAD_CLIP_EPS)
+    grad_scaling_factor = jax.lax.clamp(min=0.0, x=grad_scaling_factor, max=1.0)
+    grad = jax.tree_map(lambda x: x * grad_scaling_factor, grad)
+
+  updates, new_optimizer_state = opt_update_fn(
+    grad, optimizer_state, current_param_container
+  )
+  updated_params = optax.apply_updates(current_param_container, updates)
+  return new_optimizer_state, updated_params, new_model_state, loss, grad_norm
+
+
+def update_params(
+  workload: spec.Workload,
+  current_param_container: spec.ParameterContainer,
+  current_params_types: spec.ParameterTypeTree,
+  model_state: spec.ModelAuxiliaryState,
+  hyperparameters: spec.Hyperparameters,
+  batch: Dict[str, spec.Tensor],
+  loss_type: spec.LossType,
+  optimizer_state: spec.OptimizerState,
+  eval_results: List[Tuple[int, float]],
+  global_step: int,
+  rng: spec.RandomState,
+) -> spec.UpdateReturn:
+  """Return (updated_optimizer_state, updated_params, updated_model_state)."""
+  del current_params_types
+  del loss_type
+  del eval_results
+
+  optimizer_state, opt_update_fn = optimizer_state
+  per_device_rngs = jax.random.split(rng, jax.local_device_count())
+  if hasattr(hyperparameters, 'label_smoothing'):
+    label_smoothing = hyperparameters.label_smoothing
+  else:
+    label_smoothing = 0.0
+  if hasattr(hyperparameters, 'grad_clip'):
+    grad_clip = hyperparameters.grad_clip
+  else:
+    grad_clip = None
+
+
+  # Set up mesh and sharding
+  mesh = jax.sharding.Mesh(jax.devices(), ('batch'))
+  replicated = NamedSharding(mesh, P())  # No partitioning
+  sharded = NamedSharding(mesh, P('batch'))  # Partition along batch dimension
+  
+  
+  jitted_train_step = jax.jit(
+      train_step,
+      static_argnums=(0, 1),
+      donate_argnums=(2, 3, 4),
+      in_shardings=(
+        # workload is static
+        # opt_update_fn is static
+        replicated,  # model_state
+        replicated,  # optimizer_state
+        replicated,  # current_param_container
+        sharded,  # batch
+        replicated,  # rng
+        replicated,  # grad_clip
+        replicated,  # label_smoothing
+      ),
+      out_shardings=(
+        replicated,  # new_optimizer_state
+        replicated,  # updated_params
+        replicated,  # new_model_state
+        replicated,  # loss
+        replicated,  # grad_norm
+      ),
+    )
+    # print(batch)
+  new_optimizer_state, new_params, new_model_state, loss, grad_norm = (
+      jitted_train_step(
+        workload,
+        opt_update_fn,
+        model_state,
+        optimizer_state,
+        current_param_container,
+        batch,
+        rng,
+        grad_clip,
+        label_smoothing,
+      )
+    )
+
+  # Log loss, grad_norm.
+  if global_step % 100 == 0 and workload.metrics_logger is not None:
+    workload.metrics_logger.append_scalar_metrics(
+      {
+        'loss': loss,
+        'grad_norm': grad_norm,
+      },
+      global_step,
+    )
+
+  return (new_optimizer_state, opt_update_fn), new_params, new_model_state
+
+
+def get_batch_size(workload_name):
+  # Return the global batch size.
+  if workload_name == 'criteo1tb':
+    return 262_144
+  elif workload_name == 'fastmri':
+    return 32
+  elif workload_name == 'imagenet_resnet':
+    return 1024
+  elif workload_name == 'imagenet_resnet_silu':
+    return 512
+  elif workload_name == 'imagenet_resnet_gelu':
+    return 512
+  elif workload_name == 'imagenet_vit':
+    return 1024
+  elif workload_name == 'librispeech_conformer':
+    return 256
+  elif workload_name == 'librispeech_deepspeech':
+    return 256
+  elif workload_name == 'ogbg':
+    return 512
+  elif workload_name == 'wmt':
+    return 128
+  elif workload_name == 'mnist':
+    return 16
+  else:
+    raise ValueError(f'Unsupported workload name: {workload_name}.')
+
+
+def data_selection(
+  workload: spec.Workload,
+  input_queue: Iterator[Dict[str, spec.Tensor]],
+  optimizer_state: spec.OptimizerState,
+  current_param_container: spec.ParameterContainer,
+  model_state: spec.ModelAuxiliaryState,
+  hyperparameters: spec.Hyperparameters,
+  global_step: int,
+  rng: spec.RandomState,
+) -> Dict[str, spec.Tensor]:
+  """Select data from the infinitely repeating, pre-shuffled input queue.
+  Each element of the queue is a batch of training examples and labels.
+  """
+  del workload
+  del optimizer_state
+  del current_param_container
+  del model_state
+  del hyperparameters
+  del global_step
+  del rng
+  batch = next(input_queue)
+  return batch