Spider-FLEXITOKENS-FP8 / fp8_train.py
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Spider-FLEXITOKENS training pipeline with torchao FP8.
Uses torchao's Float8Linear for FP8 training on Blackwell (sm_120):
- rowwise_with_gw_hp recipe: row-wise scaling + high-precision grad weight
- Activations/weights quantized to float8_e4m3fn in forward/backward
- High-precision accumulation preserved for stability
- ~2x VRAM reduction vs BF16 on linear layers
Falls back to BF16 if torchao is unavailable.
Architecture: SpiderForConditionalGeneration (RDT, MoE, MLA, FlexiTokens).
Byte-level vocab 272, pre-tokenized FineWeb-Edu shards at /fineweb_bytelevel/.
Usage:
python fp8_train.py
python fp8_train.py --mock_data --max_steps 50
python fp8_train.py --micro_batch 64 --seq_len 128 --precision fp8
python fp8_train.py --resume checkpoints-fp8/spider-step50.pt
"""
import os
import gc
import math
import sys
import time
import argparse
import re
import enum
from contextlib import nullcontext
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F
from torch.nn import CrossEntropyLoss
from torch.utils.data import IterableDataset, DataLoader, get_worker_info
from datasets import load_dataset
try:
import bitsandbytes as bnb
AdamW8bit = bnb.optim.AdamW8bit
_HAS_8BIT = True
except ImportError:
_HAS_8BIT = False
AdamW8bit = None
try:
from torchao.float8 import convert_to_float8_training, Float8LinearConfig
_HAS_TORCHAO_FP8 = True
except ImportError:
_HAS_TORCHAO_FP8 = False
import importlib
_fp8_spider = importlib.import_module("fp8-ready-spider")
SpiderConfig = _fp8_spider.SpiderConfig
SpiderForConditionalGeneration = _fp8_spider.SpiderForConditionalGeneration
SENTINEL_TOKENS = _fp8_spider.SENTINEL_TOKENS
try:
from loguru import logger
logger.remove()
logger.add(sys.stderr, format="{time:YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss} | {level} | {message}")
logger.add("train_fp8.log", rotation="100 MB", retention="10 days",
format="{time:YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss} | {level} | {message}")
except ImportError:
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
class _LoguruShim:
def info(self, msg): logging.info(msg)
def success(self, msg): logging.info(msg)
def warning(self, msg): logging.warning(msg)
def error(self, msg): logging.error(msg)
logger = _LoguruShim()
os.environ.setdefault("PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF", "expandable_segments:True")
BOS_ID = SENTINEL_TOKENS['BOS']
EOS_ID = SENTINEL_TOKENS['EOS']
PAD_ID = SENTINEL_TOKENS['PAD']
# ============================================================================
# Precision Mode
# ============================================================================
class PrecisionMode(enum.Enum):
BF16 = "bf16"
FP8 = "fp8"
def detect_precision_mode() -> PrecisionMode:
if not torch.cuda.is_available():
return PrecisionMode.BF16
cc = torch.cuda.get_device_capability()
if cc[0] >= 12 and _HAS_TORCHAO_FP8:
return PrecisionMode.FP8
if cc[0] >= 8 and _HAS_TORCHAO_FP8:
return PrecisionMode.FP8
return PrecisionMode.BF16
def configure_fp8_training(model, recipe_name="tensorwise"):
base = Float8LinearConfig.from_recipe_name(recipe_name)
config = Float8LinearConfig(
cast_config_input=base.cast_config_input,
cast_config_weight=base.cast_config_weight,
cast_config_grad_output=base.cast_config_grad_output,
cast_config_input_for_grad_weight=base.cast_config_input_for_grad_weight,
cast_config_weight_for_grad_input=base.cast_config_weight_for_grad_input,
cast_config_grad_output_for_grad_weight=base.cast_config_grad_output_for_grad_weight,
gemm_config_output=base.gemm_config_output,
gemm_config_grad_input=base.gemm_config_grad_input,
gemm_config_grad_weight=base.gemm_config_grad_weight,
enable_fsdp_float8_all_gather=base.enable_fsdp_float8_all_gather,
round_scales_to_power_of_2=base.round_scales_to_power_of_2,
pad_inner_dim=True,
)
def module_filter_fn(mod, fqn):
skip = any(s in fqn for s in (
"boundary_predictor",
"loop_embedding",
"engram",
"layernorm",
"norm",
"embed_tokens",
"lm_head",
"halt_predictor",
"router",
))
return not skip
model = convert_to_float8_training(
model,
module_filter_fn=module_filter_fn,
config=config,
)
return model
# ============================================================================
# Byte-Level Datasets
# ============================================================================
class ByteLevelDataset(IterableDataset):
def __init__(self, dataset_name="HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu",
subset="sample-10BT", split="train",
seq_len=2048, max_bytes=2048, rank=0, world_size=1):
self.seq_len = seq_len
self.max_bytes = max_bytes
self.dataset_name = dataset_name
self.subset = subset
self.split = split
self.rank = rank
self.world_size = world_size
def _encode_sample(self, text):
byte_ids = list(text.encode('utf-8'))[:self.max_bytes]
return [BOS_ID] + byte_ids + [EOS_ID]
def __iter__(self):
worker = get_worker_info()
num_workers = worker.num_workers if worker else 1
worker_id = worker.id if worker else 0
total_shards = self.world_size * num_workers
shard_index = self.rank * num_workers + worker_id
ds = load_dataset(self.dataset_name, name=self.subset,
split=self.split, streaming=True
).shard(num_shards=total_shards, index=shard_index)
buf = []
for sample in ds:
text = sample.get("text", "")
if not text:
continue
byte_ids = self._encode_sample(text)
buf.extend(byte_ids)
while len(buf) >= self.seq_len + 1:
chunk = buf[:self.seq_len + 1]
buf = buf[self.seq_len + 1:]
x = torch.tensor(chunk[:-1], dtype=torch.long)
y = torch.tensor(chunk[1:], dtype=torch.long)
y[y == PAD_ID] = -100
yield x, y
class LocalByteLevelDataset(IterableDataset):
def __init__(self, data_dir, seq_len=2048, rank=0, world_size=1):
self.seq_len = seq_len
self.data_dir = data_dir
self.rank = rank
self.world_size = world_size
self._files = self._discover_files()
def _discover_files(self):
import glob as _glob
files = sorted(
_glob.glob(os.path.join(self.data_dir, "**/*.bin"), recursive=True)
)
return [f for i, f in enumerate(files) if i % self.world_size == self.rank]
def __iter__(self):
import numpy as np
worker = get_worker_info()
num_workers = worker.num_workers if worker else 1
worker_id = worker.id if worker else 0
files = [f for i, f in enumerate(self._files) if i % num_workers == worker_id]
token_buffer = []
for filepath in files:
if filepath.endswith(".bin"):
arr = np.memmap(filepath, dtype=np.uint16, mode='r')
pos = 0
while pos + self.seq_len + 1 <= len(arr):
chunk = arr[pos:pos + self.seq_len + 1]
pos += self.seq_len + 1
x = torch.tensor(chunk[:-1], dtype=torch.long)
y = torch.tensor(chunk[1:], dtype=torch.long)
y[y == PAD_ID] = -100
yield x, y
token_buffer.extend(arr[pos:].tolist())
class MockByteLevelDataset(IterableDataset):
SAMPLES = [
"Hello world, this is a test of the byte-level encoding system.",
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.",
"Spider is a recurrent latent reasoning architecture with engram memory.",
"Boundary predictors learn to merge byte sequences into meaningful tokens.",
"FineWeb-Edu contains high-quality educational content for pretraining.",
"\u042d\u0442\u043e \u0442\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0442 \u043d\u0430 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0435.",
"def fibonacci(n): return n if n <= 1 else fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2)",
"The integral of x^2 from 0 to 1 equals 1/3.",
]
def __init__(self, seq_len=512, max_bytes=512, num_samples=1000):
self.seq_len = seq_len
self.max_bytes = max_bytes
self.num_samples = num_samples
def __iter__(self):
buf = []
count = 0
while count < self.num_samples:
for text in self.SAMPLES:
byte_ids = list(text.encode('utf-8'))[:self.max_bytes]
ids = [BOS_ID] + byte_ids + [EOS_ID]
buf.extend(ids)
while len(buf) >= self.seq_len + 1:
chunk = buf[:self.seq_len + 1]
buf = buf[self.seq_len + 1:]
x = torch.tensor(chunk[:-1], dtype=torch.long)
y = torch.tensor(chunk[1:], dtype=torch.long)
y[y == PAD_ID] = -100
yield x, y
count += 1
if count >= self.num_samples:
return
# ============================================================================
# Checkpointing
# ============================================================================
def save_step_checkpoint(model, optimizer, step, epoch, cfg, ckpt_dir, master,
ddp=False, current_best_loss=float("inf")):
model_state = model.state_dict()
optim_state = optimizer.state_dict()
if not master:
return None, 0
os.makedirs(ckpt_dir, exist_ok=True)
ckpt_path = os.path.join(ckpt_dir, f"spider-step{step}.pt")
tmp_path = ckpt_path + ".tmp"
torch.save({
"step": step, "epoch": epoch,
"model_state_dict": model_state,
"optimizer_state_dict": optim_state,
"cfg": cfg, "best_loss": current_best_loss,
}, tmp_path)
os.replace(tmp_path, ckpt_path)
size_mb = os.path.getsize(ckpt_path) / (1024 * 1024)
step_pattern = re.compile(r"spider-step\d+\.pt$")
step_ckpts = sorted(
[os.path.join(ckpt_dir, f) for f in os.listdir(ckpt_dir) if step_pattern.search(f)],
key=os.path.getmtime,
)
while len(step_ckpts) > 2:
old = step_ckpts.pop(0)
os.remove(old)
return ckpt_path, size_mb
def load_checkpoint(model, optimizer, path, ddp=False):
ckpt = torch.load(path, map_location="cpu", weights_only=False)
if "model_state_dict" not in ckpt:
model.load_state_dict(ckpt, strict=False)
return 0, 0, float("inf")
model.load_state_dict(ckpt["model_state_dict"])
try:
optimizer.load_state_dict(ckpt["optimizer_state_dict"])
except (ValueError, KeyError, RuntimeError) as e:
logger.warning(f"Optimizer state mismatch: {e}. Skipping optimizer state.")
saved_best_loss = ckpt.get("best_loss", float("inf"))
return int(ckpt["step"]), int(ckpt.get("epoch", 0)), saved_best_loss
# ============================================================================
# LR Schedule
# ============================================================================
def get_lr(step, warmup, total, max_lr, min_lr):
if step < warmup:
return max_lr * step / warmup
if step >= total:
return min_lr
decay = (step - warmup) / (total - warmup)
return min_lr + 0.5 * (max_lr - min_lr) * (1.0 + math.cos(math.pi * decay))
# ============================================================================
# Main
# ============================================================================
def parse_args():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Spider-FLEXITOKENS FP8/BF16 training")
parser.add_argument("--resume", type=str, default="")
parser.add_argument("--reset_steps", action="store_true", help="Load weights but reset step/epoch to 0")
parser.add_argument("--max_steps", type=int, default=0)
parser.add_argument("--mock_data", action="store_true")
parser.add_argument("--seq_len", type=int, default=0)
parser.add_argument("--micro_batch", type=int, default=0)
parser.add_argument("--grad_accum", type=int, default=0, help="Gradient accumulation steps (0=auto)")
parser.add_argument("--n_loops", type=int, default=0)
parser.add_argument("--lr", type=float, default=0)
parser.add_argument("--ckpt_dir", type=str, default="checkpoints-fp8")
parser.add_argument("--data_dir", type=str, default="/home/lamcodealong/fineweb_bytelevel")
parser.add_argument("--no_gradient_checkpointing", action="store_true")
parser.add_argument("--precision", type=str, default="auto",
choices=["auto", "bf16", "fp8"],
help="Training precision: auto (detect), bf16, fp8 (torchao)")
parser.add_argument("--compile", action="store_true",
help="torch.compile the model for optimized kernels")
return parser.parse_args()
def main():
args = parse_args()
ddp = int(os.environ.get("RANK", -1)) != -1
if ddp:
import torch.distributed as dist
dist.init_process_group("nccl")
rank = int(os.environ["RANK"])
local_rank = int(os.environ["LOCAL_RANK"])
world_size = int(os.environ["WORLD_SIZE"])
device = f"cuda:{local_rank}"
torch.cuda.set_device(device)
else:
rank = local_rank = 0
world_size = 1
device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
master = rank == 0
seq_len = args.seq_len or int(os.environ.get("SEQ_LEN", "2048"))
micro_batch = args.micro_batch or int(os.environ.get("MICRO_BATCH", "64"))
target_tokens = int(os.environ.get("TARGET_TOKENS", "10_000_000_000"))
grad_accum = args.grad_accum if args.grad_accum and args.grad_accum > 0 else int(os.environ.get("GRAD_ACCUM", "1"))
n_loops = args.n_loops or int(os.environ.get("N_LOOPS", "6"))
lr = args.lr or float(os.environ.get("LR", "3e-4"))
wd = 0.1
warmup_steps = 200
log_every = 10
ckpt_every = int(os.environ.get("CKPT_EVERY", "50"))
ckpt_dir = args.ckpt_dir
global_batch_tok = world_size * micro_batch * grad_accum * seq_len
total_steps = target_tokens // global_batch_tok
if args.max_steps > 0:
total_steps = min(total_steps, args.max_steps)
cfg = SpiderConfig()
bf16_ok = torch.cuda.is_available() and torch.cuda.is_bf16_supported()
amp_dtype = torch.bfloat16 if bf16_ok else torch.float16
if args.precision == "auto":
prec_mode = detect_precision_mode()
elif args.precision == "fp8":
prec_mode = PrecisionMode.FP8
else:
prec_mode = PrecisionMode.BF16
if prec_mode == PrecisionMode.FP8 and not _HAS_TORCHAO_FP8:
logger.warning("torchao FP8 not available, falling back to BF16")
prec_mode = PrecisionMode.BF16
if master:
logger.info(
f"[Spider-FLEXITOKENS] hidden=2048 | 6 recurrent | 32 experts top-2 | "
f"n_loops={n_loops} | seq_len={seq_len} | micro_batch={micro_batch} | "
f"grad_accum={grad_accum} | global_batch_tokens={global_batch_tok:,} | "
f"total_steps={total_steps:,}"
)
logger.info(
f"Byte-level vocab: 272 | Precision: {prec_mode.value} | "
f"Gradient checkpointing: {'disabled' if args.no_gradient_checkpointing else 'enabled'}"
)
model = SpiderForConditionalGeneration(cfg).to(amp_dtype)
if prec_mode == PrecisionMode.FP8:
try:
recipe = "tensorwise"
model = configure_fp8_training(model, recipe_name=recipe)
if master:
n_fp8 = sum(1 for m in model.modules() if m.__class__.__name__ == "Float8Linear")
n_linear = sum(1 for m in model.modules() if isinstance(m, nn.Linear))
logger.info(f"torchao FP8: {n_fp8} Float8Linear / {n_fp8 + n_linear} total linear layers (recipe={recipe})")
except Exception as e:
if master:
logger.warning(f"FP8 setup failed ({e}), falling back to BF16")
prec_mode = PrecisionMode.BF16
if not args.no_gradient_checkpointing:
model.gradient_checkpointing_enable()
model.enable_input_require_grads()
model = model.to(device)
if args.compile:
model = torch.compile(model, mode="default")
if master:
logger.info("Model compiled with torch.compile (reduce-overhead)")
if ddp:
model = torch.nn.parallel.DistributedDataParallel(
model, device_ids=[local_rank], output_device=local_rank,
)
if master:
n_params = sum(p.numel() for p in model.parameters())
trainable = sum(p.numel() for p in model.parameters() if p.requires_grad)
logger.info(
f"Parameters: {n_params:,} total | {trainable:,} trainable | Precision: {prec_mode.value}"
)
if _HAS_8BIT:
optimizer = AdamW8bit(
model.parameters(), lr=lr, weight_decay=wd,
betas=(0.9, 0.95), eps=1e-8,
)
if master:
logger.info("Optimizer: 8-bit AdamW (saves ~50% optimizer VRAM)")
else:
optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(
model.parameters(), lr=lr, weight_decay=wd,
betas=(0.9, 0.95), foreach=True, eps=1e-8,
)
if master:
logger.info("Optimizer: standard AdamW")
start_step = 0
start_epoch = 1
best_loss = float("inf")
if args.resume and os.path.exists(args.resume):
if master:
logger.info(f"Resuming from checkpoint: {args.resume}")
start_step, start_epoch, best_loss = load_checkpoint(model, optimizer, args.resume, ddp)
if args.reset_steps:
if master:
logger.info(f"Reset steps: step {start_step} -> 0, epoch {start_epoch} -> 1")
start_step = 0
start_epoch = 1
best_loss = float("inf")
for group in optimizer.param_groups:
for p in group['params']:
state = optimizer.state.get(p, {})
for k in ('exp_avg', 'exp_avg_sq', 'max_exp_avg_sq'):
if k in state:
state[k].zero_()
if master:
logger.info("Optimizer state reset (momentum/variance zeroed)")
if master:
logger.info(f"Resumed at step {start_step}, epoch {start_epoch}, best_loss={best_loss:.4f}")
else:
existing_ckpts = sorted(
[os.path.join(ckpt_dir, f) for f in os.listdir(ckpt_dir)
if f.startswith("spider-") and f.endswith(".pt") and not f.endswith(".tmp")]
) if os.path.isdir(ckpt_dir) else []
if existing_ckpts:
latest = existing_ckpts[-1]
if master:
logger.info(f"Auto-resuming from: {latest}")
start_step, start_epoch, best_loss = load_checkpoint(model, optimizer, latest, ddp)
if master:
logger.info(f"Resumed at step {start_step}, epoch {start_epoch}, best_loss={best_loss:.4f}")
if master:
logger.info("Running FP8 warmup (2 fwd+bwd passes to compile kernels)...")
model.train()
for _w in range(2):
_wx = torch.randint(4, 256, (2, seq_len), device=device)
_wy = torch.randint(4, 256, (2, seq_len), device=device)
_wo = model(_wx, labels=_wy, n_loops=n_loops)
_wo['loss'].backward()
optimizer.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)
del _wx, _wy, _wo
torch.cuda.synchronize()
if master:
peak_warmup = torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated() / 1024**3
logger.info(f"Warmup done | Peak VRAM: {peak_warmup:.1f}GB")
if args.mock_data:
dataset = MockByteLevelDataset(seq_len=seq_len, num_samples=5000)
elif args.data_dir and os.path.isdir(args.data_dir):
dataset = LocalByteLevelDataset(
data_dir=args.data_dir, seq_len=seq_len,
rank=rank, world_size=world_size,
)
else:
dataset = ByteLevelDataset(seq_len=seq_len, rank=rank, world_size=world_size)
loader = DataLoader(
dataset,
batch_size=micro_batch,
num_workers=4 if not args.mock_data else 0,
pin_memory=True,
prefetch_factor=4 if not args.mock_data else None,
persistent_workers=True if not args.mock_data else False,
drop_last=False,
)
class _Prefetcher:
def __init__(self, loader, device):
self.loader = loader
self.device = device
self._stream = torch.cuda.Stream()
self._next_x = None
self._next_y = None
def _preload(self, data_iter):
try:
x, y = next(data_iter)
except StopIteration:
return None, None, data_iter
with torch.cuda.stream(self._stream):
self._next_x = x.to(self.device, non_blocking=True)
self._next_y = y.to(self.device, non_blocking=True)
return self._next_x, self._next_y, data_iter
def next(self, data_iter):
if self._next_x is not None:
torch.cuda.current_stream().wait_stream(self._stream)
x, y = self._next_x, self._next_y
else:
try:
x, y = next(data_iter)
except StopIteration:
return None, None, data_iter
x = x.to(self.device, non_blocking=True)
y = y.to(self.device, non_blocking=True)
self._next_x = None
self._next_y = None
nx, ny, data_iter = self._preload(data_iter)
return x, y, data_iter
prefetcher = _Prefetcher(loader, device)
if prec_mode == PrecisionMode.FP8:
amp_ctx = nullcontext()
else:
amp_ctx = (
torch.amp.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=amp_dtype)
if "cuda" in device
else nullcontext()
)
if master:
logger.info(f"Starting training from step {start_step} to {total_steps}")
model.train()
step = start_step
tokens_seen = start_step * global_batch_tok
t0_loop = time.time()
data_iter = iter(loader)
for epoch in range(start_epoch, 1000):
while step < total_steps:
current_lr = get_lr(step, warmup_steps, total_steps, lr, lr * 0.1)
for pg in optimizer.param_groups:
pg['lr'] = current_lr
optimizer.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)
loss_accum = 0.0
for micro_step in range(grad_accum):
x, y, data_iter = prefetcher.next(data_iter)
if x is None:
data_iter = iter(loader)
x, y, data_iter = prefetcher.next(data_iter)
sync = (
nullcontext()
if (not ddp or micro_step == grad_accum - 1)
else model.no_sync()
) if ddp else nullcontext()
with sync, amp_ctx:
output = model(x, labels=y, n_loops=n_loops)
loss = output['loss'] / grad_accum
loss.backward()
loss_accum += loss.item() * grad_accum
if master and step == start_step and micro_step == 0:
peak_vram = torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated() / 1024**3
logger.info(f"First forward+backward | Peak VRAM: {peak_vram:.1f}GB")
nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), max_norm=1.0)
optimizer.step()
step += 1
tokens_seen += global_batch_tok
if step % 10 == 0:
gc.collect()
torch.cuda.empty_cache()
if step % log_every == 0 and master:
elapsed = time.time() - t0_loop
tps = log_every * global_batch_tok / elapsed if elapsed > 0 else 0
loss_val = loss_accum
if loss_val < best_loss:
best_loss = loss_val
logger.info(
f"Epoch {epoch} | step {step}/{total_steps} | loss {loss_val:.4f} | "
f"lr {current_lr:.2e} | {tps/1e3:.1f}k tok/s | "
f"prec {prec_mode.value} | tokens {tokens_seen/1e6:.2f}M"
)
t0_loop = time.time()
if step % ckpt_every == 0 and master:
ckpt_path, ckpt_mb = save_step_checkpoint(
model, optimizer, step, epoch, cfg, ckpt_dir, master,
ddp=ddp, current_best_loss=best_loss,
)
if ckpt_path:
logger.info(f"Checkpoint saved: {ckpt_path} ({ckpt_mb:.0f} MB)")
if step >= total_steps:
break
if step >= total_steps:
break
if master:
final_path = os.path.join(ckpt_dir, "spider-final.pt")
os.makedirs(ckpt_dir, exist_ok=True)
torch.save({
"step": step, "epoch": epoch,
"model_state_dict": model.state_dict(),
"optimizer_state_dict": optimizer.state_dict(),
"cfg": cfg, "best_loss": best_loss,
}, final_path)
logger.info(f"Final checkpoint saved: {final_path}")
logger.info(f"Training complete. Total steps: {step}, Best loss: {best_loss:.4f}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()