Fine-tuning a model with the 🤗 TLC Trainer API

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This notebook demonstrates how to use our hugging face TLC Trainer API and finetuning a model called bert-base-uncased

PROJECT_NAME = "bert-base-uncased"
RUN_NAME = "finetuning-run"
DESCRIPTION = "Fine-tuning BERT on MRPC"
TRAIN_DATASET_NAME = "hugging-face-train"
VAL_DATASET_NAME = "hugging-face-val"
CHECKPOINT = "bert-base-uncased"
DEVICE = "cuda:0"
TRAIN_BATCH_SIZE = 64
EVAL_BATCH_SIZE = 256
EPOCHS = 4
OPTIMIZER = "adamw_torch"
TRANSIENT_DATA_PATH = "../transient_data"
TLC_PUBLIC_EXAMPLES_DEVELOPER_MODE = True
INSTALL_DEPENDENCIES = False

%%capture
if INSTALL_DEPENDENCIES:
    %pip --quiet install torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
    %pip --quiet install torchvision --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
    %pip --quiet install datasets transformers evaluate
    %pip --quiet install accelerate
    %pip --quiet install scikit-learn
    %pip --quiet install tlc

import os

import datasets
import evaluate
import numpy as np
import tlc
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer, DataCollatorWithPadding, TrainingArguments

os.environ["TRANSFORMERS_NO_ADVISORY_WARNINGS"] = "true"  # Removing BertTokenizerFast tokenizer warning

datasets.utils.logging.disable_progress_bar()

Initialize a 3LC Run

We initialize a Run with a call to tlc.init, and add the configuration to the Run object.

run = tlc.init(
    project_name=PROJECT_NAME,
    run_name=RUN_NAME,
    description=DESCRIPTION,
    if_exists="overwrite",
)

With the 3LC integration, you can use tlc.Table.from_hugging_face() as a drop-in replacement for datasets.load_dataset() to create a tlc.Table. Notice .latest(), which gets the latest version of the 3LC dataset.

tlc_train_dataset = tlc.Table.from_hugging_face(
    "glue",
    "mrpc",
    split="train",
    project_name=PROJECT_NAME,
    dataset_name=TRAIN_DATASET_NAME,
    if_exists="overwrite",
).latest()

tlc_val_dataset = tlc.Table.from_hugging_face(
    "glue",
    "mrpc",
    split="validation",
    project_name=PROJECT_NAME,
    dataset_name=VAL_DATASET_NAME,
    if_exists="overwrite",
).latest()

Table provides a method map to apply both preprocessing and on-the-fly transforms to your data before it is sent to the model.

It is different from huggingface where it generates a new reference of the data directly including the example

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(CHECKPOINT)


def tokenize_function_tlc(example):
    return {**example, **tokenizer(example["sentence1"], example["sentence2"], truncation=True)}


tlc_tokenized_dataset_train = tlc_train_dataset.map(tokenize_function_tlc)
tlc_tokenized_dataset_val = tlc_val_dataset.map(tokenize_function_tlc)

/home/build/ado/w/1/huggingface-finetuning_venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py:1132: FutureWarning: `resume_download` is deprecated and will be removed in version 1.0.0. Downloads always resume when possible. If you want to force a new download, use `force_download=True`.
  warnings.warn(

data_collator = DataCollatorWithPadding(tokenizer=tokenizer)

Here we define our model with two labels

# For demonstration purposes, we use the bert-base-uncased model with a different set of labels than
# it was trained on. As a result, there will be a warning about the inconsistency of the classifier and
# pre_classifier weights. This is expected and can be ignored.
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(CHECKPOINT, num_labels=2)

Some weights of BertForSequenceClassification were not initialized from the model checkpoint at bert-base-uncased and are newly initialized: ['classifier.bias', 'classifier.weight']
You should probably TRAIN this model on a down-stream task to be able to use it for predictions and inference.

Setup Metrics Collection

Computing metrics is done by implementing a function which returns per-sample metrics you would like to see in the 3LC Dashboard.

This is different from the original compute_metrics of Huggingface which compute per batch the metrics. Here we want to find results with a granularity of per sample basis.

def compute_tlc_metrics(logits, labels):
    probabilities = torch.nn.functional.softmax(logits, dim=-1)

    predictions = logits.argmax(dim=-1)
    loss = torch.nn.functional.cross_entropy(logits, labels, reduction="none")
    confidence = probabilities.gather(dim=-1, index=predictions.unsqueeze(-1)).squeeze()

    return {
        "predicted": predictions,
        "loss": loss,
        "confidence": confidence,
    }


id2label = {0: "not_equivalent", 1: "equivalent"}
schemas = {
    "predicted": tlc.CategoricalLabelSchema(
        display_name="Predicted Label", class_names=id2label.values(), display_importance=4005
    ),
    "loss": tlc.Schema(display_name="Loss", writable=False, value=tlc.Float32Value()),
    "confidence": tlc.Schema(display_name="Confidence", writable=False, value=tlc.Float32Value()),
}
compute_tlc_metrics.column_schemas = schemas

# Add references to the input datasets used by the Run.
run.add_input_table(tlc_train_dataset)
run.add_input_table(tlc_val_dataset)

Train the model with TLCTrainer

To perform model training, we replace the usual Trainer with TLCTrainer and provide the per-sample metrics collection function.

In this example, we still compute the glue MRPC per batch thanks to the compute_hf_metrics method (compute_metrics is changed to compute_hf_metrics to avoid confusion).

We also compute our special per sample tlc metrics thanks to the compute_tlc_metrics method.

With this latter, we can choose when to start to collect the metrics, here at epoch 2 (indexed from 0 with tlc_metrics_collection_start) with a frequency of 1 epoch (with tlc_metrics_collection_epoch_frequency).

You also can switch the strategy to compute the metrics to “steps” in the evaluation_strategy and specify the frequency with eval_steps. At this stage, if you use tlc_metrics_collection_start, it should be a multiple of eval_steps. Note that tlc_metrics_collection_epoch_frequency is disable in this case because we use the original eval_steps variable.

We also specify that we would like to collect metrics prior to training with compute_tlc_metrics_on_train_begin.

from tlc.integration.hugging_face import TLCTrainer


def compute_metrics(eval_preds):
    metric = evaluate.load("glue", "mrpc")
    logits, labels = eval_preds
    predictions = np.argmax(logits, axis=-1)
    return metric.compute(predictions=predictions, references=labels)


training_args = TrainingArguments(
    output_dir=TRANSIENT_DATA_PATH,
    per_device_train_batch_size=TRAIN_BATCH_SIZE,
    per_device_eval_batch_size=EVAL_BATCH_SIZE,
    optim=OPTIMIZER,
    num_train_epochs=EPOCHS,
    report_to="none",  # Disable wandb logging
    no_cuda=(DEVICE == "cpu"),
    evaluation_strategy="epoch",
    disable_tqdm=True,
    # evaluation_strategy="steps",  # For running metrics on steps
    # eval_steps=20,  # For running metrics on steps
)

trainer = TLCTrainer(
    model=model,
    args=training_args,
    train_dataset=tlc_tokenized_dataset_train,
    eval_dataset=tlc_tokenized_dataset_val,
    tokenizer=tokenizer,
    data_collator=data_collator,
    compute_hf_metrics=compute_metrics,
    compute_tlc_metrics=compute_tlc_metrics,
    compute_tlc_metrics_on_train_begin=True,
    compute_tlc_metrics_on_train_end=False,
    tlc_metrics_collection_start=2,
    tlc_metrics_collection_epoch_frequency=1,
)

/home/build/ado/w/1/huggingface-finetuning_venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/transformers/training_args.py:1474: FutureWarning: `evaluation_strategy` is deprecated and will be removed in version 4.46 of 🤗 Transformers. Use `eval_strategy` instead
  warnings.warn(

trainer.train()

{'eval_loss': 0.6377372741699219, 'eval_accuracy': 0.6747546346782988, 'eval_f1': 0.8057319654779352, 'eval_runtime': 16.6816, 'eval_samples_per_second': 219.883, 'eval_steps_per_second': 0.899}
{'eval_loss': 0.6342514753341675, 'eval_accuracy': 0.6838235294117647, 'eval_f1': 0.8122270742358079, 'eval_runtime': 1.6963, 'eval_samples_per_second': 240.524, 'eval_steps_per_second': 1.179}
{'eval_loss': 0.3897748589515686, 'eval_accuracy': 0.8235294117647058, 'eval_f1': 0.8705035971223022, 'eval_runtime': 1.7466, 'eval_samples_per_second': 233.597, 'eval_steps_per_second': 1.145, 'epoch': 1.0}
{'eval_loss': 0.3837583065032959, 'eval_accuracy': 0.8357843137254902, 'eval_f1': 0.8896210873146623, 'eval_runtime': 1.7422, 'eval_samples_per_second': 234.182, 'eval_steps_per_second': 1.148, 'epoch': 2.0}
{'eval_loss': 0.057882245630025864, 'eval_accuracy': 0.9877317339149401, 'eval_f1': 0.9908998988877654, 'eval_runtime': 16.4297, 'eval_samples_per_second': 223.255, 'eval_steps_per_second': 0.913, 'epoch': 3.0}
{'eval_loss': 0.3654559254646301, 'eval_accuracy': 0.8700980392156863, 'eval_f1': 0.9068541300527241, 'eval_runtime': 1.7717, 'eval_samples_per_second': 230.286, 'eval_steps_per_second': 1.129, 'epoch': 3.0}
{'eval_loss': 0.03915698453783989, 'eval_accuracy': 0.9915485278080698, 'eval_f1': 0.9937436932391523, 'eval_runtime': 16.4149, 'eval_samples_per_second': 223.455, 'eval_steps_per_second': 0.914, 'epoch': 4.0}
{'eval_loss': 0.4445335268974304, 'eval_accuracy': 0.8627450980392157, 'eval_f1': 0.9027777777777778, 'eval_runtime': 1.7689, 'eval_samples_per_second': 230.65, 'eval_steps_per_second': 1.131, 'epoch': 4.0}
{'train_runtime': 218.12, 'train_samples_per_second': 67.266, 'train_steps_per_second': 1.064, 'train_loss': 0.26278132405774346, 'epoch': 4.0}

TrainOutput(global_step=232, training_loss=0.26278132405774346, metrics={'train_runtime': 218.12, 'train_samples_per_second': 67.266, 'train_steps_per_second': 1.064, 'train_loss': 0.26278132405774346, 'epoch': 4.0})