[Megatron](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08053.pdf) is a large, powerful transformer developed by the Applied Deep Learning Research team at NVIDIA. This particular Megatron model was trained from a generative, left-to-right transformer in the style of GPT-2. This model was trained on text sourced from Wikipedia, RealNews, OpenWebText, and CC-Stories. It contains 345 million parameters. Find more information at [https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM) # How to run Megatron GPT2 using Transformers ## Prerequisites In that guide, we run all the commands from a folder called `$MYDIR` and defined as (in `bash`): ``` export MYDIR=$HOME ``` Feel free to change the location at your convenience. To run some of the commands below, you'll have to clone `Transformers`. ``` git clone https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git $MYDIR/transformers ``` ## Get the checkpoints from the NVIDIA GPU Cloud You must create a directory called `nvidia/megatron-gpt2-345m`: ``` mkdir -p $MYDIR/nvidia/megatron-gpt2-345m ``` You can download the checkpoints from the [NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC)](https://ngc.nvidia.com/catalog/models/nvidia:megatron_lm_345m). For that you have to [sign up](https://ngc.nvidia.com/signup) for and setup the NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) Registry CLI. Further documentation for downloading models can be found in the [NGC documentation](https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/ngc-registry-cli-user-guide/index.html#topic_6_4_1). Alternatively, you can directly download the checkpoints using: ``` wget --content-disposition https://api.ngc.nvidia.com/v2/models/nvidia/megatron_lm_345m/versions/v0.0/zip -O $MYDIR/nvidia/megatron-gpt2-345m/checkpoint.zip ``` ## Converting the checkpoint In order to be loaded into `Transformers`, the checkpoint has to be converted. You should run the following command for that purpose. That command will create `config.json` and `pytorch_model.bin` in `$MYDIR/nvidia/megatron-gpt2-345m`. You can move those files to different directories if needed. ``` python3 $MYDIR/transformers/src/transformers/models/megatron_gpt2/convert_megatron_gpt2_checkpoint.py $MYDIR/nvidia/megatron-gpt2-345m/checkpoint.zip ``` As explained in [PR #14956](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/14956), if when running this conversion script and you're getting an exception: ``` ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'megatron.model.enums' ``` you need to tell python where to find the clone of Megatron-LM, e.g.: ``` cd /tmp git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM PYTHONPATH=/tmp/Megatron-LM python src/transformers/models/megatron_bert/convert_megatron_bert_checkpoint.py ... ``` Or, if you already have it cloned elsewhere, simply adjust the path to the existing path. If the training was done using a Megatron-LM fork, e.g. [Megatron-DeepSpeed](https://github.com/microsoft/Megatron-DeepSpeed/) then you may need to have that one in your path, i.e., /path/to/Megatron-DeepSpeed. ## Text generation The following code shows how to use the Megatron GPT2 checkpoint and the Transformers API to generate text. ``` import os import torch from transformers import GPT2Tokenizer, GPT2LMHeadModel # The tokenizer. Megatron was trained with standard tokenizer(s). tokenizer = GPT2Tokenizer.from_pretrained('gpt2') # The path to the config/checkpoint (see the conversion step above). directory = os.path.join(os.environ['MYDIR'], 'nvidia/megatron-gpt2-345m') # Load the model from $MYDIR/nvidia/megatron-gpt2-345m. model = GPT2LMHeadModel.from_pretrained(directory) # Copy to the device and use FP16. assert torch.cuda.is_available() device = torch.device("cuda") model.to(device) model.eval() model.half() # Generate the sentence. output = model.generate(input_ids=None, max_length=32, num_return_sequences=1) # Output the text. for sentence in output: sentence = sentence.tolist() text = tokenizer.decode(sentence, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=True) print(text) ``` # To use this as a normal HuggingFace model If you want to use this model with HF Trainer, here is a quick way to do that: 1. Download nvidia checkpoint: ``` wget --content-disposition https://api.ngc.nvidia.com/v2/models/nvidia/megatron_lm_345m/versions/v0.0/zip -O megatron_lm_345m_v0.0.zip ``` 2. Convert: ``` python src/transformers/models/megatron_gpt2/convert_megatron_gpt2_checkpoint.py megatron_lm_345m_v0.0.zip ``` 3. Fetch missing files ``` git clone https://huggingface.co/nvidia/megatron-gpt2-345m/ ``` 4. Move the converted files into the cloned model dir ``` mv config.json pytorch_model.bin megatron-gpt2-345m/ ``` 5. The `megatron-gpt2-345m` dir should now have all the files which can be passed to HF Trainer as `--model_name_or_path megatron-gpt2-345m` # Original code The original Megatron code can be found here: [https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM).