lingbotvla/distributed/sequence_parallel/loss.py

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from typing import Optional, Tuple

import torch
import torch.distributed as dist

from .comm import (
    get_unified_sequence_parallel_group,
    get_unified_sequence_parallel_world_size,
)


class ReduceLoss(torch.autograd.Function):
    @staticmethod
    def forward(ctx: torch.autograd.Function, loss: torch.Tensor, num_valid_tokens: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
        if num_valid_tokens == 0:
            loss = torch.nan_to_num(loss)

        local_num_tokens = num_valid_tokens.detach().clone()
        loss *= num_valid_tokens
        group = get_unified_sequence_parallel_group()
        dist.all_reduce(loss, group=group)
        dist.all_reduce(num_valid_tokens, group=group)
        ctx.save_for_backward(local_num_tokens, num_valid_tokens)
        return loss / num_valid_tokens

    @staticmethod
    def backward(
        ctx: torch.autograd.Function, grad_output: torch.Tensor
    ) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, Optional[torch.Tensor]]:
        local_num_tokens, global_num_tokens = ctx.saved_tensors
        grad_output = get_unified_sequence_parallel_world_size() * local_num_tokens * grad_output / global_num_tokens
        return grad_output, None


def reduce_sequence_parallel_loss(loss: torch.Tensor, num_valid_tokens: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
    return ReduceLoss.apply(loss, num_valid_tokens)