Mandeep Sidhu
Initial dropout decay research pipeline
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"""
Derived from Andrej Karpathy's nanochat project.
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"""
from __future__ import annotations
from dataclasses import asdict, dataclass
import math
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class GPTConfig:
block_size: int
vocab_size: int
n_layer: int
n_head: int
n_embd: int
dropout: float
def to_dict(self) -> dict[str, int | float]:
return asdict(self)
def rms_norm(x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
return F.rms_norm(x, (x.size(-1),))
class Linear(nn.Linear):
"""Bias-free linear layer matching the nanochat architectural style."""
def __init__(self, in_features: int, out_features: int):
super().__init__(in_features, out_features, bias=False)
def apply_rotary_emb(
x: torch.Tensor, cos: torch.Tensor, sin: torch.Tensor
) -> torch.Tensor:
half = x.shape[-1] // 2
x1, x2 = x[..., :half], x[..., half:]
return torch.cat((x1 * cos + x2 * sin, x1 * (-sin) + x2 * cos), dim=-1)
class CausalSelfAttention(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, config: GPTConfig):
super().__init__()
if config.n_embd % config.n_head != 0:
raise ValueError("n_embd must be divisible by n_head")
self.n_head = config.n_head
self.head_dim = config.n_embd // config.n_head
if self.head_dim % 2 != 0:
raise ValueError("rotary attention requires an even head dimension")
self.dropout_p = config.dropout
self.c_q = Linear(config.n_embd, config.n_embd)
self.c_k = Linear(config.n_embd, config.n_embd)
self.c_v = Linear(config.n_embd, config.n_embd)
self.c_proj = Linear(config.n_embd, config.n_embd)
self.resid_dropout = nn.Dropout(config.dropout)
mask = torch.ones(config.block_size, config.block_size, dtype=torch.bool).tril()
self.register_buffer(
"causal_mask",
mask.view(1, 1, config.block_size, config.block_size),
persistent=False,
)
def set_dropout(self, p: float) -> None:
self.dropout_p = p
self.resid_dropout.p = p
def forward(
self, x: torch.Tensor, cos: torch.Tensor, sin: torch.Tensor
) -> torch.Tensor:
batch, seq_len, channels = x.shape
q = self.c_q(x).view(batch, seq_len, self.n_head, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2)
k = self.c_k(x).view(batch, seq_len, self.n_head, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2)
v = self.c_v(x).view(batch, seq_len, self.n_head, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2)
q = rms_norm(apply_rotary_emb(q, cos, sin)) * 1.2
k = rms_norm(apply_rotary_emb(k, cos, sin)) * 1.2
att = (q @ k.transpose(-2, -1)) / math.sqrt(self.head_dim)
mask = self.causal_mask[:, :, :seq_len, :seq_len]
att = att.masked_fill(~mask, float("-inf"))
att = F.softmax(att.float(), dim=-1).to(dtype=x.dtype)
att = F.dropout(att, p=self.dropout_p, training=self.training)
y = att @ v
y = y.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().view(batch, seq_len, channels)
return self.resid_dropout(self.c_proj(y))
class MLP(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, config: GPTConfig):
super().__init__()
self.c_fc = Linear(config.n_embd, 4 * config.n_embd)
self.c_proj = Linear(4 * config.n_embd, config.n_embd)
self.dropout = nn.Dropout(config.dropout)
def set_dropout(self, p: float) -> None:
self.dropout.p = p
def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
x = self.c_fc(x)
x = F.relu(x).square()
x = self.c_proj(x)
return self.dropout(x)
class Block(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, config: GPTConfig):
super().__init__()
self.attn = CausalSelfAttention(config)
self.mlp = MLP(config)
def set_dropout(self, p: float) -> None:
self.attn.set_dropout(p)
self.mlp.set_dropout(p)
def forward(
self, x: torch.Tensor, cos: torch.Tensor, sin: torch.Tensor
) -> torch.Tensor:
x = x + self.attn(rms_norm(x), cos, sin)
x = x + self.mlp(rms_norm(x))
return x
class DropoutGPT(nn.Module):
"""Minimal nanochat-style causal Transformer with dynamic dropout control."""
def __init__(self, config: GPTConfig):
super().__init__()
self.config = config
self.token_embedding = nn.Embedding(config.vocab_size, config.n_embd)
self.embedding_dropout = nn.Dropout(config.dropout)
self.blocks = nn.ModuleList(Block(config) for _ in range(config.n_layer))
self.lm_head = Linear(config.n_embd, config.vocab_size)
self.register_buffer(
"cos",
torch.empty(1, 1, config.block_size, config.n_embd // config.n_head // 2),
persistent=False,
)
self.register_buffer(
"sin",
torch.empty(1, 1, config.block_size, config.n_embd // config.n_head // 2),
persistent=False,
)
self._init_weights()
self._init_rotary()
@torch.no_grad()
def _init_weights(self) -> None:
nn.init.normal_(self.token_embedding.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.8)
nn.init.normal_(self.lm_head.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.001)
scale = (3.0 ** 0.5) * (self.config.n_embd ** -0.5)
for block in self.blocks:
nn.init.uniform_(block.attn.c_q.weight, -scale, scale)
nn.init.uniform_(block.attn.c_k.weight, -scale, scale)
nn.init.uniform_(block.attn.c_v.weight, -scale, scale)
nn.init.zeros_(block.attn.c_proj.weight)
nn.init.uniform_(block.mlp.c_fc.weight, -0.4 * scale, 0.4 * scale)
nn.init.zeros_(block.mlp.c_proj.weight)
@torch.no_grad()
def _init_rotary(self) -> None:
head_dim = self.config.n_embd // self.config.n_head
channel_range = torch.arange(
0,
head_dim,
2,
dtype=torch.float32,
device=self.cos.device,
)
inv_freq = 1.0 / (100000 ** (channel_range / head_dim))
positions = torch.arange(
self.config.block_size,
dtype=torch.float32,
device=self.cos.device,
)
freqs = torch.outer(positions, inv_freq)
self.cos.copy_(freqs.cos().view(1, 1, self.config.block_size, head_dim // 2))
self.sin.copy_(freqs.sin().view(1, 1, self.config.block_size, head_dim // 2))
def set_dropout(self, p: float) -> None:
if not 0.0 <= p < 1.0:
raise ValueError("dropout must satisfy 0 <= p < 1")
self.embedding_dropout.p = p
for block in self.blocks:
block.set_dropout(p)
def num_parameters(self) -> int:
return sum(p.numel() for p in self.parameters())
def forward(
self, idx: torch.Tensor, targets: torch.Tensor | None = None
) -> torch.Tensor | tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
_, seq_len = idx.shape
if seq_len > self.config.block_size:
raise ValueError("sequence length exceeds block_size")
cos = self.cos[:, :, :seq_len, :]
sin = self.sin[:, :, :seq_len, :]
x = self.embedding_dropout(rms_norm(self.token_embedding(idx)))
for block in self.blocks:
x = block(x, cos, sin)
logits = self.lm_head(rms_norm(x)).float()
if targets is None:
return logits
loss = F.cross_entropy(
logits.reshape(-1, logits.size(-1)),
targets.reshape(-1),
)
return logits, loss