NeMo / nemo /collections /tts /modules /moe_modules.py
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from typing import Callable, Tuple
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from nemo.collections.tts.modules.ffn_modules import ConvolutionLayer
class MoERouter(torch.nn.Module):
"""
Router for Mixture of Experts that selects which experts to use for each token.
Supports multiple routing strategies including top-k and Sinkhorn routing.
"""
def __init__(
self,
d_model: int,
num_experts: int,
top_k: int = 2,
router_jitter_noise: float = 0.0,
routing_strategy: str = "top_k", # "top_k" or "sinkhorn"
):
"""
Args:
d_model (int): Model dimension
num_experts (int): Number of experts
top_k (int): Number of experts to select per token
router_jitter_noise (float): Add noise to router logits for exploration during training
routing_strategy (str): Strategy for routing ("top_k" or "sinkhorn")
"""
super().__init__()
self.d_model = d_model
self.num_experts = num_experts
self.top_k = min(top_k, num_experts)
self.router_jitter_noise = router_jitter_noise
self.routing_strategy = routing_strategy
assert routing_strategy in ["top_k", "sinkhorn"], "Invalid routing strategy"
# Router is a simple linear layer that outputs logits for each expert
self.router = torch.nn.Linear(d_model, num_experts, bias=False)
def forward(
self, x: torch.Tensor, x_mask: torch.Tensor
) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Compute routing decisions for each token.
Args:
x (torch.Tensor): Input tensor of shape (B, T, C)
x_mask (torch.Tensor): Mask tensor of shape (B, T) where 1=valid token, 0=padding
Returns:
Tuple containing:
- expert_weights (torch.Tensor): Normalized weights for selected experts of shape (B, T, top_k).
For padded positions, weights are set to 0.
- expert_indices (torch.Tensor): Indices of selected experts of shape (B, T, top_k).
For padded positions, indices are set to -1 (sentinel value).
- router_logits (torch.Tensor): Raw router logits of shape (B, T, num_experts).
Padded positions are masked to zero.
- router_probs (torch.Tensor): Router probabilities after softmax of shape (B, T, num_experts).
Padded positions are masked to zero.
"""
# Compute router logits: (B, T, num_experts)
router_logits = self.router(x * x_mask.unsqueeze(-1))
# Add jitter noise during training for exploration
if self.training and self.router_jitter_noise > 0:
noise = torch.randn_like(router_logits) * self.router_jitter_noise
router_logits = router_logits + noise
# Mask router logits to ensure padded positions remain zero
router_logits = router_logits * x_mask.unsqueeze(-1)
# Compute routing probabilities for each token.
# Padded positions with logits of [0, 0, ..., 0] will produce a uniform softmax ([1/n, ..., 1/n]);
# this is acceptable, since we require valid probabilities for top-k selection and normalization.
# Sinkhorn routing is used only during training for balancing, while at inference simple softmax is used for efficiency.
if self.routing_strategy == "sinkhorn" and self.training:
router_probs = self._sinkhorn_routing(router_logits, x_mask)
else:
router_probs = F.softmax(router_logits, dim=-1)
# Select top-k experts
# expert_weights: (B, T, top_k), expert_indices: (B, T, top_k)
expert_weights, expert_indices = torch.topk(router_probs, self.top_k, dim=-1)
# Normalize weights to sum to 1
# For padded positions: uniform probs -> 1/top_k
# For valid positions: normal routing weights
# Avoid division by zero when all weights are zero.
weight_sums = expert_weights.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
expert_weights = expert_weights / torch.where(weight_sums > 0, weight_sums, torch.ones_like(weight_sums))
# Mask expert_weights and expert_indices for padded positions
# Set expert_indices to -1 for padding so they don't match any valid expert (0 to num_experts-1)
# This prevents padded tokens from being processed through experts
expert_weights = expert_weights * x_mask.unsqueeze(-1) # Zero out weights for padding
expert_indices = expert_indices.masked_fill(~x_mask.unsqueeze(-1).bool(), -1) # Set to -1 for padding
# Mask router_probs for return
router_probs = router_probs * x_mask.unsqueeze(-1)
return expert_weights, expert_indices, router_logits, router_probs
@staticmethod
def _sinkhorn_routing(
logits: torch.Tensor, x_mask: torch.Tensor, num_iters: int = 100, e_tol: float = 1e-3
) -> torch.Tensor:
"""
Padding-aware Sinkhorn routing with convergence checking.
This implementation:
1. Extracts only valid (non-padded) tokens before Sinkhorn
2. Applies Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithm with convergence criterion
3. Re-pads the output to original shape
The algorithm computes a doubly stochastic matrix by iteratively
normalizing rows and columns using diagonal scaling factors.
Args:
logits (torch.Tensor): Router logits of shape (B, T, num_experts)
x_mask (torch.Tensor): Mask of shape (B, T) where 1=valid token, 0=padding
num_iters (int): Maximum number of Sinkhorn iterations (default: 100)
e_tol (float): Convergence tolerance for scaling factors (default: 1e-3)
Returns:
torch.Tensor: Routing probabilities of shape (B, T, num_experts)
Valid tokens: doubly stochastic probabilities
Padded tokens: zeros
"""
B, T, E = logits.shape
# Extract valid tokens (exclude padding)
valid_mask = x_mask.view(-1).bool() # (B*T,)
valid_logits = logits.view(B * T, E)[valid_mask] # (N, E) where N = number of valid tokens
if valid_logits.numel() == 0:
# All tokens are padding, return zeros
return torch.zeros_like(logits)
# Numerical stability: subtract max per row to prevent exp overflow.
# This is similar to the log-sum-exp trick used in softmax.
# For Sinkhorn, subtracting a constant per row doesn't change the final
# doubly-stochastic result since both row and column normalizations will
# absorb the scaling factor.
valid_logits_stable = valid_logits - valid_logits.max(dim=-1, keepdim=True).values
# Apply exp to get cost matrix (must be positive for Sinkhorn)
K = torch.exp(valid_logits_stable) # (N, E)
# Initialize diagonal scaling factors
d1 = torch.ones(K.size(0), device=K.device, dtype=K.dtype) # Row scaling (N,)
d2 = torch.ones(K.size(1), device=K.device, dtype=K.dtype) # Column scaling (E,)
# Sinkhorn-Knopp iterations with convergence check
for _ in range(num_iters):
d1_old = d1.clone()
# Update row scaling: d1[i] = 1 / sum_j(K[i,j] * d2[j])
d1 = 1.0 / (torch.matmul(K, d2) + 1e-9)
# Update column scaling: d2[j] = 1 / sum_i(K[i,j] * d1[i])
d2 = 1.0 / (torch.matmul(K.t(), d1) + 1e-9)
# Clamp scaling factors to prevent numerical instability from accumulating
d1 = torch.clamp(d1, min=1e-9, max=1e9)
d2 = torch.clamp(d2, min=1e-9, max=1e9)
# Check convergence based on change in scaling factors
err = torch.mean(torch.abs(d1_old - d1))
if err < e_tol:
break
# Compute scaled matrix using broadcasting (avoids materializing NxN diagonal matrices):
# P = diag(d1) @ K @ diag(d2) => P[i, j] = d1[i] * K[i, j] * d2[j]
P = (d1[:, None] * K) * d2[None, :] # (N, E)
# Final row normalization to ensure each row sums to 1 (valid probability distribution)
P = P / (P.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True) + 1e-9) # (N, E)
# Re-pad to original shape
result = torch.zeros(B * T, E, device=logits.device, dtype=logits.dtype)
result[valid_mask] = P
result = result.view(B, T, E)
return result
class PositionwiseConvFFMoE(torch.nn.Module):
"""
Mixture of Experts version of `PositionwiseConvFF`.
Uses multiple expert FFN networks with a learned router.
"""
def __init__(
self,
d_model: int,
d_ffn: int,
p_dropout: float,
num_experts: int = 8,
top_k_experts: int = 2,
kernel_size: int = 1,
bias: bool = False,
is_causal: bool = True,
non_linearity: Callable = torch.nn.GELU(approximate="tanh"),
router_jitter_noise: float = 0.0,
routing_strategy: str = "top_k",
):
"""
Args:
d_model (int): Input and output dimension
d_ffn (int): Hidden dimension of FFN (usually 4 * d_model, or d_model for param-matched MoE)
p_dropout (float): Dropout probability
num_experts (int): Number of expert networks
top_k_experts (int): Number of experts to use per token
kernel_size (int): Convolution kernel size. Must be 1 for MoE so that each expert
is a standard pointwise linear FFN (Conv1d with kernel_size=1 is equivalent to
nn.Linear applied independently at each position).
bias (bool): Whether to use bias in convolution layers
is_causal (bool): Whether to use causal convolution
non_linearity (Callable): Activation function
router_jitter_noise (float): Noise for router exploration
routing_strategy (str): Routing strategy ("top_k" or "sinkhorn")
"""
if kernel_size != 1:
raise ValueError(
f"`PositionwiseConvFFMoE` requires kernel_size=1, got {kernel_size}. "
f"Each MoE expert must be a pointwise linear FFN (Conv1d with kernel_size=1 == nn.Linear). "
f"kernel_size > 1 is not supported because (1) standard MoE experts are linear layers, "
f"and (2) MoE dispatch gathers tokens from arbitrary (batch, time) positions, so "
f"Conv1d with kernel_size > 1 would mix non-adjacent tokens."
)
super().__init__()
self.d_model = d_model
self.d_ffn = d_ffn
self.num_experts = num_experts
self.top_k_experts = top_k_experts
self.non_linearity = non_linearity
# Router for expert selection
self.router = MoERouter(
d_model=d_model,
num_experts=num_experts,
top_k=top_k_experts,
router_jitter_noise=router_jitter_noise,
routing_strategy=routing_strategy,
)
# Create multiple expert FFN networks
self.experts = torch.nn.ModuleList()
for _ in range(num_experts):
expert = torch.nn.ModuleDict(
{
'proj': ConvolutionLayer(d_model, d_ffn, bias=bias, kernel_size=kernel_size, is_causal=is_causal),
'o_net': ConvolutionLayer(d_ffn, d_model, bias=bias, kernel_size=kernel_size, is_causal=is_causal),
}
)
self.experts.append(expert)
self.dropout = torch.nn.Dropout(p_dropout)
def forward(
self, x: torch.Tensor, x_mask: torch.Tensor
) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Apply Mixture of Experts feedforward layer.
For each valid token (x_mask=1), routes to top_k experts based on router predictions.
Padded tokens (x_mask=0) are assigned expert_indices=-1 and are not processed through any expert,
ensuring they remain zero in the output.
Args:
x (torch.Tensor): Input tensor of shape (B, T, C)
x_mask (torch.Tensor): Mask tensor of shape (B, T) where 1=valid token, 0=padding
Returns:
Tuple containing:
- output (torch.Tensor): Output tensor of shape (B, T, C).
Valid tokens contain weighted combination of top_k expert outputs.
Padded positions remain zero (never processed by experts).
- router_logits (torch.Tensor): Raw router logits for auxiliary loss of shape (B, T, num_experts).
Padded positions are masked to zero.
- router_probs (torch.Tensor): Router probabilities for auxiliary loss of shape (B, T, num_experts).
Padded positions are masked to zero.
- expert_indices (torch.Tensor): Selected expert indices of shape (B, T, top_k).
For padded positions, indices are -1. For computing expert selection statistics.
"""
# Get expert routing from router
expert_weights, expert_indices, router_logits, router_probs = self.router(x, x_mask)
# expert_weights: (B, T, top_k)
# expert_indices: (B, T, top_k)
# router_logits: (B, T, num_experts)
# router_probs: (B, T, num_experts)
# Vectorized dispatch: flatten all (token, expert-slot) assignments once,
# sort by expert to get contiguous slices, then process each expert on its slice.
B, T, C = x.shape
top_k = expert_indices.shape[-1]
# Flatten token dimension: (B*T, C)
x_flat = x.view(-1, C)
num_tokens = x_flat.size(0) # B * T
# Flatten routing assignments to 1-D vectors:
# assign_expert: (num_tokens * top_k,) — which expert each assignment targets
# assign_weight: (num_tokens * top_k, 1) — routing weight for each assignment
assign_expert = expert_indices.reshape(-1)
assign_weight = expert_weights.reshape(-1, 1)
# Map each assignment back to its source token index (0 .. num_tokens-1).
# token_indices: (num_tokens * top_k,)
token_indices = torch.arange(num_tokens, device=x.device).unsqueeze(1).expand(num_tokens, top_k).reshape(-1)
# Filter out padding assignments (expert_indices == -1 for padded positions).
# This is required because torch.bincount does not accept negative values,
# and padded tokens should not be processed by any expert.
valid_assign_mask = assign_expert != -1
assign_expert = assign_expert[valid_assign_mask]
assign_weight = assign_weight[valid_assign_mask]
token_indices = token_indices[valid_assign_mask]
# Initialize flat output buffer.
output_flat = torch.zeros_like(x_flat)
if assign_expert.numel() > 0:
# Sort assignments by expert so each expert's tokens form a contiguous slice.
sorted_expert, sort_idx = torch.sort(assign_expert)
sorted_token_indices = token_indices[sort_idx]
sorted_weights = assign_weight[sort_idx]
# Compute per-expert assignment counts and slice boundaries.
counts = torch.bincount(sorted_expert, minlength=self.num_experts)
offsets = counts.cumsum(0)
starts = torch.zeros_like(offsets)
starts[1:] = offsets[:-1]
# Process each expert on its contiguous slice of assignments.
for expert_idx in range(self.num_experts):
count = counts[expert_idx].item()
if count == 0:
continue
start = starts[expert_idx].item()
end = start + count
expert_token_idx = sorted_token_indices[start:end]
expert_token_weights = sorted_weights[start:end] # (N_assign, 1)
# Gather tokens for this expert: (N_assign, C)
# Note: expert_token_idx values are in [0, B*T-1] (token-space indices, not assignment-space indices),
# we can safely index into x_flat (B*T, C) with these indices.
expert_tokens = x_flat[expert_token_idx]
# Add batch dimension expected by conv layers: (1, N_assign, C)
expert_tokens = expert_tokens.unsqueeze(0)
# Apply expert FFN
expert_out = self.non_linearity(self.experts[expert_idx]['proj'](expert_tokens.transpose(1, 2)))
expert_out = self.dropout(self.experts[expert_idx]['o_net'](expert_out).transpose(1, 2))
expert_out = expert_out.squeeze(0) # (N_assign, C)
# Weight and accumulate back to the source token positions.
expert_out = expert_out * expert_token_weights
output_flat.index_add_(0, expert_token_idx, expert_out)
# Reshape back to (B, T, C)
output = output_flat.view(B, T, C)
return output, router_logits, router_probs, expert_indices