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# The Command Line 

Below is a list of all the available commands 🤗 Accelerate with their parameters

## accelerate config

**Command**:

`accelerate config` or `accelerate-config`

Launches a series of prompts to create and save a `default_config.yml` configuration file for your training system. Should 
always be ran first on your machine.

**Usage**: 

```bash
accelerate config [arguments]
```

**Optional Arguments**:
* `--config_file CONFIG_FILE` (`str`) -- The path to use to store the config file. Will default to a file named default_config.yaml in the cache location, which is the content
                        of the environment `HF_HOME` suffixed with 'accelerate', or if you don't have such an environment variable, your cache directory
                        (`~/.cache` or the content of `XDG_CACHE_HOME`) suffixed with `huggingface`.
* `-h`, `--help` (`bool`) -- Show a help message and exit

## accelerate config default

**Command**:

`accelerate config default` or `accelerate-config default`

Create a default config file for Accelerate with only a few flags set.

**Usage**: 

```bash
accelerate config default [arguments]
```

**Optional Arguments**:
* `--config_file CONFIG_FILE` (`str`) -- The path to use to store the config file. Will default to a file named default_config.yaml in the cache location, which is the content
                        of the environment `HF_HOME` suffixed with 'accelerate', or if you don't have such an environment variable, your cache directory
                        (`~/.cache` or the content of `XDG_CACHE_HOME`) suffixed with `huggingface`.

* `-h`, `--help` (`bool`) -- Show a help message and exit
* `--mixed_precision {no,fp16,bf16}` (`str`) -- Whether or not to use mixed precision training. Choose between FP16 and BF16 (bfloat16) training. BF16 training is only supported on Nvidia Ampere GPUs and PyTorch 1.10 or later.

## accelerate config update

**Command**:

`accelerate config update` or `accelerate-config update`

Update an existing config file with the latest defaults while maintaining the old configuration.

**Usage**: 

```bash
accelerate config update [arguments]
```

**Optional Arguments**:
* `--config_file CONFIG_FILE` (`str`) -- The path to the config file to update. Will default to a file named default_config.yaml in the cache location, which is the content
                        of the environment `HF_HOME` suffixed with 'accelerate', or if you don't have such an environment variable, your cache directory
                        (`~/.cache` or the content of `XDG_CACHE_HOME`) suffixed with `huggingface`.

* `-h`, `--help` (`bool`) -- Show a help message and exit


## accelerate env

**Command**:

`accelerate env` or `accelerate-env`

Lists the contents of the passed 🤗 Accelerate configuration file. Should always be used when opening an issue on the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate).

**Usage**:

```bash
accelerate env [arguments]
```

**Optional Arguments**:
* `--config_file CONFIG_FILE` (`str`) -- The path to use to store the config file. Will default to a file named default_config.yaml in the cache location, which is the content
                        of the environment `HF_HOME` suffixed with 'accelerate', or if you don't have such an environment variable, your cache directory
                        (`~/.cache` or the content of `XDG_CACHE_HOME`) suffixed with `huggingface`.
* `-h`, `--help` (`bool`) -- Show a help message and exit

## accelerate launch

**Command**:

`accelerate launch` or `accelerate-launch`

Launches a specified script on a distributed system with the right parameters.

**Usage**: 

```bash
accelerate launch [arguments] {training_script} --{training_script-argument-1} --{training_script-argument-2} ...
```

**Positional Arguments**:

- `{training_script}` -- The full path to the script to be launched in parallel
- `--{training_script-argument-1}` -- Arguments of the training script

**Optional Arguments**:

* `-h`, `--help` (`bool`) -- Show a help message and exit
* `--config_file CONFIG_FILE` (`str`)-- The config file to use for the default values in the launching script.
* `-m`, `--module` (`bool`) -- Change each process to interpret the launch script as a Python module, executing with the same behavior as 'python -m'.
* `--no_python` (`bool`) -- Skip prepending the training script with 'python' - just execute it directly. Useful when the script is not a Python script.
* `--debug` (`bool`) -- Whether to print out the torch.distributed stack trace when something fails.
* `-q`, `--quiet` (`bool`) -- Silence subprocess errors from the launch stack trace to only show the relevant tracebacks. (Only applicable to DeepSpeed and single-process configurations).


The rest of these arguments are configured through `accelerate config` and are read in from the specified `--config_file` (or default configuration) for their 
values. They can also be passed in manually.

**Hardware Selection Arguments**:

* `--cpu` (`bool`) -- Whether or not to force the training on the CPU.
* `--multi_gpu` (`bool`) -- Whether or not this should launch a distributed GPU training.
* `--mps` (`bool`) -- Whether or not this should use MPS-enabled GPU device on MacOS machines.
* `--tpu` (`bool`) -- Whether or not this should launch a TPU training.

**Resource Selection Arguments**:

The following arguments are useful for fine-tuning how available hardware should be used

* `--mixed_precision {no,fp16,bf16}` (`str`) -- Whether or not to use mixed precision training. Choose between FP16 and BF16 (bfloat16) training. BF16 training is only supported on Nvidia Ampere GPUs and PyTorch 1.10 or later.
* `--num_processes NUM_PROCESSES` (`int`) -- The total number of processes to be launched in parallel.
* `--num_machines NUM_MACHINES` (`int`) -- The total number of machines used in this training.
* `--num_cpu_threads_per_process NUM_CPU_THREADS_PER_PROCESS` (`int`) -- The number of CPU threads per process. Can be tuned for optimal performance.

**Training Paradigm Arguments**:

The following arguments are useful for selecting which training paradigm to use.

* `--use_deepspeed` (`bool`) -- Whether or not to use DeepSpeed for training.
* `--use_fsdp` (`bool`) -- Whether or not to use FullyShardedDataParallel for training.
* `--use_megatron_lm` (`bool`) -- Whether or not to use Megatron-LM for training.

**Distributed GPU Arguments**:

The following arguments are only useful when `multi_gpu` is passed or multi-gpu training is configured through `accelerate config`: 

* `--gpu_ids` (`str`) -- What GPUs (by id) should be used for training on this machine as a comma-seperated list
* `--same_network` (`bool`) -- Whether all machines used for multinode training exist on the same local network.
* `--machine_rank MACHINE_RANK` (`int`) -- The rank of the machine on which this script is launched.
* `--main_process_ip MAIN_PROCESS_IP` (`str`) -- The IP address of the machine of rank 0.
* `--main_process_port MAIN_PROCESS_PORT` (`int`) -- The port to use to communicate with the machine of rank 0.
* `--rdzv_conf` (`str`) -- Additional rendezvous configuration (<key1>=<value1>,<key2>=<value2>,...).
* `--max_restarts` (`int`) -- Maximum number of worker group restarts before failing.
* `--monitor_interval` (`float`) -- Interval, in seconds, to monitor the state of workers.

**TPU Arguments**:

The following arguments are only useful when `tpu` is passed or TPU training is configured through `accelerate config`: 

* `--main_training_function MAIN_TRAINING_FUNCTION` (`str`) -- The name of the main function to be executed in your script.
* `--downcast_bf16` (`bool`) -- Whether when using bf16 precision on TPUs if both float and double tensors are cast to bfloat16 or if double tensors remain as float32.

**DeepSpeed Arguments**:

The following arguments are only useful when `use_deepspeed` is passed or `deepspeed` is configured through `accelerate config`: 

* `--deepspeed_config_file` (`str`) -- DeepSpeed config file.
* `--zero_stage` (`int`) -- DeepSpeed's ZeRO optimization stage.
* `--offload_optimizer_device` (`str`) -- Decides where (none|cpu|nvme) to offload optimizer states.
* `--offload_param_device` (`str`) -- Decides where (none|cpu|nvme) to offload parameters.
* `--gradient_accumulation_steps` (`int`) -- No of gradient_accumulation_steps used in your training script.
* `--gradient_clipping` (`float`) -- Gradient clipping value used in your training script.
* `--zero3_init_flag` (`str`) -- Decides Whether (true|false) to enable `deepspeed.zero.Init` for constructing massive models. Only applicable with DeepSpeed ZeRO Stage-3.
* `--zero3_save_16bit_model` (`str`) -- Decides Whether (true|false) to save 16-bit model weights when using ZeRO Stage-3. Only applicable with DeepSpeed ZeRO Stage-3.
* `--deepspeed_hostfile` (`str`) -- DeepSpeed hostfile for configuring multi-node compute resources.
* `--deepspeed_exclusion_filter` (`str`) -- DeepSpeed exclusion filter string when using mutli-node setup.
* `--deepspeed_inclusion_filter` (`str`) -- DeepSpeed inclusion filter string when using mutli-node setup.
* `--deepspeed_multinode_launcher` (`str`) -- DeepSpeed multi-node launcher to use.

**Fully Sharded Data Parallelism Arguments**:

The following arguments are only useful when `use_fdsp` is passed or Fully Sharded Data Parallelism is configured through `accelerate config`:

* `--fsdp_offload_params` (`str`) -- Decides Whether (true|false) to offload parameters and gradients to CPU.
* `--fsdp_min_num_params` (`int`) -- FSDP's minimum number of parameters for Default Auto Wrapping.
* `--fsdp_sharding_strategy` (`int`) -- FSDP's Sharding Strategy.
* `--fsdp_auto_wrap_policy` (`str`) -- FSDP's auto wrap policy.
* `--fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap` (`str`) -- Transformer layer class name (case-sensitive) to wrap, e.g, `BertLayer`, `GPTJBlock`, `T5Block` ...
* `--fsdp_backward_prefetch_policy` (`str`) -- FSDP's backward prefetch policy.
* `--fsdp_state_dict_type` (`str`) -- FSDP's state dict type.

**Megatron-LM Arguments**:

The following arguments are only useful when `use_megatron_lm` is passed or Megatron-LM is configured through `accelerate config`:

* `--megatron_lm_tp_degree` (``) -- Megatron-LM's Tensor Parallelism (TP) degree.
* `--megatron_lm_pp_degree` (``) -- Megatron-LM's Pipeline Parallelism (PP) degree.
* `--megatron_lm_num_micro_batches` (``) -- Megatron-LM's number of micro batches when PP degree > 1.
* `--megatron_lm_sequence_parallelism` (``) -- Decides Whether (true|false) to enable Sequence Parallelism when TP degree > 1.
* `--megatron_lm_recompute_activations` (``) -- Decides Whether (true|false) to enable Selective Activation Recomputation.
* `--megatron_lm_use_distributed_optimizer` (``) -- Decides Whether (true|false) to use distributed optimizer which shards optimizer state and gradients across Data Pralellel (DP) ranks.
* `--megatron_lm_gradient_clipping` (``) -- Megatron-LM's gradient clipping value based on global L2 Norm (0 to disable).

**AWS SageMaker Arguments**:

The following arguments are only useful when training in SageMaker

* `--aws_access_key_id AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` (`str`) -- The AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID used to launch the Amazon SageMaker training job
* `--aws_secret_access_key AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` (`str`) -- The AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY used to launch the Amazon SageMaker training job

## accelerate tpu-config

`accelerate tpu-config`

**Usage**:

```bash
accelerate tpu-config [arguments]
```

**Optional Arguments**:
* `-h`, `--help` (`bool`) -- Show a help message and exit

**Config Arguments**:

Arguments that can be configured through `accelerate config`.

* `--config_file` (`str`) -- Path to the config file to use for accelerate.
* `--tpu_name` (`str`) -- The name of the TPU to use. If not specified, will use the TPU specified in the config file.
* `--tpu_zone` (`str`) -- The zone of the TPU to use. If not specified, will use the zone specified in the config file.

**TPU Arguments**:

Arguments for options ran inside the TPU.

* `--command_file` (`str`) -- The path to the file containing the commands to run on the pod on startup.
* `--command` (`str`) -- A command to run on the pod. Can be passed multiple times.
* `--install_accelerate` (`bool`) -- Whether to install accelerate on the pod. Defaults to False.
* `--accelerate_version` (`str`) -- The version of accelerate to install on the pod. If not specified, will use the latest pypi version. Specify 'dev' to install from GitHub.
* `--debug` (`bool`) -- If set, will print the command that would be run instead of running it.

## accelerate test

`accelerate test` or `accelerate-test`

Runs `accelerate/test_utils/test_script.py` to verify that 🤗 Accelerate has been properly configured on your system and runs. 

**Usage**: 

```bash
accelerate test [arguments]
```

**Optional Arguments**:
* `--config_file CONFIG_FILE` (`str`) -- The path to use to store the config file. Will default to a file named default_config.yaml in the cache location, which is the content
                        of the environment `HF_HOME` suffixed with 'accelerate', or if you don't have such an environment variable, your cache directory
                        (`~/.cache` or the content of `XDG_CACHE_HOME`) suffixed with `huggingface`.
* `-h`, `--help` (`bool`) -- Show a help message and exit