During multi-gpus training, each card will execute the cache text embedding operation once?

[pixeli99]

text_encoders = [text_encoder_one, text_encoder_two]
tokenizers = [tokenizer_one, tokenizer_two]
train_dataset = get_train_dataset(args, accelerator)
compute_embeddings_fn = functools.partial(
    compute_embeddings,
    text_encoders=text_encoders,
    tokenizers=tokenizers,
    proportion_empty_prompts=args.proportion_empty_prompts,
)
with accelerator.main_process_first():
    train_dataset = train_dataset.map(compute_embeddings_fn, batched=True)

Each card will execute the above code during training, which will occupy too much disk space. Is this unreasonable? Or is it possible that I have misunderstood because currently, a fill50k training requires 15*8GB of storage space when using 8 cards.

[patrickvonplaten]

cc @williamberman

[williamberman]

Sorry, I'm not sure which training script this code is in? @pixeli99

[pixeli99]

Sorry, I'm not sure which training script this code is in? @pixeli99

hi, @williamberman
Sorry for my late reply. You can take a look here

diffusers/examples/controlnet/train_controlnet_sdxl.py

Line 995 in 3eb498e

text_encoders = [text_encoder_one, text_encoder_two]

My question is whether this code can be selectively executed. If I have to cache these embeddings, it will consume approximately 1TB of my hard drive space, and my dataset size is 500K.

Whether this consumption is normal, and I find that it seems that every GPU will execute this cache, which is very strange. Of course, it may be that I understand it incorrectly

[williamberman]

Ah yes understood, unfortunately I as well am not really familiar with the semantics here of what datasets and accelerate are actually doing. See some of my questions here #4038 (comment)

@sayakpaul probably understands better

[pixeli99]

Yes, it seems that every card will perform cache operations. Did I misunderstand?

[sayakpaul]

There's an answer here by @lhoestq: #4038 (comment)

Also ccing @muellerzr for additional insights in case.

[williamberman]

Ah yes, super helpful @pixeli99 ! So @sayakpaul I believe if you follow up on my comment here #4038 (comment) it should fix this. It looks like it's re doing the same computation on all processes and re-caching the results. Manually telling datasets a hash key will fix this :)

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