Hello.
When using tensor parallel on bloom (tp_size = 8), we find that the cross_entropy loss computed by mpu.cross_entropy is different from torch.nn.functional.cross_entropy. The difference is about 1% for our data.
For the implementation of mpu.cross_entropy, we find that the loss is computed on the partition_vocab_size which is 8 times smaller than vocab_size (tp_size = 8). We think maybe this implementation causes the difference above.
In this case, is this implementation correct? Or can this implementation ensure the performance when using tensor parallel?
Hello.
When using tensor parallel on bloom (tp_size = 8), we find that the cross_entropy loss computed by mpu.cross_entropy is different from torch.nn.functional.cross_entropy. The difference is about 1% for our data.
For the implementation of mpu.cross_entropy, we find that the loss is computed on the partition_vocab_size which is 8 times smaller than vocab_size (tp_size = 8). We think maybe this implementation causes the difference above.
In this case, is this implementation correct? Or can this implementation ensure the performance when using tensor parallel?