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FlowerTune LLM Labs - Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct

This directory conducts federated instruction tuning with a pretrained Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct model on a Code dataset.

We use Flower Datasets to download, partition and preprocess the dataset.

Flower's Simulation Engine is used to simulate the LLM fine-tuning process in federated way, which allows users to perform the training on a single GPU.

Methodology

This app performs federated LLM fine-tuning with DoRA using the 🤗PEFT library.

The clients' models are aggregated with FedAvg strategy.

Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct

  • Precision: bf16 for model weights.
  • Quantization: 4-bit quantization for reduced memory usage.
  • Optimizer: paged_adamw_8bit
  • DoRA Configuration:
    • Rank (r): 16
    • Alpha: 64
    • Target Modules:
      • down_proj,
      • gate_up_proj,
      • o_proj,
      • qkv_proj,
  • Training Configuration:
    • Batch size: 8
    • Maximum number of steps: 10
    • Accumulation steps: 1
    • Total number of rounds: 1
    • Fraction fit per round: 0.6
  • Learning Rate Scheduler:
    • Cosine Annealing over rounds, where:
      • Maximum LR: 5e-6
      • Minimum LR: 5e-5
    • Constant learning rate scheduler over steps
  • Strategy: FedAvg

Environments setup

Project dependencies are defined in pyproject.toml. Install them in an activated Python environment with:

pip install -e .

To run this on AMD ROCm, install with:

pip install -e ".[rocm]" --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm7.1/

Running the experiment

Run the challenge with default config values. The configs are defined in [tool.flwr.app.config] entry of pyproject.toml, and are loaded automatically.

flwr run

Model saving

The global PEFT model checkpoints are saved every 1 round after aggregation on the sever side as default, which can be specified with train.save-every-round under [tool.flwr.app.config] entry in pyproject.toml.


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