Llama Architecture(GPT)

tl;dr

  1. The architecture is described in Llama: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models
  2. The code is ported from PyTorch to TensorFlow 2.x using various references. (e.g) https://nn.labml.ai/transformers/rope/index.html TensorFlow is very verbose and sometimes it poses difficulties as every line of PyTorch has to be ported.
  3. In very few cases the code can be directly ported with minimal changes. But this situation isn’t common.
  4. The math supporting the algorithm is only partially understood. There are several research papers to read.
  5. The RoPE embeddings and attention need more insight and explanation.In fact each section will need multiple diagrams and descriptions.

Batches

def random_sample(text,block_size):
    rand = tf.random.uniform(shape=(batch_size,), minval=1, maxval=length - (block_size + 1),dtype=tf.int32)
    return [tf.strings.substr(text,i, block_size, unit='BYTE') for i in rand]

def draw_random_sample_batches(block_size):
        sample = random_sample(input,block_size)
        tf.map_fn(map_fn,tf.strings.bytes_split(sample))
        global samplelist
        X = tf.stack([inp[  : -1] for inp in samplelist])
        y = tf.stack([inp[ 1 :  ] for inp in samplelist])
        samplelist = []
        return X,y

RMSNorm

import numpy as np
import tensorflow as tf


class RMSNorm(tf.keras.Model):

    def __init__(self, layer_shape):
        super(RMSNorm, self).__init__()
        self.scale = tf.Variable(initial_value=np.ones(layer_shape), trainable=True,dtype=tf.float32)

    def call(self, x):
        normalized_mat, norm = tf.linalg.normalize(x, axis=(1, 2))
        # print(f'Normalize {norm}')
        rms = tf.multiply(norm ,
                             tf.pow(tf.cast(tf.size(x[0]),tf.float32),-0.5))
        r = tf.divide(x , rms )
        return tf.multiply(self.scale[:tf.shape(x)[1], :] , r)

TensorFlow Tests

Simple tests like these are supported by TensorFlow. I have learnt to use the Python console from within PyCharm as the tests are sometimes not recognized by the IDE.

/opt/anaconda3/envs/tensorflow2/bin/python3 "/Applications/PyCharm CE.app/Contents/plugins/python-ce/helpers/pydev/pydevconsole.py" --mode=client --port=51221
import sys; print('Python %s on %s' % (sys.version, sys.platform))
sys.path.extend(['/Users/anu/PycharmProjects/illama'])
Python 3.7.10 (default, Feb 26 2021, 10:16:00) 
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 7.24.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.
PyDev console: using IPython 7.24.1
Python 3.7.10 (default, Feb 26 2021, 10:16:00) 
[Clang 10.0.0 ] on darwin
runfile('/Users/anu/PycharmProjects/illama/testRotaryEmbedding.py', wdir='/Users/anu/PycharmProjects/illama')
Running tests under Python 3.7.10: /opt/anaconda3/envs/tensorflow2/bin/python3
[ RUN      ] testRotaryEmbedding.test_RotaryEmbedding
2023-08-25 12:29:24.820540: I tensorflow/core/platform/cpu_feature_guard.cc:151] This TensorFlow binary is optimized with oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN) to use the following CPU instructions in performance-critical operations:  AVX2 FMA
To enable them in other operations, rebuild TensorFlow with the appropriate compiler flags.
16
tf.Tensor([32 32], shape=(2,), dtype=int32)
tf.Tensor([ 1 32], shape=(2,), dtype=int32)
INFO:tensorflow:time(__main__.testRotaryEmbedding.test_RotaryEmbedding): 1.01s
I0825 12:29:25.825525 4538162624 test_util.py:2309] time(__main__.testRotaryEmbedding.test_RotaryEmbedding): 1.01s
[       OK ] testRotaryEmbedding.test_RotaryEmbedding
[ RUN      ] testRotaryEmbedding.test_session
[  SKIPPED ] testRotaryEmbedding.test_session
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 2 tests in 1.008s
OK (skipped=1)
Process finished with exit code 0
import tensorflow as tf

from Parameters import batch_size, block_size, n_embd


class testRMSNorm(tf.test.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        super(testRMSNorm, self).setUp()
        self.batch = tf.random.normal((batch_size, block_size, n_embd))

    def test_RMSNormTest(self):
        normalized_mat, norm = tf.linalg.normalize(self.batch, axis=(1, 2))
        ff_rms = tf.multiply(norm,
                             tf.pow(tf.cast(tf.size(self.batch[0]), tf.float32), -0.5))
        ffx = tf.Variable(tf.zeros_like(self.batch))
        print(tf.shape(ffx))
        for i in range(self.batch.shape[0]):
            ffx[i, :, : ].assign(tf.divide(self.batch[i] , ff_rms[i]))
        normalized_mat, norm = tf.linalg.normalize(self.batch, axis=(1, 2))
        print(tf.pow(norm,2))

        # The values are close to 1024 but not close enough for default
        # tolerance levels to pass the test. So it will fail unless
        # I pass a different tolerance level. I believe this is a temporary
        # fix until I understand the issue.
        self.assertAllClose(tf.pow(norm,2),
                            tf.reshape(
                                tf.repeat([tf.constant(1024,tf.float32)], repeats=[4], axis=0),
                                (4,1,1)),50,50)

tf.test.main()

There is one other issue that I don’t understand fully.

The test failed as the values are not close enough as per the tolerance.

My questions are these.

  1. Is the RMSNorm algorithm correct ? Should I read any material/code to improve it if it is wrong ?
  2. Can I use different tolerance levels to pass the test ? The API _ self.assertAllClose_ takes tolerance levels as parameters.And if I pass 50( for example ) for the upper and lower limit the test passes.

I can also ignore the failure as the values seem to be close.

AssertionError: 
Not equal to tolerance rtol=1e-09, atol=0.0001
Mismatched value: a is different from b. 
not close where = (array([0, 1, 2, 3]), array([0, 0, 0, 0]), array([0, 0, 0, 0]))
not close lhs = [1019.3864 1056.9813 1021.6669 1046.128 ]
not close rhs = [1024. 1024. 1024. 1024.]
not close dif = [ 4.6135864 32.981323   2.33313   22.128052 ]
not close tol = [0.00010102 0.00010102 0.00010102 0.00010102]
dtype = float32, shape = (4, 1, 1)
Mismatched elements: 4 / 4 (100%)
Max absolute difference: 32.981323
Max relative difference: 0.03220832

Rotary Positional Embeddings( RoPE)

Code used to test RoPE embeddings

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import tensorflow as tf
from Parameters import n_embd
from RotaryPositionalEmbeddings import RotaryPositionalEmbeddings


def rotaryPositionalEmbeddingsTest():
    K = 3
    rotary_emb = RotaryPositionalEmbeddings()
    R = rotary_emb.rotary_matrix(tf.pow(K,2),n_embd)
    fig, ax = plt.subplots(K, K, figsize=(K * 3, K * 4))

    for i in range(K):
        for j in range(K):
            ax[i, j].imshow(R[i * K + j, :, :])
            ax[i, j].set_title(f'rotation at {i * K + j}')
    # plt.show()
    plt.savefig("rotraryembeddings.png")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    rotaryPositionalEmbeddingsTest()

RoPE

import tensorflow as tf
import numpy as np

class RotaryPositionalEmbeddings(tf.keras.Model):

    def __init__(self):
        super(RotaryPositionalEmbeddings, self).__init__()

    def rotary_matrix( self,block_size, embedding_dim):
        R = tf.Variable(tf.zeros((block_size, embedding_dim, embedding_dim)))
        i = tf.constant(0)
        p_i = tf.constant(0)
        neg_2 = tf.constant(-2)
        emb = lambda i, d: tf.less(i, int(tf.divide(embedding_dim , 2) - 1))
        p = lambda p_i, d: tf.less(p_i, block_size )
        print(int(tf.divide(embedding_dim , 2)))
        def position(p_i, p_idx):
            def embedding(i, idx):
                theta = tf.pow(10000. , tf.divide(tf.multiply(neg_2 , tf.subtract(i , 1)) , embedding_dim))
                m_theta = tf.multiply(tf.cast(p_i,tf.float32) , tf.cast(theta,tf.float32))
                R[p_i, tf.multiply(2, i),tf.multiply(2, i)].assign(tf.cos(m_theta))
                # print(i, p_i, tf.multiply(2, i), tf.multiply(2, tf.add(i , 1)))
                R[p_i, tf.multiply(2, i), tf.multiply(2, tf.add(i , 1))].assign(- tf.sin(m_theta))
                R[p_i, tf.multiply(2, tf.add(i , 1)), tf.multiply(2, i)].assign(tf.sin(m_theta))
                R[p_i, tf.multiply(2, tf.add(i , 1)), tf.multiply(2, tf.add(i , 1))].assign(tf.cos(m_theta))

                return tf.add(i, 1), idx

            _, idx = tf.while_loop(emb, embedding, loop_vars=[i, embedding_dim])
            return tf.add(p_i, 1), p_idx


        _, idx = tf.while_loop(p, position, loop_vars=[p_i, block_size])
        return R

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RoPE Attention

This is one section that exemplifies the lack of diagrams and descriptions. This can be added as more intuition is gained. But for now the code is here

This visualization of attention weights seems to be different from the PyTorch code I was using as reference. The difference is in terms of the shape of the attention weights. But by slightly changing the indexing mechanism we can still visualize it. I need to revise this later.

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Masked RoPE Attention

At this stage one loses count of the shapes and sizes of matrices. It is hard to keep track of the ranks and shapes as it is not possible to visually inspect them.

But based on the concept of upper and lower triangular matrices we can mask so that data from newer time steps is not visible because the model is supposed to predict it.

I use block_size(tf.shape(x)[1] for this as the shape of the data is (batch_size, block_size, embedding_dim)

        activations, attn_weights = self.multihead(query=q_out,
                                                   value=v_out,
                                                   key=k_out,
                                                   return_attention_scores=True,
                                                   attention_mask = (1 - tf.linalg.band_part(tf.ones((tf.shape(x)[1],
                                                                                                      tf.shape(x)[1])), -1, 0)) * -1e9

Even though the mask seems to work I couldn’t debug too deeply.

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The loss after all this effort is shown here.

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Stacking multiple blocks

In this final part we segragate these blocks and stack them in the mode.

class Block(tf.keras.Model):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

        self.rms = RMSNorm([block_size, n_embd])
        self.rope_attention = MaskedRoPEAttention()

        self.net = tf.keras.Sequential(
            layers=[
                tf.keras.layers.Dense(n_embd, input_shape=(None,n_embd), activation=None, use_bias=False),
                # tf.keras.layers.ReLU(),
                SwiGLU(n_embd),
            ]
        )

    def call(self, x):
        x = self.rms(x) # rms pre-normalization
        x = x + self.rope_attention(x)

        x = self.rms(x) # rms pre-normalization
        x = x + self.net(x)
        return x

There are now 4 of them stacked like this.

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.token_embedding_table = Embedding(vocab_size,n_embd)
        layers = [Block() for _ in range(num_layers)]
        self.llama_blocks = tf.keras.Sequential(
            layers
        )
        self.net = tf.keras.Sequential(
            layers=[
                tf.keras.layers.Dense(n_embd, input_shape=(None,n_embd), activation=None, use_bias=False),
                # tf.keras.layers.ReLU(),
                SwiGLU(n_embd),
                tf.keras.layers.Dense(vocab_size, input_shape=(n_embd,), activation=None, use_bias=False),
            ]
        )

    def call(self,idx,targets=None):
        x = self.token_embedding_table(idx)

        x = self.llama_blocks(x)
        logits = self.net(x)

Hyper-parameter tuning

This is a separate task that is pending. We need GPUs and more training epochs But the Llama Transformer architecture itself works now.

The final losses are worse than before. Moreover the test generated after this minimal training is gibberish and is not even as good as the text from a general GPT model with a similar architecture.

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References

  1. https://blog.briankitano.com/llama-from-scratch/
  2. https://nn.labml.ai/transformers/rope/index.html
Written on August 19, 2023