Model Compression Research Package

This package was developed to enable scalable, reusable and reproducable research of weight pruning, quantization and distillation methods with ease.

Installation

To install the library clone the repository and install using pip

git clone https://github.com/IntelLabs/Model-Compression-Research-Package
cd Model-Compression-Research-Package
pip install [-e] .

Add -e flag to install an editable version of the library.

Quick Tour

This package contains implementations of several weight pruning methods, knowledge distillation and quantization-aware training. Here we will show how to easily use those implementations with your existing model implementation and training loop. It is also possible to combine several methods together in the same training process. Please refer to the packages examples.

Weight Pruning

Weight pruning is a method to induce zeros in a models weight while training. There are several methods to prune a model and it is a widely explored research field.

To list the existing weight pruning implemtations in the package use model_compression_research.list_methods(). For example, applying unstructured magnitude pruning while training your model can be done with a few single lines of code

from model_compression_research import IterativePruningConfig, IterativePruningScheduler

training_args = get_training_args()
model = get_model()
dataloader = get_dataloader()
criterion = get_criterion()

# Initialize a pruning configuration and a scheduler and apply it on the model
pruning_config = IterativePruningConfig(
    pruning_fn="unstructured_magnitude",
    pruning_fn_default_kwargs={"target_sparsity": 0.9}
)
pruning_scheduler = IterativePruningScheduler(model, pruning_config)

# Initialize optimizer after initializing the pruning scheduler
optimizer = get_optimizer()

# Training loop
for e in range(training_args.epochs):
    for batch in dataloader:
        inputs, labels = 
        model.train()
        outputs = model(inputs)
        loss = criterion(outputs, labels)
        loss.backward()
        optimizer.step()
        # Call pruning scheduler step
        pruning_schduler.step()
        optimizer.zero_grad()

# At the end of training rmeove the pruning parts and get the resulted pruned model
pruning_scheduler.remove_pruning()

For using weight pruning with HuggingFace/transformers dedicated transformers Trainer see the implementation of HFTrainerPruningCallback in api_utils.py.

Knowledge Distillation

Model distillation is a method to distill the knowledge learned by a teacher to a smaller student model. A method to do that is to compute the difference between the student's and teacher's output distribution using KL divergence. In this package you can find a simple implementation that does just that.

Assuming that your teacher and student models' outputs are of the same dimension, you can use the implementation in this package as follows:

from model_compression_research import TeacherWrapper, DistillationModelWrapper

training_args = get_training_args()
teacher = get_teacher_trained_model()
student = get_student_model()
dataloader = get_dataloader()
criterion = get_criterion()

# Wrap teacher model with TeacherWrapper and set loss scaling factor and temperature
teacher = TeacherWrapper(teacher, ce_alpha=0.5, ce_temperature=2.0)
# Initialize the distillation model with the student and teacher
distillation_model = DistillationModelWrapper(student, teacher, alpha_student=0.5)

optimizer = get_optimizer()

# Training loop
for e in range(training_args.epochs):
    for batch in dataloader:
        inputs, labels = batch
        distillation_model.train()
        # Calculate student loss w.r.t labels as you usually do
        student_outputs = distillation_model(inputs)
        loss_wrt_labels = criterion(student_outputs, labels)
        # Add knowledge distillation term
        loss = distillation_model.compute_loss(loss_wrt_labels, student_outputs)
        loss.backward()
        optimizer.step()
        optimizer.zero_grad()

For using knowledge distillation with HuggingFace/transformers see the implementation of HFTeacherWrapper and hf_add_teacher_to_student in api_utils.py.

Quantization-Aware Training

Quantization-Aware Training is a method for training models that will be later quantized at the inference stage, as opposed to other post-training quantization methods where models are trained without any adaptation to the error caused by model quantization.

A similar quantization-aware training method to the one introduced in Q8BERT: Quantized 8Bit BERT generelized to custom models is implemented in this package:

from model_compression_research import QuantizerConfig, convert_model_for_qat

training_args = get_training_args()
model = get_model()
dataloader = get_dataloader()
criterion = get_criterion()

# Initialize quantizer configuration
qat_config = QuantizerConfig()
# Convert model to quantization-aware training model
qat_model = convert_model_for_qat(model, qat_config)

optimizer = get_optimizer()

# Training loop
for e in range(training_args.epochs):
    for batch in dataloader:
        inputs, labels = 
        model.train()
        outputs = model(inputs)
        loss = criterion(outputs, labels)
        loss.backward()
        optimizer.step()
        optimizer.zero_grad()

Papers Implemented in Model Compression Research Package

Methods from the following papers were implemented in this package and are ready for use:

Citation

If you want to cite our paper and library, you can use the following:

@article{zafrir2021prune,
  title={Prune Once for All: Sparse Pre-Trained Language Models},
  author={Zafrir, Ofir and Larey, Ariel and Boudoukh, Guy and Shen, Haihao and Wasserblat, Moshe},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.05754},
  year={2021}
}

@software{zafrir_ofir_2021_5721732,
  author       = {Zafrir, Ofir},
  title        = {Model-Compression-Research-Package by Intel Labs},
  month        = nov,
  year         = 2021,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v0.1.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.5721732},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5721732}
}

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