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	Run BF16-Optimized Lora Finetuning on Kubernetes with OneCCL
Alpaca Lora uses low-rank adaption to speed up the finetuning process of base model Llama 7b, and tries to reproduce the standard Alpaca, a general finetuned LLM. This is on top of Hugging Face transformers with Pytorch backend, which natively requires a number of expensive GPU resources and takes significant time.
By constract, BigDL here provides a CPU optimization to accelerate the lora finetuning of Llama 7b, in the power of mixed-precision and distributed training. Detailedly, Intel OneCCL, an available Hugging Face backend, is able to speed up the Pytorch computation with BF16 datatype on CPUs, as well as parallel processing on Kubernetes enabled by Intel MPI.
The architecture is illustrated in the following:
As above, BigDL implements its MPI training build on Kubeflow MPI operator, which encapsulates the deployment as MPIJob CRD, and assists users to handle the construction of a MPI worker cluster on Kubernetes, such as public key distribution, SSH connection, and log collection.
Now, let's go to deploy a Lora finetuning to create a LLM from Llama 7b.
Note: Please make sure you have already have an available Kubernetes infrastructure and NFS shared storage, and install Helm CLI for Kubernetes job submission.
1. Install Kubeflow MPI Operator
Follow here to install a Kubeflow MPI operator in your Kubernetes, which will listen and receive the following MPIJob request at backend.
2. Download Image, Base Model and Finetuning Data
Follow here to prepare BigDL Lora Finetuning image in your cluster.
As finetuning is from a base model, first download Llama 7b hf model from the public download site of Hugging Face. Then, download cleaned alpaca data, which contains all kinds of general knowledge and has already been cleaned. Next, move the downloaded files to a shared directory on your NFS server.
3. Deploy through Helm Chart
You are allowed to edit and experiment with different parameters in ./kubernetes/values.yaml to improve finetuning performance and accuracy. For example, you can adjust trainerNum and cpuPerPod according to node and CPU core numbers in your cluster to make full use of these resources, and different microBatchSize result in different training speed and loss (here note that microBatchSize×trainerNum should not more than 128, as it is the batch size).
Note: dataSubPath and modelSubPath need to have the same names as files under the NFS directory in step 2.
After preparing parameters in ./kubernetes/values.yaml, submit the job as beflow:
cd ./kubernetes
helm install bigdl-lora-finetuning .
4. Check Deployment
kubectl get all -n bigdl-lora-finetuning # you will see launcher and worker pods running
5. Check Finetuning Process
After deploying successfully, you can find a launcher pod, and then go inside this pod and check the logs collected from all workers.
kubectl get all -n bigdl-lora-finetuning # you will see a launcher pod
kubectl exec -it <launcher_pod_name> bash -n bigdl-ppml-finetuning # enter launcher pod
cat launcher.log # display logs collected from other workers
From the log, you can see whether finetuning process has been invoked successfully in all MPI worker pods, and a progress bar with finetuning speed and estimated time will be showed after some data preprocessing steps (this may take quiet a while).
For the fine-tuned model, it is written by the worker 0 (who holds rank 0), so you can find the model output inside the pod, which can be saved to host by command tools like kubectl cp or scp.
To run in TDX-CoCo and enable Remote Attestation API
You can deploy this workload in TDX CoCo and enable Remote Attestation API Serving with setting TEEMode in ./kubernetes/values.yaml to tdx. The main diffences are it's need to execute the pods as root and mount TDX device, and a flask service is responsible for generating launcher's quote and collecting workers' quotes.
(Optional) Enable TLS
To enable TLS in Remote Attestation API Serving, you should provide a TLS certificate and setting enableTLS ( to true ), base64ServerCrt and base64ServerKey in ./kubernetes/values.yaml.
# Generate a self-signed TLS certificate (DEBUG USE ONLY)
export COUNTRY_NAME=your_country_name
export CITY_NAME=your_city_name
export ORGANIZATION_NAME=your_organization_name
export COMMON_NAME=your_common_name
export EMAIL_ADDRESS=your_email_address
openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -nodes -out server.crt -keyout server.key -days 365 -subj "/C=$COUNTRY_NAME/ST=$CITY_NAME/L=$CITY_NAME/O=$ORGANIZATION_NAME/OU=$ORGANIZATION_NAME/CN=$COMMON_NAME/emailAddress=$EMAIL_ADDRESS/"
# Calculate Base64 format string in values.yaml
cat server.crt | base64 -w 0 # Set in base64ServerCrt
cat server.key | base64 -w 0 # Set in base64ServerKey
To use RA Rest API, you need to get the IP of job-launcher:
kubectl get all -n bigdl-lora-finetuning 
You will find a line like:
service/bigdl-lora-finetuning-launcher-attestation-api-service   ClusterIP   10.109.87.248   <none>        9870/TCP   17m
Here are IP and port of the Remote Attestation API service.
The RA Rest API are listed below:
1. Generate launcher's quote
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"user_report_data": "<your_user_report_data>"}' http://<your_ra_api_service_ip>:<your_ra_api_service_port>/gen_quote
Example responce:
{"quote":"BAACAIEAAAAAAAA..."}
2. Collect all cluster components' quotes (launcher and workers)
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"user_report_data": "<your_user_report_data>"}' http://<your_ra_api_service_ip>:<your_ra_api_service_port>/attest
Example responce:
{"quote_list":{"bigdl-lora-finetuning-job-worker-0":"BAACAIEAAAAAAA...","bigdl-lora-finetuning-job-worker-1":"BAACAIEAAAAAAA...","launcher":"BAACAIEAAAAAA..."}}