new experiment w/o causal mask

ch06/02_bonus_additional-experiments/README.md

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ For example,
 | 10   | gpt2-small (124M)  | pretrained | last            | last_block       | context length (1024)   | 83.08%       | 87.92%         | 78.33%   | 2.46 min      | A100    |
 | 11   | gpt2-small (124M)  | pretrained | last            | last_block       | variable: no padding (batch size 1)    | 100.00%      | 98.66%         | 98.00%   | 1.75 min      | A100    |
 | 12   | gpt2-small (124M)  | pretrained | last            | last_block       | variable: no padding (batch size 8) | 99.33% | 98.66%         | 98.33% | 1.70 min | A100    |
+| 13   | gpt2-small (124M)  | pretrained | last            | last_block       | longest train ex. (120); but no causal mask | 99.23% | 98.66% | 95.33% | 0.29 min | A100    |
 
 
  
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ You can use the following code to reproduce the experiments:
 - Row 10: `python additional-experiments.py --context_length "model_context_length"`
 - Row 11: `python additional-experiments.py --no_padding --batch_size 1`
 - Row 12: `python additional-experiments.py --no_padding --batch_size 1 --accumulation_steps 8`
+- Row 13: `python additional-experiments.py --disable_causal_mask`
 
 I've kept the LLM and dataset small on purpose, so you can run the training on a regular laptop like a MacBook Air M3 in about 15 minutes in case you don't have access to a GPU.
 
@@ -65,3 +67,5 @@ I've kept the LLM and dataset small on purpose, so you can run the training on a
 7. **Padding Input to Full Context Length vs. Longest Training Example (Row 1 vs. 10)**: Padding the input to the full supported context length results is significantly worse.
 
 8. **Padding vs no padding (Row 1 vs. 11 and 12)**: The `--no_padding` option disables the padding in the dataset, which requires training the model with a batch size of 1 since the inputs have variable lengths. This results in a better test accuracy but takes longer to train. In row 12, we additionally enable gradient accumulation with 8 steps to achieve the same batch size as in the other experiments, which helps reduce overfitting and slightly boost the test set accuracy.
+
+9. **Disabling the causal attention mask (Row 1 vs. 13)**: Disables the causal attention mask used in the multi-head attention module. This means all tokens can attend all other tokens. The model accuracy is slightly improved compared to the GPT model with causal mask.

ch06/02_bonus_additional-experiments/additional-experiments.py

@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ def instantiate_model(choose_model, load_weights):
 
     if not load_weights:
         torch.manual_seed(123)
-    model = GPTModel(BASE_CONFIG)
+    model = GPTModel(BASE_CONFIG, disable_causal_mask=args.disable_causal_mask)
 
     if load_weights:
         model_size = choose_model.split(" ")[-1].lstrip("(").rstrip(")")
@@ -386,6 +386,15 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         )
     )
 
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--disable_causal_mask",
+        action='store_true',
+        default=False,
+        help=(
+            "Disables the causal attention mask."
+        )
+    )
+
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     if args.trainable_token == "first":

ch06/02_bonus_additional-experiments/previous_chapters.py

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def create_dataloader_v1(txt, batch_size=4, max_length=256,
 # Chapter 3
 #####################################
 class MultiHeadAttention(nn.Module):
-    def __init__(self, d_in, d_out, context_length, dropout, num_heads, qkv_bias=False):
+    def __init__(self, d_in, d_out, context_length, dropout, num_heads, qkv_bias=False, disable_causal_mask=False):
         super().__init__()
         assert d_out % num_heads == 0, "d_out must be divisible by n_heads"
 
@@ -73,7 +73,10 @@ class MultiHeadAttention(nn.Module):
         self.W_value = nn.Linear(d_in, d_out, bias=qkv_bias)
         self.out_proj = nn.Linear(d_out, d_out)  # Linear layer to combine head outputs
         self.dropout = nn.Dropout(dropout)
+
+        if not disable_causal_mask:
             self.register_buffer('mask', torch.triu(torch.ones(context_length, context_length), diagonal=1))
+        self.disable_causal_mask = disable_causal_mask
 
     def forward(self, x):
         b, num_tokens, d_in = x.shape
@@ -96,6 +99,7 @@ class MultiHeadAttention(nn.Module):
         # Compute scaled dot-product attention (aka self-attention) with a causal mask
         attn_scores = queries @ keys.transpose(2, 3)  # Dot product for each head
 
+        if not self.disable_causal_mask:
             # Original mask truncated to the number of tokens and converted to boolean
             mask_bool = self.mask.bool()[:num_tokens, :num_tokens]
 
@@ -157,7 +161,7 @@ class FeedForward(nn.Module):
 
 
 class TransformerBlock(nn.Module):
-    def __init__(self, cfg):
+    def __init__(self, cfg, disable_causal_mask=False):
         super().__init__()
         self.att = MultiHeadAttention(
             d_in=cfg["emb_dim"],
@@ -165,7 +169,9 @@ class TransformerBlock(nn.Module):
             context_length=cfg["context_length"],
             num_heads=cfg["n_heads"],
             dropout=cfg["drop_rate"],
-            qkv_bias=cfg["qkv_bias"])
+            qkv_bias=cfg["qkv_bias"],
+            disable_causal_mask=disable_causal_mask
+        )
         self.ff = FeedForward(cfg)
         self.norm1 = LayerNorm(cfg["emb_dim"])
         self.norm2 = LayerNorm(cfg["emb_dim"])
@@ -190,14 +196,14 @@ class TransformerBlock(nn.Module):
 
 
 class GPTModel(nn.Module):
-    def __init__(self, cfg):
+    def __init__(self, cfg, disable_causal_mask=False):
         super().__init__()
         self.tok_emb = nn.Embedding(cfg["vocab_size"], cfg["emb_dim"])
         self.pos_emb = nn.Embedding(cfg["context_length"], cfg["emb_dim"])
         self.drop_emb = nn.Dropout(cfg["drop_rate"])
 
         self.trf_blocks = nn.Sequential(
-            *[TransformerBlock(cfg) for _ in range(cfg["n_layers"])])
+            *[TransformerBlock(cfg, disable_causal_mask) for _ in range(cfg["n_layers"])])
 
         self.final_norm = LayerNorm(cfg["emb_dim"])
         self.out_head = nn.Linear(cfg["emb_dim"], cfg["vocab_size"], bias=False)