Progressive Gradient Flow for Robust N:M Sparsity Training in Transformers
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| author | Bambhaniya, Abhimanyu Rajeshkumar Yazdanbakhsh, Amir Subramanian, Suvinay Kao, Sheng-Chun Agrawal, Shivani Evci, Utku Krishna, Tushar |
| author_facet | Bambhaniya, Abhimanyu Rajeshkumar Yazdanbakhsh, Amir Subramanian, Suvinay Kao, Sheng-Chun Agrawal, Shivani Evci, Utku Krishna, Tushar |
| contents | N:M Structured sparsity has garnered significant interest as a result of relatively modest overhead and improved efficiency. Additionally, this form of sparsity holds considerable appeal for reducing the memory footprint owing to their modest representation overhead. There have been efforts to develop training recipes for N:M structured sparsity, they primarily focus on low-sparsity regions ($\sim$50\%). Nonetheless, performance of models trained using these approaches tends to decline when confronted with high-sparsity regions ($>$80\%). In this work, we study the effectiveness of existing sparse training recipes at \textit{high-sparsity regions} and argue that these methods fail to sustain the model quality on par with low-sparsity regions. We demonstrate that the significant factor contributing to this disparity is the presence of elevated levels of induced noise in the gradient magnitudes. To mitigate this undesirable effect, we employ decay mechanisms to progressively restrict the flow of gradients towards pruned elements. Our approach improves the model quality by up to 2$\%$ and 5$\%$ in vision and language models at high sparsity regime, respectively. We also evaluate the trade-off between model accuracy and training compute cost in terms of FLOPs. At iso-training FLOPs, our method yields better performance compared to conventional sparse training recipes, exhibiting an accuracy improvement of up to 2$\%$. The source code is available at https://github.com/abhibambhaniya/progressive_gradient_flow_nm_sparsity. |
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| spellingShingle | Progressive Gradient Flow for Robust N:M Sparsity Training in Transformers Bambhaniya, Abhimanyu Rajeshkumar Yazdanbakhsh, Amir Subramanian, Suvinay Kao, Sheng-Chun Agrawal, Shivani Evci, Utku Krishna, Tushar Machine Learning Hardware Architecture N:M Structured sparsity has garnered significant interest as a result of relatively modest overhead and improved efficiency. Additionally, this form of sparsity holds considerable appeal for reducing the memory footprint owing to their modest representation overhead. There have been efforts to develop training recipes for N:M structured sparsity, they primarily focus on low-sparsity regions ($\sim$50\%). Nonetheless, performance of models trained using these approaches tends to decline when confronted with high-sparsity regions ($>$80\%). In this work, we study the effectiveness of existing sparse training recipes at \textit{high-sparsity regions} and argue that these methods fail to sustain the model quality on par with low-sparsity regions. We demonstrate that the significant factor contributing to this disparity is the presence of elevated levels of induced noise in the gradient magnitudes. To mitigate this undesirable effect, we employ decay mechanisms to progressively restrict the flow of gradients towards pruned elements. Our approach improves the model quality by up to 2$\%$ and 5$\%$ in vision and language models at high sparsity regime, respectively. We also evaluate the trade-off between model accuracy and training compute cost in terms of FLOPs. At iso-training FLOPs, our method yields better performance compared to conventional sparse training recipes, exhibiting an accuracy improvement of up to 2$\%$. The source code is available at https://github.com/abhibambhaniya/progressive_gradient_flow_nm_sparsity. |
| title | Progressive Gradient Flow for Robust N:M Sparsity Training in Transformers |
| topic | Machine Learning Hardware Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04744 |