finetune: SGD optimizer, more CLI args (#13873)

* examples/finetune -opt SGD (stochastic gradient descent) memory opt

add unit tested GGML_OPT_OPTIMIZER_SGD to ggml - avoids allocating
m, v tensors.

support finetune.cpp arg -opt SGD (or sgd). (default adamw as before)

llama 3.2-1b-F32 result: observed 11gb gpu ram (41 sec/epoch)
when using SGD instead of 19gb (55 sec/epoch) using adamw.
(wikipedia 100 lines finetune)

(
using the same GPU memory, adamw can only do before OOM 512
batch/context, reaching:
train: [███████▉] data=0000140/0000140 loss=0.02575±0.00099 acc=99.52±0.03% t=00:00:47 ETA=00:00:00
val:   [███████▉] data=0000008/0000008 loss=4.76565±0.28810 acc=41.46±0.77% t=00:00:00 ETA=00:00:00

SGD is superior, though it converges slower, with max before OOM 1728
batch/context (esp see the better validation perf):
train: [███████▉] data=0000039/0000039 loss=0.00371±0.00010 acc=99.96±0.01% t=00:00:41 ETA=00:00:00
val:   [███████▉] data=0000003/0000003 loss=5.11406±0.76034 acc=48.01±0.69% t=00:00:01 ETA=00:00:00
)

note: when finetuning long enough (or w/ enough -lr),
validation accuracy *eventually* drops ('catastrophic forgetting')

-lr-half (halflife) option useful for SGD to avoid oscillation or
super slow underdamped learning (makes setting -lr more forgiving).
terminal -lr for now is set by lr-halvings i.e. if you want at most
1/8 the inital -lr you set -lr-halvings 3.

note: objective loss not directly comparable between adamw, sgd? -
check perplexity or accuracy or consider relative improvements
for convergence

new finetune args -wd 1e-9 to enable weight decay in sgd or adamw,
and max -epochs N (default 2 as before)

cache (1 - wd*alpha) in 'adamw' opt struct -
no noticeable perf benefit, disabled (still done
for new SGD though)

since opt. memory is pre-allocated, the ggml_opt_get_optimizer_params
would probably be able to change between SGD and AdamW with each epoch
but would need to use adamw for the first (unconfirmed - no cmdline arg
to set such a policy yet)

test-opt checks adamw as before and now sgd (except for a few disabled
tests for sgd only; probably just needs logging values and adding
alternate reference values);  tolerance on the 'regression'
test is broader for sgd (so we don't need many more epochs)

* Vulkan: Implement GGML_OP_OPT_STEP_SGD

* tests: Fix OPT_STEP_SGD test-backend-ops

* SGD op param store weight-decay and not 1-alpha*wd

* minor + cosmetic changes

* fix vulkan sgd

* try CI fix

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Co-authored-by: 0cc4m <picard12@live.de>
Co-authored-by: Johannes Gäßler <johannesg@5d6.de>
This commit is contained in:
Jonathan Graehl
2025-08-14 03:03:57 -07:00
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parent 3ea913f1ce
commit 5cdb27e091
24 changed files with 718 additions and 187 deletions

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@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
#endif
#include <locale>
#include <windows.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <io.h>
#else
@@ -1565,3 +1566,56 @@ ggml_opt_dataset_t common_opt_dataset_init(struct llama_context * ctx, const std
return result;
}
ggml_opt_optimizer_params common_opt_lr_pars(void * userdata) {
ggml_opt_optimizer_params result = ggml_opt_get_default_optimizer_params(nullptr);
const lr_opt & d = *(lr_opt *) userdata;
result.adamw.alpha = result.sgd.alpha = d.get_lr(d.epoch);
result.sgd.wd = result.adamw.wd = d.wd;
return result;
}
// TODO make all command line args case-insensitive
static inline bool eq_case_insensitive(char const* a, char const* b) {
return !
#if defined(_MSC_VER)
_stricmp
#else
strcasecmp
#endif // defined(_MSC_VER)
(a, b);
}
enum ggml_opt_optimizer_type common_opt_get_optimizer(const char * n) {
if (eq_case_insensitive("adamw", n)) {
return GGML_OPT_OPTIMIZER_TYPE_ADAMW;
}
if (eq_case_insensitive("sgd", n)) {
return GGML_OPT_OPTIMIZER_TYPE_SGD;
}
return GGML_OPT_OPTIMIZER_TYPE_COUNT;
}
// TODO simplify to use just log and exp
static float const k_log_2 = std::log(2.f);
void lr_opt::init() {
if (lr_min > 0 && lr_min < lr0) {
float nhalf = std::log(lr0 / lr_min) / k_log_2;
float e = epochs;
if (decay_epochs > 0 && decay_epochs < e) {
e = decay_epochs;
} else {
decay_epochs = e;
}
scale_epoch = nhalf / e;
}
}
float lr_opt::get_lr(float epoch) const {
float r = lr_min <= 0 ? lr0 :
epoch >= decay_epochs ? lr_min :
lr0 * std::pow(0.5f, epoch * scale_epoch);
LOG_INF("epoch %.2g lr=%.2g\n", epoch, r);
return r;
}