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Free outputs callback #2598

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@mvpatel2000 mvpatel2000 commented Oct 2, 2023

What does this PR do?

Adds callback to support freeing outputs for memory savings. When not using train_metrics, self.state.outputs are not needed. However, they may take up a non-trivial amount of memory (seq_length*vocab_size*microbatch_size*bytes_per_param). For certain long sequence models, this memory starts to matter (~1-2GB), so having an option to free the memory is useful.

Existing tests (eg TestCallbackTrains) should be sufficient for this PR.

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@mvpatel2000 mvpatel2000 requested a review from dakinggg October 2, 2023 21:54
@mvpatel2000 mvpatel2000 requested a review from eracah October 2, 2023 22:13
@mvpatel2000 mvpatel2000 requested review from j316chuck and b-chu October 3, 2023 15:17
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Approving, but wait for someone more familiar with callbacks to also approve

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Nit: isn't free a bit of an overloaded term in ML? Or in general? What about "releaseOutputs"? That's a bit more of a C++ pointer terminology here but its a bit more exact.

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LGTM added some nits

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@mvpatel2000 mvpatel2000 merged commit 9c0ba84 into mosaicml:dev Oct 3, 2023
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@mvpatel2000 mvpatel2000 deleted the mvpatel2000/free-train-metrics branch October 3, 2023 15:55
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