ggml-opt.h

// This file contains functionality for training models using GGML.
// It is not strictly needed vs. just vanilla GGML but it provides a more high-level interface for common needs such as datasets.
// At the bottom of this file especially there are relatively high-level functions that are suitable use or adaptation in user code.
//
// Module maintainer: Johannes Gäßler (@JohannesGaessler, johannesg@5d6.de)

#pragma once

#include "ggml.h"
#include "ggml-backend.h"

#include <stdint.h>

#ifdef  __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

    struct ggml_opt_dataset;
    struct ggml_opt_context;
    struct ggml_opt_result;

    typedef struct ggml_opt_dataset * ggml_opt_dataset_t;
    typedef struct ggml_opt_context * ggml_opt_context_t;
    typedef struct ggml_opt_result  * ggml_opt_result_t;

    // ====== Loss ======

    // built-in loss types, i.e. the built-in quantities minimized by the optimizer
    // custom loss types can be defined via mean or sum which simply reduce the outputs for all datapoints to a single value
    enum ggml_opt_loss_type {
        GGML_OPT_LOSS_TYPE_MEAN,
        GGML_OPT_LOSS_TYPE_SUM,
        GGML_OPT_LOSS_TYPE_CROSS_ENTROPY,
        GGML_OPT_LOSS_TYPE_MEAN_SQUARED_ERROR,
    };

    // ====== Dataset ======

    GGML_API ggml_opt_dataset_t ggml_opt_dataset_init(
            int64_t ne_datapoint, // number of elements per datapoint
            int64_t ne_label,     // number of elements per label
            int64_t ndata,        // total number of datapoints/labels
            int64_t ndata_shard); // number of datapoints/labels per shard (unit at which the dataset is shuffled/copied)
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_dataset_free(ggml_opt_dataset_t dataset);

    // get underlying tensors that store the data
    GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_opt_dataset_data  (ggml_opt_dataset_t dataset); // shape = [ne_datapoint, ndata]
    GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_opt_dataset_labels(ggml_opt_dataset_t dataset); // shape = [nd_label,     ndata]

    // shuffle idata first datapoints from dataset with RNG from opt_ctx, shuffle all datapoints if idata is negative
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_dataset_shuffle(ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx, ggml_opt_dataset_t dataset, int64_t idata);

    // get batch at position ibatch from dataset and copy the data to data_batch and labels_batch
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_dataset_get_batch(
            ggml_opt_dataset_t   dataset,
            struct ggml_tensor * data_batch,   // shape = [ne_datapoint, ndata_batch]
            struct ggml_tensor * labels_batch, // shape = [ne_label,     ndata_batch]
            int64_t              ibatch);

    // ====== Model / Context ======

    enum ggml_opt_build_type {
        GGML_OPT_BUILD_TYPE_FORWARD,
        GGML_OPT_BUILD_TYPE_GRAD,
        GGML_OPT_BUILD_TYPE_OPT,
    };

    // parameters that control which optimizer is used and how said optimizer tries to find the minimal loss
    struct ggml_opt_optimizer_params {
        // AdamW optimizer parameters
        struct {
            float alpha; // learning rate
            float beta1;
            float beta2;
            float eps;   // epsilon for numerical stability
            float wd;    // weight decay for AdamW, use 0.0f to disable
        } adamw;
    };

    // callback to calculate optimizer parameters prior to a backward pass
    // userdata can be used to pass arbitrary data
    typedef struct ggml_opt_optimizer_params (*ggml_opt_get_optimizer_params)(void * userdata);

    // returns the default optimizer params (constant)
    // userdata is not used
    GGML_API struct ggml_opt_optimizer_params ggml_opt_get_default_optimizer_params(void * userdata);

    // parameters for initializing a new optimization context
    struct ggml_opt_params {
        ggml_backend_sched_t backend_sched; // defines which backends are used to construct the compute graphs

        struct ggml_context * ctx_compute; // created in user code, holds non-static tensors

        // the forward graph is defined by inputs and outputs
        // those tensors and all tensors inbetween are not intended to be reusable between multiple optimization contexts
        struct ggml_tensor * inputs;
        struct ggml_tensor * outputs;

        enum ggml_opt_loss_type  loss_type;
        enum ggml_opt_build_type build_type;

        int32_t opt_period; // after how many gradient accumulation steps an optimizer step should be done

        ggml_opt_get_optimizer_params get_opt_pars; // callback for calculating optimizer parameters
        void * get_opt_pars_ud;                     // userdata for calculating optimizer parameters
    };

    // get parameters for an optimization context with defaults set where possible
    // parameters for which no sensible defaults exist are supplied as arguments to this function
    GGML_API ggml_opt_params ggml_opt_default_params(
            ggml_backend_sched_t      backend_sched,
            struct ggml_context     * ctx_compute,
            struct ggml_tensor      * inputs,
            struct ggml_tensor      * outputs,
            enum ggml_opt_loss_type   loss_type);

    GGML_API ggml_opt_context_t ggml_opt_init(struct ggml_opt_params params);
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_free(ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx);

    // set gradients to zero, initilize loss, and optionally reset the optimizer
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_reset(ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx, bool optimizer);

    // get underlying tensors that store data
    GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_opt_inputs(  ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx); // forward graph input tensor
    GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_opt_outputs( ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx); // forward graph output tensor
    GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_opt_labels(  ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx); // labels to compare outputs against
    GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_opt_loss(    ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx); // scalar tensor that contains the loss
    GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_opt_pred(    ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx); // predictions made by outputs
    GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_opt_ncorrect(ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx); // number of matching predictions between outputs and labels

    GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_opt_grad_acc(ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx, struct ggml_tensor * node);

    // ====== Optimization Result ======

    GGML_API ggml_opt_result_t ggml_opt_result_init();
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_result_free(ggml_opt_result_t result);
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_result_reset(ggml_opt_result_t result);

    // get data from result, uncertainties are optional and can be ignored by passing NULL
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_result_ndata(   ggml_opt_result_t result, int64_t * ndata);                  // writes 1 value, number of datapoints
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_result_loss(    ggml_opt_result_t result, double  * loss,     double * unc); // writes 1 value
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_result_pred(    ggml_opt_result_t result, int32_t * pred);                   // writes ndata values
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_result_accuracy(ggml_opt_result_t result, double  * accuracy, double * unc); // writes 1 value

    // ====== Computation ======

    // do forward pass, increment result if not NULL
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_forward(ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx, ggml_opt_result_t result);

    // do forward pass, increment result if not NULL, do backward pass
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_forward_backward(ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx, ggml_opt_result_t result);

    // ############################################################################
    // ## The high-level functions start here. They do not depend on any private ##
    // ## functions or structs and can be copied to and adapted for user code.   ##
    // ############################################################################

    // ====== Intended Usage ======
    //
    // 1. Select the appropriate loss for your problem.
    // 2. Create a dataset and set the data for the "data" tensor. Also set the "labels" tensor if your loss needs them.
    //    Setting the shard size to 1 will be fine, it's the granularity with which data is shuffled/loaded (bigger values are faster).
    // 3. Create a GGML graph for your model with no_alloc == true. Use two separate contexts for the tensors.
    //    The first context should contain the model parameters and inputs and be allocated statically in user code.
    //    The second context should contain all other tensors and will be (re)allocated automatically.
    //    Due to this automated allocation the data of the second context is not defined when accessed in user code.
    //    Note that the second dimension of the inputs/outputs are interpreted as the number of datapoints in those tensors.
    // 4. Call ggml_opt_fit. If you need more control you can use ggml_opt_epoch instead.

    // signature for a callback while evaluating opt_ctx on dataset, called after an evaluation
    typedef void (*ggml_opt_epoch_callback)(
            bool               train,       // true after training evaluation, false after validation evaluation
            ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx,
            ggml_opt_dataset_t dataset,
            ggml_opt_result_t  result,      // result associated with the dataset subsection
            int64_t            ibatch,      // number of batches that have been evaluated so far
            int64_t            ibatch_max,  // total number of batches in this dataset subsection
            int64_t            t_start_us); // time at which the evaluation on the dataset subsection was started

    // do training on front of dataset, do evaluation only on back of dataset
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_epoch(
            ggml_opt_context_t      opt_ctx,
            ggml_opt_dataset_t      dataset,
            ggml_opt_result_t       result_train,   // result to increment during training, ignored if NULL
            ggml_opt_result_t       result_eval,    // result to increment during evaluation, ignored if NULL
            int64_t                 idata_split,    // data index at which to split training and evaluation
            ggml_opt_epoch_callback callback_train,
            ggml_opt_epoch_callback callback_eval);

    // callback that prints a progress bar on stderr
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_epoch_callback_progress_bar(
            bool               train,
            ggml_opt_context_t opt_ctx,
            ggml_opt_dataset_t dataset,
            ggml_opt_result_t  result,
            int64_t            ibatch,
            int64_t            ibatch_max,
            int64_t            t_start_us);

    // fit model defined by inputs and outputs to dataset
    GGML_API void ggml_opt_fit(
            ggml_backend_sched_t            backend_sched,  // backend scheduler for constructing the compute graphs
            ggml_context                  * ctx_compute,    // context with temporarily allocated tensors to calculate the outputs
            ggml_tensor                   * inputs,         // input tensor with shape [ne_datapoint, ndata_batch]
            ggml_tensor                   * outputs,        // output tensor, must have shape [ne_label, ndata_batch] if labels are used
            ggml_opt_dataset_t              dataset,        // dataset with data and optionally also labels
            enum ggml_opt_loss_type         loss_type,      // loss to minimize
            ggml_opt_get_optimizer_params   get_opt_pars,   // callback to get optimizer params, userdata is pointer to epoch (of type int64_t)
            int64_t                         nepoch,         // how many times the dataset should be iterated over
            int64_t                         nbatch_logical, // datapoints optimizer step, must be a multiple of ndata_batch in inputs/outputs
            float                           val_split,      // fraction of the dataset to use for validation, must be in [0.0f, 1.0f)
            bool                            silent);        // whether or not info prints to stderr should be suppressed

#ifdef  __cplusplus
}
#endif