Class RowParallelLinear

mpu/layers.py:246–320

Linear layer with row parallelism. The linear layer is defined as Y = XA + b. A is parallelized along its first dimension and X along its second dimension as: - - | A_1 | | . | A = | . | X = [X_1, ..., X_p] | .

class RowParallelLinear(torch.nn.Module):
    """Linear layer with row parallelism.

    The linear layer is defined as Y = XA + b. A is parallelized along
    its first dimension and X along its second dimension as:
               -   -
              | A_1 |
              | .   |
          A = | .   |        X = [X_1, ..., X_p]
              | .   |
              | A_p |
               -   -
    Arguments:
        input_size: first dimension of matrix A.
        output_size: second dimension of matrix A.
        bias: If true, add bias. Note that bias is not parallelized.
        input_is_parallel: If true, we assume that the input is already
                           split across the GPUs and we do not split
                           again.
        init_method: method to initialize weights. Note that bias is always set
                     to zero.
        stride: For the strided linear layers.
        keep_master_weight_for_test: This was added for testing and should be
                                     set to False. It returns the master weights
                                     used for initialization.
    """
    def __init__(self, input_size, output_size, bias=True,
                 input_is_parallel=False,
                 init_method=init.xavier_normal_, stride=1,
                 keep_master_weight_for_test=False):
        super(RowParallelLinear, self).__init__()

        # Keep input parameters
        self.input_size = input_size
        self.output_size = output_size
        self.input_is_parallel = input_is_parallel
        # Divide the weight matrix along the last dimension.
        world_size = get_model_parallel_world_size()
        self.input_size_per_partition = divide(input_size, world_size)

        # Parameters.
        # Note: torch.nn.functional.linear performs XA^T + b and as a result
        # we allocate the transpose.
        self.weight = Parameter(torch.Tensor(self.output_size,
                                             self.input_size_per_partition))
        self.weight.model_parallel = True
        if bias:
            self.bias = Parameter(torch.Tensor(self.output_size))
            # Always initialize bias to zero.
            with torch.no_grad():
                self.bias.zero_()
        else:
            self.register_parameter('bias', None)

        # Initialize weight.
        self.master_weight = _initialize_affine_weight(
            self.weight, self.output_size, self.input_size,
            self.input_size_per_partition, 1, init_method,