Running Atlas on small GPU's.

[prasad4fun]

Hi,

In the blog and paper its mentioned with faiss-pq code size 64 it needs as little as 2GB.
I keep getting cuda out of memory with 12 GB gpu while trying to finetune_qa with faiss-pq code 64 and models/atlas_nq/base.

what is the minimum GPU size requirement for running atlas model during finetuning qa and at inference time?

[kungfu-eric]

Something is up with the finetune code. Even 2x40GB with base model and code size 1, GPU mem hits 25GB then tries to allocate 25GB more and OOM.

  File "/home/amicus/atlas/src/index.py", line 111, in load_index
    self.embeddings = torch.concat(embeddings, dim=1)
RuntimeError: CUDA out of memory. Tried to allocate 22.99 GiB (GPU 1; 47.54 GiB total capacity; 23.00 GiB already allocated; 22.92 GiB free; 23.00 GiB reserved in total by PyTorch) If reserved memory is >> allocated memory try setting max_split_size_mb to avoid fragmentation.  See documentation for Memory Management and PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF

[DanialPahlavan]

is it possible to train and test a model using the free version of Google Colab without the need for high-end GPU?
I'm a student and I want to train and test this model.