fix(training): lr scheduler doesn't work properly in distributed scenarios (#8312)

Author: geniuspatrick

examples/text_to_image/train_text_to_image_lora.py

@@ -697,17 +697,22 @@ def collate_fn(examples):
     )
 
     # Scheduler and math around the number of training steps.
-    overrode_max_train_steps = False
-    num_update_steps_per_epoch = math.ceil(len(train_dataloader) / args.gradient_accumulation_steps)
+    # Check the PR https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/8312 for detailed explanation.
+    num_warmup_steps_for_scheduler = args.lr_warmup_steps * accelerator.num_processes
     if args.max_train_steps is None:
-        args.max_train_steps = args.num_train_epochs * num_update_steps_per_epoch
-        overrode_max_train_steps = True
+        len_train_dataloader_after_sharding = math.ceil(len(train_dataloader) / accelerator.num_processes)
+        num_update_steps_per_epoch = math.ceil(len_train_dataloader_after_sharding / args.gradient_accumulation_steps)
+        num_training_steps_for_scheduler = (
+            args.num_train_epochs * num_update_steps_per_epoch * accelerator.num_processes
+        )
+    else:
+        num_training_steps_for_scheduler = args.max_train_steps * accelerator.num_processes
 
     lr_scheduler = get_scheduler(
         args.lr_scheduler,
         optimizer=optimizer,
-        num_warmup_steps=args.lr_warmup_steps * accelerator.num_processes,
-        num_training_steps=args.max_train_steps * accelerator.num_processes,
+        num_warmup_steps=num_warmup_steps_for_scheduler,
+        num_training_steps=num_training_steps_for_scheduler,
     )
 
     # Prepare everything with our `accelerator`.
@@ -717,8 +722,14 @@ def collate_fn(examples):
 
     # We need to recalculate our total training steps as the size of the training dataloader may have changed.
     num_update_steps_per_epoch = math.ceil(len(train_dataloader) / args.gradient_accumulation_steps)
-    if overrode_max_train_steps:
+    if args.max_train_steps is None:
         args.max_train_steps = args.num_train_epochs * num_update_steps_per_epoch
+        if num_training_steps_for_scheduler != args.max_train_steps * accelerator.num_processes:
+            logger.warning(
+                f"The length of the 'train_dataloader' after 'accelerator.prepare' ({len(train_dataloader)}) does not match "
+                f"the expected length ({len_train_dataloader_after_sharding}) when the learning rate scheduler was created. "
+                f"This inconsistency may result in the learning rate scheduler not functioning properly."
+            )
     # Afterwards we recalculate our number of training epochs
     args.num_train_epochs = math.ceil(args.max_train_steps / num_update_steps_per_epoch)