Synthetic Continued Pretraining

This repository contains the code for the paper Synthetic Continued Pretraining.

Overview

This codebase implements the entire pipeline for synthetic continued pretraining using the EntiGraph synthetic data generator. It includes:

• Code for generating synthetic data with EntiGraph
• Scripts for continued pretraining with Llama 3 8B
• Evaluation tools for the continually pretrained model
• Instruction tuning process
• Interactive chatbot based on the instruction-tuned model

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. EntiGraph Synthetic Continued Pretraining
   • Step 1: EntiGraph Synthetic Data Generation
   • Step 2: Tokenization
   • Step 3: Downloading and Tokenizing Replay Data
   • Step 4: Continued Pretraining
   • Step 5: Evaluation on QuALITY QA Set
3. Instruction Tuning on Continued Pretrained Model
   • Step 1: Downloading and Tokenizing the Instruction Tuning Data
   • Step 2: Instruction Tuning
   • Step 3: Hosting the Chatbot
4. Citation

Installation

git clone https://github.com/ZitongYang/Synthetic_Continued_Pretraining.git
cd Synthetic_Continued_Pretraining
pip install -r requirements.txt
huggingface-cli login --token <huggingface token>; # required, you need this to access Llama 3 pretrained weights
wandb login <weights and bias token>; # optional, ignore if you don't want to log your training process

EntiGraph Synthetic Continued Pretraining

Our experiments use the QuALITY dataset as the source documents.

Step 1: EntiGraph Synthetic Data Generation

1. Set your OpenAI API key in data/dataset/openai.key.
2. To run the EntiGraph procedure for the i-th article using gpt-4-turbo:

python data/entigraph.py i

The resulting synthetic data will be saved in data/dataset/raw/quality_entigraph_gpt-4-turbo/.

Step 2: Tokenization

Tokenize the EntiGraph synthetic data:

mkdir -p data/dataset/bins/
python data/tokenize_entigraph.py

This will save the resulting binary files in data/dataset/bins/quality_all-graphgpt-4-turbo.bin.

Step 3: Downloading and Tokenizing Replay Data

Download and tokenize 1B tokens of RedPajama dataset as replay data:

python data/tokenize_redpj.py

This will save two binary files:

• data/dataset/bins/togethercomputer_RedPajama_Data_1T_Sample_None_train.bin
• data/dataset/bins/togethercomputer_RedPajama_Data_1T_Sample_None_test.bin

To inspect the synthetic data generated:

python data/cptdata.py

Step 4: Continued Pretraining

To perform continued pretraining on Llama 3 8B using the EntiGraph synthetic data:

chmod 777 scripts/train.sh
./scripts/train.sh \
    --lr 5e-06 \
    --rr 0.1 \
    --epochs 2 \
    --bs 16 \
    --wd 0.01 \
    --warmup 0.05 \
    --task_name quality

Arguments:

• --lr: Peak learning rate
• --rr: RedPajama replay rate
• --epochs: Total epochs to run
• --bs: Batch size
• --wd: Weight decay factor
• --task_name: Dataset choice (quality for EntiGraph synthetic data, instruct for UltraChat instruction tuning data)

The resulting checkpoint will be saved under ckpts/quality-lr5e-06-rr0.1-epochs2-bs16-wd0.01-warmup0.05-MetaLlama38B.

Step 5: Evaluation on QuALITY QA Set

To evaluate on the QuALITY QA set:

python evaluation.py --model_path=ckpts/quality-lr5e-06-rr0.1-epochs2-bs16-wd0.01-warmup0.05-MetaLlama38B

The output will be stored in out/qualityqa-quality-lr5e-06-rr0.1-epochs2-bs16-wd0.01-warmup0.05-MetaLlama38B.json.

To parse the output into accuracy metrics, refer to notebooks/nb_qa_eval.ipynb.

Instruction Tuning on Continued Pretrained Model

Step 1: Downloading and Tokenizing the Instruction Tuning Data

We use the UltraChat dataset and Llama 3.1 Instruct chat template:

python data/tokenize_instruct.py

This will save the instruction tuning data in data/dataset/bins/ultrachat_train.bin and data/dataset/bins/ultrachat_test.bin.

Step 2: Instruction Tuning

To perform instruction tuning on the continually pretrained model:

./scripts/train.sh \
    --lr 5e-06 \
    --rr 0.1 \
    --epochs 2 \
    --bs 128 \
    --wd 0.01 \
    --warmup 0.05 \
    --task_name instruct \
    --model_name ckpts/quality-lr5e-06-rr0.1-epochs2-bs16-wd0.01-warmup0.05-MetaLlama38B

The checkpoint will be saved in ckpts/instruct-lr5e-06-rr0.1-epochs2-bs128-wd0.01-warmup0.05-qualitylr5e06rr0.1epochs2bs16wd0.01warmup0.05MetaLlama38B.

Step 3: Hosting the Chatbot

To launch an interactive session with the instruction-tuned EntiGraph model:

python interactive.py

You can ask questions about QuALITY articles (e.g., Tell me about the article "defining decay down".).

Citation

If you use this code in your research, please cite our paper:

@misc{yang2024syntheticcontinuedpretraining,
      title={Synthetic continued pretraining}, 
      author={Zitong Yang and Neil Band and Shuangping Li and Emmanuel Candès and Tatsunori Hashimoto},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2409.07431},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07431}, 
}