Fix: conditional use of GradScaler based on device_type and dtype in train.py #481
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Problem:
Use of
GradScaler
givesAssertionError
intrain.py
while usingdevice = cpu
.Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/brainiac77/github/neural-network-playground/gpt/train.py", line 305, in <module> scaler.scale(loss).backward() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/home/brainiac77/miniconda3/envs/vision-1/lib/python3.12/site-packages/torch/cuda/amp/grad_scaler.py", line 203, in scale assert outputs.is_cuda or outputs.device.type == "xla" AssertionError
Fix:
Use a conditional to check
device_type
anddtype
and based on that take decision whether to useGradScaler
or not.