Numerically stable generate on mps

ch05/01_main-chapter-code/ch05.ipynb

@@ -1933,7 +1933,7 @@
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
     "- The previous two subsections introduced temperature sampling and top-k sampling\n",
-    "- Let's use these two concepts to modify the `generate_simple` function we used to generate text via the LLM earlier, creating a new `generate` function:"
+    "- Let's use these two concepts to modify the `generate_text_simple` function from chapter 4, creating a new `generate` function:"
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -1963,6 +1963,10 @@
     "        if temperature > 0.0:\n",
     "            logits = logits / temperature\n",
     "\n",
+    "            # New (not in book): numerical stability tip to get equivalent results on mps device\n",
+    "            # subtract rowwise max before softmax\n",
+    "            logits = logits - logits.max(dim=-1, keepdim=True).values\n",
+    "            \n",
     "            # Apply softmax to get probabilities\n",
     "            probs = torch.softmax(logits, dim=-1)  # (batch_size, context_len)\n",
     "\n",

ch05/01_main-chapter-code/gpt_generate.py

@@ -235,6 +235,10 @@ def generate(model, idx, max_new_tokens, context_size, temperature=0.0, top_k=No
         if temperature > 0.0:
             logits = logits / temperature
 
+            # New (not in book): numerical stability tip to get equivalent results on mps device
+            # subtract rowwise max before softmax
+            logits = logits - logits.max(dim=-1, keepdim=True).values
+
             # Apply softmax to get probabilities
             probs = torch.softmax(logits, dim=-1)  # (batch_size, context_len)
 

ch05/07_gpt_to_llama/previous_chapters.py

@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ def generate(model, idx, max_new_tokens, context_size, temperature=0.0, top_k=No
         if temperature > 0.0:
             logits = logits / temperature
 
+            # New (not in book): numerical stability tip to get equivalent results on mps device
+            # subtract rowwise max before softmax
+            logits = logits - logits.max(dim=-1, keepdim=True).values
+
             # Apply softmax to get probabilities
             probs = torch.softmax(logits, dim=-1)  # (batch_size, context_len)
 

ch05/07_gpt_to_llama/standalone-llama32.ipynb

@@ -1047,6 +1047,10 @@
     "        if temperature > 0.0:\n",
     "            logits = logits / temperature\n",
     "\n",
+    "            # New (not in book): numerical stability tip to get equivalent results on mps device\n",
+    "            # subtract rowwise max before softmax\n",
+    "            logits = logits - logits.max(dim=-1, keepdim=True).values\n",
+    "            \n",
     "            # Apply softmax to get probabilities\n",
     "            probs = torch.softmax(logits, dim=-1)  # (batch_size, context_len)\n",
     "\n",

ch06/02_bonus_additional-experiments/previous_chapters.py

@@ -334,6 +334,10 @@ def generate(model, idx, max_new_tokens, context_size, temperature=0.0, top_k=No
         if temperature > 0.0:
             logits = logits / temperature
 
+            # New (not in book): numerical stability tip to get equivalent results on mps device
+            # subtract rowwise max before softmax
+            logits = logits - logits.max(dim=-1, keepdim=True).values
+
             # Apply softmax to get probabilities
             probs = torch.softmax(logits, dim=-1)  # (batch_size, context_len)
 

ch07/01_main-chapter-code/previous_chapters.py

@@ -267,6 +267,10 @@ def generate(model, idx, max_new_tokens, context_size, temperature=0.0, top_k=No
         if temperature > 0.0:
             logits = logits / temperature
 
+            # New (not in book): numerical stability tip to get equivalent results on mps device
+            # subtract rowwise max before softmax
+            logits = logits - logits.max(dim=-1, keepdim=True).values
+
             # Apply softmax to get probabilities
             probs = torch.softmax(logits, dim=-1)  # (batch_size, context_len)
 

ch07/04_preference-tuning-with-dpo/previous_chapters.py

@@ -267,6 +267,10 @@ def generate(model, idx, max_new_tokens, context_size, temperature=0.0, top_k=No
         if temperature > 0.0:
             logits = logits / temperature
 
+            # New (not in book): numerical stability tip to get equivalent results on mps device
+            # subtract rowwise max before softmax
+            logits = logits - logits.max(dim=-1, keepdim=True).values
+
             # Apply softmax to get probabilities
             probs = torch.softmax(logits, dim=-1)  # (batch_size, context_len)
 

pkg/llms_from_scratch/ch05.py

@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ def generate(model, idx, max_new_tokens, context_size, temperature=0.0, top_k=No
         if temperature > 0.0:
             logits = logits / temperature
 
+            # New (not in book): numerical stability tip to get equivalent results on mps device
+            # subtract rowwise max before softmax
+            logits = logits - logits.max(dim=-1, keepdim=True).values
+
             # Apply softmax to get probabilities
             probs = torch.softmax(logits, dim=-1)  # (batch_size, context_len)