提交 7c066f6e 编写于 作者: H Helin Wang

fix according to comments

上级 5157ba69
......@@ -7,24 +7,34 @@ ways from which user can obtain a model:
- Save model triggered by user code: user code asks PaddlePaddle to
save a model.
- Convert model from the snapshot: model being converted from
pservers' periodic snapshot. In this way, the user can cancel a job
at any time, and still have a relatively fresh model (we snapshot
around every 5 minutes).
- Convert model from the checkpoint: model being converted from
pservers' periodic checkpoint. In this way, the user can cancel a
job at any time, and still have a relatively fresh model (we
checkpoint around every 5 minutes).
### Save Model Triggered by User Code
### Trainer Saving Model vs. Pservers Saving Model
Both trainers and pservers have access to the model. So the model can
be saved from a trainer or pservers. We need to decide on where the
model is saved from.
#### Dense Model vs. Sparse Model
#### Dense Update vs. Sparse Update
There are two types of model update methods: dense update and sparse
update (when the parameter is configured to be sparse).
- Dense update
Every trainer has it's own full copy of the model. Every model
update will update the entire model.
- Sparse update
The training input is sparse, and the trainer does not have the
entire model. It will only download the sub-model necessary related
to the input. When updating the model, only the sub-model related to
the training input is updated.
There are two types of model: dense and sparse model (when the
parameter is configured to be sparse). Pservers always jointly have
the entire model at any given time. Trainers only have the entire
dense model, but only have a fraction of the sparse model at any given
time.
#### Pservers Saving Model
......@@ -32,15 +42,15 @@ The benefit of letting pservers save model is they have the entire
model all the time. However, since pservers are on different nodes, it
requires a merging process to merge model shards into the same
model. Thus requires the pservers to write models to a distributed
filesystem, making the snapshot shards visible to the merge program.
filesystem, making the checkpoint shards visible to the merge program.
#### Trainer Saving Model
The benefit of letting one trainer to save the model is it does not
require a distributed filesystem. And it's reusing the same save model
logic when the trainer is training locally - except when training
sparse model, the trainer needs to download the entire sparse model
during the saving process.
logic when the trainer is training locally - except when doing sparse
update, the trainer needs to download the entire model during the
saving process.
#### Conclusion
......@@ -49,7 +59,7 @@ and is an intuitive extension to training locally, we decide to let
the trainer save the model.
### Convert Model from Snapshot
### Convert Model from Checkpoint
TODO
......@@ -86,15 +96,15 @@ when save model is taking place.
When saving a dense model, the trainer uses the local model. Pservers
does not need to pause model update.
When saving a sparse model. The trainer needs to download the entire
sparse model while saving. To get the most accurate model, the model
update needs to be paused before the download starts and resumed after
the download finishes. Otherwise, the trainer gets a model that is
When doing sparse update. The trainer needs to download the entire
model while saving. To get the most accurate model, the model update
needs to be paused before the download starts and resumed after the
download finishes. Otherwise, the trainer gets a model that is
"polluted": some part of the model is old, some part of the model is
new.
It's unclear that the "polluted" model will be inferiod due to the
stochastic nature of deep learning, and pausing the model update will
add more complexity to the system. Since supporting sparse model is a
add more complexity to the system. Since supporting sparse update is a
TODO item. We defer the evaluation of pause the model update or not
during saving model to the future.
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