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Resume in the pretraining code

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#359 opened on Jun 2, 2023

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Description

I would like to request a new feature in the code: the ability to resume training from a checkpoint.

Currently, the code can save a checkpoint of the model's state at any point during training. However, there is no way to resume training from a checkpoint.

The code can save two things along with the model state_dict: 1)the optimizer, 2)the id of the last example it has seen (assuming the data is fed sequentially to the model not randomly)

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Implement checkpoint loading to restore model, optimizer, and data state, then resume training loop.
Tech stack
python
Domain
ai
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Feature
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3
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Clear
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PythonPyTorch
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65