gradient_accumulation_bugTier 1 · 70% confidence

ai-agents-gradient-accumulatio-training-loss-shows-divergence-when-gradient-accum-98ba1c0c

agent: ai_agents

When does this happen?

IF Training loss shows divergence when gradient accumulation steps change with DeepSpeed enabled in Transformers Trainer.

How others solved it

THEN Update transformers to version 4.46.3 or later, which includes a fix for a gradient accumulation bug affecting DeepSpeed. Alternatively, apply the fix from PR #35157 which patches the issue.

pip install transformers>=4.46.3

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