Feature-Related FAQ
Q: The WikiText dataset download link is not available.
A: The official download link is not available, please follow the community Issue #IBV35D.
Q: How Do I Generate a Model Sharding Strategy File?
A: The model sharding strategy file documents the sharding strategy for model weights in distributed scenarios and is generally used when slicing weights offline. Configure only_save_strategy: True in the network yaml file, and then start the distributed task normally, then the distributed strategy file can be generated in the output/strategy/ directory. For details, please refer to the Tutorial on Slicing and Merging Distributed Weights.
Q: How Can I Do When socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known or socket.gaierror: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution is Reported in ranktable Generation File?
A: Starting from MindSpore Transformers r1.2.0 version, cluster startup is unified using msrun method, and ranktable startup method is deprecated.
Q: When installing MindSpore Transformers from source code, the download speed of dependency packages is slow. How can this be resolved?
A: The build.sh script uses the Tsinghua Mirror to download the Python packages required by MindSpore Transformers. To change the mirror source, you can modify the download command in build.sh: pip install mindformers*whl -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple , replace the URL after -i with the address of your desired mirror source.