How can I fix cuda runtime error on google colab?

Question

I'm trying to execute the named entity recognition example using BERT and pytorch following the Hugging Face page: Token Classification with W-NUT Emerging Entities.

There was a related question on stackoverflow, but the error message is different from my case.

cuda runtime error (710) : device-side assert triggered at /pytorch/aten/src/THC/generic/THCTensorMath.cu:29

I have trouble with fixing the above cuda runtime error.

How can I execute the sample code on google colab with the run time type, GPU?

Error

trainer.train()

# Error Message
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/torch/autograd/__init__.py in backward(tensors, grad_tensors, retain_graph, create_graph, grad_variables, inputs)
    147     Variable._execution_engine.run_backward(
    148         tensors, grad_tensors_, retain_graph, create_graph, inputs,
--> 149         allow_unreachable=True, accumulate_grad=True)  # allow_unreachable flag
    150 
    151 

RuntimeError: cuda runtime error (710) : device-side assert triggered at /pytorch/aten/src/THC/generic/THCTensorMath.cu:29

Code

I didn't change the original data and code introduced on the tutorial, Token Classification with W-NUT Emerging Entities.

Access from the browser to Token Classification with W-NUT Emerging Entities code: custom_datasets.ipynb - Colaboratory

from pathlib import Path
import re

def read_wnut(file_path):
    file_path = Path(file_path)

    raw_text = file_path.read_text().strip()
    raw_docs = re.split(r'\n\t?\n', raw_text)
    token_docs = []
    tag_docs = []
    for doc in raw_docs:
        tokens = []
        tags = []
        for line in doc.split('\n'):
            token, tag = line.split('\t')
            tokens.append(token)
            tags.append(tag)
        token_docs.append(tokens)
        tag_docs.append(tags)

    return token_docs, tag_docs

texts, tags = read_wnut('wnut17train.conll')

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
train_texts, val_texts, train_tags, val_tags = train_test_split(texts, tags, test_size=.2)
unique_tags = set(tag for doc in tags for tag in doc)
tag2id = {tag: id for id, tag in enumerate(unique_tags)}
id2tag = {id: tag for tag, id in tag2id.items()}

from transformers import DistilBertTokenizerFast
tokenizer = DistilBertTokenizerFast.from_pretrained('distilbert-base-cased')
train_encodings = tokenizer(train_texts, is_split_into_words=True, return_offsets_mapping=True, padding=True, truncation=True)
val_encodings = tokenizer(val_texts, is_split_into_words=True, return_offsets_mapping=True, padding=True, truncation=True)

import numpy as np

def encode_tags(tags, encodings):
    labels = [[tag2id[tag] for tag in doc] for doc in tags]
    encoded_labels = []
    for doc_labels, doc_offset in zip(labels, encodings.offset_mapping):
        # create an empty array of -100
        doc_enc_labels = np.ones(len(doc_offset),dtype=int) * -100
        arr_offset = np.array(doc_offset)

        # set labels whose first offset position is 0 and the second is not 0
        doc_enc_labels[(arr_offset[:,0] == 0) & (arr_offset[:,1] != 0)] = doc_labels
        encoded_labels.append(doc_enc_labels.tolist())

    return encoded_labels

train_labels = encode_tags(train_tags, train_encodings)
val_labels = encode_tags(val_tags, val_encodings)

import torch
import os

#os.environ['CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING'] = "1"
torch.backends.cudnn.enabled = False
# check if CUDA is available
train_on_gpu = torch.cuda.is_available()
# torch.backends.cudnn.enabled

if not train_on_gpu:
    print('CUDA is not available.  Training on CPU ...')
else:
    print('CUDA is available!  Training on GPU ...')

class WNUTDataset(torch.utils.data.Dataset):
    def __init__(self, encodings, labels):
        self.encodings = encodings
        self.labels = labels

    def __getitem__(self, idx):
        item = {key: torch.tensor(val[idx]) for key, val in self.encodings.items()}
        item['labels'] = torch.tensor(self.labels[idx])
        return item

    def __len__(self):
        return len(self.labels)

train_encodings.pop("offset_mapping") # we don't want to pass this to the model
val_encodings.pop("offset_mapping")
train_dataset = WNUTDataset(train_encodings, train_labels)
val_dataset = WNUTDataset(val_encodings, val_labels)

from transformers import DistilBertForTokenClassification
model = DistilBertForTokenClassification.from_pretrained('distilbert-base-cased', num_labels=len(unique_tags))

from transformers import DistilBertForSequenceClassification, Trainer, TrainingArguments, DistilBertForTokenClassification
from sklearn.metrics import precision_recall_fscore_support
import tensorflow as tf

def compute_metrics(pred):
    labels = pred.label_ids
    preds = pred.predictions.argmax(-1)
    precision, recall, f1, _ = precision_recall_fscore_support(labels, preds, average='binary')
    acc = accuracy_score(labels, preds)
    return {
        'accuracy': acc,
        'f1': f1,
        'precision': precision,
        'recall': recall
    }

training_args = TrainingArguments(
    output_dir='./results',          # output directory
    num_train_epochs=3,              # total number of training epochs
    per_device_train_batch_size=16,  # batch size per device during training
    per_device_eval_batch_size=64,   # batch size for evaluation
    warmup_steps=500,                # number of warmup steps for learning rate scheduler
    weight_decay=0.01,               # strength of weight decay
    logging_dir='./logs',            # directory for storing logs
    logging_steps=10,
)

model = DistilBertForTokenClassification.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-uncased")

trainer = Trainer(
    model=model,                         # the instantiated 🤗 Transformers model to be trained
    args=training_args,                  # training arguments, defined above
    train_dataset=train_dataset,         # training dataset
    eval_dataset=val_dataset,             # evaluation dataset
    compute_metrics=compute_metrics
)

trainer.train()

What I did

I checked cuda and GPU related settings.

#os.environ['CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING'] = "1"
torch.backends.cudnn.enabled = False
# check if CUDA is available
train_on_gpu = torch.cuda.is_available()
# torch.backends.cudnn.enabled

if not train_on_gpu:
    print('CUDA is not available.  Training on CPU ...')
else:
    print('CUDA is available!  Training on GPU ...')

#output
CUDA is available!  Training on GPU ...

training_args.device

#output
device(type='cuda', index=0)

Responce to an answer

When I comment out the part,

#os.environ['CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING'] = "1"
#torch.backends.cudnn.enabled = False

The error message changed to the below when I didn't reset runtime.

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/torch/autograd/__init__.py in _make_grads(outputs, grads)
     49                 if out.numel() != 1:
     50                     raise RuntimeError("grad can be implicitly created only for scalar outputs")
---> 51                 new_grads.append(torch.ones_like(out, memory_format=torch.preserve_format))
     52             else:
     53                 new_grads.append(None)

RuntimeError: CUDA error: device-side assert triggered
CUDA kernel errors might be asynchronously reported at some other API call,so the stacktrace below might be incorrect.
For debugging consider passing CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING=1.

If I reset runtime, the message was the same.

RuntimeError: cuda runtime error (710) : device-side assert triggered at /pytorch/aten/src/THC/generic/THCTensorMath.cu:29

Answer 1

Maybe the problem comes from this line:

torch.backends.cudnn.enabled = False

You might comment or remove it and try again.