speedtune 0.1.1

Thin wrappers around transformers to help speed up training/fine-tuning.

speedtune

Lightweight helpers to "patch" token embeddings for causal and seq2seq transformer models. Grouping tokens into fixed-size patches reduces the effective sequence length and can speed up training or inference for long inputs. The project provides a thin wrapper around Hugging Face transformers models that computes patch-level embeddings and forwards them to the base model while preserving a compatible forward API.

Features

• Compress token embeddings into patches (mean pooling by default).
• Forward patched embeddings to causal LMs and seq2seq LMs (seq2seq implementation pending).
• Optional user-provided patch function for custom aggregation.

Quick install

This package requires PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers. Because PyTorch is platform-specific (CPU vs GPU/CUDA), install it first following the official instructions for your platform, then install this package.

Example (Windows PowerShell):

# create venv and activate
python -m venv .venv; .\.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

# Install PyTorch for your platform first. Example CPU-only wheel:
pip install "torch>=2.0.0" --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu

# Then install transformers and this package
pip install "transformers>=4.30.0"
pip install -U pip build wheel twine

# Build and install the local wheel for development/testing
python -m build
pip install dist\speedtune-0.1.1py3-none-any.whl

Minimal usage example

import torch
from speedtune.speedtune import AutoPatchModelForCausalLM

# Create wrapper around a pretrained model (small model for quick tests)
model = AutoPatchModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("gpt2", patch_size=2)
model.eval()

input_ids = torch.tensor([[50256, 50257, 50258, 50259]])  # example token ids
outputs = model(input_ids=input_ids)
logits = outputs.logits

Testing

Run the unit tests with pytest after installing test dependencies:

# from the repo root
pip install pytest
pytest -q

License

This project is MIT licensed (see LICENSE).