Training on AWS SageMaker
How to Train models on AWS SageMaker using Deep Lake datasets
AWS SageMaker provides scalable infrastructure for developing, training, and deploying deep learning models. In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to run SageMaker training jobs for training a PyTorch image classification model using a Deep Lake dataset. This tutorial will focus on the SageMaker integration, and less so on the details of the training (see other training tutorials for details)
In this tutorial we will use the Stanford Cars Dataset, which classifies the make+model+year of various vehicles. Though the dataset contains bounding boxes, we ignore those and only use the data for classification purposes.
We run the SageMaker job using the docker container below that can be found among these deep learning containers provided by AWS.
"763104351884.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/pytorch-training:1.12.1-gpu-py38-cu113-ubuntu20.04-sagemaker"
The SageMaker job is initiated using the script below. By also running this script in a SageMaker notebook, the permissions and role access are automatically taken care of within the AWS environment.
import sagemaker
sess = sagemaker.Session()
role = sagemaker.get_execution_role()
The training script (
entry_point
) and the directory (source_dir
) containing the training script and requirements.txt
file is passed to the Estimator
. The argparse
parameters for the training script are passed via the hyperparameters
dictinary in the Estimator.
Note that we also pass the Deep Lake paths to the training and validation datasets via this input. estimator = sagemaker.estimator.Estimator(
source_dir = "./train_code", # Directory of the training script
entry_point = "train_cars.py", # File for the training script
image_uri = image_name,
role = role,
instance_count = 1,
instance_type = instance_type,
output_path = output_path,
sagemaker_session = sess,
max_run = 2*60*60,
hyperparameters = {"train-dataset": "hub://activeloop/stanford-cars-train",
"val-dataset": "hub://activeloop/stanford-cars-test",
"batch-size": 64, "num-epochs": 40,
})
The training job is triggered using the command below. Typically, the
.fit()
function accepts as inputs the S3 bucket containing the training data, which is then downloaded onto the local storage of the SageMaker job. Since we've passed the Deep Lake dataset paths via the hyperparameters
, and since Deep Lake does not require data to be downloaded prior to training, we skip these inputs. estimator.fit()
SageMaker offers a variety of method for advanced data logging. In this example, we can monitor the training performance in real-time in the training notebook where the jobs are triggered, or in the CloudWatch logs for each job. We observe that the validation accuracy after 40 epochs is 75%.
The contents of the
train_code
folder, as well as the train_cars.py
file, are shown below. The training script follow the same workflow as other PyTorch training workflows using Deep Lake. As mentioned above, the inputs to the argparse
function are those from the hyperparameters
inputs in the estimator
. import deeplake
import argparse
import logging
import os
import sys
import time
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.optim as optim
import torch.utils.data
import torch.utils.data.distributed
from torchvision import transforms, models
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout))