Adding support for 8-bit training with bitsandbytes #582
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Adding bitsandbytes dependency to requirements.txt.
Using the currently unused quantization option in the config file to set whether to use the BNB 8-bit optimizer.
Details on using the 8-bit optimizer in HF here and detailed discussion on HF implementation here.
Note the part about forcing the embedding layer to use the 32-bit optimizer. Doing that as suggested in the link above:
This override code might require a bit more work if we choose to use a model that has a non-standard embedding layer.