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Question about Heads warmup #74

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eloooooon opened this issue Jan 24, 2024 · 1 comment
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Question about Heads warmup #74

eloooooon opened this issue Jan 24, 2024 · 1 comment

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@eloooooon
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Hi, I'm not an expert, so this might be a stupid question, but I have a question about the Heads warmup part of the Medusa paper. In that part it is mentioned to train the backbone first with medusa-1 loss in the first stage. When I read the paper referenced in that part(https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10054), my guess is that it would be better to train the medusa head first. My questions are as follows

  1. why fine-tune the backbone first?
  2. does it really work to train backbone with medusa-1 loss while medusa head is initialized to 0 and frozen, since the output of medusa head would be 0 anyway? why?
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ctlllll commented Jan 24, 2024

Sorry, it's a typo. It should be only training the heads first and then together. We'll fix it in the next version, and thanks so much for pointing it out!

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