Fix Ulysses SP backward with SDPA#13328
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Ran the tests and they pass as well. Great work!
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What does this PR do?
Solve the issue #13319.
There are two bugs:
grad_outis already inBSHDformat, which matches the shape ofout. Therefore, we do not need to permutegrad_outagain.autograd.Function.backward()does not store the gradient by default, so we need to enable it manually.After the fix, running
torchrun --nproc-per-node 2 toy_train.py --enable-spcan get the expected resultAnd we add the test coverage for backward ops with context parallel.
Tested with
TestQwenImageTransformerContextParallel,TestFluxTransformerContextParallelandTestFlux2TransformerContextParallel.Fixes # (issue)
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