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Check the Data: Ensure that your data is clean, properly preprocessed, and balanced. Imbalanced datasets can cause the model to be biased towards the majority class, leading to poor convergence.
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Learning Rate: The learning rate you’ve set (5e-3) might be too high. Try reducing the learning rate to see if it helps the loss to converge. You can also use learning rate 2e-5 schedulers that adjust the learning rate during training.
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Batch Size: Experiment with different batch sizes. Sometimes smaller batch sizes can help with convergence as they provide a more noisy gradient which can help escape local minima.
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Model Complexity: If your model is too complex for the task, it might overfit and not converge well. Try simplifying the model or using regularization techniques like dropout.
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Loss Function: Make sure you are using the appropriate loss function for your task. For binary classification, Binary Cross-Entropy is commonly used.
trainer = Trainer(
...
compute_loss=lambda outputs, labels: torch.nn.functional.binary_cross_entropy_with_logits(outputs.logits, labels.float().unsqueeze(1))
)
- Early Stopping: Use early stopping to prevent overfitting. This will stop the training process if the model’s performance on the validation set doesn’t improve for a specified number of epochs.
trainer = Trainer(
...
callbacks=[EarlyStoppingCallback(early_stopping_patience=3)] # Added early stopping
)
Remember to import EarlyStoppingCallback
from transformers
if you decide to use early stopping.
- Gradient Clipping: Gradient clipping can prevent exploding gradients which can cause the loss to diverge.
training_args = TrainingArguments(
..
max_grad_norm=1.0, # Gradient clipping
)