distributed_strategy.proto

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syntax = "proto2";
package paddle.fleet;

enum Mode {
  COLLECTIVE = 1;
  PS = 2;
  PIPELINE = 3;
  HETER = 4; // support XPU and GPU computing server
}

message RecomputeConfig { repeated string checkpoints = 1; }

message AMPConfig {
  optional float init_loss_scaling = 1 [ default = 32768.0 ];
  optional int32 incr_every_n_steps = 2 [ default = 1000 ];
  optional int32 decr_every_n_nan_or_inf = 3 [ default = 2 ];
  optional float incr_ratio = 4 [ default = 2.0 ];
  optional float decr_ratio = 5 [ default = 0.8 ];
  optional bool use_dynamic_loss_scaling = 6 [ default = true ];
}

message LocalSGDConfig { optional int32 k_steps = 1 [ default = 4 ]; }

message GradientMergeConfig {
  optional int32 k_steps = 1 [ default = 1 ];
  optional bool avg = 2 [ default = true ];
}

message BuildStrategy {
  optional bool enable_sequential_execution = 1 [ default = false ];
  optional bool fuse_elewise_add_act_ops = 2 [ default = false ];
  optional bool fuse_bn_act_ops = 3 [ default = false ];
  optional bool fuse_relu_depthwise_conv = 4 [ default = false ];
  optional bool fuse_broadcast_ops = 5 [ default = false ];
  optional bool fuse_all_optimizer_ops = 6 [ default = false ];
  optional bool enable_inplace = 7 [ default = false ];
  optional bool enable_backward_optimizer_op_deps = 8 [ default = true ];
  optional bool cache_runtime_context = 9 [ default = false ];
}

message ExecutionStrategy {
  optional int32 num_threads = 1 [ default = 1 ];
  optional int32 num_iteration_per_drop_scope = 2 [ default = 10 ];
  optional int32 num_iteration_per_run = 3 [ default = 1 ];
  optional bool use_thread_barrier = 4 [ default = false ];
}

message AsyncConfig {
  optional int32 k_steps = 1 [ default = 1 ];
  optional int32 max_merge_var_num = 2 [ default = 1 ];
  optional int32 send_queue_size = 3 [ default = 16 ];
  optional bool independent_recv_thread = 4 [ default = false ];
  optional int32 min_send_grad_num_before_recv = 5 [ default = 1 ];
  optional int32 thread_pool_size = 6 [ default = 1 ];
  optional int32 send_wait_times = 7 [ default = 1 ];
  optional bool runtime_split_send_recv = 8 [ default = false ];
}

message PipelineConfig { optional int32 micro_batch = 1 [ default = 1 ]; }

message DistributedStrategy {
  // bool options
  optional Mode mode = 1 [ default = COLLECTIVE ];
  optional bool amp = 2 [ default = false ];
  optional bool recompute = 3 [ default = false ];
  optional bool localsgd = 4 [ default = false ];
  optional bool dgc = 5 [ default = false ];
  optional bool gradient_merge = 6 [ default = false ];
  optional bool lars = 7 [ default = false ];
  optional bool lamb = 8 [ default = false ];
  optional bool pipeline = 9 [ default = false ];
  optional bool elastic = 10 [ default = false ];
  optional bool auto = 11 [ default = false ];
  optional bool async = 12 [ default = true ];
  optional bool sync_nccl_allreduce = 13 [ default = true ];
  optional int32 nccl_comm_num = 14 [ default = 1 ];
  optional bool use_hierarchical_allreduce = 15 [ default = false ];
  optional int32 hierarchical_allreduce_inter_nranks = 16 [ default = 1 ];
  optional bool sync_batch_norm = 17 [ default = false ];
  optional bool fuse_all_reduce_ops = 18 [ default = true ];
  // optional bool enable_backward_optimizer_op_deps = 19 [ default = true ];

  optional RecomputeConfig recompute_configs = 101;
  optional AMPConfig amp_configs = 102;
  optional LocalSGDConfig localsgd_configs = 103;
  optional GradientMergeConfig gradient_merge_configs = 104;
  optional PipelineConfig pipeline_configs = 106;
  optional AsyncConfig async_configs = 107;

  optional BuildStrategy build_strategy = 201;
  optional ExecutionStrategy execution_strategy = 202;
}

message DistributedJobInfo {
  optional int32 worker_num = 1;
  optional int32 server_num = 2;
  repeated string worker_ips = 3;
  repeated string server_endpoints = 4;
  optional string origin_startup = 5;
  optional string origin_main = 6; // without backpropagation and optimization
  optional string distributed_main = 7; // with backpropagation and optimization
  optional string optimizer_name = 8;   // optimizer name
  optional DistributedStrategy strategy = 101;
}