multi_batch_merge_pass.h

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#pragma once

#include "paddle/fluid/framework/ir/fuse_pass_base.h"
#include "paddle/fluid/framework/ir/graph.h"
#include "paddle/fluid/framework/ir/pass.h"

namespace paddle {
namespace framework {
namespace ir {

// BatchMergePass is used to copy forward and backward ops for several
// times to run several batches to simulate large batch size training
// as if we have more than 1 GPUs.
// User can define how many batches to run, gradients will be merged
// through those repeats, and then do optimization using merged gradients.
// This pass is extremely useful when doing large batch-size distributed
// sync training, we can simulate even large batch size as if we have more
// GPUs.

class BatchMergePass : public Pass {
 public:
  virtual ~BatchMergePass() {}

 protected:
  std::unique_ptr<Graph> ApplyImpl(std::unique_ptr<Graph> graph) const override;
};

}  // namespace ir
}  // namespace framework
}  // namespace paddle