@@ -744,6 +744,8 @@ class DistributedStrategy(object):
idea from [ZeRO: Memory Optimizations Toward Training Trillion Parameter Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02054).
Model parameters and Optimizer State are sharded into different ranks allowing to fit larger model.
In Hybrid parallelism scenario, we use sharding config as uniform API to set each parallelism.
Default value: False
Examples:
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@@ -770,29 +772,51 @@ class DistributedStrategy(object):
Set sharding configurations.
**Note**:
fuse_broadcast_MB(float): size of a fused group of broadcasted parameters.
This configuration will affect the communication speed in sharding training,
and should be an empirical value decided by your model size and network topology.
sharding_segment_strategy(string, optional): strategy used to segment the program(forward & backward operations). two strategise are
available: "segment_broadcast_MB" and "segment_anchors". segment is a concept used in sharding to overlap computation and
communication. Default is segment_broadcast_MB.
segment_broadcast_MB(float, optional): segment by the parameters broadcast volume. sharding will introduce parameter broadcast operations into program, and
after every segment_broadcast_MB size parameter being broadcasted, the program will be cutted into one segment.
This configuration will affect the communication speed in sharding training, and should be an empirical value decided by your model size and network topology.
Only enable when sharding_segment_strategy = segment_broadcast_MB. Default is 32.0 .
segment_anchors(list): list of anchors used to segment the program, which allows a finner control of program segmentation.
this strategy is experimental by now. Only enable when sharding_segment_strategy = segment_anchors.
sharding_degree(int, optional): specific the number of gpus within each sharding parallelism group; and sharding will be turn off if sharding_degree=1. Default is 8.
gradient_merge_acc_step(int, optional): specific the accumulation steps in gradient merge; and gradient merge will be turn off if gradient_merge_acc_step=1. Default is 1.
hybrid_dp(bool): enable hybrid data parallelism above the sharding parallelism.
you are supposed to have at least double the number of gpu you have in normal sharding
training to enable this feature.
optimize_offload(bool, optional): enable the optimizer offload which will offload the moment vars to Host memory in order to saving GPU memory for fitting larger model.
the moment var will be prefetch from and offloaded to Host memory during update stage. it is a stragtegy that trades off between training speed and GPU memory, and is recommened to be turn on only when gradient_merge_acc_step large, where
the number of time of update stage will be relatively small compared with forward&backward's. Default is False.
dp_degree(int, optional): specific the number of data parallelism group; when dp_degree >= 2, it will introduce dp_degree ways data parallelism as the outer parallelsim for the inner parallelsim. User is responsible to ensure global_world_size = mp_degree * sharding_degree * pp_degree * dp_degree. Default is 1.
mp_degree(int, optional): [Hybrid parallelism ONLY] specific the the number of gpus within each megatron parallelism group; and megatron parallelism will turn be off if mp_degree=1. Default is 1.
pp_degree(int, optional): [Hybrid parallelism ONLY] specific the the number of gpus within each pipeline parallelism group; and pipeline parallelism will turn be off if pp_degree=1. Default is 1.
pp_allreduce_in_optimize(bool, optional): [Hybrid parallelism ONLY] move the allreduce operations from backward stage to update(optimize) stage when pipeline parallelsim is on.
This configuration will affect the communication speed of Hybrid parallelism training depeneded on network topology. this strategy is experimental by now.. Default is False.
sharding_group_size(int): attribute of hybrid_dp. specific the the number of gpus within
each sharding group; and therefore, the number of hybrid data parallelism ways will be equal