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Pipeline-Parallelism: Distributed Training via Model Partitioning

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Pipeline parallelism makes it possible to train large models that don’t fit into a single GPU’s memory.Example: Huggingface’s BLOOM model is a 175B parameter...

Pipeline-Parallelism: Distributed Training via Model Partitioning Subscribe Si_Boehm October 2022 Pipeline parallelism makes it possible to train large models that don’t fit into a single GPU’s memory. Example: Huggingface’s BLOOM model is a 175B parameter Transformer model. Storing the weights as bfloat16 requires 350GB, but the GPUs they used to train BLOOM ‘only’ have 80GB of memory, and training requires much more memory than just loading the model weights. So their final training was distributed across 384 GPUs. This is made possible by assigning different layers of the model to different

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