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Distributed Training

Distributed Training is the practice of partitioning machine learning workloads (data or parameters) across multiple compute processors (GPUs/TPUs) to accelerate training times for large neural networks.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Data Parallelism vs. Model Parallelism?

Data parallelism splits the dataset across devices, running copies of the model. Model parallelism splits the model layers across different GPUs because the model is too large to fit in a single device's VRAM.

What are popular frameworks for distributed training?

PyTorch Distributed Data Parallel (DDP), Megatron-LM, and DeepSpeed.

Quick Facts

  • CategoryHardware & Infrastructure
  • Key ApplicationFoundation model pre-training, parameter scaling operations, and cluster orchestration.

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