bigscience-workshop/Megatron-DeepSpeed

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  megatron-lm, deepspeed, transformer-models, large-language-models, distributed-training, gpt-2, bert, bigscience

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• highreadme#2

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  # What is this fork of Megatron-LM and Megatron-DeepSpeed
  
  This is a detached fork of https://github.com/microsoft/Megatron-DeepSpeed, which in itself is a fork of https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM. The former integrates DeepSpeed into the original Megatron-LM code.
  
  This fork in turn will include direct changes to the models needed for the BigScience project. This is the repo we use for this project.

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  This repository, bigscience-workshop/Megatron-DeepSpeed, is dedicated to ongoing research and training of transformer language models at scale, including BERT and GPT-2, specifically for the BigScience project. It integrates NVIDIA's Megatron-LM model parallelism with Microsoft's DeepSpeed distributed training and memory optimizations. This is a detached fork of https://github.com/microsoft/Megatron-DeepSpeed, which in itself is a fork of https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM.

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  ## License
  
  This project is licensed under [describe the actual license(s) found in the LICENSE file, e.g., "a custom license combining Apache 2.0 and MIT terms"]. Please refer to the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for full details.

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  How to efficiently train very large transformer language models with distributed computing?

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  1. DeepSpeed
  2. Megatron-LM
  3. FairScale
  4. PyTorch FSDP
  5. Hugging Face Accelerate
  6. Colossal-AI
  7. JAX

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  What tools help with scaling BERT or GPT-2 model training on multiple GPUs?

  you: not recommended
  AI recommended (in order):

  1. PyTorch Lightning
  2. Hugging Face Accelerate
  3. DeepSpeed
  4. Horovod
  5. FairScale
  6. TensorFlow Distributed Strategy API

  AI recommended 6 alternatives but never named bigscience-workshop/Megatron-DeepSpeed. This is the gap to close.

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