Zero Bubble Pipeline Parallelism

Systems and Performance
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Published

July 8, 2024

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About this paper

Core idea is think about backward pass into two flows, one to compute grad wrt to parameters, and one to compute grad wrt to output of last layer, schedule so that you are always working instead of waiting (bubble).