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Distributed training is a model training paradigm that involves spreading training workload across multiple worker nodes, therefore significantly improving the speed of training and model accuracy. While distributed training can be used for any type of ML model training, it is most beneficial to use it for large models and compute demanding tasks as deep learning.

There are a few ways you can perform distributed training in PyTorch with each method having their advantages in certain use cases:

Read more about these options in Distributed Overview.

Learn DDP

DDP Intro Video Tutorials

A step-by-step video series on how to get started with DistributedDataParallel and advance to more complex topics

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/ddp_series_intro.html?utm_source=distr_landing&utm_medium=ddp_series_intro
Getting Started with Distributed Data Parallel

This tutorial provides a short and gentle intro to the PyTorch DistributedData Parallel.

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/ddp_tutorial.html?utm_source=distr_landing&utm_medium=intermediate_ddp_tutorial
Distributed Training with Uneven Inputs Using the Join Context Manager

This tutorial describes the Join context manager and demonstrates it’s use with DistributedData Parallel.

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/advanced/generic_join.html?utm_source=distr_landing&utm_medium=generic_join

Learn FSDP

Getting Started with FSDP

This tutorial demonstrates how you can perform distributed training with FSDP on a MNIST dataset.

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/FSDP_tutorial.html?utm_source=distr_landing&utm_medium=FSDP_getting_started
FSDP Advanced

In this tutorial, you will learn how to fine-tune a HuggingFace (HF) T5 model with FSDP for text summarization.

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/FSDP_advanced_tutorial.html?utm_source=distr_landing&utm_medium=FSDP_advanced

Learn Tensor Parallel (TP)

Large Scale Transformer model training with Tensor Parallel (TP)

This tutorial demonstrates how to train a large Transformer-like model across hundreds to thousands of GPUs using Tensor Parallel and Fully Sharded Data Parallel.

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/TP_tutorial.html

Learn DeviceMesh

Getting Started with DeviceMesh

In this tutorial you will learn about DeviceMesh and how it can help with distributed training.

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/recipes/distributed_device_mesh.html?highlight=devicemesh

Learn RPC

Getting Started with Distributed RPC Framework

This tutorial demonstrates how to get started with RPC-based distributed training.

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/rpc_tutorial.html?utm_source=distr_landing&utm_medium=rpc_getting_started
Implementing a Parameter Server Using Distributed RPC Framework

This tutorial walks you through a simple example of implementing a parameter server using PyTorch’s Distributed RPC framework.

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/rpc_param_server_tutorial.html?utm_source=distr_landing&utm_medium=rpc_param_server_tutorial
Implementing Batch RPC Processing Using Asynchronous Executions

In this tutorial you will build batch-processing RPC applications with the @rpc.functions.async_execution decorator.

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/rpc_async_execution.html?utm_source=distr_landing&utm_medium=rpc_async_execution
Combining Distributed DataParallel with Distributed RPC Framework

In this tutorial you will learn how to combine distributed data parallelism with distributed model parallelism.

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/advanced/rpc_ddp_tutorial.html?utm_source=distr_landing&utm_medium=rpc_plus_ddp

Custom Extensions

Customize Process Group Backends Using Cpp Extensions

In this tutorial you will learn to implement a custom ProcessGroup backend and plug that into PyTorch distributed package using cpp extensions.

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/process_group_cpp_extension_tutorial.html?utm_source=distr_landing&utm_medium=custom_extensions_cpp

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