https://github.com/Shigangli/Chimera

Chimera: Efficiently Training Large-Scale Neural Networks with Bidirectional Pipelines.
https://github.com/Shigangli/Chimera

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Chimera: Efficiently Training Large-Scale Neural Networks with Bidirectional Pipelines.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Shigangli/Chimera
• Owner: Shigangli
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2021-05-30T19:18:24.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-05T09:54:14.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-02-17T09:33:28.501Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: distributed-deep-learning, pipeline-parallelism, transformers
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 876 KB
• Stars: 34
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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• awesome-Auto-Parallelism - Chimera - scale neural networks with bidirectional pipelines | Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich Switzerland | [dl.acm](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3458817.3476145) | PyTorch | SC 2021 | Performance model with brute force (Data Parallelism + Pipeline Parallelism (or Inter-layer Model Parallelism):)

README

        
### Data preparation

https://github.com/microsoft/AzureML-BERT/blob/master/docs/dataprep.md

Please store `wikipedia.segmented.nltk.txt` file under the `bert_data/` directory.

### Installation

```

pip install -r requirements.txt

```

For training, we use `apex.optimizers.FusedLAMB` of [NVIDIA's Apex library](https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex). Please follow the [instruction](https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex#installation) for installing `apex`. 

For profiling, we use [NVIDIA Nsight Systems](https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-systems). Please make sure you can execute `nsys` command.

Our scripts are intended to run through the SLURM workload manager on a GPU cluster with 1 GPU per node.

### Profiling **Chimera** with 8 stages for BERT-Large on 8 GPUs 

```

sbatch scripts/prof_steps.sh

```

```

sh scripts/plot_cuda_timeline.sh

```

output: `bert_prof/bert-large_chimera_8stages_8gpus_microbs32_acc1.pdf`

### Publication

Chimera is pulished in SC'21, **Best Paper Finalist**. See the [paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3458817.3476145) and the [video talk](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3458817.3476145#sec-supp) for more details. To cite our work:

```bibtex

@inproceedings{li143,

  author = {Li, Shigang and Hoefler, Torsten},

  title = {Chimera: Efficiently Training Large-Scale Neural Networks with Bidirectional Pipelines},

  year = {2021},

  isbn = {9781450384421},

  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},

  address = {New York, NY, USA},

  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3458817.3476145},

  doi = {10.1145/3458817.3476145},

  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis},

  articleno = {27},

  numpages = {14},

  location = {St. Louis, Missouri},

  series = {SC '21}

}

```

### License

See [LICENSE](LICENSE).