Summary of Re-evaluating the Memory-balanced Pipeline Parallelism: Bpipe, by Mincong Huang et al.
Re-evaluating the Memory-balanced Pipeline Parallelism: BPipe
by Mincong Huang, Chao Wang, Chi Ma, Yineng Zhang, Peng Zhang, Lei Yu
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed approach, Pipeline parallelism, is a crucial technique for training large-scale Transformer models. However, it faces an issue with imbalanced memory consumption, leading to inefficient memory utilization. The existing solution, BPipe, has shown promising results in GPT-3 model training but failed to replicate these benefits in LLaMA training. Moreover, applying flash attention to GPT-3 training only yields minor improvements. This paper investigates the underlying causes of this divergent performance and introduces a novel method for estimating BPipe’s effectiveness. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A team of researchers discovered that making large machines learn faster is hard because they use too much memory unequally. They tried a solution called Pipeline parallelism to fix this, but it didn’t work as well when training two special language models called GPT-3 and LLaMA. They want to know why these different results happened and came up with a new way to measure how well the solution works. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention * Gpt * Llama * Transformer
