DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training easy, efficient, and effective.
10x Larger Models
10x Faster Training
Minimal Code Change
DeepSpeed delivers extreme-scale model training for everyone, from data scientists training on massive supercomputers to those training on low-end clusters or even on a single GPU:
- Extreme scale: Using current generation of GPU clusters with hundreds of devices, 3D parallelism of DeepSpeed can efficiently train deep learning models with trillions of parameters.
- Extremely memory efficient: With just a single GPU, ZeRO-Offload of DeepSpeed can train models with over 10B parameters, 10x bigger than the state of arts, democratizing multi-billion-parameter model training such that many deep learning scientists can explore bigger and better models.
- Extremely long sequence length: Sparse attention of DeepSpeed powers an order-of-magnitude longer input sequence and obtains up to 6x faster execution comparing with dense transformers.
- Extremely communication efficient: 3D parallelism improves communication efficiency allows users to train multi-billion-parameter models 2–7x faster on clusters with limited network bandwidth. 1-bit Adam reduces communication volume by up to 5x while achieving similar convergence efficiency to Adam, allowing for scaling to different types of GPU clusters and networks.
Early adopters of DeepSpeed have already produced a language model (LM) with over 17B parameters called Turing-NLG, establishing a new SOTA in the LM category.
DeepSpeed is an important part of Microsoft’s new AI at Scale initiative to enable next-generation AI capabilities at scale, where you can find more information here.
For further documentation, tutorials, and technical deep-dives please see deepspeed.ai!
- [2020/09/10] DeepSpeed: Extreme-scale model training for everyone
- [2020/08/07] DeepSpeed Microsoft Research Webinar is now available on-demand
- [2020/07/24] DeepSpeed Microsoft Research Webinar on August 6th, 2020
- [2020/05/19] ZeRO-2 & DeepSpeed: Shattering Barriers of Deep Learning Speed & Scale
- [2020/05/19] An Order-of-Magnitude Larger and Faster Training with ZeRO-2
- [2020/05/19] The Fastest and Most Efficient BERT Training through Optimized Transformer Kernels
- [2020/02/13] Turing-NLG: A 17-billion-parameter language model by Microsoft
- [2020/02/13] ZeRO & DeepSpeed: New system optimizations enable training models with over 100 billion parameters
| Section | Description |
|---|---|
| Why DeepSpeed? | DeepSpeed overview |
| Features | DeepSpeed features |
| Further Reading | DeepSpeed documentation, tutorials, etc. |
| Contributing | Instructions for contributing to DeepSpeed |
| Publications | DeepSpeed publications |
Training advanced deep learning models is challenging. Beyond model design, model scientists also need to set up the state-of-the-art training techniques such as distributed training, mixed precision, gradient accumulation, and checkpointing. Yet still, scientists may not achieve the desired system performance and convergence rate. Large model sizes are even more challenging: a large model easily runs out of memory with pure data parallelism and it is difficult to use model parallelism. DeepSpeed addresses these challenges to accelerate model development and training.
Below we provide a brief feature list, see our detailed feature overview for descriptions and usage.
- Distributed Training with Mixed Precision
- 16-bit mixed precision
- Single-GPU/Multi-GPU/Multi-Node
- Model Parallelism
- Support for Custom Model Parallelism
- Integration with Megatron-LM
- Pipeline Parallelism
- 3D Parallelism
- The Zero Redundancy Optimizer (ZeRO)
- Optimizer State and Gradient Partitioning
- Activation Partitioning
- Constant Buffer Optimization
- Contiguous Memory Optimization
- ZeRO-Offload
- Leverage both CPU/GPU memory for model training
- Support 10B model training on a single GPU
- Ultra-fast dense transformer kernels
- Sparse attention
- Memory- and compute-efficient sparse kernels
- Support 10x long sequences than dense
- Flexible support to different sparse structures
- 1-bit Adam
- Custom communication collective
- Up to 5x communication volume saving
- Additional Memory and Bandwidth Optimizations
- Smart Gradient Accumulation
- Communication/Computation Overlap
- Training Features
- Simplified training API
- Gradient Clipping
- Automatic loss scaling with mixed precision
- Training Optimizers
- Fused Adam optimizer and arbitrary
torch.optim.Optimizer - Memory bandwidth optimized FP16 Optimizer
- Large Batch Training with LAMB Optimizer
- Memory efficient Training with ZeRO Optimizer
- CPU-Adam
- Fused Adam optimizer and arbitrary
- Training Agnostic Checkpointing
- Advanced Parameter Search
- Learning Rate Range Test
- 1Cycle Learning Rate Schedule
- Simplified Data Loader
- Performance Analysis and Debugging
All DeepSpeed documentation can be found on our website: deepspeed.ai
| Article | Description |
|---|---|
| DeepSpeed Features | DeepSpeed features |
| Getting Started | First steps with DeepSpeed |
| DeepSpeed JSON Configuration | Configuring DeepSpeed |
| API Documentation | Generated DeepSpeed API documentation |
| CIFAR-10 Tutorial | Getting started with CIFAR-10 and DeepSpeed |
| Megatron-LM Tutorial | Train GPT2 with DeepSpeed and Megatron-LM |
| BERT Pre-training Tutorial | Pre-train BERT with DeepSpeed |
| Learning Rate Range Test Tutorial | Faster training with large learning rates |
| 1Cycle Tutorial | SOTA learning schedule in DeepSpeed |
DeepSpeed welcomes your contributions! Please see our contributing guide for more details on formatting, testing, etc.
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- Samyam Rajbhandari, Jeff Rasley, Olatunji Ruwase, Yuxiong He. (2019) ZeRO: Memory Optimization Towards Training A Trillion Parameter Models. ArXiv:1910.02054