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HuggingFace Accelerate - Unified Distributed Training
Quick start
Accelerate simplifies distributed training to 4 lines of code.
Installation:
pip install accelerate
Convert PyTorch script (4 lines):
import torch
+ from accelerate import Accelerator
+ accelerator = Accelerator()
model = torch.nn.Transformer()
optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(model.parameters())
dataloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset)
+ model, optimizer, dataloader = accelerator.prepare(model, optimizer, dataloader)
for batch in dataloader:
optimizer.zero_grad()
loss = model(batch)
- loss.backward()
+ accelerator.backward(loss)
optimizer.step()
Run (single command):
accelerate launch train.py
Common workflows
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