Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/45221
This PR introduces a distributed functional optimizer, so that
distributed optimizer can reuse the functional optimizer APIs and
maintain their own states. This could enable the torchscript compatible
functional optimizer when using distributed optimizer, helps getting rid
of GIL and improve overall performance of training, especially distributed
model parallel training
Test Plan: Imported from OSS
Reviewed By: ailzhang
Differential Revision: D23935256
Pulled By: wanchaol
fbshipit-source-id: 59b6d77ff4693ab24a6e1cbb6740bcf614cc624a
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/44715
We have provided a nice and intuitive API in Python. But in the context of large scale distributed training (e.g. Distributed Model Parallel), users often want to use multithreaded training instead of multiprocess training as it provides better resource utilization and efficiency.
This PR introduces functional optimizer concept (that is similar to the concept of `nn.functional`), we split optimizer into two parts: 1. optimizer state management 2. optimizer computation. We expose the computation part as a separate functional API that is available to be used by internal and OSS developers, the caller of the functional API will maintain their own states in order to directly calls the functional API. While maintaining the end user API be the same, the functional API is TorchScript friendly, and could be used by the distributed optimizer to speed up the training without GIL.
Test Plan: Imported from OSS
Reviewed By: ailzhang
Differential Revision: D23935258
Pulled By: wanchaol
fbshipit-source-id: d2a5228439edb3bc64f7771af2bb9e891847136a
