DeepSpeed Pipeline并行

DeepSpeed为了克服一般Pipeline并行的forward时weights,和backward时计算梯度的weights, 二者不相同的问题，退而求其次，牺牲性能，采用gradient-accumulate方式，backward时只累积梯度至local，并不更新weights；多个micro-batch完成之后，才all-reduce一把并更新weights；

class AlexNet(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, num_classes=1000):
        super(AlexNet, self).__init__()
        self.features = nn.Sequential(
            nn.Conv2d(3, 64, kernel_size=11, stride=4, padding=2),
            ...
            nn.MaxPool2d(kernel_size=3, stride=2),
        )
        self.avgpool = nn.AdaptiveAvgPool2d((6, 6))
        self.classifier = nn.Sequential(
            nn.Dropout(),
            ...
            nn.Linear(4096, num_classes),
        )

    def to_layers(self):
        layers = [
            *self.features,
            self.avgpool,
            lambda x: torch.flatten(x, 1),
            *self.classifier
        ]
        return layers

from deepspeed.pipe import PipelineModule
net = AlexNetPipe()
pipeline_model = PipelineModule(layers=net.to_layers(), num_stages=2)

model_engine, _, _, _ = deepspeed.initialize(
    args=args,
    model=pipeline_model,
    model_parameters=pipeline_model.parameters(),
    training_data=trainset
)

for epoch in range(num_epochs):
    iter_data = iter(trainloader)
    for i in range(num_iters):
        loss = model_engine.train_batch()

具体例子：https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeedExamples/tree/master/training/pipeline_parallelism

第1各stage的rank，会去读data features；最后一个stage的rank，会去读data label;

layer划分至各GPU的策略：

1. partition_method="parameters"：按可训练参数量，来均匀划分 ；（默认）

2. partition_method="type:[regex]"：按name划分；凡是匹配该正则表达式的layers，按个数均匀分摊至各GPU；例如，名字里含有"transformer"的层，每个GPU来分到相同个数。

3. partition_method="uniform"：按层数的个数来均匀划分；