Pipeline Parallelism

DeepSpeed v0.3 includes new support for pipeline parallelism! Pipeline parallelism improves both the memory and compute efficiency of deep learning training by partitioning the layers of a model into stages that can be processed in parallel. DeepSpeed’s training engine provides hybrid data and pipeline parallelism and can be further combined with model parallelism such as Megatron-LM. An illustration of 3D parallelism is shown below. Our latest results demonstrate that this 3D parallelism enables training models with over a trillion parameters.