Lightning-AI / Lightning-AI/pytorch-lightning

why does lightning still not support Pipeline parallelism?

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Since Jan 14, 2026.

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### Description & Motivation

I want to benchmark different parallelisms, but I didn't find pipeline mode.

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cc @borda

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