NVIDIA-NeMo / NVIDIA-NeMo/RL

Slowness in KD with Nemo RL during nemotron training

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Description

Off-policy KD is much slower per step. Main reasons (to-dos)
- need to make sure the ray driver doesn’t OOM on large K and context length when passing logits from teacher to student
- pipeline the teacher inference with student training
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