deepspeedai / deepspeedai/DeepSpeed

[REQUEST] Supports of backward propagation profiling

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently DeepSpeed only support the profiling of forward propagation. To calculate the percentage of theoretical peak FLOPs of training, we may need the profiling of backward propagation as well as parameter optimization.

Describe the solution you'd like
The implementation can uses current implementation, while adding the backward analysis.

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Research direction

Start by locating and reading DeepSpeed's existing forward-propagation profiling implementation. Determine how backward propagation and parameter optimization should be measured consistently with it; done means profiling reports the additional training phases well enough to calculate theoretical-peak-FLOPs percentages.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
machine-learning, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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