deepspeedai / deepspeedai/DeepSpeed

Add support of L-BFGS optimizer

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Description

L-BFGS - Is second order optimizer having good convergence but is memory intensive.
Offloading optimizer state with deep-speed would improve method accessibility for users constrained in GPU-RAM

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Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating DeepSpeed's optimizer implementations and optimizer-state offloading path, then define the required L-BFGS behavior and validation; done means L-BFGS is supported with state offloading for users constrained by GPU memory.

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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
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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