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ZeRO stage 1 has different convergence compared to stage 0 and 2
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Description
When I train transformer architecture (encoder + decoder) with ZeRO stage 1, it shows different loss curve compared to stage 0 and stage 2.
On the other hand, the trainings with stage 0 and stage 2 look very similar.

23: stage 0, 24: stage 1, 25: stage 2
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