deepspeedai / deepspeedai/DeepSpeedExamples

Cannot use ZeRO in bing_bert example

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Hi,

Great repo! I have some questions about the bing_bert example: doesn't it support ZeRO? I tried stage 1 or 2, but it kept running into errors. If not using deepspeed transformers kernels, I encountered

Invalid to reduce Param 76 with None gradient

If using deepspeed transformers kernels, I encountered,

RuntimeError: CUDA error: misaligned address

I would really appreciate some help. Thanks in advance!

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Start with the bing_bert example and reproduce the reported runs using ZeRO stages 1 and 2, both with and without DeepSpeed transformer kernels. Trace the two reported errors to determine whether ZeRO is supported there; done means the example runs successfully or its compatibility limitation is documented.

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python
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distributed-systems, machine-learning
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Bug
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