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What are FSDP and DeepSpeed ZeRO, and how do their sharding stages differ?

FSDP and ZeRO let you train models too big for one GPU without splitting the compute. The signal is the ZeRO stages (what gets sharded at each level) and the communication you pay for it. Here is the answer.

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FSDP and ZeRO let you train models too big for one GPU without splitting the compute. The signal is the ZeRO stages (what gets sharded at each level) and the communication you pay for it. Here is the answer.

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