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What are the collective communication operations (all-reduce, all-gather, reduce-scatter) in distributed training?

Distributed training is bottlenecked by GPU-to-GPU communication, and these collectives are how the data moves. The signal is what each one does and which parallelism strategy depends on it. Here is the answer.

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Distributed training is bottlenecked by GPU-to-GPU communication, and these collectives are how the data moves. The signal is what each one does and which parallelism strategy depends on it. Here is the answer.

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