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Build a mini data loader with sharding for distributed training: split data across workers without overlap.

A from-scratch test of distributed input pipelines. The signal is partitioning data across workers with no overlap and no gaps, epoch-consistent shuffling with a shared seed, and handling the uneven-last-batch problem. Here is the implementation.

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A from-scratch test of distributed input pipelines. The signal is partitioning data across workers with no overlap and no gaps, epoch-consistent shuffling with a shared seed, and handling the uneven-last-batch problem. Here is the implementation.

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