http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02054

• DP
  • 每个gpu都维护权重、梯度、优化器的完整副本
  • Memory:
    • Weight: n
    • Activation: x
    • Gradient: n
    • Full precision weight: n
    • First-order momentum: n
    • Second-order momentum: n
  • Communication:
    • Gradient: 2n (all-reduce)
• Zero-1:
  • 每个gpu都维护一个权重和梯度的副本；所有gpu协作维护一个优化器副本；注意优化器的切分是以tp而不是mp的方式进行的，以保证scatter-reduce时每台机器的通讯量相同
  • Memory:
    • Weight: n
    • Activation: x
    • Gradient: n
    • Full precision weight: n/d
    • First-order momentum: n/d
    • Second-order momentum: n/d
  • Communication
    • Gradient: n (scatter-reduce)
    • Updated weight: n (all-broadcast)
• Zero-2:
  • 每个gpu仅维护一个权重副本；梯度在计算之后就立刻发送给它的优化器所在的gpu
  • Memory:
    • Memory:
      • Weight: n
      • Activation: x
      • Gradient: n/d
      • Full precision weight: n/d
      • First-order momentum: n/d
      • Second-order momentum: n/d
    • Communication
      • Gradient: n (per-tensor scatter-reduce)
      • Updated weight: n (all-broadcast)
• Zero-3
  • 连同权重一起tp切分放在对应机器上，forward时all-gather将每一个权重的切片同步给所有机器
  • Memory:
    • Weight: n/d
    • Activation: x
    • Gradient: n/d
    • Full precision weight: n/d
    • First-order momentum: n/d
    • Second-order momentum: n/d
  • Communication
    • Weight: n (all-gather)
    • Gradient: n (scatter-reduce)
    • Updated weight: n (all-broadcast)
• Zero-R
  • 在有tp的情况下，将activation切片保存到tp group的其中一台机器上，避免冗余的副本