Systems and efficient execution · MLD-1112
Sequence parallelism
Partitioning work or activations along the sequence dimension to reduce replicated memory or computation.
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Original example
Distribute long-sequence transformer processing.
Original caveat
The name covers several implementation-specific schemes.
Context and aliases
Level: Advanced. Stages: Training · Inference · Deployment.
Tags: DL · LLM · SLM · Systems.
Aliases: SP.
Related concepts
Concepts linking here
Original references
- PyTorch Fully Sharded Data Parallel ↗ · Consulted
- PyTorch documentation ↗ · Reference link
- vLLM documentation ↗ · Consulted
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