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This PR deprecates the sharded_ddp training arguments, since ShardedDDP has been upstreamded to PyTorch, so users can use the fsdp traning parameter instead.


According to fairscale(see), PyTorch FSDP is the recommended method for scaling to large NN models. I think Sharded-DDP is dead and it's time to say goodbye to this library.

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@ji-huazhong ji-huazhong marked this pull request as draft July 14, 2023 13:48
@ji-huazhong ji-huazhong changed the title 【wip】deprecate fairscale's ShardedDDP deprecate fairscale's ShardedDDP Jul 14, 2023
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That makes sense thanks! Note that while removing it entirely from the doc is fine, we can't abruptly remove it from the library like this. We will need to properly deprecate it first and in two-tree minor versions we can fully remove it.

@ji-huazhong ji-huazhong changed the title deprecate fairscale's ShardedDDP deprecate sharded_ddp for fsdp Jul 15, 2023
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That makes sense thanks! Note that while removing it entirely from the doc is fine, we can't abruptly remove it from the library like this. We will need to properly deprecate it first and in two-tree minor versions we can fully remove it.

@sgugger Thanks for pointing this out. I have rolled back the code changes and added a warning that sharded_ddp will be deprecated. Could you take a second look at this PR?

@ji-huazhong ji-huazhong marked this pull request as ready for review July 15, 2023 02:48
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@ji-huazhong ji-huazhong changed the title deprecate sharded_ddp for fsdp deprecate sharded_ddp training argument Jul 15, 2023
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Thanks for iterating!

@sgugger sgugger merged commit 8ba26c1 into huggingface:main Jul 17, 2023
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