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@H-Huang H-Huang commented Mar 1, 2025 •
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Changes:

  • Remove backup parameters from local_sgd
  • clean up tests
  • Make DiLoCo not a subclass of local_sgd (there is some code repetition, but I think this is okay if we want to use these as an example for using our torchft APIs)

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@H-Huang H-Huang force-pushed the diloco branch 3 times, most recently from e4c31a3 to 1411aeb Compare March 1, 2025 03:52
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LGTM

torchft/local_sgd.py
works.append(self._manager.allreduce(p.data.detach()))

# Create a new tensor to store the averaged parameter
avg_param = p.data.clone()
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Should we be checking/setting p.data.grad to None to minimize memory impact from the copy here?

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I think p.data.grad should always be None, but I can add a line to ensure it is None. I think only p.grad gets set, not sure when p.data.grad would get updated

@H-Huang H-Huang merged commit 082753c into meta-pytorch:main Mar 4, 2025
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