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Highly Available Data Parallel ML training on Mesh Networks

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arxiv 2011.03605 v1 pith:52D4K5EN submitted 2020-11-06 cs.LG cs.DC

classification cs.LGcs.DC
keywords chipsmeshtrainingallreducearoundavailabledataduration
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Data parallel ML models can take several days or weeks to train on several accelerators. The long duration of training relies on the cluster of resources to be available for the job to keep running for the entire duration. On a mesh network this is challenging because failures will create holes in the mesh. Packets must be routed around the failed chips for full connectivity. In this paper, we present techniques to route gradient summation allreduce traffic around failed chips on 2-D meshes. We evaluate performance of our fault tolerant allreduce techniques via the MLPerf-v0.7 ResNet-50 and BERT benchmarks. Performance results show minimal impact to training throughput on 512 and 1024 TPU-v3 chips.

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