Multi-GPU switch from TorchRun to Accelerate #91
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Description of the change
The current codebase recommends
torchrun
for multi-gpu training. Whiletorchrun
is the de-facto way to launch distributed jobs, if used wrongly, it may be incompatible with huggingface trainers and models. The huggingface recommended approach is to useaccelerate
(a layer built on top oftorchrun
) to launch multi-gpu jpbs.Related issue number
Addresses #87 . Also in part addresses #80.
How to verify the PR
Test the run instructions given in the updated README.md
Was the PR tested
Had @VassilisVassiliadis and @fabianlim tested the scripts.