* [2024/01] [Inference Performance Improved by 46%, Open Source Solution Breaks the Length Limit of LLM for Multi-Round Conversations](https://hpc-ai.com/blog/Colossal-AI-SwiftInfer)
* [2024/01] [Construct Refined 13B Private Model With Just $5000 USD, Upgraded Colossal-AI Llama-2 Open Source](https://hpc-ai.com/blog/colossal-llama-2-13b)
* [2023/11] [Enhanced MoE Parallelism, Open-source MoE Model Training Can Be 9 Times More Efficient](https://www.hpc-ai.tech/blog/enhanced-moe-parallelism-open-source-moe-model-training-can-be-9-times-more-efficient)
* [2023/09] [One Half-Day of Training Using a Few Hundred Dollars Yields Similar Results to Mainstream Large Models, Open-Source and Commercial-Free Domain-Specific LLM Solution](https://www.hpc-ai.tech/blog/one-half-day-of-training-using-a-few-hundred-dollars-yields-similar-results-to-mainstream-large-models-open-source-and-commercial-free-domain-specific-llm-solution)
* [2023/07] [HPC-AI Tech Raises 22 Million USD in Series A Funding](https://www.hpc-ai.tech/blog/hpc-ai-tech-raises-22-million-usd-in-series-a-funding-to-fuel-team-expansion-and-business-growth)
* [2023/07] [65B Model Pretraining Accelerated by 38%, Best Practices for Building LLaMA-Like Base Models Open-Source](https://www.hpc-ai.tech/blog/large-model-pretraining)
* [2023/03] [ColossalChat: An Open-Source Solution for Cloning ChatGPT With a Complete RLHF Pipeline](https://medium.com/@yangyou_berkeley/colossalchat-an-open-source-solution-for-cloning-chatgpt-with-a-complete-rlhf-pipeline-5edf08fb538b)
* [2023/03] [Intel and Colossal-AI Partner to Deliver Cost-Efficient Open-Source Solution for Protein Folding Structure Prediction](https://www.hpc-ai.tech/blog/intel-habana)
* [2023/03] [AWS and Google Fund Colossal-AI with Startup Cloud Programs](https://www.hpc-ai.tech/blog/aws-and-google-fund-colossal-ai-with-startup-cloud-programs)
<li><ahref="#Colossal-LLaMA-2">Colossal-LLaMA-2: One Half-Day of Training Using a Few Hundred Dollars Yields Similar Results to Mainstream Large Models, Open-Source and Commercial-Free Domain-Specific Llm Solution</a></li>
- 7B: One half-day of training using a few hundred dollars yields similar results to mainstream large models, open-source and commercial-free domain-specific LLM solution.
[ColossalChat](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/tree/main/applications/Chat): An open-source solution for cloning [ChatGPT](https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/) with a complete RLHF pipeline.
- Increase the capacity of the fine-tuning model by up to 3.7 times on a single GPU
- Keep at a sufficiently high running speed
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### AIGC
Acceleration of AIGC (AI-Generated Content) models such as [Stable Diffusion v1](https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion) and [Stable Diffusion v2](https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion).
- [Training](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/tree/main/examples/images/diffusion): Reduce Stable Diffusion memory consumption by up to 5.6x and hardware cost by up to 46x (from A100 to RTX3060).
- [DreamBooth Fine-tuning](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/tree/main/examples/images/dreambooth): Personalize your model using just 3-5 images of the desired subject.
- [FastFold](https://github.com/hpcaitech/FastFold): Accelerating training and inference on GPU Clusters, faster data processing, inference sequence containing more than 10000 residues.
- [PaLM-colossalai](https://github.com/hpcaitech/PaLM-colossalai): Scalable implementation of Google's Pathways Language Model ([PaLM](https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.html)).
- [Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT)](https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq), a 175-Billion parameter AI language model released by Meta, which stimulates AI programmers to perform various downstream tasks and application deployments because of public pre-trained model weights.
Please visit our [documentation](https://www.colossalai.org/) and [examples](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/tree/main/examples) for more details.
- [SwiftInfer](https://github.com/hpcaitech/SwiftInfer): Inference performance improved by 46%, open source solution breaks the length limit of LLM for multi-round conversations
- [BLOOM](https://github.com/hpcaitech/EnergonAI/tree/main/examples/bloom): Reduce hardware deployment costs of 176-billion-parameter BLOOM by more than 10 times.
If you encounter any problem with installation, you may want to raise an [issue](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/issues/new/choose) in this repository.
For Users with CUDA 10.2, you can still build ColossalAI from source. However, you need to manually download the cub library and copy it to the corresponding directory.
You can directly pull the docker image from our [DockerHub page](https://hub.docker.com/r/hpcaitech/colossalai). The image is automatically uploaded upon release.
> Building Colossal-AI from scratch requires GPU support, you need to use Nvidia Docker Runtime as the default when doing `docker build`. More details can be found [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59691207/docker-build-with-nvidia-runtime).
> We recommend you install Colossal-AI from our [project page](https://www.colossalai.org) directly.
and [WeChat(微信)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hpcaitech/public_assets/main/colossalai/img/WeChat.png "qrcode") to share your suggestions, feedback, and questions with our engineering team.
Referring to the successful attempts of [BLOOM](https://bigscience.huggingface.co/) and [Stable Diffusion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion), any and all developers and partners with computing powers, datasets, models are welcome to join and build the Colossal-AI community, making efforts towards the era of big AI models!
You may contact us or participate in the following ways:
1. [Leaving a Star ⭐](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/stargazers) to show your like and support. Thanks!
2. Posting an [issue](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/issues/new/choose), or submitting a PR on GitHub follow the guideline in [Contributing](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
3. Send your official proposal to email contact@hpcaitech.com
We leverage the power of [GitHub Actions](https://github.com/features/actions) to automate our development, release and deployment workflows. Please check out this [documentation](.github/workflows/README.md) on how the automated workflows are operated.
This project is inspired by some related projects (some by our team and some by other organizations). We would like to credit these amazing projects as listed in the [Reference List](./docs/REFERENCE.md).
author = {Li, Shenggui and Liu, Hongxin and Bian, Zhengda and Fang, Jiarui and Huang, Haichen and Liu, Yuliang and Wang, Boxiang and You, Yang},
title = {Colossal-AI: A Unified Deep Learning System For Large-Scale Parallel Training},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400708435},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3605573.3605613},
doi = {10.1145/3605573.3605613},
abstract = {The success of Transformer models has pushed the deep learning model scale to billions of parameters, but the memory limitation of a single GPU has led to an urgent need for training on multi-GPU clusters. However, the best practice for choosing the optimal parallel strategy is still lacking, as it requires domain expertise in both deep learning and parallel computing. The Colossal-AI system addressed the above challenge by introducing a unified interface to scale your sequential code of model training to distributed environments. It supports parallel training methods such as data, pipeline, tensor, and sequence parallelism and is integrated with heterogeneous training and zero redundancy optimizer. Compared to the baseline system, Colossal-AI can achieve up to 2.76 times training speedup on large-scale models.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 52nd International Conference on Parallel Processing},
pages = {766–775},
numpages = {10},
keywords = {datasets, gaze detection, text tagging, neural networks},
Colossal-AI has been accepted as official tutorial by top conferences [NeurIPS](https://nips.cc/), [SC](https://sc22.supercomputing.org/), [AAAI](https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-23/),
