# Colossal-AI
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## Latest News * [2022/11] [Diffusion Pretraining and Hardware Fine-Tuning Can Be Almost 7X Cheaper](https://medium.com/@yangyou_berkeley/diffusion-pretraining-and-hardware-fine-tuning-can-be-almost-7x-cheaper-85e970fe207b) * [2022/10] [Use a Laptop to Analyze 90% of Proteins, With a Single-GPU Inference Sequence Exceeding 10,000](https://medium.com/@yangyou_berkeley/use-a-laptop-to-analyze-90-of-proteins-with-a-single-gpu-inference-sequence-exceeding-10-000-4c8f0a389cd) * [2022/10] [Embedding Training With 1% GPU Memory and 100 Times Less Budget for Super-Large Recommendation Model](https://medium.com/@yangyou_berkeley/embedding-training-with-1-gpu-memory-and-10-times-less-budget-an-open-source-solution-for-6b4c3aba07a8) * [2022/09] [HPC-AI Tech Completes $6 Million Seed and Angel Round Fundraising](https://medium.com/@hpcaitech/hpc-ai-tech-completes-6-million-seed-and-angel-round-fundraising-led-by-bluerun-ventures-in-the-892468cc2b02) * [2022/07] [Colossal-AI Seamlessly Accelerates Large Models at Low Costs with Hugging Face](https://medium.com/@yangyou_berkeley/colossal-ai-seamlessly-accelerates-large-models-at-low-costs-with-hugging-face-4d1a887e500d) ## Table of Contents ## Why Colossal-AI
Prof. James Demmel (UC Berkeley): Colossal-AI makes training AI models efficient, easy, and scalable.

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## Features Colossal-AI provides a collection of parallel components for you. We aim to support you to write your distributed deep learning models just like how you write your model on your laptop. We provide user-friendly tools to kickstart distributed training and inference in a few lines. - Parallelism strategies - Data Parallelism - Pipeline Parallelism - 1D, [2D](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05343), [2.5D](https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14500), [3D](https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14450) Tensor Parallelism - [Sequence Parallelism](https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13120) - [Zero Redundancy Optimizer (ZeRO)](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02054) - Heterogeneous Memory Management - [PatrickStar](https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05818) - Friendly Usage - Parallelism based on configuration file - Inference - [Energon-AI](https://github.com/hpcaitech/EnergonAI) - Colossal-AI in the Real World - Biomedicine: [FastFold](https://github.com/hpcaitech/FastFold) accelerates training and inference of AlphaFold protein structure

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## Parallel Training Demo ### ViT

- 14x larger batch size, and 5x faster training for Tensor Parallelism = 64 ### GPT-3

- Save 50% GPU resources, and 10.7% acceleration ### GPT-2 - 11x lower GPU memory consumption, and superlinear scaling efficiency with Tensor Parallelism - 24x larger model size on the same hardware - over 3x acceleration ### BERT - 2x faster training, or 50% longer sequence length ### PaLM - [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)). ### OPT - [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 public pretrained model weights. - 45% speedup fine-tuning OPT at low cost in lines. [[Example]](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI-Examples/tree/main/language/opt) [[Online Serving]](https://service.colossalai.org/opt) Please visit our [documentation](https://www.colossalai.org/) and [examples](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI-Examples) for more details. ### Recommendation System Models - [Cached Embedding](https://github.com/hpcaitech/CachedEmbedding), utilize software cache to train larger embedding tables with a smaller GPU memory budget.

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## Single GPU Training Demo ### GPT-2

- 20x larger model size on the same hardware

- 120x larger model size on the same hardware (RTX 3080) ### PaLM

- 34x larger model size on the same hardware

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## Inference (Energon-AI) Demo

- [Energon-AI](https://github.com/hpcaitech/EnergonAI): 50% inference acceleration on the same hardware

- [OPT Serving](https://service.colossalai.org/opt): Try 175-billion-parameter OPT online services for free, without any registration whatsoever.

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## Colossal-AI in the Real World ### AIGC Acceleration of AIGC (AI-Generated Content) models such as [Stable Diffusion](https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion)

- [Stable Diffusion with Colossal-AI](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/tree/main/examples/images/diffusion): 6.5x faster training and pretraining cost saving, the hardware cost of fine-tuning can be almost 7X cheaper (from RTX3090/4090 to RTX3050/2070)

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### Biomedicine Acceleration of [AlphaFold Protein Structure](https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/)

- [FastFold](https://github.com/hpcaitech/FastFold): accelerating training and inference on GPU Clusters, faster data processing, inference sequence containing more than 10000 residues.

- [xTrimoMultimer](https://github.com/biomap-research/xTrimoMultimer): accelerating structure prediction of protein monomers and multimer by 11x.

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## Installation ### Download From Official Releases You can visit the [Download](https://www.colossalai.org/download) page to download Colossal-AI with pre-built CUDA extensions. ### Download From Source > The version of Colossal-AI will be in line with the main branch of the repository. Feel free to raise an issue if you encounter any problem. :) ```shell git clone https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI.git cd ColossalAI # install dependency pip install -r requirements/requirements.txt # install colossalai pip install . ``` If you don't want to install and enable CUDA kernel fusion (compulsory installation when using fused optimizer): ```shell NO_CUDA_EXT=1 pip install . ```

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## Use Docker ### Pull from DockerHub 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. ### Build On Your Own Run the following command to build a docker image from Dockerfile provided. > 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. ```bash cd ColossalAI docker build -t colossalai ./docker ``` Run the following command to start the docker container in interactive mode. ```bash docker run -ti --gpus all --rm --ipc=host colossalai bash ```

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## Community Join the Colossal-AI community on [Forum](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/discussions), [Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/colossalaiworkspace/shared_invite/zt-z7b26eeb-CBp7jouvu~r0~lcFzX832w), and [WeChat](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hpcaitech/public_assets/main/colossalai/img/WeChat.png "qrcode") to share your suggestions, feedback, and questions with our engineering team. ## Contributing If you wish to contribute to this project, please follow the guideline in [Contributing](./CONTRIBUTING.md). Thanks so much to all of our amazing contributors! *The order of contributor avatars is randomly shuffled.*

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## Cite Us ``` @article{bian2021colossal, title={Colossal-AI: A Unified Deep Learning System For Large-Scale Parallel Training}, author={Bian, Zhengda and Liu, Hongxin and Wang, Boxiang and Huang, Haichen and Li, Yongbin and Wang, Chuanrui and Cui, Fan and You, Yang}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14883}, year={2021} } ```

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