| DeepSpeed | |
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| Original author | Microsoft Research |
| Developer | Microsoft |
| Release | May 18, 2020 (2020-05-18) |
| Stable release | v0.19.2
/ June 16, 2026 (2026-06-16) |
| Written in | Python, CUDA, C++ |
| Type | Software library |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | deepspeed |
| Repository | github |
DeepSpeed' is an open-source optimization library for the distributed training and inference of deep learning models using PyTorch.[1]
Library
The library is designed to reduce computing power and memory use and to train large distributed models with better parallelism on existing computer hardware.[2][3] DeepSpeed is optimized for low latency, high throughput training. It includes the Zero Redundancy Optimizer (ZeRO) for training models with 1 trillion or more parameters.[4] Features include mixed precision training, single-GPU, multi-GPU, and multi-node training as well as custom model parallelism. The DeepSpeed source code is licensed under Apache License and available on GitHub.[5]
The team claimed to achieve up to a 6.2x throughput improvement, 2.8x faster convergence, and 4.6x less communication.[6]
See also
References
- "Microsoft Updates Windows, Azure Tools with an Eye on The Future". PCMag UK. May 22, 2020.
- Yegulalp, Serdar (February 10, 2020). "Microsoft speeds up PyTorch with DeepSpeed". InfoWorld.
- "Microsoft unveils "fifth most powerful" supercomputer in the world". Neowin. 18 June 2023.
- "Microsoft trains world's largest Transformer language model". February 10, 2020.
- "microsoft/DeepSpeed". July 10, 2020 – via GitHub.
- "DeepSpeed: Accelerating large-scale model inference and training via system optimizations and compression". Microsoft Research. 2021-05-24. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
Further reading
- Rajbhandari, Samyam; Rasley, Jeff; Ruwase, Olatunji; He, Yuxiong (2019). "ZeRO: Memory Optimization Towards Training A Trillion Parameter Models". arXiv:1910.02054 [cs.LG].