AI Infrastructure SoftwareLianmin Zheng et al. (UC Berkeley)UC Berkeley

Zheng et al. present Alpa

Presented Alpa — automated inter-operator and intra-operator parallelism

Why it matters

Automated the search for parallelization strategies. Redefined manual 3D parallelism tuning as a compilation problem

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12023

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