Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the authors of FairScale FSDP: Myle Ott, Sam Shleifer, Min Xu, Priya Goyal, Quentin Duval, Vittorio Caggiano, Tingting Markstrum, Anjali Sridhar. Thanks to the Microsoft DeepSpeed ZeRO team for developing and popularizing sharded data parallel techniques. Thanks to Pavel Belevich, Jessica Choi, Sisil Mehta for running experiments using PyTorch FSDP on different clusters. Thanks to Geeta Chauhan, Mahesh Yadav, Pritam Damania, Dmytro Dzhulgakov for supporting this effort and insightful discussions.