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Welcome to fairscale's documentation!
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   api/index
   tutorials/index


*fairscale* is a PyTorch extension library for high performance and large scale training for optimizing training on one or across multiple machines/nodes. This library extend basic pytorch capabilities while adding new experimental ones.


Components
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* Parallelism:
   * `pipeline parallelism <../api/nn/pipe.html>`_
   * `tensor parallelism <../api/nn/model_parallel.html>`_
* Optimization:
   * `optimizer state sharding <../api/optim/oss.html>`_


.. warning::
    This library is under active development. 
    Please be mindful and create an `issue <https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairscale/issues>`_ if you have any trouble and/or suggestion.


Reference
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:ref:`genindex` | :ref:`modindex` | :ref:`search`