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* [fix] better handling non-flatten in FSDP

- see the detailed comment about that backward firing case
- also minor debugging help in FSDP
- also minor fix in FPW's state dict

* [feat] disallow reset_parameters by default

* [feat] adding fsdp_instances API - useful in check wrapping by user code

* [fix] one line fix but more than a day of debugging

* fixed the case of loading combined check with empty fsdp instances

* fixed another bug around state loading the root/nonroot module full param caching due to not resharding after forward

* [feat] support .half and .float better

* fixed a bug in gather optim state losses extra keys from the original state_dict

* fixed a test failure in mixed precision

* fixed another bug affecting no_sync grad acc

* fixed a bug and a test in fsdp optim state

* fixed another corner case

* added a comment

* skip ssd offload tests

* skip fsdp one for ssd overload
Co-authored-by: Min Xu <min.xu.public@gmail.com>

* adding pre-commit files

* applying pre-commit to all files

* adding no-strict-optional argument to mypy in circle ci config

* fix typo

* updating python versions

* [skip ci] remove extra args

* adding python 3.9

* [skip ci] set pre-commit version in requirements-dev.txt

* set CACHE_VERSION

* move linters from circleci to github actions

* update python version

* update python version in benchmarks_2

* moving to python 3.9.7

* [feat] MEVO kernel

- initial import from min/softmax and min/testing branches
- need to rename and further cleanup

* only test with newer pytorch

* renamed and added comments and code cleanup

* rename and reduce test memory

* testing

* minor fixing

* fixing

* more fix

* changelog

* more 1.7 and 1.8 paper cuts

* remove dead code

* addressed Benjamin's comments

* addressed more comments
Co-authored-by: Min Xu <min.xu.public@gmail.com>

* [fix] FSDP intra-backwards gradient accumulation.

Ensure gradient reduction accumulates into the unsharded gradient tensor
within a backwards pass. This matters when an FSDP module is called
multiple times within a forward pass, and reduction is _not_ deferred
using activation checkpoint forward counters, bucketing or some other
mechanism.

Closes #780

* [refactor] Remove forward counters. Comments.

Removed forward counters from the activation checkpointing utility, now
that FSDP does not require them for correct operation. Add more detailed
comment about memory usage behaviour with gradient reduction.

* [refactor] Delete deprecated forward counter usage.

* [refactor] Add state assertion as end of pre-backward hook.

* [fix] auto_wrap: support wrapping based on wrapper_config

- user can use this to avoid assert if auto_wrap is used multiple times on a module
- user can traverse the modules multiple times and assign a wrapper_config
  to the module and then use auto_wrap once to wrap them

fix #649
fix #585

* added changelog

* fix tests

* fix a test

* added an optional assert for collision based on discussions with Quentin

* added config_auto_wrap_policy

* lint
Co-authored-by: Min Xu <min.xu.public@gmail.com>

* fix saving and loading checkpoints with use_sharded_state=True

* mypy fix

* better fix of the infinite recursion

- we need to specifically call FSDP.state_dict from its local state_dict
- added unit test that fails without the fix and works with the fix
- fixed mypy for the overloaded functions

* make cpu-only fsdp work for state_dict at least
Co-authored-by: Min Xu <min.xu@acm.org>
Co-authored-by: Min Xu <min.xu.public@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Min Xu <m1n@fb.com>

* [fix]: let FSDP handle model with multiple forward pass and checkpoint

* try CI again

* save

* save

* fixed case with bn

* minor

* add the new file

* minor

* added test of a single case, runtime is about 50s

* enable all 8 test cases

* cleanup

* cleanup

* skip flatten case with 1.6 and 1.7

* minor
Co-authored-by: Min Xu <min.xu@acm.org>

* [feat]: checkpoint and normalization

- added special handling of BN for track_running_stats and checkpointing
- we test BN/LN and checkpointing
- we test them with mixed precision

This adds a context manager that assists in making child modules with similar defaults.
Usage:
```
from fairscale.nn.misc import enable_wrap, wrap

with enable_wrap(**handleful_of_important_params):
    layer_1 = wrap(torch.nn.Linear(5, 5))
    layer_2 = wrap(torch.nn.Linear(5, 5), flatten_parameters=True) # Override parameters if you'd like

# without the context manager, creates Linear layer
layer_1 = wrap(torch.nn.Linear(5, 5))
```
If not within the FSDP context, this would be a no-op. This makes it easier to annotate layers without having to copy any changes in parameters.

Recent work by [Microsoft](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02054) and [Google](https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13336

) has shown that data parallel training can be made significantly more efficient by sharding the model parameters and optimizer state across data parallel workers. These ideas are encapsulated in the new **`FullyShardedDataParallel` (FSDP)** wrapper, which is a drop-in replacement for PyTorch's `DistributedDataParallel` (DDP) wrapper.

Compared to PyTorch DDP:
* FSDP shards parameters (FP16 + FP32) and optimizer state across data parallel GPUs
* FSDP with `reshard_after_forward=False` has the same communication cost as PyTorch DDP and is similar to ZeRO-2
* FSDP with `reshard_after_forward=True` increases total communication by 50% and is similar to ZeRO-3:
    * all-gather parameters at start of forward pass and start of backward pass
    * reduce-scatter grads at end of backward pass
Co-authored-by: Min Xu <24926999+min-xu-ai@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Sam Shleifer <sshleifer@gmail.com>

Adds support for distributing pipeline stages across multiple processes (and therefore multiple machines)
* Adds a style argument to the Pipe constructor, defaulting to PipelineStyle.SingleProcess, but also supporting PipelineStyle.MultiProcess
* Added support for lazy construction of modules (see lazy_construction for an example)
* Added two implementations of inter-process communication: one based on rpc with globally visible queues, one based on send/recv
* Copied all the relevant tests from tests/pipe to tests/pipe_process and modified them to exercise PipelineStyle.MultiProcess

Co-authored-by: Jun Ru Anderson <andersonic@fb.com>