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* initial implementation, with unit test and assert
* added changelog and better debug string

* Better unit testing
* Make it possible to refresh the DDP assumptions when the model has changed. Make it optional so that you save some time
* Enabling accumulation tests

* Add fairscale.utils.containers
Co-authored-by: Min Xu <24926999+min-xu-ai@users.noreply.github.com>

* Add fairscale.nn.misc.checkpoint_activations
Co-authored-by: Sam Shleifer <sshleifer@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Min Xu <24926999+min-xu-ai@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Sam Shleifer <sshleifer@gmail.com>

* Adding a proper ddp parity / AMP unit test, overdue
* catch non-AMP pytorch

* adding the .to(device) support + unit testing
* doc update

* no idea about the root issue, but it proved to be fairly narrowed (gloo+cpu+python3.8+no cuda installed) so I guess that's out of scope for fairscale

* Add AMPnet implementation (clean version)

* Move ampnet to experimental

* Move stuff around pipeline

* Address review comments and fix pre-commit errors

* Refactor and modify delegate functionality

* Modify header in pipe.py

* working around broken mypy

* minor, but ease of life, one less papercut

* tentatively fixing the cpu version of circleci jobs, now pipe tests are the last ones standing
* fixing oss backcompat, trying to fix rpc in old pytorch also
* fixing the file based init in torch 1.5

* adding the pytest timeout plugin to properly root out hanging tests
* removing redundant code, slightly more reasonable timeout, works on single cuda
* finding the root bug for some of the cpu hangs, rpc init
* propagating all the rpc init test changes to the pipe and model parallel tests

* fix typo, backend for CPU test

* Add function to add handle for sync BN
* Add test to ensure batch norm handles have been added

* catching properly a given test failing if not enough gpus

* file based dist init
* nicer handling of broken world sizes vs. number of available GPUs, do not break but warn out

[OSS] Getting rid of the "should bucket" hash table, just use a list + non trainable params fix (#259)

* Getting rid of the "should bucket" hash table, just use a list
Properly handle all params, with or without requires_grad

* make sure that this case is unit tested

* unit test checking ddp and sharded_ddp equivalence, reproducing the issue that Sean spotted
* fixing the issue, not counting requests in flight properly
* adding a multiple optimizers case

* proper unit testing, but no other solution than disabling bucketing for now, couple of options tested do not work

* fallback on internal pytorch numbering

* rewrite using autograd and Variable execution queue to make the reduce automatic
* share buckets with OSS to remove duplication
* some speed still likely on the table since the speed vs. bucketing does not match expectations, could be a follow up

Adds support for:
* Reused layers (e.g. for weight sharing)
* Lazily-constructed layers
* Single-process control via PipeRPCWrapper
* PipelineStyle.AsyncScheudle, which lays the foundation for asynchronous pipeline work by introducing an event loop for each rank/worker to process either activations or gradients as they arrive

Also added examples for multi-process and PipeRPCWrapper

- fixed typing
- make it run less often to reduce CI time

testing: run it in a loop make sure it is run in the right frequency.