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Resources about distributed training with Megatron-LM

Github: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM
Document on NeMo: https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-framework/user-guide/latest/overview.html

NeMo is a cloud-native generative AI framework built on top of Megatron-LM.

Overall view of Megatron-Core: https://docs.nvidia.com/megatron-core/developer-guide/latest/index.html

Official APIs with formal product support…

Megatron-LM are basically based on the following three papers. Let’s do some notes on them.

Megatron-LM: Training Multi-Billion Parameter Language Models Using Model Parallelism

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2YC0-k57NM

C3D

3D convolution, easy to understand. Circumvent the use of optical flow, which is time-consuming. But 3D conv itself is also time-consuming with heavy computations.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK7AGO6okhc

视频理解在深度学习时代有过已下几大探索：

BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Models

Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model

Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvGa5Mba4c8
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18290

Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces

Tutorial:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiX8K-xBUpE

Mistral 7B

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VdNflU08yA

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZgXNdhWDY
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11401

tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_9W1nCFLo&t=27s

LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models