Top 5 Pipeline Parallelism Techniques for LLMs
Looking at the comparison overview table, each technique is listed with a real-world use case. For example, Tensor Parallelism mentions NVIDIA's Megatron-LM. There's a section titled "Technique 1: Tensor Parallelism with Megatron-LM," so I can reference that. Similarly, ZeRO Pipeline Parallelism is covered in "Technique 2: ZeRO Pipeline Parallelism via DeepSpeed." Sharded Pipeline Parallelism links to "Technique 3: Sharded Pipeline Parallelism using FairScale." The Hybrid technique is in "Technique 4: Hybrid Pipeline + Data Parallelism with PyTorch DistributedDataParallel." The Custom one is in "Technique 5: Custom Pipeline Parallelism with PyTorch Lightning." In the Key Highlights section, each technique has more detailed info. For example, under Tensor Parallelism, it mentions NVIDIA's Megatron-LM, so I can link to Technique 1. ZeRO's section mentions DeepSpeed's train_batch(), which is covered in Technique 2. Sharded Pipeline's ShardedDataParallel is in Technique 3. Hybrid's mention of PyTorch DDP is in Technique 4. Custom's PyTorch Lightning is in Technique 5. I need to make sure the references are natural. For example, where it says "NVIDIA’s Megatron-LM implementation shows...," I can add "As mentioned in the Technique 1: Tensor Parallelism with Megatron-LM section..." Similarly, for DeepSpeed, link to Technique 2. FairScale's ShardedDataParallel can link to Technique 3. PyTorch DDP in Hybrid can link to Technique 4. PyTorch Lightning for Custom can link to Technique 5.