GShard- Scaling Giant Models with Conditional Computation and Automatic Sharding
Offered By: Yannic Kilcher via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Dive into an in-depth explanation of Google's groundbreaking 600 billion parameter transformer model for massively multilingual machine translation. Explore the innovative approach of increasing model width in feedforward layers and implementing hard routing for parallel computation across 2048 TPUs. Learn about the Mixture-of-Experts architecture, its routing algorithm, and how it differs from scaling classic transformers. Examine GShard, a module that simplifies parallel computation expression, and its application in automatic sharding. Discover the intricacies of massively multilingual translation and analyze the impressive results achieved by this giant model. Gain insights into the future of large-scale language models and their potential impact on machine translation technology.
Syllabus
- Intro & Overview
- Main Results
- Mixture-of-Experts
- Difference to Scaling Classic Transformers
- Backpropagation in Mixture-of-Experts
- MoE Routing Algorithm in GShard
- GShard Einsum Examples
- Massively Multilingual Translation
- Results
- Conclusion & Comments
Taught by
Yannic Kilcher
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