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Launchers

Functions for launching training on distributed processes.

accelerate.notebook_launcher

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( function args = () num_processes = None mixed_precision = 'no' use_port = '29500' )

Parameters

  • function (Callable) — The training function to execute. If it accepts arguments, the first argument should be the index of the process run.
  • args (Tuple) — Tuple of arguments to pass to the function (it will receive *args).
  • num_processes (int, optional) — The number of processes to use for training. Will default to 8 in Colab/Kaggle if a TPU is available, to the number of GPUs available otherwise.
  • mixed_precision (str, optional, defaults to "no") — If fp16 or bf16, will use mixed precision training on multi-GPU.
  • use_port (str, optional, defaults to "29500") — The port to use to communicate between processes when launching a multi-GPU training.

Launches a training function, using several processes if it’s possible in the current environment (TPU with multiple cores for instance).

To use this function absolutely zero calls to a CUDA device must be made in the notebook session before calling. If any have been made, you will need to restart the notebook and make sure no cells use any CUDA capability.

Example:

# Assume this is defined in a Jupyter Notebook on an instance with two GPUs
from accelerate import notebook_launcher


def train(*args):
    # Your training function here
    ...


notebook_launcher(train, args=(arg1, arg2), num_processes=2, mixed_precision="fp16")

accelerate.debug_launcher

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( function args = () num_processes = 2 )

Parameters

  • function (Callable) — The training function to execute.
  • args (Tuple) — Tuple of arguments to pass to the function (it will receive *args).
  • num_processes (int, optional, defaults to 2) — The number of processes to use for training.

Launches a training function using several processes on CPU for debugging purposes.

This function is provided for internal testing and debugging, but it’s not intended for real trainings. It will only use the CPU.