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Piper: A Programmable Distributed Training System

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arXiv:2606. 11169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale model training increasingly relies on composing multiple parallelism strategies, such as data, pipeline, and expert parallelism, together with memory-saving optimizations like ZeRO.

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