| DeepSpeed | |
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| Original author | Microsoft Research |
| Developer | Microsoft |
| Release | May 18, 2020 (2020-05-18) |
| Stable release | v0.18.9
/ March 30, 2026 (2026-03-30) |
| Written in | Python, CUDA, C++ |
| Type | Software library |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | deepspeed |
| Repository | github |
DeepSpeed is an open source deep learning optimization library for PyTorch.1
Library
The library is designed to reduce computing power and memory use and to train large distributed models with better parallelism on existing computer hardware.23 DeepSpeed is optimized for low latency, high throughput training. It includes the Zero Redundancy Optimizer (ZeRO) for training models with 1 trillion or more parameters.4 Features include mixed precision training, single-GPU, multi-GPU, and multi-node training as well as custom model parallelism. The DeepSpeed source code is licensed under MIT License and available on GitHub.5
The team claimed to achieve up to a 6.2x throughput improvement, 2.8x faster convergence, and 4.6x less communication.6
References
References
- "Microsoft Updates Windows, Azure Tools with an Eye on The Future". PCMag UK. May 22, 2020.
- Yegulalp, Serdar (February 10, 2020). "Microsoft speeds up PyTorch with DeepSpeed". InfoWorld.
- "Microsoft unveils "fifth most powerful" supercomputer in the world". Neowin. 18 June 2023.
- "Microsoft trains world's largest Transformer language model". February 10, 2020.
- "microsoft/DeepSpeed". July 10, 2020 – via GitHub.
- "DeepSpeed: Accelerating large-scale model inference and training via system optimizations and compression". Microsoft Research. 2021-05-24. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
Further reading
Further reading
- Rajbhandari, Samyam; Rasley, Jeff; Ruwase, Olatunji; He, Yuxiong (2019). "ZeRO: Memory Optimization Towards Training A Trillion Parameter Models". arXiv:1910.02054 [cs.LG].