v0.2.0

What's Changed

• Update README by @bhatele in #16
• fix evaluation bug for inter-layer by @siddharth9820 in #18
• Support for intra-layer parallelism by @siddharth9820 in #21
• add checkpointing and post backward hook support by @siddharth9820 in #24
• docs: fix readthedocs.org build issues by @bhatele in #26
• fix g_intra print by @zsat in #27
• Tests: convert memopt to int before bool by @adityaranjan in #28
• Docs: installation and running mnist test by @adityaranjan in #29
• add 2D tensor parallelism for FC layers by @siddharth9820 in #30
• readme: add slack link by @bhatele in #31
• CI/CD tests for intra-layer parallelism by @siddharth9820 in #33
• add AxoNN logo by @bhatele in #34
• changes to the intra-layer API for the GPT benchmark by @siddharth9820 in #36
• add dependencies between workflows by @bhatele in #41
• [WIP] ILP Conv Layer support by @prajwal1210 in #38
• Intra-layer - Overlap communication in backward pass by @siddharth9820 in #44
• [WIP] A tensor parallel API for beginners by @siddharth9820 in #40
• first iteration of 3D tensor parallelism by @siddharth9820 in #49
• Initialize layers on the GPU by @siddharth9820 in #51
• add option to change batch dimension in drop by @siddharth9820 in #52
• change outer variables by @siddharth9820 in #53
• A context manager to optimize communication by @siddharth9820 in #54
• Rebase axonn-cpu to master by @Avuxon in #56
• More communication optimizations by @siddharth9820 in #57
• Parallel transformers by @jwendlan in #59
• Added Depth Tensor Parallelism to Conv Layer by @prajwal1210 in #60
• Change overlap for depth tp and do not initialize MPI unless absolutely needed by @siddharth9820 in #62
• removed mpi4py dependency by @S-Mahua in #63
• adding parallelize context for opt by @jwendlan in #65
• Removing the drop and gathers in depth tensor parallelism for the easy API by @siddharth9820 in #66
• change parallelize context to use AutoConfig by @siddharth9820 in #67
• Bugfix: Initialize grad_input, grad_weight to None by @adityaranjan in #68
• docs: fix build issues and add sub-sections by @bhatele in #69
• added automatic_parallelism by @S-Mahua in #70
• This PR shards the Dataloader across depth and data parallel ranks both by @siddharth9820 in #74
• Make monkeypatching more efficient and change easy API to a single argument by @siddharth9820 in #72
• Add API for tensor parallel model checkpointing by @siddharth9820 in #77
• Changes to fix issues in IFT. by @siddharth9820 in #78
• AxonnStrategy for Lightning Fabric backend by @anishbh in #76
• initial doc for EasyAPI, Accelerate, and FT example by @jwendlan in #73
• User guide Changes by @siddharth9820 in #80
• Update advanced.rst by @siddharth9820 in #81
• More lightning features by @siddharth9820 in #82
• Supporting init_module, load/save checkpoint by @siddharth9820 in #83
• make no-grad-sync yield None by @siddharth9820 in #88
• create an engine for all things pipelining and deprecate custom mixed precision by @siddharth9820 in #91
• Tensor parallel embedding by @siddharth9820 in #93
• Improving AxoNN's memory consumption by @siddharth9820 in #95
• Correct url of ci tests badge by @siddharth9820 in #99
• reorg code and first implementation of the new easy API by @siddharth9820 in #96
• Minor changes for Release 0.2.0 by @siddharth9820 in #100

New Contributors

• @zsat made their first contribution in #27
• @adityaranjan made their first contribution in #28
• @prajwal1210 made their first contribution in #38
• @jwendlan made their first contribution in #59
• @S-Mahua made their first contribution in #63
• @anishbh made their first contribution in #76

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0