Description
Proposed refactor
Flatten the Strategy inheritance:
Part of #10416
Motivation
Reduce coupling between strategies, reduce unintentional overrides/inheritance and avoid silent failures
eg:
- DeepSpeed inherited configure_ddp() from DDP, which is unnecessary and error-prone.
- DDP and FSDP have totally different distributed behavior, but with current inheritance, adding a DDP strategy method will automatically enable this method for FSDP
Pitch
Tasks list:
- FSDP inherit ParallelStrategy instead of DDP
- DeepSpeed inherit ParallelStrategy instead of DDP
- [RFC] DDPShard inherit ParallelStrategy instead of DDP
- [RFC] DDPShardSpawn inherit ParallelStrategy instead of DDPSpawn
- [RFC] TPUSpawn inherit ParallelStrategy instead of DDPSpawn
Additional context
The downside of this task will be code duplications.
Align DDP/DDPSpawn precess group creation #11643 and Collective refactor #9414 will reduce the duplication.
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