Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest and Most Powerful Generative Language Model | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest and Most Powerful Generative Language Model | NVIDIA Technical Bloghttps://developer.nvidia.com/blog/using-deepspeed-and-megatron-to-train-megatron-turing-nlg-530b-the-worlds-largest-and-most-powerful-generative-language-model/

Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest and Most Powerful Generative Language Model | NVIDIA Technical Blog

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  • The MT-NLG model, developed by Microsoft and NVIDIA, is the largest and most powerful transformer-based language model with 530 billion parameters.
  • It excels in various natural language tasks such as completion prediction, reading comprehension, commonsense reasoning, and word sense disambiguation.
  • Training large-scale language models like MT-NLG requires innovative strategies due to memory limitations and long training times.
  • The training infrastructure leverages NVIDIA A100 GPUs and HDR InfiniBand networking for efficient parallelism.
  • A 3D parallel system combining data, pipeline, and tensor-slicing parallelism was developed by NVIDIA Megatron-LM and Microsoft DeepSpeed for training.
  • MT-NLG achieved state-of-the-art results in zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot settings across multiple NLP tasks.
  • The model demonstrated improvements in tasks involving comparison or relation-finding, showcasing faster learning capabilities of larger models.
  • Despite its advancements, MT-NLG, like other large language models, can exhibit biases picked up from training data.
  • Microsoft and NVIDIA are actively researching methods to quantify and mitigate biases in language models like MT-NLG.
  • The collaboration between supercomputers like NVIDIA Selene and Azure NDv4, along with software breakthroughs, has propelled the development of models like MT-NLG.