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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: OpenMDW-1.1
from __future__ import annotations
import collections
import collections.abc
import ctypes
import functools
import math
import os
import socket
import sys
import threading
import time
from contextlib import contextmanager
from dataclasses import dataclass
from datetime import timedelta
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, Container, Optional
import pynvml
import torch
import torch.distributed as dist
from torch.distributed import get_process_group_ranks
from cosmos_framework.utils.flags import INTERNAL
from cosmos_framework.utils.device import Device
if dist.is_available():
from torch.distributed.distributed_c10d import _get_default_group
from torch.distributed.utils import _sync_module_states, _verify_param_shape_across_processes
from cosmos_framework.utils import log
if TYPE_CHECKING:
from cosmos_framework.utils.config import DDPConfig
def _set_cpu_affinity(requested):
"""NVML describes host CPUs; a container may permit only a disjoint set."""
try:
allowed = os.sched_getaffinity(0)
selected = set(requested).intersection(allowed)
if selected:
os.sched_setaffinity(0, selected)
else:
log.warning(f"GPU CPU affinity has no CPUs allowed by this container; retaining {sorted(allowed)}")
except OSError as error:
# NUMA affinity is an optimization, not a distributed-training prerequisite.
log.warning(f"CPU affinity unavailable; retaining current affinity: {error}")
def init(store: dist.Store | None = None, backend: str | None = None) -> int | None:
"""Initialize distributed training.
Args:
store: Optional pre-built rendezvous store. When given, it is used instead of ``env://``
rendezvous, so no ``MASTER_PORT`` is bound. Used by the background checkpoint process,
whose store adopts a socket its parent reserved (see
:mod:`cosmos_framework.checkpoint.background_store`). ``RANK`` and ``WORLD_SIZE`` must be
set, as they are for env:// rendezvous.
backend: Optional backend override. Defaults to nccl on CUDA. The background checkpoint
process passes "gloo": it coordinates over CPU-resident state dicts, which NCCL cannot
synchronize, and a second NCCL group per rank would consume GPU memory alongside the
training group's communicators.
"""
if dist.is_initialized():
return torch.cuda.current_device()
# Set GPU affinity.
pynvml.nvmlInit()
local_rank = int(os.getenv("LOCAL_RANK", 0))
try:
device = Device(local_rank)
_set_cpu_affinity(device.get_cpu_affinity())
except pynvml.NVMLError as e:
log.warning(f"Failed to set device affinity: {e}")
# Set up distributed communication. CPU checkpoint conversion needs Gloo
# because NCCL cannot synchronize CPU-resident tokenizer or model tensors.
os.environ["TORCH_NCCL_BLOCKING_WAIT"] = "0"
os.environ["TORCH_NCCL_ASYNC_ERROR_HANDLING"] = "1"
if dist.is_available():
torch.cuda.set_device(local_rank)
# Get the timeout value from environment variable
timeout_seconds = os.getenv("TORCH_NCCL_HEARTBEAT_TIMEOUT_SEC", 1800)
# Convert the timeout to an integer (if it isn't already) and then to a timedelta
timeout_timedelta = timedelta(seconds=int(timeout_seconds))
subgroup_timeout_seconds = os.environ.get("COSMOS_NCCL_SUBGROUP_TIMEOUT_SEC")
if subgroup_timeout_seconds is not None:
# DeviceMesh creates NCCL subgroups without an explicit timeout, so
# PyTorch otherwise uses its shorter 10-minute NCCL default.
dist.distributed_c10d.default_pg_nccl_timeout = timedelta(seconds=int(subgroup_timeout_seconds))
log.info(
f"Set default NCCL subgroup timeout to {subgroup_timeout_seconds} seconds",
rank0_only=False,
)
if backend is None:
backend = "nccl" if os.environ.get("COSMOS_DEVICE", "cuda").lower() == "cuda" else "gloo"
if store is not None:
dist.init_process_group(
backend=backend,
store=store,
rank=int(os.environ["RANK"]),
world_size=int(os.environ["WORLD_SIZE"]),
timeout=timeout_timedelta,
)
else:
dist.init_process_group(backend=backend, init_method="env://", timeout=timeout_timedelta)
log.critical(
f"Initialized distributed training with local rank {local_rank} using {backend} with timeout {timeout_seconds}",
rank0_only=False,
)
# Increase the L2 fetch granularity for faster speed.
# For oss, we need to search for the library in site-packages.
if INTERNAL:
_libcudart = ctypes.CDLL("libcudart.so")
# Set device limit on the current device.
p_value = ctypes.cast((ctypes.c_int * 1)(), ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int))
_libcudart.cudaDeviceSetLimit(ctypes.c_int(0x05), ctypes.c_int(128))
_libcudart.cudaDeviceGetLimit(p_value, ctypes.c_int(0x05))
log.info(f"Training with {get_world_size()} GPUs.")
def get_rank(group: Optional[dist.ProcessGroup] = None) -> int:
"""Get the rank (GPU device) of the worker.
Returns:
rank (int): The rank of the worker.
"""
rank = 0
if dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized():
rank = dist.get_rank(group)
return rank
def get_world_size(group: Optional[dist.ProcessGroup] = None) -> int:
"""Get world size. How many GPUs are available in this job.
Returns:
world_size (int): The total number of GPUs available in this job.
"""
world_size = 1
if dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized():
world_size = dist.get_world_size(group)
return world_size
def is_rank0() -> bool:
"""Check if current process is the master GPU.
Returns:
(bool): True if this function is called from the master GPU, else False.
"""
return get_rank() == 0
def is_local_rank0() -> bool:
"""Check if current process is the local master GPU in the current node.
Returns:
(bool): True if this function is called from the local master GPU, else False.
"""
return torch.cuda.current_device() == 0
def rank0_only(func: Callable) -> Callable:
"""Apply this function only to the master GPU.
Example usage:
@rank0_only
def func(x):
return x + 3
Args:
func (Callable): a function.
Returns:
(Callable): A function wrapper executing the function only on the master GPU.
"""
@functools.wraps(func)
def wrapper(*args, **kwargs): # noqa: ANN202
if is_rank0():
return func(*args, **kwargs)
else:
return None
return wrapper
def barrier() -> None:
"""Barrier for all GPUs."""
if dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized():
dist.barrier()
WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_ENV_VAR = "COSMOS_WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_SEC"
# Comfortably above a legitimate large-scale communicator build, and well below both the 1800s NCCL
# watchdog and the cluster idle-GPU reaper, so a stuck startup requeues instead of being reclaimed.
DEFAULT_WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_SEC = 600.0
WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_EXIT_CODE = 93
# Grace period between the deadline expiring and the abort, so a build that lands in the same instant
# is not mistaken for a stall. Costs nothing on a real stall and never on a healthy build.
WORLD_COMM_ABORT_GRACE_SEC = 5.0
def get_world_comm_timeout_sec() -> float:
"""Return the world-communicator deadline in seconds, or 0 to wait indefinitely."""
raw = os.environ.get(WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_ENV_VAR, "").strip()
if not raw:
return DEFAULT_WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_SEC
try:
parsed = float(raw)
except ValueError:
log.warning(f"Ignoring non-numeric {WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_ENV_VAR}={raw!r}")
return DEFAULT_WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_SEC
if not math.isfinite(parsed):
# float() accepts "nan" and "inf", and both defeat the deadline they are supposed to set: nan
# compares False against everything, so it slips through the `timeout_sec > 0` guard and
# silently disarms the watchdog, while inf makes Event.wait raise OverflowError inside the
# watchdog thread. Either way the stall this exists to bound goes unbounded.
log.warning(f"Ignoring non-finite {WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_ENV_VAR}={raw!r}")
return DEFAULT_WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_SEC
if parsed < 0:
# Clamping to 0 here would read a negative as the documented request to wait indefinitely,
# so a typo like -60 would silently disarm the watchdog. Only an explicit 0 should do that.
log.warning(f"Ignoring negative {WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_ENV_VAR}={raw!r} (set 0 to wait indefinitely)")
return DEFAULT_WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_SEC
return parsed
def _abort_on_world_comm_timeout(done: threading.Event, timeout_sec: float, rank: int, world_size: int) -> None:
"""Log and kill the process if the world communicator is not up before the deadline."""
if done.wait(timeout_sec):
return
# The builder only signals once its collective has returned, so a build finishing right as the
# deadline expires would otherwise be killed as a stall. Give it a moment to say it is done. A
# real stall spends this grace period exactly as stuck as it was before.
if done.wait(WORLD_COMM_ABORT_GRACE_SEC):
log.warning(
f"[RANK {rank}] The world communicator took nearly the full {timeout_sec:.0f}s deadline "
f"to come up. Treating it as healthy, but this rank was within "
f"{WORLD_COMM_ABORT_GRACE_SEC:.0f}s of aborting the job.",
rank0_only=False,
)
return
log.critical(
f"[RANK {rank}] The {world_size}-rank world NCCL communicator did not come up within "
f"{timeout_sec:.0f}s on {socket.gethostname()}. This is a cross-domain fabric or bootstrap "
f"fault, not a model or config error. Aborting so the job requeues instead of idling. "
f"Re-run with NCCL_DEBUG=INFO and NCCL_DEBUG_SUBSYS=INIT,NET to identify the stuck peer, or "
f"raise {WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_ENV_VAR} if this job legitimately needs longer.",
rank0_only=False,
)
sys.stderr.flush()
sys.stdout.flush()
# ncclCommInitRank blocks inside a C call, so the stuck thread cannot be unwound from Python and
# a normal exit would just join it. Leave immediately instead.
os._exit(WORLD_COMM_TIMEOUT_EXIT_CODE)
def ensure_world_communicator(timeout_sec: float | None = None) -> None:
"""Build the world-size communicator up front, under a deadline and with log lines around it.
PyTorch creates NCCL communicators lazily, so the world communicator is built by whichever
collective happens to run first. That makes a cross-domain fabric fault surface as an unattributed
hang inside unrelated code, with no log line naming what is stuck. Doing the build here gives it
a name, a bounded duration, and an actionable error.
The deadline needs a watchdog thread rather than a signal or a process-group timeout: a stall
inside ``ncclCommInitRank`` never enqueues work, so PyTorch's collective watchdog has nothing to
time out on, and the calling thread is parked in a C call where Python exceptions cannot land.
"""
if not (dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized()):
return
world_size = get_world_size()
if world_size < 2:
return
if timeout_sec is None:
timeout_sec = get_world_comm_timeout_sec()
rank = get_rank()
on_cuda = dist.get_backend() == "nccl"
log.info(
f"Building the {world_size}-rank world communicator (deadline {timeout_sec:.0f}s)",
rank0_only=False,
)
done = threading.Event()
if timeout_sec > 0:
threading.Thread(
target=_abort_on_world_comm_timeout,
args=(done, timeout_sec, rank, world_size),
name="world-comm-watchdog",
daemon=True,
).start()
start = time.monotonic()
try:
probe = torch.ones(1, device="cuda" if on_cuda else "cpu", dtype=torch.float32)
dist.all_reduce(probe)
if on_cuda:
torch.cuda.synchronize()
finally:
done.set()
if probe.item() != float(world_size):
raise RuntimeError(
f"World communicator check summed to {probe.item()} across {world_size} ranks; "
"the world process group is not consistent."
)
log.info(f"World communicator ready in {time.monotonic() - start:.2f} s")
def rank0_first(func: Callable) -> Callable:
"""run the function on rank 0 first, then on other ranks."""
@functools.wraps(func)
def wrapper(*args, **kwargs): # noqa: ANN202
if is_rank0():
result = func(*args, **kwargs)
barrier()
if not is_rank0():
result = func(*args, **kwargs)
return result
return wrapper
def parallel_model_wrapper(config_ddp: DDPConfig, model: torch.nn.Module) -> torch.nn.Module | DistributedDataParallel:
"""Wraps the model to enable data parallalism for training across multiple GPU devices.
Args:
config_ddp (DDPConfig): The data parallel config.
model (torch.nn.Module): The PyTorch module.
Returns:
model (torch.nn.Module | DistributedDataParallel): The data parallel model wrapper
if distributed environment is available, otherwise return the original model.
"""
if dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized():
local_rank = int(os.getenv("LOCAL_RANK", 0))
try:
from megatron.core import parallel_state
ddp_group = parallel_state.get_data_parallel_group(with_context_parallel=True)
except Exception as e:
log.info(e)
log.info("parallel_state not initialized, treating all GPUs equally for DDP")
ddp_group = None
model = DistributedDataParallel(
model,
device_ids=[local_rank],
output_device=local_rank,
find_unused_parameters=config_ddp.find_unused_parameters,
static_graph=config_ddp.static_graph,
broadcast_buffers=config_ddp.broadcast_buffers,
process_group=ddp_group,
)
return model
class DistributedDataParallel(torch.nn.parallel.DistributedDataParallel):
"""This extends torch.nn.parallel.DistributedDataParallel with .training_step().
This borrows the concept of `forward-redirection` from Pytorch lightning. It wraps an ImaginaireModel such that
model.training_step() would be executed when calling self.training_step(), while preserving the behavior of calling
model() for Pytorch modules. Internally, this is a double rerouting mechanism (training_step -> forward ->
training_step), allowing us to preserve the function names and signatures.
"""
def __init__(self, model: torch.nn.Module, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(model, *args, **kwargs)
self.show_sync_grad_static_graph_warning = True
def training_step(self, *args, **kwargs) -> Any:
# Cache the original model.forward() method.
original_forward = self.module.forward
def wrapped_training_step(*_args, **_kwargs): # noqa: ANN202
# Unpatch immediately before calling training_step() because itself may want to call the real forward.
self.module.forward = original_forward
# The actual .training_step().
return self.module.training_step(*_args, **_kwargs)
# Patch the original_module's forward so we can redirect the arguments back to the real method.
self.module.forward = wrapped_training_step
# Call self, which implicitly calls self.forward() --> model.forward(), which is now model.training_step().
# Without calling self.forward() or model.forward() explciitly, implicit hooks are also executed.
return self(*args, **kwargs)
@contextmanager
def ddp_sync_grad(model, enabled):
r"""
Context manager to enable/disable gradient synchronizations across DDP processes for DDP model.
Modified from:
https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/_modules/torch/nn/parallel/distributed.html#DistributedDataParallel.no_sync
Note that this is incompatible with static_graph=True and will be an no-op if static_graph=True.
Within this context, gradients will be accumulated on module
variables, which will later be synchronized in the first
forward-backward pass exiting the context.
.. warning::
The forward pass should be included inside the context manager, or
else gradients will still be synchronized.
"""
assert isinstance(model, torch.nn.Module)
ddp_mutated = False
old_require_backward_grad_sync = None
fsdp_prev: list = [] # (FSDPModule, previous all_reduce_grads) for exactly the modules we mutated
try:
if isinstance(model, DistributedDataParallel):
old_require_backward_grad_sync = model.require_backward_grad_sync
if model.static_graph and model.require_backward_grad_sync != enabled:
if model.show_sync_grad_static_graph_warning:
log.warning("DDP static_graph=True is incompatible with sync_grad(). Performance will be reduced.")
model.show_sync_grad_static_graph_warning = False
else:
model.require_backward_grad_sync = enabled
ddp_mutated = True
else:
# FSDP2 (fully_shard) branch. Without this, gradient accumulation
# reduces gradients on EVERY micro-step and saves no communication
# (measured: accum=4 step = 4x the accum=1 step on Ethernet HSDP).
# We defer only the cross-replica all-reduce to the boundary
# micro-step. The intra-node reduce-scatter still runs every
# micro-step, so gradients stay sharded and VRAM does not grow
# (set_requires_gradient_sync(False) would keep gradients
# unsharded: +stored-grad-bytes per rank).
# Every non-DDP model takes this branch, including single-process
# runs: skip early when there is nothing to sync, and before the
# fsdp import, which fails on builds without distributed.
if not dist.is_available() or not dist.is_initialized():
yield
return
from torch.distributed.fsdp import FSDPModule
for m in model.modules():
if not isinstance(m, FSDPModule):
continue
# Mirror of set_requires_all_reduce(recurse=False): it writes
# state._fsdp_param_group.all_reduce_grads when the group is
# truthy, so that is the previous state to capture. Recording
# (module, prev) as we mutate keeps the finally-block exact
# even if this loop raises midway.
fsdp_param_group = m._get_fsdp_state()._fsdp_param_group
if not fsdp_param_group:
continue
prev = fsdp_param_group.all_reduce_grads
m.set_requires_all_reduce(enabled, recurse=False)
fsdp_prev.append((m, prev))
yield
finally:
if ddp_mutated:
model.require_backward_grad_sync = old_require_backward_grad_sync
for m, prev in fsdp_prev:
m.set_requires_all_reduce(prev, recurse=False)
def collate_batches(data_batches: list[dict[str, torch.Tensor]]) -> torch.Tensor | dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
"""Aggregate the list of data batches from all devices and process the results.
This is used for gathering validation data batches with cosmos_framework.utils.dataloader.DistributedEvalSampler.
It will return the data/output of the entire validation set in its original index order. The sizes of data_batches
in different ranks may differ by 1 (if dataset size is not evenly divisible), in which case a dummy sample will be
created before calling dis.all_gather().
Args:
data_batches (list[dict[str, torch.Tensor]]): List of tensors or (hierarchical) dictionary where
leaf entries are tensors.
Returns:
data_gather (torch.Tensor | dict[str, torch.Tensor]): tensors or (hierarchical) dictionary where
leaf entries are concatenated tensors.
"""
if isinstance(data_batches[0], torch.Tensor):
# Concatenate the local data batches.
data_concat = torch.cat(data_batches, dim=0) # type: ignore
# Get the largest number of local samples from all ranks to determine whether to dummy-pad on this rank.
max_num_local_samples = torch.tensor(len(data_concat), device="cuda")
dist.all_reduce(max_num_local_samples, op=dist.ReduceOp.MAX)
if len(data_concat) < max_num_local_samples:
assert len(data_concat) + 1 == max_num_local_samples
dummy = torch.empty_like(data_concat[:1])
data_concat = torch.cat([data_concat, dummy], dim=0)
dummy_count = torch.tensor(1, device="cuda")
else:
dummy_count = torch.tensor(0, device="cuda")
# Get all concatenated batches from all ranks and concatenate again.
dist.all_reduce(dummy_count, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM)
data_concat = all_gather_tensor(data_concat.contiguous())
data_collate = torch.stack(data_concat, dim=1).flatten(start_dim=0, end_dim=1)
# Remove the dummy samples.
if dummy_count > 0:
data_collate = data_collate[:-dummy_count]
elif isinstance(data_batches[0], collections.abc.Mapping):
data_collate = dict()
for key in data_batches[0].keys():
data_collate[key] = collate_batches([data[key] for data in data_batches]) # type: ignore
else:
raise TypeError
return data_collate
@torch.no_grad()
def all_gather_tensor(tensor: torch.Tensor) -> list[torch.Tensor]:
"""Gather the corresponding tensor from all GPU devices to a list.
Args:
tensor (torch.Tensor): Pytorch tensor.
Returns:
tensor_list (list[torch.Tensor]): A list of Pytorch tensors gathered from all GPU devices.
"""
tensor_list = [torch.zeros_like(tensor) for _ in range(get_world_size())]
dist.all_gather(tensor_list, tensor)
return tensor_list
def gather_object(payload: Any) -> list[Any] | None:
"""Gather the corresponding object from all GPU devices to a rank 0 hosted list.
Args:
payload: Any pickle-able object.
Returns:
payload_list (list[Any]) | None:
Rank 0: A list of Pytorch tensors gathered from all RANK process.
Rest : None
"""
rank, world_size = get_rank(), get_world_size()
payload_gathered = [None] * world_size if rank == 0 else None
dist.gather_object(payload, object_gather_list=payload_gathered, dst=0)
return payload_gathered
def broadcast(tensor, src, group=None, async_op=False):
world_size = get_world_size()
if world_size < 2:
return tensor
dist.broadcast(tensor, src=src, group=group, async_op=async_op)
def dist_reduce_tensor(tensor, rank=0, reduce="mean"):
r"""Reduce to rank 0"""
world_size = get_world_size()
if world_size < 2:
return tensor
with torch.no_grad():
dist.reduce(tensor, dst=rank)
if get_rank() == rank:
if reduce == "mean":
tensor /= world_size
elif reduce == "sum":
pass
else:
raise NotImplementedError
return tensor
def _verify_param_dtype_across_processes(
process_group: dist.ProcessGroup,
parameters: list[torch.Tensor],
) -> None:
"""Verify that all ranks agree on parameter dtypes to prevent NCCL deadlocks.
``_sync_module_states`` buckets tensors by dtype before broadcasting. If ranks
disagree on dtypes (e.g. rank-0 loaded a bf16 checkpoint while others hold fp32
meta-initialised tensors), each rank builds a different number of broadcast
buckets, causing an unrecoverable NCCL busy-wait deadlock.
"""
# Encode each parameter's dtype as its torch enum value and pack into a
# single int64 tensor so we only need one all-reduce.
local_dtypes = torch.tensor(
[_dtype_to_int(p.dtype) for p in parameters],
dtype=torch.int64,
device="cuda",
)
# Gather dtype vectors from every rank.
world_size = dist.get_world_size(process_group)
gathered = [torch.zeros_like(local_dtypes) for _ in range(dist.get_world_size(process_group))]
dist.all_gather(gathered, local_dtypes, group=process_group)
rank = dist.get_rank(process_group)
for other_rank, other_dtypes in enumerate(gathered):
if torch.equal(local_dtypes, other_dtypes):
continue
mismatched = (local_dtypes != other_dtypes).nonzero(as_tuple=True)[0]
details = ", ".join(
f"param[{int(idx)}]: rank {rank}={_int_to_dtype(int(local_dtypes[idx]))} "
f"vs rank {other_rank}={_int_to_dtype(int(other_dtypes[idx]))}"
for idx in mismatched[:5]
)
raise RuntimeError(
f"Parameter dtype mismatch across ranks (showing up to 5): {details}. "
f"This will cause _broadcast_coalesced to build different buckets per rank "
f"and deadlock NCCL. Ensure all ranks cast the model to the same dtype before "
f"calling sync_model_states()."
)
_DTYPE_TO_INT: dict[torch.dtype, int] = {
torch.float16: 0,
torch.bfloat16: 1,
torch.float32: 2,
torch.float64: 3,
torch.int8: 4,
torch.int16: 5,
torch.int32: 6,
torch.int64: 7,
torch.uint8: 8,
torch.bool: 9,
}
_INT_TO_DTYPE: dict[int, torch.dtype] = {v: k for k, v in _DTYPE_TO_INT.items()}
def _dtype_to_int(dtype: torch.dtype) -> int:
if dtype in _DTYPE_TO_INT:
return _DTYPE_TO_INT[dtype]
return hash(dtype) % (2**31)
def _int_to_dtype(val: int) -> torch.dtype | str:
return _INT_TO_DTYPE.get(val, f"unknown({val})")
def sync_model_states(
model: torch.nn.Module,
process_group: Optional[dist.ProcessGroup] = None,
src: int = 0,
params_and_buffers_to_ignore: Optional[Container[str]] = None,
broadcast_buffers: bool = True,
):
"""
Modify based on DDP source code
Synchronizes the parameters and buffers of a model across different processes in a distributed setting.
This function ensures that all processes in the specified process group have the same initial parameters and
buffers from the source rank, typically rank 0. It is useful when different processes start with different model
states and a synchronization is required to ensure consistency across all ranks.
Args:
model (nn.Module): The model whose parameters and buffers are to be synchronized.
process_group (dist.ProcessGroup, optional): The process group for communication. If None,
the default group is used. Defaults to None.
src (int, optional): The source rank from which parameters and buffers will be broadcasted.
Defaults to 0.
params_and_buffers_to_ignore (Optional[Container[str]], optional): A container of parameter and buffer
names to exclude from synchronization. Defaults to None, which means all parameters and buffers are
included.
broadcast_buffers (bool, optional): Whether to broadcast buffers or not. Defaults to True.
Side Effects:
This function modifies the state of the model in-place to synchronize it with the source rank's model state.
Raises:
RuntimeError: If the shapes of parameters across processes do not match, a runtime error will be raised.
Examples:
>>> # downloading duplicated model weights from s3 in each rank and save network bandwidth
>>> # useful and save our time when model weights are huge
>>> if dist.get_rank == 0:
>>> model.load_state_dict(network_bound_weights_download_fn(s3_weights_path))
>>> dist.barrir()
>>> sync_model_states(model) # sync rank0 weights to other ranks
"""
if not dist.is_available() or not dist.is_initialized():
return
if process_group is None:
process_group = _get_default_group()
if not params_and_buffers_to_ignore:
params_and_buffers_to_ignore = set()
log.info(
f"Synchronizing model states from rank {src} to all ranks in process group {get_process_group_ranks(process_group)}."
)
# Build tuple of (module, parameter) for all parameters that require grads.
modules_and_parameters = [
(module, parameter)
for module_name, module in model.named_modules()
for parameter in [
param
# Note that we access module.named_parameters instead of
# parameters(module). parameters(module) is only needed in the
# single-process multi device case, where it accesses replicated
# parameters through _former_parameters.
for param_name, param in module.named_parameters(recurse=False)
if f"{module_name}.{param_name}" not in params_and_buffers_to_ignore
# if param.requires_grad
# and f"{module_name}.{param_name}" not in params_and_buffers_to_ignore
]
]
# Deduplicate any parameters that might be shared across child modules.
memo = set()
modules_and_parameters = [
# "p not in memo" is the deduplication check.
# "not memo.add(p)" is always True, and it's only there to cause "add(p)" if needed.
(m, p)
for m, p in modules_and_parameters
if p not in memo and not memo.add(p) # type: ignore[func-returns-value]
]
# Build list of parameters.
parameters = [parameter for _, parameter in modules_and_parameters]
if len(parameters) == 0:
return
_verify_param_shape_across_processes(process_group, parameters)
_verify_param_dtype_across_processes(process_group, parameters)
_sync_module_states(
module=model,
process_group=process_group,
broadcast_bucket_size=int(250 * 1024 * 1024),
src=src,
params_and_buffers_to_ignore=params_and_buffers_to_ignore,
broadcast_buffers=broadcast_buffers,
)
def all_gather_object(payload: Any) -> list[Any]:
"""Gather the corresponding object from all GPU devices to all ranks."""
world_size = get_world_size()
payload_gathered = [None] * world_size
dist.all_gather_object(payload_gathered, payload)
return payload_gathered # type: ignore[return-value]
def broadcast_object(object, *args, **kwargs):
"""Broadcast a object to all GPU."""
if not dist.is_available() or not dist.is_initialized():
return object
object_list = [object]
dist.broadcast_object_list(object_list, *args, **kwargs)
return object_list[0]
def broadcast_object_list(object_list, *args, **kwargs):
"""Broadcast a object list to all GPU. (the list is inplace edited)"""
if not dist.is_available() or not dist.is_initialized():
return None
else:
dist.broadcast_object_list(object_list, *args, **kwargs)
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class _TensorBroadcastMetadata:
"""Small placeholder used while broadcasting a nested object containing tensors."""
tensor_index: int
shape: tuple[int, ...]
dtype: torch.dtype
def _extract_tensor_leaves(value: Any, min_tensor_bytes: int) -> tuple[Any, list[torch.Tensor]]:
"""Replace large or CUDA tensor leaves while preserving the surrounding containers."""
tensor_leaves: list[torch.Tensor] = []
tensor_metadata_by_id: dict[int, _TensorBroadcastMetadata] = {}
seen_container_ids: set[int] = set()
def _require_unique_container(current_value: Any) -> None:
object_id = id(current_value)
if object_id in seen_container_ids:
raise ValueError(
"Optimized object broadcast requires an acyclic tree without shared container references; "
f"encountered {type(current_value).__name__} more than once."
)
seen_container_ids.add(object_id)
def _extract(current_value: Any) -> Any:
if isinstance(current_value, torch.Tensor):
tensor_bytes = current_value.numel() * current_value.element_size()
# Pickling a CUDA tensor preserves the source device index, so a tensor
# broadcast from cuda:0 would remain on cuda:0 in a cuda:1 process.
# Always use the direct path so receivers rebuild it on their current device.
if tensor_bytes < min_tensor_bytes and current_value.device.type != "cuda":
return current_value
if current_value.layout != torch.strided:
log.warning(f"Only strided tensors can be broadcast; skip layout={current_value.layout}.")
return current_value
if type(current_value) is not torch.Tensor:
raise TypeError(
"Optimized object broadcast only supports plain torch.Tensor leaves, "
f"got {type(current_value).__name__}."
)
object_id = id(current_value)
existing_metadata = tensor_metadata_by_id.get(object_id)
if existing_metadata is not None:
return existing_metadata
metadata = _TensorBroadcastMetadata(
tensor_index=len(tensor_leaves),
shape=tuple(current_value.shape),
dtype=current_value.dtype,
)
tensor_metadata_by_id[object_id] = metadata
tensor_leaves.append(current_value)
return metadata
if isinstance(current_value, dict):
if type(current_value) is not dict:
raise TypeError(
"Optimized object broadcast only supports plain dict containers, "
f"got {type(current_value).__name__}."
)
_require_unique_container(current_value)
return {key: _extract(item) for key, item in current_value.items()}
if isinstance(current_value, list):
if type(current_value) is not list:
raise TypeError(
"Optimized object broadcast only supports plain list containers, "
f"got {type(current_value).__name__}."
)
_require_unique_container(current_value)
return [_extract(item) for item in current_value]
if isinstance(current_value, tuple):
is_namedtuple = hasattr(current_value, "_fields")
if type(current_value) is not tuple and not is_namedtuple:
raise TypeError(
"Optimized object broadcast only supports plain tuple or namedtuple containers, "
f"got {type(current_value).__name__}."
)
_require_unique_container(current_value)
extracted_items = tuple(_extract(item) for item in current_value)
# Namedtuples are tuple subclasses whose constructors expect each field as a positional argument.
if is_namedtuple:
return type(current_value)(*extracted_items)
return extracted_items
return current_value
return _extract(value), tensor_leaves
def broadcast_object_list_optimized(
object_list: list[Any],
src: int | None = None,
group: dist.ProcessGroup | None = None,
device: torch.device | None = None,
group_src: int | None = None,
*,
min_tensor_bytes: int = sys.maxsize,
) -> None:
"""Broadcast objects in place, sending sufficiently large tensor leaves directly.
This is a signature-compatible alternative to :func:`torch.distributed.broadcast_object_list`.
The source broadcasts an object-list skeleton first. CUDA tensor leaves and
tensor leaves at least ``min_tensor_bytes`` bytes large are replaced by
metadata, broadcast directly, and inserted back into the skeleton in traversal
order. Smaller non-CUDA tensors remain in the object payload. NCCL groups place
directly broadcast tensors on ``device`` or the current CUDA device; other
backends use CPU tensors. The default ``sys.maxsize`` threshold calls the
original PyTorch collective directly.
Direct tensor extraction requires an acyclic tree of plain ``dict``, ``list``,
and ``tuple`` containers; namedtuples are also supported. Repeated references
to the same tensor are broadcast once and preserved in the rebuilt object
graph. The source raises before entering the collective when it encounters a
container subclass, a tensor subclass selected for direct broadcast, a shared
container reference, or a cycle. Use the default threshold for arbitrary
picklable object graphs.
Args:
object_list: List of objects to broadcast. Updated in place on every participating rank.
src: Global source rank. Mutually exclusive with ``group_src``. Defaults to rank 0 when both are omitted.
group: Process group whose ranks receive the value.
device: Device used by the object collective and by direct NCCL tensor broadcasts.
group_src: Source rank relative to ``group``. Mutually exclusive with ``src``.
min_tensor_bytes: Minimum tensor payload size to broadcast directly.
"""
if min_tensor_bytes < 0:
raise ValueError(f"min_tensor_bytes must be non-negative, got {min_tensor_bytes}.")
if min_tensor_bytes == sys.maxsize or group == dist.GroupMember.NON_GROUP_MEMBER:
dist.broadcast_object_list(
object_list,
src=src,
group=group,
device=device,
group_src=group_src,
)
return
if src is None and group_src is None:
src = 0
elif src is not None and group_src is not None:
raise ValueError("src and group_src cannot both be specified.")
is_source = dist.get_rank() == src if src is not None else dist.get_rank(group) == group_src
if is_source:
skeleton, tensor_leaves = _extract_tensor_leaves(object_list, min_tensor_bytes)
else:
skeleton, tensor_leaves = None, []
skeleton_box = [skeleton]
dist.broadcast_object_list(
skeleton_box,
src=src,
group=group,
device=device,
group_src=group_src,
)
skeleton = skeleton_box[0]
backend = dist.get_backend(group)
if backend == dist.Backend.NCCL:
collective_device = device or torch.device("cuda", torch.cuda.current_device())
else:
collective_device = torch.device("cpu")
rebuilt_tensors: list[torch.Tensor] = []
def _rebuild(current_value: Any) -> Any:
if isinstance(current_value, _TensorBroadcastMetadata):
tensor_index = current_value.tensor_index
if 0 <= tensor_index < len(rebuilt_tensors):
return rebuilt_tensors[tensor_index]
if tensor_index != len(rebuilt_tensors):
raise RuntimeError(
"Broadcast object-list skeleton contains an out-of-order tensor index: "
f"expected {len(rebuilt_tensors)}, got {tensor_index}."
)
if is_source:
if tensor_index >= len(tensor_leaves):
raise RuntimeError(
f"Broadcast object-list skeleton references missing source tensor index {tensor_index}."
)
source_tensor = tensor_leaves[tensor_index] # [*shape]
if (
source_tensor.device.type == "cuda"
and collective_device.type == "cuda"
and source_tensor.device != collective_device
):
log.warning(
"Direct tensor broadcast moves a tensor between CUDA devices: "
f"index={tensor_index}, source_device={source_tensor.device}, "
f"collective_device={collective_device}, src={src}",
rank0_only=False,
)
tensor = source_tensor.to(device=collective_device) # [*shape]
tensor = tensor.contiguous() # [*shape]
else:
tensor = torch.empty( # [*shape]
current_value.shape,
dtype=current_value.dtype,
device=collective_device,
)
dist.broadcast(tensor, src=src, group=group, group_src=group_src)
rebuilt_tensors.append(tensor)
return tensor
if isinstance(current_value, dict):
return {key: _rebuild(item) for key, item in current_value.items()}
if isinstance(current_value, list):
return [_rebuild(item) for item in current_value]
if isinstance(current_value, tuple):
rebuilt_items = tuple(_rebuild(item) for item in current_value)
# Namedtuples are tuple subclasses whose constructors expect each field as a positional argument.
if hasattr(current_value, "_fields"):
return type(current_value)(*rebuilt_items)
return rebuilt_items
return current_value
rebuilt_object_list = _rebuild(skeleton)
if is_source and len(rebuilt_tensors) != len(tensor_leaves):
raise RuntimeError(
f"Broadcast rebuilt {len(rebuilt_tensors)} tensors but source provided {len(tensor_leaves)}."
)
if not isinstance(rebuilt_object_list, list):
raise RuntimeError(f"Broadcast object-list skeleton must be a list, got {type(rebuilt_object_list).__name__}.")
object_list[:] = rebuilt_object_list
def destroy_process_group():
if not dist.is_available() or not dist.is_initialized():
return
dist.destroy_process_group()