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[PyTorch] FP8 AllToAll
Description
Add a FP8AllToAll layer, which conducts cast_to_fp8 -> all_to_all in fp8 -> cast_from_fp8.
We're getting about 5% end to end performance gain in Mixtral 8x7B and 8x22B training with the parallelism configs where alltoall happens on inter-node connections such as IB/RoCE.
Type of change
- [ ] Documentation change (change only to the documentation, either a fix or a new content)
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [x] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
Changes
Please list the changes introduced in this PR:
- Add a FP8AllToAll layer
Checklist:
- [x] I have read and followed the contributing guidelines
- [x] The functionality is complete
- [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
- [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [x] My changes generate no new warnings
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
- [x] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes