Heterogeneous Parallelism for Multimodal Large Language Model Training

In three linesarXiv paper proposing heterogeneous parallelism for multimodal LLM training. Allows encoders and LLMs to use independent sharding layouts (TP/CP/PP/DP/EP) on shared or disjoint GPUs. Improves throughput by up to 49.3% in colocated configuration and 13% in non-colocated mode. Open-source implementation as Megatron-LM extension.

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