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Training Setup
==============
.. _deepspeed-args:
Argument Parsing
----------------
DeepSpeed uses the `argparse <https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html>`_ library to
supply commandline configuration to the DeepSpeed runtime. Use ``deepspeed.add_config_arguments()``
to add DeepSpeed's builtin arguments to your application's parser.
.. code-block:: python
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='My training script.')
parser.add_argument('--local_rank', type=int, default=-1,
help='local rank passed from distributed launcher')
# Include DeepSpeed configuration arguments
parser = deepspeed.add_config_arguments(parser)
cmd_args = parser.parse_args()
.. autofunction:: deepspeed.add_config_arguments
.. _deepspeed-init:
Training Initialization
-----------------------
The entrypoint for all training with DeepSpeed is ``deepspeed.initialize()``. Will initialize distributed backend if it is not initialized already.
Example usage:
.. code-block:: python
model_engine, optimizer, _, _ = deepspeed.initialize(args=cmd_args,
model=net,
model_parameters=net.parameters())
.. autofunction:: deepspeed.initialize
Distributed Initialization
--------------------------
Optional distributed backend initialization separate from ``deepspeed.initialize()``. Useful in scenarios where the user wants to use torch distributed calls before calling ``deepspeed.initialize()``, such as when using model parallelism, pipeline parallelism, or certain data loader scenarios.
.. autofunction:: deepspeed.init_distributed