PanGu-α
PanGu-α is developed under the MindSpore and trained on a cluster of 2048 Ascend 910 AI processors. The training parallelism strategy is implemented based on MindSpore Auto-parallel, which composes five parallelism dimensions to scale the training task to 2048 processors efficiently, including data parallelism, op-level model parallelism, pipeline model parallelism, optimizer model parallelism and rematerialization. To enhance the generalization ability of PanGu-α, we collect 1.1TB high-quality Chinese data from a wide range of domains to pretrain the model. We empirically test the generation ability of PanGu-α in various scenarios including text summarization, question answering, dialogue generation, etc. Moreover, we investigate the effect of model scales on the few-shot performances across a broad range of Chinese NLP tasks. The experimental results demonstrate the superior capabilities of PanGu-α in performing various tasks under few-shot or zero-shot settings.
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PanGu-Σ
Significant advancements in the field of natural language processing, understanding, and generation have been achieved through the expansion of large language models. This study introduces a system which utilizes Ascend 910 AI processors and the MindSpore framework to train a language model with over a trillion parameters, specifically 1.085T, named PanGu-{\Sigma}. This model, which builds upon the foundation laid by PanGu-{\alpha}, takes the traditionally dense Transformer model and transforms it into a sparse one using a concept known as Random Routed Experts (RRE). The model was efficiently trained on a dataset of 329 billion tokens using a technique called Expert Computation and Storage Separation (ECSS), leading to a 6.3-fold increase in training throughput via heterogeneous computing. Experimentation indicates that PanGu-{\Sigma} sets a new standard in zero-shot learning for various downstream Chinese NLP tasks.
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Huawei Cloud ModelArts
ModelArts is a comprehensive AI development platform provided by Huawei Cloud, designed to streamline the entire AI workflow for developers and data scientists. It offers a full-lifecycle toolchain that includes data preprocessing, semi-automated data labeling, distributed training, automated model building, and flexible deployment options across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments. It supports popular open source AI frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MindSpore, and allows for the integration of custom algorithms tailored to specific needs. ModelArts features an end-to-end development pipeline that enhances collaboration across DataOps, MLOps, and DevOps, boosting development efficiency by up to 50%. It provides cost-effective AI computing resources with diverse specifications, enabling large-scale distributed training and inference acceleration.
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TensorFlow
An end-to-end open source machine learning platform. TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. It has a comprehensive, flexible ecosystem of tools, libraries and community resources that lets researchers push the state-of-the-art in ML and developers easily build and deploy ML powered applications. Build and train ML models easily using intuitive high-level APIs like Keras with eager execution, which makes for immediate model iteration and easy debugging. Easily train and deploy models in the cloud, on-prem, in the browser, or on-device no matter what language you use. A simple and flexible architecture to take new ideas from concept to code, to state-of-the-art models, and to publication faster. Build, deploy, and experiment easily with TensorFlow.
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