> Are you planning to eventually do a SETI@home style thing where anyone can join?
That's one of the goals of the stuff we're working on right now, I personally hope we can make it work!
> What was Durk Kingma's involvement in DisTrO?
As a co-author on the paper, we brought him in to bounce some ideas off of & have him validate DeMo's design and implementation to ensure we weren't hallucinating these results.
Will this enable federated learning? Petals.ml and distributed inference didn't actually work - the technical aspects of what you're doing to enable distributed training is well over my head unfortunately
you could absolutely use DisTrO for federated learning. The DeMo optimizer on its own doesn't solve the adverserial aspects of training on local-only data, nor does it solve tensor parallelism across devices, so you're still limited to only what fits on your local GPUs, but it does enable distributed data parallelism over the internet at a bandwidth orders of magnitude lower than before.
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[ 5.9 ms ] story [ 33.2 ms ] threadThat's one of the goals of the stuff we're working on right now, I personally hope we can make it work!
> What was Durk Kingma's involvement in DisTrO?
As a co-author on the paper, we brought him in to bounce some ideas off of & have him validate DeMo's design and implementation to ensure we weren't hallucinating these results.