ORTModule memory efficient gradient management #18907
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ORTModule memory efficient gradient management
Previously I have tried to solve the coarsed-grained gradient accumulation/update problem in ORTModule with #8979, while that resolution somehow is not fully validated with DDP or there is user hooks on the gradient accumulation on torch parameter.
This PR is addressing the problem in the similar approach as PR 8979, e.g. trigger gradient accumulation once ORT computed the grad, but instead of use a
AccumulateGrad
op, this time with a ONNX operatorPythonOp
, internally it will callparam.backward(grad)
, which will help handle all related hooks correctly.Replacedby #18924
Motivation and Context