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I believe this is a small bug. If you run the current code in latest pytorch, the model will not update. I think the optimizer should be defined after the weights are parallelized as in the sequence parallelism example?

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Pull Request Overview

This PR fixes a bug by moving the optimizer definition so that it is instantiated after the model has been parallelized.

  • Reorders the optimizer creation to occur after module parallelization
  • Ensures the optimizer tracks the correct set of parameters for the parallelized model
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distributed/tensor_parallelism/tensor_parallel_example.py:106

  • Moving the optimizer instantiation below the module parallelization is correct; please verify that the parallelized model's parameters are correctly registered for optimization in the latest PyTorch version.
lr = 0.25

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good catch!
Yes, the optimizer should be created post parallelization.
Ran the pre and post code to verify
a) no update as claimed with the current example and
b) proper post-parallelization optimizer application results in updated weights.

We actually expressly call out this ordering (parallelize first, then optimizer) in titan ironically:
https://github.com/pytorch/torchtitan/blob/a4ed09c329e3f2d4c3e9f5fcbc2ce50e076f9782/torchtitan/train.py#L248

lgtm and thanks for the fix!

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thanks @nrothGIT for catching this and for the PR!

@msaroufim msaroufim merged commit b7aebb5 into pytorch:main May 1, 2025
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