add fused linear-loss function in Domino #965
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Changes
Add a fused and chunked function for linear and cross-entropy loss computation in Domino, based on [Liger-Kernel](https://github.com/linkedin/Liger-Kernel).
Effect on memory usage
Reduce training memory usage, especially peak memory usage in the vocabulary layer. Using a setup of
num-layers=4, seq-length=512, batch-size=8
intraining/DeepSpeed-Domino/pretrain_gpt3_2.7b.sh
, the average memory usage (GB) measured bytorch.cuda.max_memory_allocated()
in each training iteration will drop from 6.158 to 5.0458.Effect on loss
Almost identical loss curve in a 1000-iteration experiment.
