tf.distribute.HierarchicalCopyAllReduce

Hierarchical copy all-reduce implementation of CrossDeviceOps.

Inherits From: CrossDeviceOps

tf.distribute.HierarchicalCopyAllReduce(
    num_packs=1
)

Used in the notebooks

Used in the guide

It reduces to one GPU along edges in some hierarchy and broadcasts back to each GPU along the same path. For the batch API, tensors will be repacked or aggregated for more efficient cross-device transportation.

This is a reduction created for Nvidia DGX-1 which assumes GPUs connects like that on DGX-1 machine. If you have different GPU inter-connections, it is likely that it would be slower than tf.distribute.ReductionToOneDevice.

For reduces that are not all-reduce, it falls back to tf.distribute.ReductionToOneDevice.

Here is how you can use HierarchicalCopyAllReduce in tf.distribute.MirroredStrategy:

  strategy = tf.distribute.MirroredStrategy(
    cross_device_ops=tf.distribute.HierarchicalCopyAllReduce())

num_packs a non-negative integer. The number of packs to split values into. If zero, no packing will be done.

ValueError if num_packs is negative.

Methods

batch_reduce

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batch_reduce(
    reduce_op, value_destination_pairs, options=None
)

Reduce values to destinations in batches.

See tf.distribute.StrategyExtended.batch_reduce_to. This can only be called in the cross-replica context.

Args
reduce_op a tf.distribute.ReduceOp specifying how values should be combined.
value_destination_pairs a sequence of (value, destinations) pairs. See tf.distribute.CrossDeviceOps.reduce for descriptions.
options a tf.distribute.experimental.CommunicationOptions. See tf.distribute.experimental.CommunicationOptions for details.

Returns
A list of tf.Tensor or tf.distribute.DistributedValues, one per pair in value_destination_pairs.

Raises
ValueError if value_destination_pairs is not an iterable of tuples of tf.distribute.DistributedValues and destinations.

broadcast

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broadcast(
    tensor, destinations
)

Broadcast tensor to destinations.

This can only be called in the cross-replica context.

Args
tensor a tf.Tensor like object. The value to broadcast.
destinations a tf.distribute.DistributedValues, a tf.Variable, a tf.Tensor alike object, or a device string. It specifies the devices to broadcast to. Note that if it's a tf.Variable, the value is broadcasted to the devices of that variable, this method doesn't update the variable.

Returns
A tf.Tensor or tf.distribute.DistributedValues.

reduce

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reduce(
    reduce_op, per_replica_value, destinations, options=None
)

Reduce per_replica_value to destinations.

See tf.distribute.StrategyExtended.reduce_to. This can only be called in the cross-replica context.

Args
reduce_op a tf.distribute.ReduceOp specifying how values should be combined.
per_replica_value a tf.distribute.DistributedValues, or a tf.Tensor like object.
destinations a tf.distribute.DistributedValues, a tf.Variable, a tf.Tensor alike object, or a device string. It specifies the devices to reduce to. To perform an all-reduce, pass the same to value and destinations. Note that if it's a tf.Variable, the value is reduced to the devices of that variable, and this method doesn't update the variable.
options a tf.distribute.experimental.CommunicationOptions. See tf.distribute.experimental.CommunicationOptions for details.

Returns
A tf.Tensor or tf.distribute.DistributedValues.

Raises
ValueError if per_replica_value can't be converted to a tf.distribute.DistributedValues or if destinations is not a string, tf.Variable or tf.distribute.DistributedValues.