DeepMind’s DiLoCo Revolutionizes Language Model Training with 500× Less Communication | Synced

In a new paper DiLoCo: Distributed Low-Communication Training of Language Models, a Google DeepMind research team presents Distributed Low-Communication (DiLoCo). DiLoCo employs a distributed optimization algorithm that facilitates the training of language models on islands of poorly connected devices, surpassing the performance of fully synchronous models while reducing communication by 500 times.