

TPU
PyTorch XLA supports FSDP training for TPUs and it can be enabled by modifying the FSDP configuration file generated by accelerate config. In addition to the sharding strategies and wrapping options specified above, you can add the parameters shown below to the file.
yaml
xla: True # must be set to True to enable PyTorch/XLA
xla_fsdp_settings: # XLA-specific FSDP parameters
xla_fsdp_grad_ckpt: True # use gradient checkpointing
The xla_fsdp_settings allow you to configure additional XLA-specific parameters for FSDP.
Launch training
An example FSDP configuration file may look like:
yaml
compute_environment: LOCAL_MACHINE
debug: false
distributed_type: FSDP
downcast_bf16: 'no'
fsdp_config:
  fsdp_auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
  fsdp_backward_prefetch_policy: BACKWARD_PRE
  fsdp_cpu_ram_efficient_loading: true
  fsdp_forward_prefetch: false
  fsdp_offload_params: true
  fsdp_sharding_strategy: 1
  fsdp_state_dict_type: SHARDED_STATE_DICT
  fsdp_sync_module_states: true
  fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: BertLayer
  fsdp_use_orig_params: true
machine_rank: 0
main_training_function: main
mixed_precision: bf16
num_machines: 1
num_processes: 2
rdzv_backend: static
same_network: true
tpu_env: []
tpu_use_cluster: false
tpu_use_sudo: false
use_cpu: false
To launch training, run the accelerate launch command and it'll automatically use the configuration file you previously created with accelerate config.