Skip to main content

A performant, memory-efficient checkpointing library for PyTorch applications, designed with large, complex distributed workloads in mind.

Project description

TorchSnapshot (Beta Release)

build status pypi version conda version pypi nightly version codecov bsd license

A performant, memory-efficient checkpointing library for PyTorch applications, designed with large, complex distributed workloads in mind.

Install

Requires Python >= 3.8 and PyTorch >= 2.0.0

From pip:

# Stable
pip install torchsnapshot
# Or, using conda
conda install -c conda-forge torchsnapshot

# Nightly
pip install --pre torchsnapshot-nightly

From source:

git clone https://github.com/pytorch/torchsnapshot
cd torchsnapshot
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

Why TorchSnapshot

Performance

  • TorchSnapshot provides a fast checkpointing implementation employing various optimizations, including zero-copy serialization for most tensor types, overlapped device-to-host copy and storage I/O, parallelized storage I/O.
  • TorchSnapshot greatly speeds up checkpointing for DistributedDataParallel workloads by distributing the write load across all ranks (benchmark).
  • When host memory is abundant, TorchSnapshot allows training to resume before all storage I/O completes, reducing the time blocked by checkpoint saving.

Memory Usage

  • TorchSnapshot's memory usage adapts to the host's available resources, greatly reducing the chance of out-of-memory issues when saving and loading checkpoints.
  • TorchSnapshot supports efficient random access to individual objects within a snapshot, even when the snapshot is stored in a cloud object storage.

Usability

  • Simple APIs that are consistent between distributed and non-distributed workloads.
  • Out of the box integration with commonly used cloud object storage systems.
  • Automatic resharding (elasticity) on world size change for supported workloads (more details).

Security

  • Secure tensor serialization without pickle dependency [WIP].

Getting Started

from torchsnapshot import Snapshot

# Taking a snapshot
app_state = {"model": model, "optimizer": optimizer}
snapshot = Snapshot.take(path="/path/to/snapshot", app_state=app_state)

# Restoring from a snapshot
snapshot.restore(app_state=app_state)

See the documentation for more details.

License

torchsnapshot is BSD licensed, as found in the LICENSE file.

Project details


Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

torchsnapshot_nightly-2024.6.10.tar.gz (93.0 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

torchsnapshot_nightly-2024.6.10-py3-none-any.whl (84.6 kB view details)

Uploaded Python 3

File details

Details for the file torchsnapshot_nightly-2024.6.10.tar.gz.

File metadata

File hashes

Hashes for torchsnapshot_nightly-2024.6.10.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 a1417e69b9f09fb68fc3c214af3b4893f178bd66848704d72a304da641a1b385
MD5 13206de4f64b4795ded1a218ef5c95c8
BLAKE2b-256 c3c61fe61a492ce23032878603fc26354fe72e3a57d0476779209ef3fd925799

See more details on using hashes here.

Provenance

File details

Details for the file torchsnapshot_nightly-2024.6.10-py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

File hashes

Hashes for torchsnapshot_nightly-2024.6.10-py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 49c14457f78b50d26d3161711e4debc88fa7e85512723021f1af6598a1c53e70
MD5 cf4fee76ea18b73f29035bceb3d3d9ad
BLAKE2b-256 3c3ba4221a89d1f231a751132acab1747779785cfb38327e1ea25f319e3496a6

See more details on using hashes here.

Provenance

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page