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Refactor fully shard runtime modules#4

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@Autumn1998 Autumn1998 force-pushed the tongliu/fsdp-v2-mixed-precision branch from d8fe051 to 77c3ae0 Compare May 11, 2026 05:03
grad_comm_dtype: Optional[torch.dtype] = None


def build_fully_shard_mixed_precision_policy(ddp_config) -> FullyShardMixedPrecisionPolicy:

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Could the code related to DDPConfig be placed in mcore_fsdp_adapter.py? The rewritten code should minimize dependencies on MCore as much as possible.

# reduce-scatter output must not alias the full input buffer, otherwise the
# collective can clobber its own input and silently corrupt gradients.
if reduced_grad_shard.dtype != self.dtype:
reduced_grad_shard = reduced_grad_shard.to(self.dtype)

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Do we need to explicitly convert the data type before performing addition?

@shjwudp shjwudp merged commit efbc8ac into shjwudp:mfsdp_refactor_main May 11, 2026
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