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add sparse update section in fluid dist doc #8997
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### Sparse Update | ||
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For an embedding layer, the gradient may have many rows containing only 0 for each mini-batch. | ||
Fluid use [SelectedRows](../selected_rows.md) to support sparse variables. Distributed training support `Sparse Update`, | ||
which sends a `SelectedRows` variable to the parameter server to run parameter updates. | ||
It would save a lot of bandwidth and make the distributed training job have better performance. | ||
For embedding layers, the gradient may have many rows containing only 0 when training, | ||
if the gradient use a dense tensor to do parameter optimization, | ||
it could spend unnessesary memory, slow down the calculations and waste | ||
There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. unnessesary => unnecessary |
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the bandwidth while doing distributed training. | ||
In Fluid, we introduce [SelectedRows](../selected_rows.md) to represent a list of rows containing | ||
non-zero gradient data. So when we do parameter optimization both locally and remotely, | ||
we only need to send those non-zero rows to the optimizer operators: | ||
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<img src="src/sparse_update.png" width="700" /> | ||
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use -> uses.