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Added the DualPipeV schedule according to http://github.com/deepseek-ai/DualPipe/blob/main/dualpipe/dualpipev.py#L11

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This schedule doesn't perform the actual "overlap" during execution, but provides the scaffolding and schedule definition we need to run it E2E in torchtitan. Supporting the overlapped operation will be worked on in following PRs.

Tests:

python test/distributed/pipelining/test_schedule_multiproc.py -k test_v_shape_schedules
python test/distributed/pipelining/test_schedule.py -k test_pipeline_order_for_v_schedules

Also tested in TorchTitan and is running.

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Added the DualPipeV schedule according to https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DualPipe

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This schedule doesn't perform the actual "overlap" during execution, but provides the scaffolding and schedule definition we need to run it E2E in torchtitan. Supporting the overlapped operation will be worked on in following PRs.

Tests:
```sh
python test/distributed/pipelining/test_schedule_multiproc.py -k test_v_shape_schedules
python test/distributed/pipelining/test_schedule.py -k test_pipeline_order_for_v_schedules
```

Also tested in TorchTitan and is running.

cc awgu wanchaol fegin fduwjj wz337 wconstab d4l3k pragupta

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Some changes to validation code and visualizer to support a new computation type that will be used in DualPipeV (see #159591)

The IR looks like:

```
[0F0, 0F1, 0F2, 0F3, 0F4, 0F5, 0F6, 7F0, 7I0, 7W0, 7F1, 7I1, 7W1, 7F2, 7I2, 7W2, 7F3, (0F7;7B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (7F4;0B0)OVERLAP_F_B, (0F8;7B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (7F5;0B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (0F9;7B5)OVERLAP_F_B, (7F6;0B2)OVERLAP_F_B, 7B6, (7F7;0B3)OVERLAP_F_B, 7B7, (7F8;0B4)OVERLAP_F_B, 7B8, (7F9;0B5)OVERLAP_F_B, 7B9, 0I6, 0W6, 0I7, 0W7, 0I8, 0W8, 0I9, 0W9]
[1F0, 1F1, 1F2, 1F3, 1F4, 6F0, 1F5, 6F1, 6I0, 6W0, 6F2, 6I1, 6W1, 6F3, (1F6;6B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (6F4;1B0)OVERLAP_F_B, (1F7;6B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (6F5;1B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (1F8;6B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (6F6;1B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (1F9;6B5)OVERLAP_F_B, (6F7;1B3)OVERLAP_F_B, 6B6, (6F8;1B4)OVERLAP_F_B, 6B7, (6F9;1B5)OVERLAP_F_B, 6B8, 1B6, 6I9, 1I7, 6W9, 1I8, 1W7, 1I9, 1W8, 1W9]
[2F0, 2F1, 2F2, 5F0, 2F3, 5F1, 2F4, 5F2, 5I0, 5W0, 5F3, (2F5;5B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F4;2B0)OVERLAP_F_B, (2F6;5B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F5;2B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (2F7;5B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F6;2B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (2F8;5B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F7;2B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (2F9;5B5)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F8;2B4)OVERLAP_F_B, 5B6, (5F9;2B5)OVERLAP_F_B, 5B7, 2B6, 5B8, 2I7, 5I9, 2I8, 2W7, 2I9, 5W9, 2W8, 2W9]
[3F0, 4F0, 3F1, 4F1, 3F2, 4F2, 3F3, 4F3, 3F4, 4B0, (4F4;3B0)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F5;4B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F5;3B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F6;4B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F6;3B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F7;4B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F7;3B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F8;4B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F8;3B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F9;4B5)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F9;3B5)OVERLAP_F_B, 4B6, 3B6, 4B7, 3B7, 4I8, 3I8, 4I9, 3I9, 4W8, 3W8, 4W9, 3W9]
```

In this PR, the schedule execution will just treat the OVERLAP_F_B as two separate operations of F and B (so there is no actual overlap). The next step is to allow users to create a custom function to plug in what this operation does.

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/814629043a0c31441bc3749204c97f1e24fa3462/torch/distributed/pipelining/schedules.py#L1205-L1216

cc awgu wanchaol fegin fduwjj wz337 wconstab d4l3k pragupta

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Some changes to validation code and visualizer to support a new computation type that will be used in DualPipeV (see #159591)

The IR looks like:

```
[0F0, 0F1, 0F2, 0F3, 0F4, 0F5, 0F6, 7F0, 7I0, 7W0, 7F1, 7I1, 7W1, 7F2, 7I2, 7W2, 7F3, (0F7;7B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (7F4;0B0)OVERLAP_F_B, (0F8;7B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (7F5;0B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (0F9;7B5)OVERLAP_F_B, (7F6;0B2)OVERLAP_F_B, 7B6, (7F7;0B3)OVERLAP_F_B, 7B7, (7F8;0B4)OVERLAP_F_B, 7B8, (7F9;0B5)OVERLAP_F_B, 7B9, 0I6, 0W6, 0I7, 0W7, 0I8, 0W8, 0I9, 0W9]
[1F0, 1F1, 1F2, 1F3, 1F4, 6F0, 1F5, 6F1, 6I0, 6W0, 6F2, 6I1, 6W1, 6F3, (1F6;6B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (6F4;1B0)OVERLAP_F_B, (1F7;6B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (6F5;1B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (1F8;6B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (6F6;1B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (1F9;6B5)OVERLAP_F_B, (6F7;1B3)OVERLAP_F_B, 6B6, (6F8;1B4)OVERLAP_F_B, 6B7, (6F9;1B5)OVERLAP_F_B, 6B8, 1B6, 6I9, 1I7, 6W9, 1I8, 1W7, 1I9, 1W8, 1W9]
[2F0, 2F1, 2F2, 5F0, 2F3, 5F1, 2F4, 5F2, 5I0, 5W0, 5F3, (2F5;5B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F4;2B0)OVERLAP_F_B, (2F6;5B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F5;2B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (2F7;5B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F6;2B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (2F8;5B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F7;2B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (2F9;5B5)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F8;2B4)OVERLAP_F_B, 5B6, (5F9;2B5)OVERLAP_F_B, 5B7, 2B6, 5B8, 2I7, 5I9, 2I8, 2W7, 2I9, 5W9, 2W8, 2W9]
[3F0, 4F0, 3F1, 4F1, 3F2, 4F2, 3F3, 4F3, 3F4, 4B0, (4F4;3B0)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F5;4B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F5;3B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F6;4B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F6;3B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F7;4B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F7;3B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F8;4B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F8;3B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F9;4B5)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F9;3B5)OVERLAP_F_B, 4B6, 3B6, 4B7, 3B7, 4I8, 3I8, 4I9, 3I9, 4W8, 3W8, 4W9, 3W9]
```

In this PR, the schedule execution will just treat the OVERLAP_F_B as two separate operations of F and B (so there is no actual overlap). The next step is to allow users to create a custom function to plug in what this operation does.

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/814629043a0c31441bc3749204c97f1e24fa3462/torch/distributed/pipelining/schedules.py#L1205-L1216

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Some changes to validation code and visualizer to support a new computation type that will be used in DualPipeV (see #159591)

The IR looks like:

```
[0F0, 0F1, 0F2, 0F3, 0F4, 0F5, 0F6, 7F0, 7I0, 7W0, 7F1, 7I1, 7W1, 7F2, 7I2, 7W2, 7F3, (0F7;7B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (7F4;0B0)OVERLAP_F_B, (0F8;7B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (7F5;0B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (0F9;7B5)OVERLAP_F_B, (7F6;0B2)OVERLAP_F_B, 7B6, (7F7;0B3)OVERLAP_F_B, 7B7, (7F8;0B4)OVERLAP_F_B, 7B8, (7F9;0B5)OVERLAP_F_B, 7B9, 0I6, 0W6, 0I7, 0W7, 0I8, 0W8, 0I9, 0W9]
[1F0, 1F1, 1F2, 1F3, 1F4, 6F0, 1F5, 6F1, 6I0, 6W0, 6F2, 6I1, 6W1, 6F3, (1F6;6B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (6F4;1B0)OVERLAP_F_B, (1F7;6B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (6F5;1B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (1F8;6B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (6F6;1B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (1F9;6B5)OVERLAP_F_B, (6F7;1B3)OVERLAP_F_B, 6B6, (6F8;1B4)OVERLAP_F_B, 6B7, (6F9;1B5)OVERLAP_F_B, 6B8, 1B6, 6I9, 1I7, 6W9, 1I8, 1W7, 1I9, 1W8, 1W9]
[2F0, 2F1, 2F2, 5F0, 2F3, 5F1, 2F4, 5F2, 5I0, 5W0, 5F3, (2F5;5B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F4;2B0)OVERLAP_F_B, (2F6;5B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F5;2B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (2F7;5B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F6;2B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (2F8;5B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F7;2B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (2F9;5B5)OVERLAP_F_B, (5F8;2B4)OVERLAP_F_B, 5B6, (5F9;2B5)OVERLAP_F_B, 5B7, 2B6, 5B8, 2I7, 5I9, 2I8, 2W7, 2I9, 5W9, 2W8, 2W9]
[3F0, 4F0, 3F1, 4F1, 3F2, 4F2, 3F3, 4F3, 3F4, 4B0, (4F4;3B0)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F5;4B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F5;3B1)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F6;4B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F6;3B2)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F7;4B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F7;3B3)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F8;4B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F8;3B4)OVERLAP_F_B, (3F9;4B5)OVERLAP_F_B, (4F9;3B5)OVERLAP_F_B, 4B6, 3B6, 4B7, 3B7, 4I8, 3I8, 4I9, 3I9, 4W8, 3W8, 4W9, 3W9]
```

In this PR, the schedule execution will just treat the OVERLAP_F_B as two separate operations of F and B (so there is no actual overlap). The next step is to allow users to create a custom function to plug in what this operation does.

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/814629043a0c31441bc3749204c97f1e24fa3462/torch/distributed/pipelining/schedules.py#L1205-L1216

Pull Request resolved: #158978
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self.pipeline_order[rank] = rank_ops

# Initialize the pipeline order with communication necessary to run with _PipelineScheduleRuntime
self._load_actions(self.pipeline_order)
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regretting that this function name doesn't make it clear that it's running all the passes to insert comms.

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I can update it in a follow up PR! I also was making a dumb mistake of calling _load_action twice which doesn't error out but leads to numerics issues, so im going to add validation to check for this

weight_key = (actual_stage_index, _ComputationType.BACKWARD_WEIGHT)
counters[weight_key] = counters.get(weight_key, 0) + 1

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generally, is there some matching between the 6 steps and the rank-based formulas you used here, and the paper/code? it isn't that obvious how this compares to the logic in dualpipev

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The logic for dualpipev is here (https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DualPipe/blob/3da1bbea53606543d7f5f232338fc58096db30e3/dualpipe/dualpipev.py#L331-L396). So this schedule copies that (minus their communication operations, which we put in ourselves).

The overlapped_f_b in the dualpipev is a dummy implementation using an MLP. The DeepSeek team does not provide a concrete implementation for what they described in the paper, but they leverage the tech built in DeepEP for the dispatch + MOE + combine example (https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP/blob/main/README.md#example-use-in-model-training-or-inference-prefilling)

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should the picture in your PR desc match this picture exactly (from DualPipe?
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at first i thought there were differences but i realized i was just confused by the notation. I think it might be a perfect match, but actually i'd like to see a unit test that asserts your code generates this picture for the 4-rank 10-mb config.

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wconstab commented Aug 13, 2025

not overkill imo. Why turn down such a good opportunity for a comprehensive test case?

Maybe ask Claude to translate the picture for you if it's a lot of work?

IIUC the tests you have written don't really check that you implemented dual pipe, I assume they would pass if you swapped it with another unoptimized schedule, they just check correctness. It can be hard to write a test for a scheudule by hand but if you just assert the order is correct as expected you have it covered.

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H-Huang commented Aug 13, 2025

I assume they would pass if you swapped it with another unoptimized schedule, they just check correctness.

That's a fair point. Okay I will add a test for the schedule ops as well!

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Rename method and add validation
Pull Request resolved: #160558
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Update schedule tests to use `world_size=4`, changes needed:
- Move some tests that require world_size=2 to new class
- Move helper methods from class level to function level
- Update some initialization to pass assert since gradients were super small.

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DualPipeV was added to pt-core
(pytorch/pytorch#159591) so just adding code to
support it in titan

To use, in .toml file set:
```
pipeline_parallel_schedule = "DualPipeV"
```

Ideally we don't have this if-statement check, so as a future BE task I
can look into removing it
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