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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:

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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@H-Huang H-Huang changed the title Add DualPipeV schedule [PP] Add DualPipeV schedule Jul 31, 2025
@H-Huang H-Huang requested review from kwen2501 and wconstab July 31, 2025 21:36
@H-Huang H-Huang added the release notes: distributed (pipeline) release notes category label Jul 31, 2025
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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Pull Request resolved: #159591
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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

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

Pull Request resolved: #158978
Approved by: https://github.com/wconstab
@parametrize("use_new_runtime", [False, True])
def test_v_shape_schedules(self, schedule_class, use_new_runtime):
n_stages = 4
rank_stages = {0: [0, 3], 1: [1, 2]}
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might be a good idea to test n_stages = 6 or 8, so there is at least one rank that is both sender/recvr. (there are behavior differences between beginning, middle, and end stages right?

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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stage0_index, stage1_index = rank_to_stages[rank]

def add_action(
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maybe split this into 2 fns since its basically 2 separate codepaths and the args for each one are also separate

# Handle FULL_BACKWARD counter updates
input_key = (backward_stage, _ComputationType.BACKWARD_INPUT)
weight_key = (backward_stage, _ComputationType.BACKWARD_WEIGHT)
counters[input_key] = counters.get(input_key, 0) + 1
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is the idea here that we keep track of both how many 'full_backwards' we had (above) and also how many separate input/weight backwards? seems a little odd to log them both but i haven't finished reading yet

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# Regular single action
key = (stage_index, computation_type)
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so if you'd done one O_F_B and then you are doing your first dI, you'd want counters to report '1' so you know you're doing the 1st backward. seems correct

# Step 1: F0
step_1 = (num_ranks - rank - 1) * 2
for _ in range(step_1):
add_action(actions, stage0_index, _ComputationType.FORWARD, counters)
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nit: you could make this cleaner by not passing actions or counters into the helper. it can just access them anyway.

step_3 = num_ranks - rank - 1
for _ in range(step_3):
add_action(actions, stage1_index, _ComputationType.BACKWARD_INPUT, counters)
add_weight_action(actions, counters)
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nit: add_weight_action_if_pending?

step_4 = num_chunks - num_ranks * 2 + rank + 1
for i in range(step_4):
if i == 0 and rank == num_ranks - 1:
# NOTE: We don't overlap these two chunks to further reduce bubble size.
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is this referring to a specific thing in the paper?

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

# Step 1: F0
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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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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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