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Combined lightweight sharding annotations with XLA compiler support to express distributed computation, scaling multilingual sparse-expert Transformer training with automated partitioning.
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Inherits XLA, SPMD and sparsely gated MoE; not invention of mixture-of-experts or later GSPMD's full design.600Bparameters and2048TPUv3/4day figures are a specific multilingual-translation experiment, not dense-model-equivalent per-token compute, universal translation quality or general automatic partition optimality.
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Dmitry Lepikhin; HyoukJoong Lee; Yuanzhong Xu; Dehao Chen; Orhan Firat; Yanping Huang; Maxim Krikun; Noam Shazeer; Zhifeng Chen
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GShard: compiler-driven sharding for sparse-expert models
Combined lightweight sharding annotations with XLA compiler support to express distributed computation, scaling multilingual sparse-expert Transformer training with automated partitioning.
Scientific scope
Inherits XLA, SPMD and sparsely gated MoE; not invention of mixture-of-experts or later GSPMD's full design.600Bparameters and2048TPUv3/4day figures are a specific multilingual-translation experiment, not dense-model-equivalent per-token compute, universal translation quality or general automatic partition optimality.
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People and systems
Dmitry Lepikhin; HyoukJoong Lee; Yuanzhong Xu; Dehao Chen; Orhan Firat; Yanping Huang; Maxim Krikun; Noam Shazeer; Zhifeng Chen
Source-listed authors or explicitly credited technical contributors for the cited versions. Family entries retain source-specific attribution; a combined list is not one original-paper byline or equal individual work. Names alone do not establish resolved identities.