Open ankitgola005 opened 1 year ago
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🚀 Feature
LightningCLI support for external accelerators
Motivation
LightningCLI helps avoid boilerplate code for command line tools. The current implementation does not seem to support external accelerators, and it only accepts the accelerators present in lightning source.
Pitch
Extend support for external accelerators in LightningCLI.
Alternatives
Additional context
First mentioned in #54
To reproduce:
Gives the following tracebacks:
Method 1, passing supported accelerator class instance from an external library
Method 2, passing accelerator as string
Env