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Distributed ML Training and Fine-Tuning on Kubernetes
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Support MLX on Kubernetes with Kubeflow #2047

Open andreyvelich opened 7 months ago

andreyvelich commented 7 months ago

MLX is a new ML framework specifically designed to run on Apple silicon: https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx

It has some differences compare to PyTorch with mps backend: https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/issues/12#issuecomment-1843956313

It would be nice to integrate MLX in Kubeflow ecosystem for distributed capabilities, and provide a way to run MLX models on Kubernetes.

For example, we can leverage Kubeflow Training Operator for MLX Model Training and Fine-Tuning, and Kubeflow Katib for HyperParameter optimization. Since Kind cluster supports ARM arch, we should explore if we can use M-series GPUs for MLX model training with Kind in the future.

In addition to that, I saw examples how folks run Kubernetes on multi-VMs with MacOS machines and kubeadm. That might be useful when a single machine can't handle very large ML model.

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cc @kubeflow/wg-training-leads @awni

gaocegege commented 7 months ago

In addition to that, I saw examples how folks run Kubernetes on multi-VMs with MacOS machines and kubeadm. That might be useful when a single machine can't handle very large ML model.

Interesting. Does MLX support multi-node training?

awni commented 7 months ago

Not yet. We are working on it. Probably makes sense to follow up on this once we have some basic support there.

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andreyvelich commented 4 months ago

Once we implemented the Kubeflow Training V2 APIs we can make MLX work with MPI using mpirun command 🎉

It looks like distributed communication with MLX uses MPI: https://ml-explore.github.io/mlx/build/html/usage/distributed.html#getting-started

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andreyvelich commented 1 month ago

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