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Why is deepspeed enabled in the Bloom training script?

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Start with the Bloom training script and the shown DEEPSPEED_ARGS block; inspect how ZERO_STAGE and config_json are set and compare runs with and without DeepSpeed. Verify the reported Zero-State value and whether the loss curves align, then document the explanation and results.

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Why is the value of Zero-State 0 when deepspeed is enabled in the Bloom training script? Can the Bloom model be trained and the loss curve is aligned when deepspeed is disabled? Thanks very much.

DEEPSPEED_ARGS=" \
    --deepspeed \
    --deepspeed_config ${config_json} \
    --zero-stage ${ZERO_STAGE} \
    --deepspeed-activation-checkpointing \
    "
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