AI Architecture & Systems

Training Data and Checkpoint Pipelines

5.13.1Tokenization, Packing, and Dynamic Batching#

5.13.2Dataloader, Prefetch, and the CPU–GPU Pipeline#

5.13.3Distributed Data Sharding, Shuffling, and Recovery#

5.13.4Checkpoint Save/Load and Parallel I/O#

5.13.5Asynchronous Checkpointing and Incremental Saving#

5.13.6Consistency Among Data, Parameters, Optimizer, and Random State#