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This lowers memory per GPU, which helps most with long sequences like high-resolution images and video. To compare it with the other strategies, see <a href="../training/distributed_inference">Distributed inference</a>.</p> <p>Context parallelism runs inside the attention backend, and only some backends support it. If yours doesn’t, <code>enable_parallelism</code> raises an error that lists the compatible backends. Switch backends with <a href="/docs/diffusers/pr_14972/en/api/models/overview#diffusers.ModelMixin.set_attention_backend">set_attention_backend()</a>, and see the <a href="./attention_backends#available-backends">available backends</a> for the full list.</p> <p>Configure every variant below with <a href="/docs/diffusers/pr_14972/en/api/parallel#diffusers.ContextParallelConfig">ContextParallelConfig</a>.</p> <table><thead><tr><th>Variant</th><th>Config</th><th>Requirements</th><th>Use when</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="#ring-attention">Ring Attention</a></td><td><code>ring_degree > 1</code></td><td>the sequence length must divide evenly by <code>ring_degree</code></td><td>sequences are long and interconnect bandwidth is limited</td></tr><tr><td><a href="#ulysses-attention">Ulysses Attention</a></td><td><code>ulysses_degree > 1</code></td><td>the sequence length and the number of attention heads must divide evenly by <code>ulysses_degree</code></td><td>your GPUs have a fast interconnect</td></tr><tr><td><a href="#unified-attention">Unified Attention</a></td><td><code>ring_degree > 1</code> and <code>ulysses_degree > 1</code></td><td>at least 4 GPUs</td><td>you have more devices than Ulysses Attention can use alone</td></tr><tr><td><a href="#ulysses-anything-attention">Ulysses Anything Attention</a></td><td><code>ulysses_degree > 1</code>, <code>ulysses_anything=True</code></td><td><code>ring_degree</code> must be 1</td><td>the sequence length or head count doesn’t divide evenly</td></tr><tr><td><a href="#ring-anything-attention">Ring Anything Attention</a></td><td><code>ring_degree > 1</code>, <code>ring_anything=True</code></td><td><code>ulysses_degree</code> must be 1, inference only, <code>attn_mask</code> must be <code>None</code></td><td>the sequence length doesn’t divide evenly</td></tr></tbody></table> <!--[1--><h2 class="relative group"><a id="ring-attention" class="header-link block pr-1.5 text-lg no-hover:hidden with-hover:absolute with-hover:p-1.5 with-hover:opacity-0 with-hover:group-hover:opacity-100 with-hover:right-full" href="#ring-attention"><span><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" aria-hidden="true" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 256 256"><path d="M167.594 88.393a8.001 8.001 0 0 1 0 11.314l-67.882 67.882a8 8 0 1 1-11.314-11.315l67.882-67.881a8.003 8.003 0 0 1 11.314 0zm-28.287 84.86l-28.284 28.284a40 40 0 0 1-56.567-56.567l28.284-28.284a8 8 0 0 0-11.315-11.315l-28.284 28.284a56 56 0 0 0 79.196 79.197l28.285-28.285a8 8 0 1 0-11.315-11.314zM212.852 43.14a56.002 56.002 0 0 0-79.196 0l-28.284 28.284a8 8 0 1 0 11.314 11.314l28.284-28.284a40 40 0 0 1 56.568 56.567l-28.285 28.285a8 8 0 0 0 11.315 11.314l28.284-28.284a56.065 56.065 0 0 0 0-79.196z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg><!----></span></a> <span><!---->Ring Attention<!----></span></h2><!--]--><!----> <p><a href="https://huggingface.co/papers/2310.01889" rel="nofollow">Ring Attention</a> passes key (K) and value (V) blocks between GPUs arranged in a ring. Each GPU computes attention against the K/V block it holds, then passes that block to the next GPU. After one full loop, every GPU has seen every token’s K/V, and no GPU ever holds the full sequence.</p> <p>Set <code>ring_degree</code> to the number of GPUs, and pass the config to the transformer’s <code>enable_parallelism()</code> method.</p> <div class="code-block relative "><div class="absolute top-2.5 right-4"><button class="inline-flex items-center relative text-sm focus:text-green-500 cursor-pointer focus:outline-none transition duration-200 ease-in-out opacity-0 mx-0.5 text-gray-600 " title="code excerpt" type="button"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M28,10V28H10V10H28m0-2H10a2,2,0,0,0-2,2V28a2,2,0,0,0,2,2H28a2,2,0,0,0,2-2V10a2,2,0,0,0-2-2Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><path d="M4,18H2V4A2,2,0,0,1,4,2H18V4H4Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><rect fill="none" width="32" height="32"></rect></svg><!----> <div class=" absolute pointer-events-none transition-opacity bg-black text-white py-1 px-2 leading-tight rounded font-normal shadow left-1/2 top-full transform -translate-x-1/2 translate-y-2 opacity-0 "><div class="absolute bottom-full left-1/2 transform -translate-x-1/2 w-0 h-0 border-black border-4 border-t-0" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent;"></div> Copied</div><!----></button><!----></div> <pre class="language-py "><!----><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> os | |
| <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> torch | |
| <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> torch <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> distributed <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> dist | |
| <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> diffusers <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> DiffusionPipeline, ContextParallelConfig | |
| <span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">setup_distributed</span>(): | |
| <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">not</span> dist.is_initialized(): | |
| dist.init_process_group(backend=<span class="hljs-string">"nccl"</span>) | |
| <span class="hljs-comment"># torchrun sets LOCAL_RANK to this process's GPU index on its node</span> | |
| local_rank = <span class="hljs-built_in">int</span>(os.environ[<span class="hljs-string">"LOCAL_RANK"</span>]) | |
| device = torch.device(<span class="hljs-string">f"cuda:<span class="hljs-subst">{local_rank}</span>"</span>) | |
| torch.cuda.set_device(device) | |
| <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> device | |
| <span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">main</span>(): | |
| device = setup_distributed() | |
| world_size = dist.get_world_size() | |
| pipeline = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained( | |
| <span class="hljs-string">"black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev"</span>, dtype=torch.bfloat16 | |
| ).to(device) | |
| pipeline.transformer.set_attention_backend(<span class="hljs-string">"_native_cudnn"</span>) | |
| cp_config = ContextParallelConfig(ring_degree=world_size) | |
| pipeline.transformer.enable_parallelism(config=cp_config) | |
| prompt = <span class="hljs-string">""" | |
| cinematic film still of a cat sipping a margarita in a pool in Palm Springs, California | |
| highly detailed, high budget hollywood movie, cinemascope, moody, epic, gorgeous, film grain | |
| """</span> | |
| <span class="hljs-comment"># Must specify generator so all ranks start with same latents (or pass your own)</span> | |
| generator = torch.Generator().manual_seed(<span class="hljs-number">42</span>) | |
| image = pipeline( | |
| prompt, | |
| guidance_scale=<span class="hljs-number">3.5</span>, | |
| num_inference_steps=<span class="hljs-number">50</span>, | |
| generator=generator, | |
| ).images[<span class="hljs-number">0</span>] | |
| <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> dist.get_rank() == <span class="hljs-number">0</span>: | |
| image.save(<span class="hljs-string">"output.png"</span>) | |
| <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> dist.is_initialized(): | |
| dist.destroy_process_group() | |
| <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> __name__ == <span class="hljs-string">"__main__"</span>: | |
| main()<!----></pre></div><!----> <p>Save the script as <code>ring_attention.py</code> and launch it with <a href="https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/elastic/run.html" rel="nofollow">torchrun</a> or another PyTorch-compatible launcher. Set <code>--nproc-per-node</code> to the number of GPUs.</p> <div class="code-block relative "><div class="absolute top-2.5 right-4"><button class="inline-flex items-center relative text-sm focus:text-green-500 cursor-pointer focus:outline-none transition duration-200 ease-in-out opacity-0 mx-0.5 text-gray-600 " title="code excerpt" type="button"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M28,10V28H10V10H28m0-2H10a2,2,0,0,0-2,2V28a2,2,0,0,0,2,2H28a2,2,0,0,0,2-2V10a2,2,0,0,0-2-2Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><path d="M4,18H2V4A2,2,0,0,1,4,2H18V4H4Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><rect fill="none" width="32" height="32"></rect></svg><!----> <div class=" absolute pointer-events-none transition-opacity bg-black text-white py-1 px-2 leading-tight rounded font-normal shadow left-1/2 top-full transform -translate-x-1/2 translate-y-2 opacity-0 "><div class="absolute bottom-full left-1/2 transform -translate-x-1/2 w-0 h-0 border-black border-4 border-t-0" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent;"></div> Copied</div><!----></button><!----></div> <pre class="language-bash "><!---->torchrun --nproc-per-node 2 ring_attention.py<!----></pre></div><!----> <p>To try the other variants, replace the <code>enable_parallelism</code> call in <code>ring_attention.py</code> with the one from their section.</p> <!--[1--><h2 class="relative group"><a id="ulysses-attention" class="header-link block pr-1.5 text-lg no-hover:hidden with-hover:absolute with-hover:p-1.5 with-hover:opacity-0 with-hover:group-hover:opacity-100 with-hover:right-full" href="#ulysses-attention"><span><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" aria-hidden="true" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 256 256"><path d="M167.594 88.393a8.001 8.001 0 0 1 0 11.314l-67.882 67.882a8 8 0 1 1-11.314-11.315l67.882-67.881a8.003 8.003 0 0 1 11.314 0zm-28.287 84.86l-28.284 28.284a40 40 0 0 1-56.567-56.567l28.284-28.284a8 8 0 0 0-11.315-11.315l-28.284 28.284a56 56 0 0 0 79.196 79.197l28.285-28.285a8 8 0 1 0-11.315-11.314zM212.852 43.14a56.002 56.002 0 0 0-79.196 0l-28.284 28.284a8 8 0 1 0 11.314 11.314l28.284-28.284a40 40 0 0 1 56.568 56.567l-28.285 28.285a8 8 0 0 0 11.315 11.314l28.284-28.284a56.065 56.065 0 0 0 0-79.196z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg><!----></span></a> <span><!---->Ulysses Attention<!----></span></h2><!--]--><!----> <p><a href="https://huggingface.co/papers/2309.14509" rel="nofollow">Ulysses Attention</a> uses <em>all-to-all</em> communication, where every GPU exchanges data with every other GPU. The first all-to-all regroups the data so each GPU holds every token for a subset of attention heads. Each GPU computes attention for its heads, and a second all-to-all regroups the results by token for the next layer.</p> <p>Set <code>ulysses_degree</code> to the number of GPUs, and pass the config to <code>enable_parallelism()</code>.</p> <div class="code-block relative "><div class="absolute top-2.5 right-4"><button class="inline-flex items-center relative text-sm focus:text-green-500 cursor-pointer focus:outline-none transition duration-200 ease-in-out opacity-0 mx-0.5 text-gray-600 " title="code excerpt" type="button"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M28,10V28H10V10H28m0-2H10a2,2,0,0,0-2,2V28a2,2,0,0,0,2,2H28a2,2,0,0,0,2-2V10a2,2,0,0,0-2-2Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><path d="M4,18H2V4A2,2,0,0,1,4,2H18V4H4Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><rect fill="none" width="32" height="32"></rect></svg><!----> <div class=" absolute pointer-events-none transition-opacity bg-black text-white py-1 px-2 leading-tight rounded font-normal shadow left-1/2 top-full transform -translate-x-1/2 translate-y-2 opacity-0 "><div class="absolute bottom-full left-1/2 transform -translate-x-1/2 w-0 h-0 border-black border-4 border-t-0" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent;"></div> Copied</div><!----></button><!----></div> <pre class="language-py "><!---->pipeline.transformer.enable_parallelism(config=ContextParallelConfig(ulysses_degree=<span class="hljs-number">2</span>))<!----></pre></div><!----> <!--[1--><h2 class="relative group"><a id="unified-attention" class="header-link block pr-1.5 text-lg no-hover:hidden with-hover:absolute with-hover:p-1.5 with-hover:opacity-0 with-hover:group-hover:opacity-100 with-hover:right-full" href="#unified-attention"><span><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" aria-hidden="true" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 256 256"><path d="M167.594 88.393a8.001 8.001 0 0 1 0 11.314l-67.882 67.882a8 8 0 1 1-11.314-11.315l67.882-67.881a8.003 8.003 0 0 1 11.314 0zm-28.287 84.86l-28.284 28.284a40 40 0 0 1-56.567-56.567l28.284-28.284a8 8 0 0 0-11.315-11.315l-28.284 28.284a56 56 0 0 0 79.196 79.197l28.285-28.285a8 8 0 1 0-11.315-11.314zM212.852 43.14a56.002 56.002 0 0 0-79.196 0l-28.284 28.284a8 8 0 1 0 11.314 11.314l28.284-28.284a40 40 0 0 1 56.568 56.567l-28.285 28.285a8 8 0 0 0 11.315 11.314l28.284-28.284a56.065 56.065 0 0 0 0-79.196z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg><!----></span></a> <span><!---->Unified Attention<!----></span></h2><!--]--><!----> <p><a href="https://huggingface.co/papers/2405.07719" rel="nofollow">Unified Sequence Parallelism</a> combines Ring Attention and Ulysses Attention. It runs an all-to-all to redistribute heads and tokens, runs Ring Attention on the result, then reverses the all-to-all to restore the original layout. Ulysses parallelizes across attention heads and Ring parallelizes across the sequence, so together they can use more GPUs than Ulysses alone.</p> <p>Use Unified Attention when you have at least 4 GPUs. Set both <code>ulysses_degree</code> and <code>ring_degree</code> to more than 1. The GPUs form a 2D grid of <code>ulysses_degree * ring_degree</code> devices, and each GPU belongs to one Ulysses group and one Ring group.</p> <div class="code-block relative "><div class="absolute top-2.5 right-4"><button class="inline-flex items-center relative text-sm focus:text-green-500 cursor-pointer focus:outline-none transition duration-200 ease-in-out opacity-0 mx-0.5 text-gray-600 " title="code excerpt" type="button"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M28,10V28H10V10H28m0-2H10a2,2,0,0,0-2,2V28a2,2,0,0,0,2,2H28a2,2,0,0,0,2-2V10a2,2,0,0,0-2-2Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><path d="M4,18H2V4A2,2,0,0,1,4,2H18V4H4Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><rect fill="none" width="32" height="32"></rect></svg><!----> <div class=" absolute pointer-events-none transition-opacity bg-black text-white py-1 px-2 leading-tight rounded font-normal shadow left-1/2 top-full transform -translate-x-1/2 translate-y-2 opacity-0 "><div class="absolute bottom-full left-1/2 transform -translate-x-1/2 w-0 h-0 border-black border-4 border-t-0" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent;"></div> Copied</div><!----></button><!----></div> <pre class="language-py "><!---->pipeline.transformer.enable_parallelism(config=ContextParallelConfig(ulysses_degree=<span class="hljs-number">2</span>, ring_degree=<span class="hljs-number">2</span>))<!----></pre></div><!----> <p>The benchmark below compares Ulysses, Ring and Unified Attention on 4 H100 GPUs with <a href="https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/12693#issuecomment-3694727532" rel="nofollow">this script</a>. Each image uses 50 inference steps.</p> <table><thead><tr><th>CP Backend</th><th>Time / Image (ms)</th><th>Steps / Sec</th><th>Peak Memory (GB)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>ulysses</td><td>6670.789</td><td>7.50</td><td>33.85</td></tr><tr><td>ring</td><td>13076.492</td><td>3.82</td><td>56.02</td></tr><tr><td>unified_balanced</td><td>11068.705</td><td>4.52</td><td>33.85</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Ulysses has the highest throughput, but it can’t use more GPUs than the model has attention heads. Unified Attention removes that limit.</p> <!--[1--><h2 class="relative group"><a id="ulysses-anything-attention" class="header-link block pr-1.5 text-lg no-hover:hidden with-hover:absolute with-hover:p-1.5 with-hover:opacity-0 with-hover:group-hover:opacity-100 with-hover:right-full" href="#ulysses-anything-attention"><span><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" aria-hidden="true" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 256 256"><path d="M167.594 88.393a8.001 8.001 0 0 1 0 11.314l-67.882 67.882a8 8 0 1 1-11.314-11.315l67.882-67.881a8.003 8.003 0 0 1 11.314 0zm-28.287 84.86l-28.284 28.284a40 40 0 0 1-56.567-56.567l28.284-28.284a8 8 0 0 0-11.315-11.315l-28.284 28.284a56 56 0 0 0 79.196 79.197l28.285-28.285a8 8 0 1 0-11.315-11.314zM212.852 43.14a56.002 56.002 0 0 0-79.196 0l-28.284 28.284a8 8 0 1 0 11.314 11.314l28.284-28.284a40 40 0 0 1 56.568 56.567l-28.285 28.285a8 8 0 0 0 11.315 11.314l28.284-28.284a56.065 56.065 0 0 0 0-79.196z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg><!----></span></a> <span><!---->Ulysses Anything Attention<!----></span></h2><!--]--><!----> <p>Ulysses Attention requires the sequence length and the number of attention heads to divide evenly by <code>ulysses_degree</code>. <a href="https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/12996" rel="nofollow">Ulysses Anything Attention</a> removes both requirements. You can’t combine it with Unified Attention, so <code>ring_degree</code> must be 1.</p> <p>Set <code>ulysses_degree</code> to more than 1 and <code>ulysses_anything=True</code>.</p> <div class="code-block relative "><div class="absolute top-2.5 right-4"><button class="inline-flex items-center relative text-sm focus:text-green-500 cursor-pointer focus:outline-none transition duration-200 ease-in-out opacity-0 mx-0.5 text-gray-600 " title="code excerpt" type="button"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M28,10V28H10V10H28m0-2H10a2,2,0,0,0-2,2V28a2,2,0,0,0,2,2H28a2,2,0,0,0,2-2V10a2,2,0,0,0-2-2Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><path d="M4,18H2V4A2,2,0,0,1,4,2H18V4H4Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><rect fill="none" width="32" height="32"></rect></svg><!----> <div class=" absolute pointer-events-none transition-opacity bg-black text-white py-1 px-2 leading-tight rounded font-normal shadow left-1/2 top-full transform -translate-x-1/2 translate-y-2 opacity-0 "><div class="absolute bottom-full left-1/2 transform -translate-x-1/2 w-0 h-0 border-black border-4 border-t-0" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent;"></div> Copied</div><!----></button><!----></div> <pre class="language-py "><!---->pipeline.transformer.enable_parallelism(config=ContextParallelConfig(ulysses_degree=<span class="hljs-number">2</span>, ulysses_anything=<span class="hljs-literal">True</span>))<!----></pre></div><!----> <blockquote class="tip"><p>Add a <code>gloo</code> backend for CPU tensors to <a href="https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/distributed.html#torch.distributed.init_process_group" rel="nofollow">init_process_group</a>. It avoids the forced CUDA syncs that host-to-device and device-to-host transfers cause.</p></blockquote> <div class="code-block relative "><div class="absolute top-2.5 right-4"><button class="inline-flex items-center relative text-sm focus:text-green-500 cursor-pointer focus:outline-none transition duration-200 ease-in-out opacity-0 mx-0.5 text-gray-600 " title="code excerpt" type="button"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M28,10V28H10V10H28m0-2H10a2,2,0,0,0-2,2V28a2,2,0,0,0,2,2H28a2,2,0,0,0,2-2V10a2,2,0,0,0-2-2Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><path d="M4,18H2V4A2,2,0,0,1,4,2H18V4H4Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><rect fill="none" width="32" height="32"></rect></svg><!----> <div class=" absolute pointer-events-none transition-opacity bg-black text-white py-1 px-2 leading-tight rounded font-normal shadow left-1/2 top-full transform -translate-x-1/2 translate-y-2 opacity-0 "><div class="absolute bottom-full left-1/2 transform -translate-x-1/2 w-0 h-0 border-black border-4 border-t-0" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent;"></div> Copied</div><!----></button><!----></div> <pre class="language-py "><!----><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> torch.distributed <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> dist | |
| dist.init_process_group(backend=<span class="hljs-string">"cpu:gloo,cuda:nccl"</span>)<!----></pre></div><!----> <p>The benchmark below runs FLUX.1-dev on 4 L20 GPUs with <a href="https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/12996#issuecomment-3797695999" rel="nofollow">this script</a>.</p> <table><thead><tr><th>CP Backend</th><th>Time / Iter (ms)</th><th>Steps / Sec</th><th>Peak Memory (GB)</th><th>Shape (HxW)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>ulysses</td><td>281.07</td><td>3.56</td><td>37.11</td><td>1024x1024</td></tr><tr><td>ring</td><td>351.34</td><td>2.85</td><td>37.01</td><td>1024x1024</td></tr><tr><td>unified_balanced</td><td>324.37</td><td>3.08</td><td>37.16</td><td>1024x1024</td></tr><tr><td>ulysses_anything</td><td>280.94</td><td>3.56</td><td>37.11</td><td>1024x1024</td></tr><tr><td>ulysses</td><td>failed</td><td>failed</td><td>failed</td><td>1008x1008</td></tr><tr><td>ring</td><td>failed</td><td>failed</td><td>failed</td><td>1008x1008</td></tr><tr><td>unified_balanced</td><td>failed</td><td>failed</td><td>failed</td><td>1008x1008</td></tr><tr><td>ulysses_anything</td><td>278.40</td><td>3.59</td><td>36.99</td><td>1008x1008</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>At 1008x1008, where the sequence length doesn’t divide evenly, only Ulysses Anything Attention runs. At 1024x1024, it performs the same as standard Ulysses Attention.</p> <!--[1--><h2 class="relative group"><a id="ring-anything-attention" class="header-link block pr-1.5 text-lg no-hover:hidden with-hover:absolute with-hover:p-1.5 with-hover:opacity-0 with-hover:group-hover:opacity-100 with-hover:right-full" href="#ring-anything-attention"><span><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" aria-hidden="true" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 256 256"><path d="M167.594 88.393a8.001 8.001 0 0 1 0 11.314l-67.882 67.882a8 8 0 1 1-11.314-11.315l67.882-67.881a8.003 8.003 0 0 1 11.314 0zm-28.287 84.86l-28.284 28.284a40 40 0 0 1-56.567-56.567l28.284-28.284a8 8 0 0 0-11.315-11.315l-28.284 28.284a56 56 0 0 0 79.196 79.197l28.285-28.285a8 8 0 1 0-11.315-11.314zM212.852 43.14a56.002 56.002 0 0 0-79.196 0l-28.284 28.284a8 8 0 1 0 11.314 11.314l28.284-28.284a40 40 0 0 1 56.568 56.567l-28.285 28.285a8 8 0 0 0 11.315 11.314l28.284-28.284a56.065 56.065 0 0 0 0-79.196z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg><!----></span></a> <span><!---->Ring Anything Attention<!----></span></h2><!--]--><!----> <p>Ring Attention requires the sequence length to divide evenly by <code>ring_degree</code>. <a href="https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/13545#issuecomment-4302195582" rel="nofollow">Ring Anything Attention</a> supports any sequence length. It pads each GPU’s local K/V to the longest local length, all-gathers the padded K/V, and slices each block back to its true length before computing attention.</p> <p>You can’t combine it with Unified Attention, so <code>ulysses_degree</code> must be 1. Set <code>ring_degree</code> to more than 1 and <code>ring_anything=True</code>.</p> <div class="code-block relative "><div class="absolute top-2.5 right-4"><button class="inline-flex items-center relative text-sm focus:text-green-500 cursor-pointer focus:outline-none transition duration-200 ease-in-out opacity-0 mx-0.5 text-gray-600 " title="code excerpt" type="button"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M28,10V28H10V10H28m0-2H10a2,2,0,0,0-2,2V28a2,2,0,0,0,2,2H28a2,2,0,0,0,2-2V10a2,2,0,0,0-2-2Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><path d="M4,18H2V4A2,2,0,0,1,4,2H18V4H4Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><rect fill="none" width="32" height="32"></rect></svg><!----> <div class=" absolute pointer-events-none transition-opacity bg-black text-white py-1 px-2 leading-tight rounded font-normal shadow left-1/2 top-full transform -translate-x-1/2 translate-y-2 opacity-0 "><div class="absolute bottom-full left-1/2 transform -translate-x-1/2 w-0 h-0 border-black border-4 border-t-0" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent;"></div> Copied</div><!----></button><!----></div> <pre class="language-py "><!---->pipeline.transformer.enable_parallelism(config=ContextParallelConfig(ring_degree=<span class="hljs-number">2</span>, ring_anything=<span class="hljs-literal">True</span>))<!----></pre></div><!----> <p>Ring Anything Attention also benefits from the <code>gloo</code> backend shown in <a href="#ulysses-anything-attention">Ulysses Anything Attention</a>.</p> <blockquote class="note"><p>Ring Anything Attention supports inference only, and <code>attn_mask</code> must be <code>None</code>.</p></blockquote> <p>The benchmark below runs FLUX.1-dev on 4 RTX 4090 (48GB) GPUs.</p> <table><thead><tr><th>CP Backend</th><th>Time / Iter (ms)</th><th>Steps / Sec</th><th>Peak Memory (GB)</th><th>Shape (HxW)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>ulysses</td><td>259.07</td><td>3.86</td><td>33.83</td><td>1024x1024</td></tr><tr><td>ring</td><td>338.98</td><td>2.95</td><td>33.83</td><td>1024x1024</td></tr><tr><td>unified_balanced</td><td>321.54</td><td>3.11</td><td>33.83</td><td>1024x1024</td></tr><tr><td>ulysses_anything</td><td>259.07</td><td>3.86</td><td>33.83</td><td>1024x1024</td></tr><tr><td>ring_anything</td><td>340.14</td><td>2.94</td><td>33.83</td><td>1024x1024</td></tr><tr><td>ulysses</td><td>failed</td><td>failed</td><td>failed</td><td>1008x1008</td></tr><tr><td>ring</td><td>failed</td><td>failed</td><td>failed</td><td>1008x1008</td></tr><tr><td>unified_balanced</td><td>failed</td><td>failed</td><td>failed</td><td>1008x1008</td></tr><tr><td>ulysses_anything</td><td>253.16</td><td>3.95</td><td>33.75</td><td>1008x1008</td></tr><tr><td>ring_anything</td><td>335.57</td><td>2.98</td><td>33.75</td><td>1008x1008</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Ring Anything Attention runs at 1008x1008 and performs about the same as standard Ring Attention. For the motivation and trade-offs, see <a href="https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/13545#issuecomment-4304104462" rel="nofollow">this comment</a>.</p> <!--[1--><h2 class="relative group"><a id="enable-context-parallelism-while-loading" class="header-link block pr-1.5 text-lg no-hover:hidden with-hover:absolute with-hover:p-1.5 with-hover:opacity-0 with-hover:group-hover:opacity-100 with-hover:right-full" href="#enable-context-parallelism-while-loading"><span><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" aria-hidden="true" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 256 256"><path d="M167.594 88.393a8.001 8.001 0 0 1 0 11.314l-67.882 67.882a8 8 0 1 1-11.314-11.315l67.882-67.881a8.003 8.003 0 0 1 11.314 0zm-28.287 84.86l-28.284 28.284a40 40 0 0 1-56.567-56.567l28.284-28.284a8 8 0 0 0-11.315-11.315l-28.284 28.284a56 56 0 0 0 79.196 79.197l28.285-28.285a8 8 0 1 0-11.315-11.314zM212.852 43.14a56.002 56.002 0 0 0-79.196 0l-28.284 28.284a8 8 0 1 0 11.314 11.314l28.284-28.284a40 40 0 0 1 56.568 56.567l-28.285 28.285a8 8 0 0 0 11.315 11.314l28.284-28.284a56.065 56.065 0 0 0 0-79.196z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg><!----></span></a> <span><!---->Enable context parallelism while loading<!----></span></h2><!--]--><!----> <p>Instead of calling <code>enable_parallelism</code> after loading, pass the <a href="/docs/diffusers/pr_14972/en/api/parallel#diffusers.ContextParallelConfig">ContextParallelConfig</a> to the <code>parallel_config</code> argument of <a href="/docs/diffusers/pr_14972/en/api/models/overview#diffusers.ModelMixin.from_pretrained">from_pretrained()</a>. Initialize the process group first, because <code>from_pretrained</code> raises an error if <code>torch.distributed</code> isn’t initialized. Launch the script with <code>torchrun</code>, as in the <a href="#ring-attention">Ring Attention</a> example.</p> <div class="code-block relative "><div class="absolute top-2.5 right-4"><button class="inline-flex items-center relative text-sm focus:text-green-500 cursor-pointer focus:outline-none transition duration-200 ease-in-out opacity-0 mx-0.5 text-gray-600 " title="code excerpt" type="button"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M28,10V28H10V10H28m0-2H10a2,2,0,0,0-2,2V28a2,2,0,0,0,2,2H28a2,2,0,0,0,2-2V10a2,2,0,0,0-2-2Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><path d="M4,18H2V4A2,2,0,0,1,4,2H18V4H4Z" transform="translate(0)"></path><rect fill="none" width="32" height="32"></rect></svg><!----> <div class=" absolute pointer-events-none transition-opacity bg-black text-white py-1 px-2 leading-tight rounded font-normal shadow left-1/2 top-full transform -translate-x-1/2 translate-y-2 opacity-0 "><div class="absolute bottom-full left-1/2 transform -translate-x-1/2 w-0 h-0 border-black border-4 border-t-0" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent;"></div> Copied</div><!----></button><!----></div> <pre class="language-py "><!----><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> os | |
| <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> torch | |
| <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> torch <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> distributed <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> dist | |
| <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> diffusers <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> AutoModel, ContextParallelConfig, DiffusionPipeline | |
| CKPT_ID = <span class="hljs-string">"black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev"</span> | |
| dist.init_process_group(backend=<span class="hljs-string">"nccl"</span>) | |
| local_rank = <span class="hljs-built_in">int</span>(os.environ[<span class="hljs-string">"LOCAL_RANK"</span>]) | |
| device = torch.device(<span class="hljs-string">f"cuda:<span class="hljs-subst">{local_rank}</span>"</span>) | |
| torch.cuda.set_device(device) | |
| cp_config = ContextParallelConfig(ring_degree=dist.get_world_size()) | |
| transformer = AutoModel.from_pretrained( | |
| CKPT_ID, | |
| subfolder=<span class="hljs-string">"transformer"</span>, | |
| dtype=torch.bfloat16, | |
| parallel_config=cp_config | |
| ) | |
| pipeline = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained( | |
| CKPT_ID, transformer=transformer, dtype=torch.bfloat16, | |
| ).to(device)<!----></pre></div><!----> <a class="!text-gray-400 !no-underline text-sm flex items-center not-prose mt-4" href="https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/main/docs/source/en/optimization/context_parallelism.md" target="_blank"><svg class="mr-1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M31,16l-7,7l-1.41-1.41L28.17,16l-5.58-5.59L24,9l7,7z"></path><path d="M1,16l7-7l1.41,1.41L3.83,16l5.58,5.59L8,23l-7-7z"></path><path d="M12.419,25.484L17.639,6.552l1.932,0.518L14.351,26.002z"></path></svg><!----> <span><span class="underline">Update</span> on GitHub</span></a><!----> <p></p><!--]--><!----><!--]--><!--]--><!--]--> <!--[-1--><!--]--><!--]--> | |
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