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This PR adds compatibility for BitFit. I'd like to try BitFit + MTF to retain Multilinguality.
Empirical evidence from this paper:
Note that adapters also add parameters to the model & increase complexity at inference in Transformers, so BF is the best option imo.
Also see this paper though they don't try BitFit.
Automatic Tests: Happy to add one if we decide to merge this 🤗
Manual Tests:
The below shows how the grad norm decreases as it should, because we have less gradients.
I would also expect time to decrease due to less communication, but probably only at more nodes.
Memory usage also decreases due to less optimizer states to store.
With BitFit, 2 Nodes, PP=2, TP=2
Without BitFit