hermes-agent/optional-skills/mlops/torchtitan/references/fsdp.md
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feat(gateway): skill-aware slash commands, paginated /commands, Telegram 100-cap (#3934)
* feat(gateway): skill-aware slash commands, paginated /commands, Telegram 100-cap

Map active skills to Telegram's slash command menu so users can
discover and invoke skills directly. Three changes:

1. Telegram menu now includes active skill commands alongside built-in
   commands, capped at 100 entries (Telegram Bot API limit). Overflow
   commands remain callable but hidden from the picker. Logged at
   startup when cap is hit.

2. New /commands [page] gateway command for paginated browsing of all
   commands + skills. /help now shows first 10 skill commands and
   points to /commands for the full list.

3. When a user types a slash command that matches a disabled or
   uninstalled skill, they get actionable guidance:
   - Disabled: 'Enable it with: hermes skills config'
   - Optional (not installed): 'Install with: hermes skills install official/<path>'

Built on ideas from PR #3921 by @kshitijk4poor.

* chore: move 21 niche skills to optional-skills

Move specialized/niche skills from built-in (skills/) to optional
(optional-skills/) to reduce the default skill count. Users can
install them with: hermes skills install official/<category>/<name>

Moved skills (21):
- mlops: accelerate, chroma, faiss, flash-attention,
  hermes-atropos-environments, huggingface-tokenizers, instructor,
  lambda-labs, llava, nemo-curator, pinecone, pytorch-lightning,
  qdrant, saelens, simpo, slime, tensorrt-llm, torchtitan
- research: domain-intel, duckduckgo-search
- devops: inference-sh cli

Built-in skills: 96 → 75
Optional skills: 22 → 43

* fix: only include repo built-in skills in Telegram menu, not user-installed

User-installed skills (from hub or manually added) stay accessible via
/skills and by typing the command directly, but don't get registered
in the Telegram slash command picker. Only skills whose SKILL.md is
under the repo's skills/ directory are included in the menu.

This keeps the Telegram menu focused on the curated built-in set while
user-installed skills remain discoverable through /skills and /commands.
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# FSDP2 in TorchTitan
## Why FSDP2?
FSDP2 is a rewrite of PyTorch's Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) API, removing the `FlatParameter` abstraction for better composability and simpler implementation.
### Key improvements over FSDP1
- **DTensor-based sharding**: Sharded parameters are `DTensor`s on dim-0, enabling easy manipulation and communication-free sharded state dicts
- **Better memory management**: Deterministic and lower GPU memory (7% reduction) by avoiding `recordStream`
- **Simplified API**: Fewer arguments, no wrapper class
### Performance
On Llama-7B with 8x H100s, FSDP2 achieves higher MFU with 7% lower peak memory than FSDP1, matching the same loss curve.
## API Reference
```python
from torch.distributed._composable.fsdp import fully_shard, MixedPrecisionPolicy, OffloadPolicy
@contract(state_cls=FSDPState)
def fully_shard(
module: nn.Module,
*,
mesh: Optional[DeviceMesh] = None,
reshard_after_forward: Union[bool, int] = True,
mp_policy: MixedPrecisionPolicy = MixedPrecisionPolicy(),
offload_policy: OffloadPolicy = OffloadPolicy(),
) -> nn.Module:
```
## Sharding Strategies (ZeRO Equivalents)
| FSDP2 Configuration | FSDP1 Equivalent | DeepSpeed |
|---------------------|------------------|-----------|
| 1D mesh + `reshard_after_forward=True` | FULL_SHARD | ZeRO-3 |
| 1D mesh + `reshard_after_forward=False` | SHARD_GRAD_OP | ZeRO-2 |
| 2D mesh + `reshard_after_forward=True` | HYBRID_SHARD | MiCS |
| 1D/2D mesh + `reshard_after_forward=8` (int) | - | ZeRO++ hpZ |
## Meta-Device Initialization
FSDP2 supports materializing tensors onto GPU _after_ sharding:
```python
# Initialize on meta device (no memory)
with torch.device("meta"):
model = Transformer()
# Apply FSDP2 sharding
for module in model.modules():
if isinstance(module, TransformerBlock):
fully_shard(module)
fully_shard(model)
# Parameters still on meta device
for tensor in itertools.chain(model.parameters(), model.buffers()):
assert tensor.device == torch.device("meta")
# Allocate sharded parameters on GPU
model.to_empty(device="cuda")
# Initialize weights
model.init_weights()
```
## State Dict Differences
| Operation | FSDP1 | FSDP2 |
|-----------|-------|-------|
| `model.state_dict()` | Full state dict | Sharded state dict (no communication) |
| `optim.state_dict()` | Local state dict | Sharded state dict (no communication) |
| `summon_full_params()` | Supported | Use `DTensor` APIs like `full_tensor()` |
| Gradient clipping | `FSDP.clip_grad_norm_()` | `nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_()` |
## Mixed Precision
```python
from torch.distributed._composable.fsdp import MixedPrecisionPolicy
mp_policy = MixedPrecisionPolicy(
param_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
reduce_dtype=torch.float32,
output_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
cast_forward_inputs=True,
)
fully_shard(model, mp_policy=mp_policy)
```
## HSDP (Hybrid Sharded Data Parallel)
For 2D parallelism with replication + sharding:
```python
from torch.distributed.device_mesh import init_device_mesh
# Replicate across 4 groups, shard within 8 GPUs each
mesh = init_device_mesh("cuda", (4, 8), mesh_dim_names=("replicate", "shard"))
fully_shard(model, mesh=mesh)
```
## Configuration in TorchTitan
```toml
[parallelism]
# FSDP sharding degree (-1 = auto, use all available GPUs)
data_parallel_shard_degree = -1
# HSDP replication degree (1 = pure FSDP, >1 = HSDP)
data_parallel_replicate_degree = 1
```
## Removed Arguments from FSDP1
These FSDP1 arguments are no longer needed:
- `auto_wrap_policy`: Apply `fully_shard` directly to modules
- `backward_prefetch`: Always uses BACKWARD_PRE
- `param_init_fn`: Use meta-device initialization
- `device_id`: Uses mesh's device automatically
- `sync_module_states`: Not needed with DTensor
- `limit_all_gathers`: New memory management doesn't need it
- `use_orig_params`: Always true (no FlatParameter)