[Distributed] create model on meta device #1227
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Change 1
Changing from:
to
because when we later load weights, we will swap out the tensors of the model anyway. So saving an on-device init here.
Change 2
Also added a
with device
context tomodel.setup_cache()
call. So that the caches are directly created on the target device -- saving amodel.to(device)
call.