git-re-basin VS hivemind

Implementation: https://github.com/samuela/git-re-basin

Wouldn't "applying the permutation" simply swap all the parameters in a model so they match on both models? For example, in https://github.com/samuela/git-re-basin/blob/main/src/cifar10_vgg_weight_matching.py, on line 184 they apply the permutation, and on line 192 they lerp from model A's params to the permuted model B's params. This lerp is basically a weighted sum merge, isn't it? At a lerp of 0.5, it would be somewhere in between model A and the permuted model B.

Definitely interesting, but you might get something useful out of https://github.com/samuela/git-re-basin ?

Git Re-Basin: Merging Models modulo Permutation Symmetries https://github.com/samuela/git-re-basin https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04836v1

https://github.com/learning-at-home/hivemind is also relevant

I really hope you'll join me, for the Petals support, at least! A single docker-compose.yml file is all we need, for now. If we are able to find enough people willing to host some smaller models, perhaps we could expand into the Hivemind, and create our own, custom foundation model one day?

Decentralized deep learning: https://github.com/learning-at-home/hivemind

https://github.com/learning-at-home/hivemind - same people behind it, was made before petals I think.

not if we rise to meet that challenge. here's a few tools that facilitate AI research in the face of an advanced persistent threat: Hivemind- a distributed Pytorch framework

yeah, there's Hivemind. and there's research wrt how to chunk out training workload so it can be scaled up. not sure why there's commentary that latency issues would limit this sort of enterprise, the architecture typically isn't designed for liveness. other subfields of distributed training/inference include zero-knowledge machine learning. besides all of that, there's also adversarial computation like SafetyNets and refereed delegation of computation.

We already have the software for it. There are some projects, but the one I'm most familiar with is https://github.com/learning-at-home/hivemind for training and it's sister project https://petals.ml/ for running large models distributed.

I'm not entirely how the approach they're using works [0], but I study federated learning and one of the highly-cited survey papers has several chapters (5 and 6 in particular) addressing potential attacks, failure modes, and bias [1].

0: https://github.com/learning-at-home/hivemind

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04977

The Hivemind project is just that

https://github.com/learning-at-home/hivemind