Microsoft presents ZeRO
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Presented ZeRO — partitioning optimizer, gradient and parameter states opened a path to training at 100B+, with models up to 13B possible without model parallelism
Why it matters
Removed the memory barrier to 100B-class training
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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02054Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
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