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Load-Balanced Image Sharding

A context-parallel sharding method that distributes each sequence's images across ranks with load balancing and loads each image once.

Also called Balanced image sharding.

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the images of each sequence are sharded across the CP ranks with load balancing, and each image is loaded exactly once

usedunclearin DeepSeek-V4.1-FlashDeepSeek

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Other methods under optimization :: training parallelism.