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How does distributed training work in ML systems?

Updated May 17, 2026

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Distributed training splits model training across multiple GPUs or machines.

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It uses data parallelism or model parallelism. Data parallelism replicates the model across nodes and splits data batches. Gradients are aggregated using all-reduce operations. This reduces training time significantly for large datasets.

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