NVIDIA Megatron Core 0.8.0

• Multimodal
  • Added initial support for training vision language models using the LLaVA architecture
  • Added initial support for inference with multimodal inputs
  • End-to-end multimodal example from data collection to training to evaluation is provided in examples/multimodal
• MoE
  • Context Parallel support.
  • Distributed checkpoint support for grouped GEMM.
• Mamba
  • Added initial support for training and inference of Mamba-2 models
  • Support for hybrid models consisting of Mamba-2, attention, and MLP layers
  • Examples provided in examples/mamba