Parallel PyTorch Inference with Python Free-Threading
This talk examines multi-threaded parallel inference on PyTorch models using the new No-GIL, free-threaded version of Python. Using a simple 124M parameter GPT2 model that we train from scratch, we explore the novel new territory unlocked by free-threaded Python: parallel PyTorch model inference, where multiple threads, unimpeded by the Python GIL, attempt to generate text from a transformer-based model in parallel.
