Deep learning· 2020
GShard: Scaling Giant Models with Conditional Computation and Automatic Sharding
On the reading lists
- #62 in Deep learning (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Combined compiler-assisted sharding with conditional computation to train enormous distributed MoE models.
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The record
- First released
- 2020 (from arXiv 2006.16668)
- Citations
- 2,467 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.314 · computed rank 572 · consensus 0.5, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.469 (2020s · deep-learning), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.