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RuntimeError: Accelerate device placement error

ID: huggingface/accelerate-device-error

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80%Fix Rate
84%Confidence
3Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
4 active — — —

Root Cause

Accelerate library device placement misconfigured.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 90% success Use device_map="auto" with accelerate for optimal placement
  2. 88% success Install accelerate: pip install accelerate

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Set device_map to all GPU 0 78% fail

    OOM on single GPU for large models

  2. Remove accelerate entirely 72% fail

    Manual device management