Add Ulysses DistributedAttention compatibility #5525
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The
DistributedAttention
in DeepSpeed-Ulysses has a compatibility with the training code in Megatron-DeepSpeed because it only takes sequential sequences as input parameters. However, this is not compatible with the frequently used scenarios of specifying parameters, such as the following scenario when using Flash Attention:Therefore, the
**kwargs
parameter has been added to increase compatibility with more local attention, while making minimal code modifications.