Sequence parallelism (#2412)

* adding easy_context as integration for now

* progress on ring attn impl

* progress on ring attn impl

* cleanup

* remove errant file

* fix req

* removing unused code

* updates

* pytest

* update

* updates

* fixes

* precommit fixes

* working multi-group SP

* fixing sample packing

* remove debug logs and simplify

* eval dataloader and sampler changes

* removing some obvious comments

* update config.qmd and rename option

* scoping down problematic import

* another import scoping change

* pernicious Fire CLI bugfix

* isolate cli tests

* actually isolate CLI tests

* gracefully handle no ring-flash-attn

* fix

* fix

* move ring flash attn to extras with flash-attn (#2414)

* removing flash-attn from requirements.txt (in setup.py extras already)

* rename file, delete another

* using field validator instead of model validator

* test fix

* sampler / dataloader refactor

* non-seq2se1 collator fix

* removing print statement

* bugfix

* add SP doc, review comments

* small changes

* review comments, docstrings

* refactors, SP mixin

* small updates

* fix tests

* precommit

* precommit

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Co-authored-by: Wing Lian <wing.lian@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Dan Saunders <dan@axolotl.ai>

setup.py

@@ -17,11 +17,7 @@ def parse_requirements():
         lines = [r.strip() for r in requirements_file.readlines()]
         for line in lines:
             is_extras = (
-                "flash-attn" in line
-                or "flash-attention" in line
-                or "deepspeed" in line
-                or "mamba-ssm" in line
-                or "lion-pytorch" in line
+                "deepspeed" in line or "mamba-ssm" in line or "lion-pytorch" in line
             )
             if line.startswith("--extra-index-url"):
                 # Handle custom index URLs
@@ -39,7 +35,6 @@ def parse_requirements():
                 "bitsandbytes",
                 "triton",
                 "mamba-ssm",
-                "flash-attn",
                 "xformers",
                 "autoawq",
                 "liger-kernel",
@@ -124,9 +119,8 @@ setup(
         ],
     },
     extras_require={
-        "flash-attn": [
-            "flash-attn==2.7.4.post1",
-        ],
+        "flash-attn": ["flash-attn==2.7.4.post1"],
+        "ring-flash-attn": ["ring-flash-attn>=0.1.4", "yunchang==0.6.0"],
         "deepspeed": [
             "deepspeed==0.16.4",
             "deepspeed-kernels",