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| -rw-r--r-- | candle-nn/src/var_builder.rs | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/candle-nn/src/var_builder.rs b/candle-nn/src/var_builder.rs index cbd238dd..9d245f12 100644 --- a/candle-nn/src/var_builder.rs +++ b/candle-nn/src/var_builder.rs @@ -535,12 +535,18 @@ impl Backend for ShardedSafeTensors { fn get( &self, - _target_shape: Shape, // The size is not checked for ShardedTensors + target_shape: Shape, // The size is only checked when the world size is 1. path: &str, h: Self::Hints, dtype: DType, dev: &Device, ) -> Result<Tensor> { + if h.world_size == 1 { + // There is no sharding to be applied here so we use the default backend to speed + // things up. + return SimpleBackend::get(&self.0, target_shape, path, Default::default(), dtype, dev); + } + let Shard { dim, rank, |