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What does this PR do?

This PR adds additional details so that accelerate continues support using Megatron-LM as backend for training large scale LLMs.
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  1. initialize the model from hf checkpoint using meta device to avoid long time of loading weights which will not be used anyway.
  2. introduce some additional parameters.
  3. uses an initial_megatron_lm_checkpoint to load the model weights for fine-tuning
  4. updates the user guide
  5. add GLM4-moe model configs

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@SunMarc Hi, good Monday! This is another PR to update Megatron-LM with additional details for users to more easily use Megatron-LM. Would you please take a look when you got time, thanks!

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Thanks a lot, just a minor nit !

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SunMarc commented Dec 16, 2025

@bot /style

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github-actions bot commented Dec 16, 2025

Style bot fixed some files and pushed the changes.

@SunMarc SunMarc merged commit 11e97ab into huggingface:main Dec 16, 2025
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