reduce memory footprint for average_checkpoints (#647)
Summary: Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/pull/647 the current implementation of average_checkpoints requires loading all the model parameters into memory and then do the averaging. To average large models (e.g., transformer) over a large number of checkpoints (e.g., >50), it may require over 100GB memory. Loading all the parameters is not necessary, as we know the number of models in advance. Reviewed By: skritika Differential Revision: D15027513 fbshipit-source-id: 0afe37c9a031a9ab0f1e78844a37be49ec5f76f1
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