Avoid grad sync on each step even when doing accumulation #1064
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Refer to the official document: https://huggingface.co/docs/accelerate/concept_guides/gradient_synchronization
We only need to sync our gradient when we need to update the weight. But the fix by @Isotr0py force gradient sync on each batch even when we don't need to update the weights.
Want to confirm with @Isotr0py if my modification is safe. I tried on my 2gpu machine and it works.