Do not set the sharding of the sharding group op during import, and emit a warning instead of error if the group has a conflicting initial sharding. #388
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Do not set the sharding of the sharding group op during import, and emit a warning instead of error if the group has a conflicting initial sharding.
What we should do instead is let propagation resolve what sharding to use. Note this will be a bit arbitrary based on propagation order. We should still at least emit a warning to the user since this is a bit of a weird use of sharding group:
This also matches the behavior in GSPMD.