def main_process_first(self, local=True, desc="work"):
        """
        A context manager for torch distributed environment where on needs to do something on the main process, while
        blocking replicas, and when it's finished releasing the replicas.

        One such use is for `datasets`'s `map` feature which to be efficient should be run once on the main process,
        which upon completion saves a cached version of results and which then automatically gets loaded by the
        replicas.

        Args:
            local (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `True`):
                if `True` first means process of rank 0 of each node if `False` first means process of rank 0 of node
                rank 0 In multi-node environment with a shared filesystem you most likely will want to use
                `local=False` so that only the main process of the first node will do the processing. If however, the
                filesystem is not shared, then the main process of each node will need to do the processing, which is
                the default behavior.
            desc (`str`, *optional*, defaults to `"work"`):
                a work description to be used in debug logs

        """
        if is_torch_available() and self.world_size > 1:
            main_process_desc = "main local process" if local else "main process"
            if self.distributed_state is not None:
                is_main_process = (
                    self.distributed_state.is_local_main_process if local else self.distributed_state.is_main_process
                )
            elif is_sagemaker_mp_enabled():
                is_main_process = smp.rank() == 0

            try:
                if not is_main_process:
                    # tell all replicas to wait
                    logger.debug(f"{self.process_index}: waiting for the {main_process_desc} to perform {desc}")

                    if is_torch_tpu_available():
                        xm.rendezvous(desc)
                    else:
                        dist.barrier()
                yield
            finally:
                if is_main_process:
                    # the wait is over
                    logger.debug(f"{self.process_index}: {main_process_desc} completed {desc}, releasing all replicas")
                    if is_torch_tpu_available():
                        xm.rendezvous(desc)
                    else:
                        dist.barrier()
        else:
            yield

        A context manager for torch distributed environment where on needs to do something on the main process, while
        blocking replicas, and when it's finished releasing the replicas.

        One such use is for `datasets`'s `map` feature which to be efficient should be run once on the main process,
        which upon completion saves a cached version of results and which then automatically gets loaded by the
        replicas.

        Args:
            local (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `True`):
                if `True` first means process of rank 0 of each node if `False` first means process of rank 0 of node
                rank 0 In multi-node environment with a shared filesystem you most likely will want to use
                `local=False` so that only the main process of the first node will do the processing. If however, the
                filesystem is not shared, then the main process of each node will need to do the processing, which is
                the default behavior.
            desc (`str`, *optional*, defaults to `"work"`):
                a work description to be used in debug logs

        
dpkd/transformers/src/transformers/training_args.py