def DistributedFairseqModel(args, model, process_group, device):
    """
    Wrap a *model* to support distributed data parallel training.

    This is similar to the built-in DistributedDataParallel, but allows
    additional configuration of the DistributedDataParallel class to
    use, and also provides easier access to the wrapped model by
    forwarding requests for missing attributes to the wrapped model.

    Args:
        args (argparse.Namespace): fairseq args
        model (BaseFairseqModel): model to wrap
        process_group: the c10d process group to be used for distributed data
            parallel all-reduction.
        device: device to move model to
    """
    assert isinstance(model, nn.Module)
    if args.tpu:
        wrapped_model = TPUDistributedDataParallel(
            module=model.to(device),
            process_group=process_group,
        )
        # forward missing getattr and state_dict/load_state_dict to orig model
        wrapped_model = ModuleProxyWrapper(wrapped_model)
    elif args.ddp_backend in {"c10d", "pytorch_ddp"}:
        wrapped_model = DistributedDataParallel(
            module=model.to(device),
            device_ids=[args.device_id],
            output_device=args.device_id,
            broadcast_buffers=args.broadcast_buffers,
            bucket_cap_mb=args.bucket_cap_mb,
            process_group=process_group,
            find_unused_parameters=args.find_unused_parameters,
            gradient_as_bucket_view=args.gradient_as_bucket_view,
        )
        if args.ddp_comm_hook == "fp16":
            logger.info("enable fp16 communication hook in DDP")
            try:
                from torch.distributed.algorithms.ddp_comm_hooks import (
                    register_ddp_comm_hook,
                    DDPCommHookType,
                )
            except:
                logger.error(
                    "Could not import from torch.distributed.algorithms.ddp_comm_hooks; you may need to update your pytorch version"
                )
                raise

            register_ddp_comm_hook(DDPCommHookType.FP16_COMPRESS, wrapped_model)
        # forward missing getattr and state_dict/load_state_dict to orig model
        wrapped_model = ModuleProxyWrapper(wrapped_model)
    elif args.ddp_backend in {"no_c10d", "legacy_ddp"}:
        wrapped_model = LegacyDistributedDataParallel(
            module=model.to(device),
            buffer_size=2 ** 28,
            process_group=process_group,
        )
        # forward missing getattr and state_dict/load_state_dict to orig model
        wrapped_model = ModuleProxyWrapper(wrapped_model)
    elif args.ddp_backend == "slowmo":
        if _SLOWMO_DDP_DISABLED:
            raise ImportError(
                "Cannot find SlowMoDistributedDataParallel. "
                "Please install fairscale with: pip install fairscale"
            )

        # The values of slowmo_momentum below were obtained by tuning on the
        # En-De 16 dataset by training the transformer_wmt_en_de_large model
        if args.slowmo_momentum is None:
            if args.distributed_world_size <= 16:
                args.slowmo_momentum = 0.0
            elif args.distributed_world_size <= 32:
                args.slowmo_momentum = 0.2
            elif args.distributed_world_size <= 64:
                args.slowmo_momentum = 0.5
            else:
                args.slowmo_momentum = 0.6
        slowmo_base_algorithm = SlowMoBaseAlgorithm[args.slowmo_base_algorithm.upper()]

        wrapped_model = SlowMoDistributedDataParallel(
            module=model.to(device),
            broadcast_buffers=args.broadcast_buffers,
            nprocs_per_node=args.nprocs_per_node,
            slowmo_momentum=args.slowmo_momentum,
            slowmo_base_algorithm=slowmo_base_algorithm,
            localsgd_frequency=args.localsgd_frequency,
        )
        # forward missing getattr and state_dict/load_state_dict to orig model
        wrapped_model = ModuleProxyWrapper(wrapped_model)
    elif args.ddp_backend == "fully_sharded":
        try:
            from fairscale.nn.data_parallel import FullyShardedDataParallel as FSDP
        except ImportError:
            raise ImportError(
                "Cannot find FullyShardedDataParallel. "
                "Please install fairscale with: pip install fairscale"
            )
        assert isinstance(model, FSDP), "expected model to already be wrapped in FSDP"
        wrapped_model = model
        if args.memory_efficient_fp16:
            wrapped_model = wrapped_model.half()
        if not args.cpu_offload:
            wrapped_model = wrapped_model.to(device=device)
    else:
        raise ValueError("Unknown --ddp-backend: " + args.ddp_backend)

    # kill hung distributed jobs after a timeout
    if getattr(args, "heartbeat_timeout", -1) > 0:
        wrapped_model = DistributedTimeoutWrapper(
            wrapped_model, timeout=getattr(args, "heartbeat_timeout", -1)
        )

    return wrapped_model

    Wrap a *model* to support distributed data parallel training.

    This is similar to the built-in DistributedDataParallel, but allows
    additional configuration of the DistributedDataParallel class to
    use, and also provides easier access to the wrapped model by
    forwarding requests for missing attributes to the wrapped model.

    Args:
        args (argparse.Namespace): fairseq args
        model (BaseFairseqModel): model to wrap
        process_group: the c10d process group to be used for distributed data
            parallel all-reduction.
        device: device to move model to
    
understand_icl/fairseq/fairseq/models/distributed_fairseq_model.py