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Race Conditions in ML Pipelines

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You're working on ML training and data pipelines where multiple distributed workers, schedulers, and retry paths can touch the same artifacts or state. You want a clean approach for handling concurrent updates without corrupting checkpoints, duplicating work, or producing inconsistent training outputs.

Question

How do you handle race conditions in a distributed ML training environment?