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## Title

    [FSDP2] "fully_shard doesn't support scalar parameters. Change X to a 1D tensor with numel equal to 1."

## Body

    Cause (Documented platform behavior): Sharding requires >=1 dim.
    
    Fix status: documented_behavior
    
    Limitations:
    - "ignore from sharding" option depends on torch version (ignored_params); not verified here.
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pytorch/pytorch/4b0647edace7000cd959f43b857da716d06247c9/torch/distributed/fsdp/_fully_shard/_fsdp_init.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Scalar parameter ValueError.
    
    Search phrasings: fully_shard doesn't support scalar parameters; FSDP2 logit_scale scalar parameter
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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      "observed_symptom": "ValueError at fully_shard.",
      "context": "Product: PyTorch FSDP2 (fully_shard)\nComponent: fully_shard init\nOperation: Sharding models with 0-dim nn.Parameter (e.g. logit_scale, temperature)\nAffected versions: unknown\nEnvironment: unknown\nException: ValueError\nPackages: torch main at pinned SHA\nTrigger: nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(x)) 0-dim.",
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        "literal_error_text": "fully_shard doesn't support scalar parameters. Change"
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