Whats distribute meaning in TVM paper

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Hi, I’m not clear for this word distribute in paper?

The based distributed schedule optimizer scales to a larger search space and can find state-of-the-art kernels on a large range of supported back-ends.

Why said this optimizer is distributed?

This word is from section 7: Related Work

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Thanks in advance. :sparkler:

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Is this distributed meanings: the device cluster, schedule explorer and other module are distrusted like the framework below:

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