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Recent advances in probabilistic modelling have led to a large number of simulation-based inference algorithms which do not require numerical evaluation of likelihoods. However, a public benchmark with appropriate performance metrics for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-12 Jan-Matthis Lueckmann , Jan Boelts , David S. Greenberg , Pedro J. Gonçalves , Jakob H. Macke

Speculative decoding has proven to be an efficient solution to large language model (LLM) inference, where the small drafter predicts future tokens at a low cost, and the target model is leveraged to verify them in parallel. However, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zilin Xiao , Hongming Zhang , Tao Ge , Siru Ouyang , Vicente Ordonez , Dong Yu

Nowadays, we are to find out solutions to huge computing problems very rapidly. It brings the idea of parallel computing in which several machines or processors work cooperatively for computational tasks. In the past decades, there are a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Brijender Kahanwal

We consider a parallel computational model that consists of $P$ processors, each with a fast local ephemeral memory of limited size, and sharing a large persistent memory. The model allows for each processor to fault with bounded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Guy E. Blelloch , Phillip B. Gibbons , Yan Gu , Charles McGuffey , Julian Shun

We present a matrix factorization algorithm that scales to input matrices that are large in both dimensions (i.e., that contains morethan 1TB of data). The algorithm streams the matrix columns while subsampling them, resulting in low…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-04 Arthur Mensch , Julien Mairal , Gaël Varoquaux , Bertrand Thirion

Cycles are one of the fundamental subgraph patterns and being able to enumerate them in graphs enables important applications in a wide variety of fields, including finance, biology, chemistry, and network science. However, to enable cycle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jovan Blanuša , Kubilay Atasu , Paolo Ienne

Speculative backpropagation has emerged as a promising technique to accelerate the training of neural networks by overlapping the forward and backward passes. Leveraging speculative weight updates when error gradients fall within a specific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sed Centeno , Christopher Sprague , Arnab A Purkayastha , Ray Simar , Neeraj Magotra

Model parallelism has become a necessity for training modern large-scale deep language models. In this work, we identify a new and orthogonal dimension from existing model parallel approaches: it is possible to perform pipeline parallelism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Zhuohan Li , Siyuan Zhuang , Shiyuan Guo , Danyang Zhuo , Hao Zhang , Dawn Song , Ion Stoica

The availability of large idea repositories (e.g., the U.S. patent database) could significantly accelerate innovation and discovery by providing people with inspiration from solutions to analogous problems. However, finding useful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Tom Hope , Joel Chan , Aniket Kittur , Dafna Shahaf

Multi-core machines are ubiquitous. However, most inductive logic programming (ILP) approaches use only a single core, which severely limits their scalability. To address this limitation, we introduce parallel techniques based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Andrew Cropper , Oghenejokpeme Orhobor , Cristian Dinu , Rolf Morel

Model parallelism is conventionally viewed as a method to scale a single large deep learning model beyond the memory limits of a single device. In this paper, we demonstrate that model parallelism can be additionally used for the…

Speculative decoding accelerates large language model inference by using smaller draft models to generate candidate tokens for parallel verification. However, current approaches are limited by sequential stage dependencies that prevent full…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Bradley McDanel , Sai Qian Zhang , Yunhai Hu , Zining Liu

Hierarchical clustering is a stronger extension of one of today's most influential unsupervised learning methods: clustering. The goal of this method is to create a hierarchy of clusters, thus constructing cluster evolutionary history and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-14 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Marina Knittel

In finite-size scaling analyses of Monte Carlo simulations of second-order phase transitions one often needs an extended temperature range around the critical point. By combining the parallel tempering algorithm with cluster updates and an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Elmar Bittner , Wolfhard Janke

This study proposes a deep learning-based approach for discovering loops in programming code according to their potential for parallelization. Two genetic algorithm-based code generators were developed to produce two distinct types of code:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Izavan dos S. Correia , Henrique C. T. Santos , Tiago A. E. Ferreira

The tremendous advance in computer technology in the past decade has made it possible to achieve the performance of a supercomputer on a very small budget. We have built a multi-CPU cluster of Pentium PC capable of parallel computations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-11-07 X. Q. Luo , E. B. Gregory , J. C. Yang , Y. L. Wang , D. Chang , Y. Lin

Task-based programming models have demonstrated their efficiency in the development of scientific applications on modern high-performance platforms. They allow delegation of the management of parallelization to the runtime system (RS),…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Bérenger Bramas

The creation of practical deep learning data-products often requires parallelization across processors and computers to make deep learning feasible on large data sets, but bottlenecks in communication bandwidth make it difficult to attain…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Tim Dettmers

This paper considers the inference of trends in multiple, nonstationary time series. To test whether trends are parallel to each other, we use a parallelism index based on the L2-distances between nonparametric trend estimators and their…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-17 David Degras , Zhiwei Xu , Ting Zhang , Wei Biao Wu

We revisit parallel-innermost term rewriting as a model of parallel computation on inductive data structures and provide a corresponding notion of runtime complexity parametric in the size of the start term. We propose automatic techniques…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Thaïs Baudon , Carsten Fuhs , Laure Gonnord