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Genetic Programming (GP), an evolutionary learning technique, has multiple applications in machine learning such as curve fitting, data modelling, feature selection, classification etc. GP has several inherent parallel steps, making it an…

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The adaption of multilingual pre-trained LLMs into eloquent and helpful assistants is essential to facilitate their use across different language regions. In that spirit, we are the first to conduct an extensive study of the performance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Alexander Arno Weber , Klaudia Thellmann , Jan Ebert , Nicolas Flores-Herr , Jens Lehmann , Michael Fromm , Mehdi Ali

This work is concerned with the evaluation of the performance of parallelization of learning and tuning processes for image classification and large language models. For machine learning model in image recognition, various parallelization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Marcin Lawenda , Krzesimir Samborski , Kyrylo Khloponin , Łukasz Szustak

GPUs are currently the platform of choice for training neural networks. However, training a deep neural network (DNN) is a time-consuming process even on GPUs because of the massive number of parameters that have to be learned. As a result,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Behnam Pourghassemi , Chenghao Zhang , Joo Hwan Lee , Aparna Chandramowlishwaran

Neural machine translation (NMT) has been accelerated by deep learning neural networks over statistical-based approaches, due to the plethora and programmability of commodity heterogeneous computing architectures such as FPGAs and GPUs and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Robert Lim , Kenneth Heafield , Hieu Hoang , Mark Briers , Allen Malony

Deep Learning (DL) models have achieved superior performance. Meanwhile, computing hardware like NVIDIA GPUs also demonstrated strong computing scaling trends with 2x throughput and memory bandwidth for each generation. With such strong…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Fuxun Yu , Di Wang , Longfei Shangguan , Minjia Zhang , Chenchen Liu , Xiang Chen

Recent work in language modeling demonstrates that training large transformer models advances the state of the art in Natural Language Processing applications. However, very large models can be quite difficult to train due to memory…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Mohammad Shoeybi , Mostofa Patwary , Raul Puri , Patrick LeGresley , Jared Casper , Bryan Catanzaro

The rapid advancement in Large Language Models has been met with significant challenges in their training processes, primarily due to their considerable computational and memory demands. This research examines parallelization techniques…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ishan Patwardhan , Shubham Gandhi , Om Khare , Amit Joshi , Suraj Sawant

In this work we propose an accelerated stochastic learning system for very large-scale applications. Acceleration is achieved by mapping the training algorithm onto massively parallel processors: we demonstrate a parallel, asynchronous GPU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Thomas Parnell , Celestine Dünner , Kubilay Atasu , Manolis Sifalakis , Haris Pozidis

The focus of my PhD thesis is on exploring parallel approaches to efficiently solve problems modeled by constraints and presenting a new proposal. Current solvers are very advanced; they are carefully designed to effectively manage the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Fabio Tardivo

In recent years, with the popularization of deep learning frameworks and large datasets, researchers have started parallelizing their models in order to train faster. This is crucially important, because they typically explore many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Renato L. de F. Cunha , Eduardo R. Rodrigues , Matheus Palhares Viana , Dario Augusto Borges Oliveira

While GPUs are responsible for training the vast majority of state-of-the-art deep learning models, the implications of their architecture are often overlooked when designing new deep learning (DL) models. As a consequence, modifying a DL…

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In this work we apply model averaging to parallel training of deep neural network (DNN). Parallelization is done in a model averaging manner. Data is partitioned and distributed to different nodes for local model updates, and model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Hang Su , Haoyu Chen

Training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with billions of parameters generally involves pipeline-parallel (PP) execution. Unfortunately, PP model training can use GPUs inefficiently, especially at large scale, due to idle GPU time caused by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Daiyaan Arfeen , Zhen Zhang , Xinwei Fu , Gregory R. Ganger , Yida Wang

Due to their highly parallel multi-cores architecture, GPUs are being increasingly used in a wide range of computationally intensive applications. Compared to CPUs, GPUs can achieve higher performances at accelerating the programs'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Frédéric Magoulès , Abal-Kassim Cheik Ahamed , Alban Desmaison , Jean-Christophe Léchenet , François Mayer , Haifa Ben Salem , Thomas Zhu

There is a growing demand to deploy computation-intensive deep learning (DL) models on resource-constrained mobile devices for real-time intelligent applications. Equipped with a variety of processing units such as CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Sicong Liu , Wentao Zhou , Zimu Zhou , Bin Guo , Minfan Wang , Cheng Fang , Zheng Lin , Zhiwen Yu

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are increasingly implemented on graphics processing units (GPUs) to leverage parallel processing capabilities for enhanced efficiency. However, existing studies largely emphasize the raw speedup obtained by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xinmeng Yu , Tao Jiang , Ran Cheng , Yaochu Jin , Kay Chen Tan

With the maturity of deep learning, its use is emerging in every field. Also, as different types of GPUs are becoming more available in the markets, it creates a difficult decision for users. How can users select GPUs to achieve optimal…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Narayan Kandel , Melanie Lambert

GPUs have been widely used to accelerate computations exhibiting simple patterns of parallelism - such as flat or two-level parallelism - and a degree of parallelism that can be statically determined based on the size of the input dataset.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hancheng Wu , Da Li , Michela Becchi

Genetic Programming (GP) is a computationally intensive technique which also has a high degree of natural parallelism. Parallel computing architectures have become commonplace especially with regards Graphics Processing Units (GPU). Hence,…

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