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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…

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In this paper we analyze, evaluate, and improve the performance of training generalized linear models on modern CPUs. We start with a state-of-the-art asynchronous parallel training algorithm, identify system-level performance bottlenecks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Nikolas Ioannou , Celestine Dünner , Kornilios Kourtis , Thomas Parnell

Artificial neural networks are a popular and effective machine learning technique. Great progress has been made parallelizing the expensive training phase of an individual network, leading to highly specialized pieces of hardware, many…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Jacob B. Schroder

Graph neural networks (GNNs), an emerging class of machine learning models for graphs, have gained popularity for their superior performance in various graph analytical tasks. Mini-batch training is commonly used to train GNNs on large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Sandeep Polisetty , Juelin Liu , Kobi Falus , Yi Ren Fung , Seung-Hwan Lim , Hui Guan , Marco Serafini

This paper describes a method for accelerating large scale Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) training using multi-GPUs by reducing the forward and backward passes to matrix multiplication. We propose an out-of-core multi-GPU matrix…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Linnan Wang , Wei Wu , Jianxiong Xiao , Yang Yi

As emerging deep neural network (DNN) models continue to grow in size, using large GPU clusters to train DNNs is becoming an essential requirement to achieving acceptable training times. In this paper, we consider the case where future…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Seo Jin Park , Joshua Fried , Sunghyun Kim , Mohammad Alizadeh , Adam Belay

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is an important deep learning method. The convolution operation takes a large proportion of the total execution time for CNN. Feature maps for convolution operation are usually sparse. Multiplications and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Weizhi Xu , Yintai Sun , fhengyu Fan , Hui Yu , Xin Fu

We present a new adaptive parallel algorithm for the challenging problem of multi-dimensional numerical integration on massively parallel architectures. Adaptive algorithms have demonstrated the best performance, but efficient many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Ioannis Sakiotis , Kamesh Arumugam , Marc Paterno , Desh Ranjan , Balša Terzić , Mohammad Zubair

Although deep neural networks (DNN) are able to scale with direct advances in computational power (e.g., memory and processing speed), they are not well suited to exploit the recent trends for parallel architectures. In particular, gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Andrew J. R. Simpson

Large language models have led to state-of-the-art accuracies across a range of tasks. However, training these models efficiently is challenging for two reasons: a) GPU memory capacity is limited, making it impossible to fit large models on…

The training process of Deep Neural Network (DNN) is compute-intensive, often taking days to weeks to train a DNN model. Therefore, parallel execution of DNN training on GPUs is a widely adopted approach to speed up the process nowadays.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Chi-Chung Chen , Chia-Lin Yang , Hsiang-Yun Cheng

Sequential models, such as Recurrent Neural Networks and Neural Ordinary Differential Equations, have long suffered from slow training due to their inherent sequential nature. For many years this bottleneck has persisted, as many thought…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yi Heng Lim , Qi Zhu , Joshua Selfridge , Muhammad Firmansyah Kasim

Learning an algorithm from examples is a fundamental problem that has been widely studied. Recently it has been addressed using neural networks, in particular by Neural Turing Machines (NTMs). These are fully differentiable computers that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Łukasz Kaiser , Ilya Sutskever

This paper presents a comparative analysis of distributed training strategies for large-scale neural networks, focusing on data parallelism, model parallelism, and hybrid approaches. We evaluate these strategies on image classification…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Vishnu Vardhan Baligodugula , Fathi Amsaad

Scaling CNN training is necessary to keep up with growing datasets and reduce training time. We also see an emerging need to handle datasets with very large samples, where memory requirements for training are large. Existing training…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Nikoli Dryden , Naoya Maruyama , Tom Benson , Tim Moon , Marc Snir , Brian Van Essen

The article introduces a new method for applying Quantum Clustering to graph structures. Quantum Clustering (QC) is a novel density-based unsupervised learning method that determines cluster centers by constructing a potential function. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Zhe Wang , ZhiJie He , Ding Liu

Currently, training large-scale deep learning models is typically achieved through parallel training across multiple GPUs. However, due to the inherent communication overhead and synchronization delays in traditional model parallelism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Xiuyuan Guo , Chengqi Xu , Guinan Guo , Feiyu Zhu , Changpeng Cai , Peizhe Wang , Xiaoming Wei , Junhao Su , Jialin Gao

The problem of solving a system of polynomial equations is one of the most fundamental problems in applied mathematics. Among them, the problem of solving a system of binomial equations form a important subclass for which specialized…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Tianran Chen , Dhagash Mehta

In this paper, we explore the limits of graphics processors (GPUs) for general purpose parallel computing by studying problems that require highly irregular data access patterns: parallel graph algorithms for list ranking and connected…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-02-25 Frank Dehne , Kumanan Yogaratnam

Graph embedding techniques have attracted growing interest since they convert the graph data into continuous and low-dimensional space. Effective graph analytic provides users a deeper understanding of what is behind the data and thus can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Azita Nouri , Philip E. Davis , Pradeep Subedi , Manish Parashar