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As the artificial intelligence community advances into the era of large models with billions of parameters, distributed training and inference have become essential. While various parallelism strategies-data, model, sequence, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Ruifeng She , Bowen Pang , Kai Li , Zehua Liu , Tao Zhong

The definition of a Neural Network architecture is one of the most critical and challenging tasks to perform. In this paper, we propose ParallelMLPs. ParallelMLPs is a procedure to enable the training of several independent Multilayer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Felipe Costa Farias , Teresa Bernarda Ludermir , Carmelo Jose Albanez Bastos-Filho

That shared features between train and test data are required for generalisation in artificial neural networks has been a common assumption of both proponents and critics of these models. Here, we show that convolutional architectures avoid…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jeff Mitchell , Jeffrey S. Bowers

We present two architectures for multi-task learning with neural sequence models. Our approach allows the relationships between different tasks to be learned dynamically, rather than using an ad-hoc pre-defined structure as in previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Pengfei Liu , Jie Fu , Yue Dong , Xipeng Qiu , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Sequence alignment is a fundamental process in computational biology which identifies regions of similarity in biological sequences. With the exponential growth in the volume of data in bioinformatics databases, the time, processing power,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Nasrin Akbari , Mehdi Modarressi , Alireza Khadem

It is often the case that the performance of a neural network can be improved by adding layers. In real-world practices, we always train dozens of neural network architectures in parallel which is a wasteful process. We explored $CompNet$,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Jun Lu , Wei Ma , Boi Faltings

Human learning is a complex phenomenon that requires adaptive processes across a range of temporal and spacial scales. While our understanding of those processes at single scales has increased exponentially over the last few years, a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-08 Marcelo G. Mattar , Danielle S. Bassett

With rapid growth in the amount of unstructured data produced by memory-intensive applications, large scale data analytics has recently attracted increasing interest. Processing, managing and analyzing this huge amount of data poses several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Farshid Farhat , Diman Zad Tootaghaj , Mohammad Arjomand

High-throughput experiments are shedding light on the topology of large regulatory networks and at the same time their functional states, namely the states of activation of the nodes (for example transcript or protein levels) in different…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2009-02-13 M. Cosentino Lagomarsino , B. Bassetti , G. Castellani , D. Remondini

Control parallelism and data parallelism is mostly reasoned and optimized as separate functions. Because of this, workloads that are irregular, fine-grain and dynamic such as dynamic graph processing become very hard to scale. An…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Bibrak Qamar Chandio , Thomas Sterling , Prateek Srivastava

The effective use of parallel computing resources to speed up algorithms in current multi-core parallel architectures remains a difficult challenge, with ease of programming playing a key role in the eventual success of various parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Arash Farzan , Alejandro López-Ortiz , Patrick K. Nicholson , Alejandro Salinger

Humans excel at continually acquiring, consolidating, and retaining information from an ever-changing environment, whereas artificial neural networks (ANNs) exhibit catastrophic forgetting. There are considerable differences in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Performing more tasks in parallel is a typical feature of complex brains. These are characterized by the coexistence of excitatory and inhibitory synapses, whose percentage in mammals is measured to have a typical value of 20-30\%. Here we…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-08-25 Vittorio Capano , Hans J. Herrmann , Lucilla de Arcangelis

Even when massively overparameterized, deep neural networks show a remarkable ability to generalize. Research on this phenomenon has focused on generalization within distribution, via smooth interpolation. Yet in some settings neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Loek van Rossem , Andrew M. Saxe

Cloud Computing is a paradigm of both parallel processing and distributed computing. It offers computing facilities as a utility service in pay as par use manner. Virtualization, self service provisioning, elasticity and pay per use are the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Syed Arshad Ali , Mansaf Alam

The human brain is a complex system, and understanding its mechanisms has been a long-standing challenge in neuroscience. The study of the functional connectome, which maps the functional connections between different brain regions, has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Tananun Songdechakraiwut , Yutong Wu

We provide a multilevel approach for analysing performances of parallel algorithms. The main outcome of such approach is that the algorithm is described by using a set of operators which are related to each other according to the problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Luisa D'Amore , Valeria Mele , Diego Romano , Giuliano Laccetti

Many modern applications require real-time processing of large volumes of high-speed data. Such data processing needs can be modeled as a streaming computation. A streaming computation is specified as a dataflow graph that exposes multiple…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Guna Prasaad , G. Ramalingam , Kaushik Rajan

We present methods for multi-task learning that take advantage of natural groupings of related tasks. Task groups may be defined along known properties of the tasks, such as task domain or language. Such task groups represent supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Shiva Pentyala , Mengwen Liu , Markus Dreyer

Load balancing across a networked environment is a monotonous job. Moreover, if the job to be distributed is a constraint satisfying one, the distribution of load demands core intelligence. This paper proposes parallel processing through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-03-31 M. Shahriar Hossain , M. Muztaba Fuad , Md. Mahbubul Alam Joarder