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Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (eGNNs) trained on density-functional theory (DFT) data can potentially perform electronic structure prediction at unprecedented scales, enabling investigation of the electronic properties of materials with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Manasa Kaniselvan , Alexander Maeder , Chen Hao Xia , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Mathieu Luisier

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

It is a challenging task to train large DNN models on sophisticated GPU platforms with diversified interconnect capabilities. Recently, pipelined training has been proposed as an effective approach for improving device utilization. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Shiqing Fan , Yi Rong , Chen Meng , Zongyan Cao , Siyu Wang , Zhen Zheng , Chuan Wu , Guoping Long , Jun Yang , Lixue Xia , Lansong Diao , Xiaoyong Liu , Wei Lin

Some Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have what we call lanes, or they can be reorganized as such. Lanes are paths in the network which are data-independent and typically learn different features or add resilience to the network. Given their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Vanderson M. do Rosario , Mauricio Breternitz , Edson Borin

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…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have extended the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) to non-Euclidean graph data, achieving ground-breaking performance on various tasks such as node classification and graph property prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Tianfeng Liu , Yangrui Chen , Dan Li , Chuan Wu , Yibo Zhu , Jun He , Yanghua Peng , Hongzheng Chen , Hongzhi Chen , Chuanxiong Guo

GPUs have been favored for training deep learning models due to their highly parallelized architecture. As a result, most studies on training optimization focus on GPUs. There is often a trade-off, however, between cost and efficiency when…

Deep learning in molecular and materials sciences is limited by the lack of integration between applied science, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing. Bottlenecks with respect to the amount of training data, the size and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Nathan C. Frey , Siddharth Samsi , Joseph McDonald , Lin Li , Connor W. Coley , Vijay Gadepally

This work presents FG-Net, a general deep learning framework for large-scale point clouds understanding without voxelizations, which achieves accurate and real-time performance with a single NVIDIA GTX 1080 GPU. First, a novel noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Kangcheng Liu , Zhi Gao , Feng Lin , Ben M. Chen

Machine learning (ML) based materials discovery has emerged as one of the most promising approaches for breakthroughs in materials science. While heuristic knowledge based descriptors have been combined with ML algorithms to achieve good…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-28 Sadman Sadeed Omee , Steph-Yves Louis , Nihang Fu , Lai Wei , Sourin Dey , Rongzhi Dong , Qinyang Li , Jianjun Hu

NVIDIA cuDNN is a low-level library that provides GPU kernels frequently used in deep learning. Specifically, cuDNN implements several equivalent convolution algorithms, whose performance and memory footprint may vary considerably,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Yosuke Oyama , Tal Ben-Nun , Torsten Hoefler , Satoshi Matsuoka

Accelerating the deep learning inference is very important for real-time applications. In this paper, we propose a novel method to fuse the layers of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which applies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Xueying Wang , Guangli Li , Xiao Dong , Jiansong Li , Lei Liu , Xiaobing Feng

PipeDream is a Deep Neural Network(DNN) training system for GPUs that parallelizes computation by pipelining execution across multiple machines. Its pipeline parallel computing model avoids the slowdowns faced by data-parallel training when…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Aaron Harlap , Deepak Narayanan , Amar Phanishayee , Vivek Seshadri , Nikhil Devanur , Greg Ganger , Phil Gibbons

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

The method of choice for parameter aggregation in Deep Neural Network (DNN) training, a network-intensive task, is shifting from the Parameter Server model to decentralized aggregation schemes (AllReduce) inspired by theoretical guarantees…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Sayed Hadi Hashemi , Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi , Brighten Godfrey , Roy Campbell

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

Deep learning is extremely computationally intensive, and hardware vendors have responded by building faster accelerators in large clusters. Training deep learning models at petaFLOPS scale requires overcoming both algorithmic and systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Chris Ying , Sameer Kumar , Dehao Chen , Tao Wang , Youlong Cheng

Recently, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have recorded great success in handling medical and other complex classification tasks. However, as the sizes of a DNN model and the available dataset increase, the training process becomes more complex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Samson B. Akintoye , Liangxiu Han , Xin Zhang , Haoming Chen , Daoqiang Zhang

Graph foundation models have demonstrated remarkable adaptability across diverse downstream tasks through large-scale pretraining on graphs. However, existing implementations of the backbone model, graph transformers, are typically limited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jun-Liang Lin , Kamesh Madduri , Mahmut Taylan Kandemir

Training massive-scale deep learning models on datasets spanning tens of terabytes presents critical challenges in hardware utilization and training reproducibility. In this paper, we identify and resolve profound data-loading bottlenecks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Kashish Mittal , Di Yu , Roozbeh Ketabi , Arushi Arora , Brendon Lapp , Peng Zhang