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Gradient descent (GD) methods for the training of artificial neural networks (ANNs) belong nowadays to the most heavily employed computational schemes in the digital world. Despite the compelling success of such methods, it remains an open…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Shokhrukh Ibragimov , Arnulf Jentzen , Adrian Riekert

Gradient compression (GC) is a promising approach to addressing the communication bottleneck in distributed deep learning (DDL). However, it is challenging to find the optimal compression strategy for applying GC to DDL because of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Zhuang Wang , Haibin Lin , Yibo Zhu , T. S. Eugene Ng

We propose a systematic approach to reduce the memory consumption of deep neural network training. Specifically, we design an algorithm that costs O(sqrt(n)) memory to train a n layer network, with only the computational cost of an extra…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Tianqi Chen , Bing Xu , Chiyuan Zhang , Carlos Guestrin

Full batch training of Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) models is not feasible on a single GPU for large graphs containing tens of millions of vertices or more. Recent work has shown that, for the graphs used in the machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Muhammed Fatih Balın , Kaan Sancak , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have advanced spatiotemporal forecasting by leveraging relational inductive biases among sensors (or any other measuring scheme) represented as nodes in a graph. However, current methods often rely on Recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Aref Einizade , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Jhony H. Giraldo

This paper introduces a new activation checkpointing method which allows to significantly decrease memory usage when training Deep Neural Networks with the back-propagation algorithm. Similarly to checkpoint-ing techniques coming from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Julien Herrmann , Olivier Beaumont , Lionel Eyraud-Dubois , Julien Hermann , Alexis Joly , Alena Shilova

Large-scale graph training is a notoriously challenging problem for graph neural networks (GNNs). Due to the nature of evolving graph structures into the training process, vanilla GNNs usually fail to scale up, limited by the GPU memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Keyu Duan , Zirui Liu , Peihao Wang , Wenqing Zheng , Kaixiong Zhou , Tianlong Chen , Xia Hu , Zhangyang Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained significant momentum recently due to their capability to learn on unstructured graph data. Dynamic GNNs (DGNNs) are the current state-of-the-art for point cloud applications; such applications (viz.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Dhruv Parikh , Bingyi Zhang , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna , Carl Busart

This note explores the applicability of unsupervised machine learning techniques towards hard optimization problems on random inputs. In particular we consider Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) -- a class of neural networks designed to learn…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Weichi Yao , Afonso S. Bandeira , Soledad Villar

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for exploring and learning from graph structures and features. As such, achieving high-performance execution for GNNs becomes crucially important. Prior works have proposed to explore the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yangjie Zhou , Yaoxu Song , Jingwen Leng , Zihan Liu , Weihao Cui , Zhendong Zhang , Cong Guo , Quan Chen , Li Li , Minyi Guo

Discrete optimization is a central problem in artificial intelligence. The optimization of the aggregated cost of a network of cost functions arises in a variety of problems including (W)CSP, DCOP, as well as optimization in stochastic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Ferdinando Fioretto , Enrico Pontelli , William Yeoh , Rina Dechter

Deep graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved excellent results on various tasks on increasingly large graph datasets with millions of nodes and edges. However, memory complexity has become a major obstacle when training deep GNNs for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Guohao Li , Matthias Müller , Bernard Ghanem , Vladlen Koltun

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a powerful tool for handling structured graph data and addressing tasks such as node classification, graph classification, and clustering. However, the sparse nature of GNN computation poses new challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Julia Bazinska , Andrei Ivanov , Tal Ben-Nun , Nikoli Dryden , Maciej Besta , Siyuan Shen , Torsten Hoefler

Modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) require significant memory to store weight, activations, and other intermediate tensors during training. Hence, many models do not fit one GPU device or can be trained using only a small per-GPU batch…

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been employed as a kind of significant tool on many graph-based applications recently. Inspired by convolutional neural networks (CNNs), GCNs generate the embeddings of nodes by aggregating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Tao Huang , Yihan Zhang , Jiajing Wu , Junyuan Fang , Zibin Zheng

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are widely used in graph-based applications, such as social networks and recommendation systems. Nevertheless, large-scale graphs or deep aggregation layers in full-batch GCNs consume significant GPU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shengwei Ji , Yujie Tian , Fei Liu , Xinlu Li , Le Wu

The training of graph neural networks (GNNs) is extremely time consuming because sparse graph-based operations are hard to be accelerated by hardware. Prior art explores trading off the computational precision to reduce the time complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zirui Liu , Shengyuan Chen , Kaixiong Zhou , Daochen Zha , Xiao Huang , Xia Hu

With the growing importance of large network models and enormous training datasets, GPUs have become increasingly necessary to train neural networks. This is largely because conventional optimization algorithms rely on stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Gavin Taylor , Ryan Burmeister , Zheng Xu , Bharat Singh , Ankit Patel , Tom Goldstein

Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) is an important type of supervised machine learning model with inherent uncertainty measure in its predictions. We propose a new framework, nuGPR, to address the well-known challenge of high computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Ziqi Zhao , Vivek Sarin

With the increasing adoption of graph neural networks (GNNs) in the machine learning community, GPUs have become an essential tool to accelerate GNN training. However, training GNNs on very large graphs that do not fit in GPU memory is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Seung Won Min , Kun Wu , Sitao Huang , Mert Hidayetoğlu , Jinjun Xiong , Eiman Ebrahimi , Deming Chen , Wen-mei Hwu