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The field of deep learning has witnessed a remarkable shift towards extremely compute- and memory-intensive neural networks. These newer larger models have enabled researchers to advance state-of-the-art tools across a variety of fields.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Daniel Nichols , Siddharth Singh , Shu-Huai Lin , Abhinav Bhatele

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are becoming an important tool in modern computing applications. Accelerating their training is a major challenge and techniques range from distributed algorithms to low-level circuit design. In this survey, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Tal Ben-Nun , Torsten Hoefler

Many state-of-the-art Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have substantial memory requirements. Limited device memory becomes a bottleneck when training those models. We propose ParDNN, an automatic, generic, and non-intrusive partitioning strategy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Fareed Qararyah , Mohamed Wahib , Doğa Dikbayır , Mehmet Esat Belviranli , Didem Unat

AI accelerator processing capabilities and memory constraints largely dictate the scale in which machine learning workloads (e.g., training and inference) can be executed within a desirable time frame. Training a state of the art,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Michael Benington , Leo Phan , Chris Pierre Paul , Evan Shoemaker , Priyanka Ranade , Torstein Collett , Grant Hodgson Perez , Christopher Krieger

Tensor networks establish an adaptable framework for the emulation of quantum circuits. By partitioning exponentially large registers and gates into smaller tensors, this unlocks fast transformations through tensor algebra, and grants fine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jakub Adamski , Oliver Thomson Brown

We present scalable hybrid-parallel algorithms for training large-scale 3D convolutional neural networks. Deep learning-based emerging scientific workflows often require model training with large, high-dimensional samples, which can make…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yosuke Oyama , Naoya Maruyama , Nikoli Dryden , Erin McCarthy , Peter Harrington , Jan Balewski , Satoshi Matsuoka , Peter Nugent , Brian Van Essen

Together with the improvements in state-of-the-art accuracies of various tasks, deep learning models are getting significantly larger. However, it is extremely difficult to implement these large models because limited GPU memory makes it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Boxiang Wang , Qifan Xu , Zhengda Bian , Yang You

Training deep learning models is a repetitive and resource-intensive process. Data scientists often train several models before landing on a set of parameters (e.g., hyper-parameter tuning) and model architecture (e.g., neural architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Ties Robroek , Neil Kim Nielsen , Pınar Tözün

The increasing complexity of modern deep neural network models and the expanding sizes of datasets necessitate the development of optimized and scalable training methods. In this white paper, we addressed the challenge of efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Raphael Ruschel , A. S. M. Iftekhar , B. S. Manjunath , Suya You

Distributed deep learning (DL) has become prevalent in recent years to reduce training time by leveraging multiple computing devices (e.g., GPUs/TPUs) due to larger models and datasets. However, system scalability is limited by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Zhenheng Tang , Shaohuai Shi , Wei Wang , Bo Li , Xiaowen Chu

Deep learning models are trained on servers with many GPUs, and training must scale with the number of GPUs. Systems such as TensorFlow and Caffe2 train models with parallel synchronous stochastic gradient descent: they process a batch of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Alexandros Koliousis , Pijika Watcharapichat , Matthias Weidlich , Luo Mai , Paolo Costa , Peter Pietzuch

Distributed machine learning is critical for training deep learning models on large datasets with numerous parameters. Current research primarily focuses on leveraging additional hardware resources and powerful computing units to accelerate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Kuan-Wei Lu , Ding-Yong Hong , Pangfeng Liu , Jan-Jan Wu

While accelerators such as GPUs have limited memory, deep neural networks are becoming larger and will not fit with the memory limitation of accelerators for training. We propose an approach to tackle this problem by rewriting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Tung D. Le , Haruki Imai , Yasushi Negishi , Kiyokuni Kawachiya

The recent success of deep learning applications has coincided with those widely available powerful computational resources for training sophisticated machine learning models with huge datasets. Nonetheless, training large models such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Farley Lai , Asim Kadav , Erik Kruus

Distributed learning is the problem of inferring a function in the case where training data is distributed among multiple geographically separated sources. Particularly, the focus is on designing learning strategies with low computational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-22 Simone Scardapane

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

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

Edge AI has been recently proposed to facilitate the training and deployment of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models in proximity to the sources of data. To enable the training of large models on resource-constraint edge devices and protect…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Mingjin Zhang , Jiannong Cao , Yuvraj Sahni , Xiangchun Chen , Shan Jiang

Computation in a typical Transformer-based large language model (LLM) can be characterized by batch size, hidden dimension, number of layers, and sequence length. Until now, system works for accelerating LLM training have focused on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sam Ade Jacobs , Masahiro Tanaka , Chengming Zhang , Minjia Zhang , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Samyam Rajbhandari , Yuxiong He

Distributed machine learning (ML) can bring more computational resources to bear than single-machine learning, thus enabling reductions in training time. Distributed learning partitions models and data over many machines, allowing model and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Binhang Yuan , Cameron R. Wolfe , Chen Dun , Yuxin Tang , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Christopher M. Jermaine