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This paper introduces a novel reinforcement learning (RL) approach to scheduling mixed-criticality (MC) systems on processors with varying speeds. Building upon the foundation laid by [1], we extend their work to address the non-preemptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Muhammad El-Mahdy , Nourhan Sakr , Rodrigo Carrasco

Distributed deep learning systems (DDLS) train deep neural network models by utilizing the distributed resources of a cluster. Developers of DDLS are required to make many decisions to process their particular workloads in their chosen…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Matthias Langer , Zhen He , Wenny Rahayu , Yanbo Xue

Exploiting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to execute tasks is gaining growing popularity recently. To solve the underlying task scheduling problem, the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods demonstrate notable advantage over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xiao Mao , Zhiguang Cao , Mingfeng Fan , Guohua Wu , Witold Pedrycz

Nowadays, many companies possess various types of AI accelerators, forming heterogeneous clusters. Efficiently leveraging these clusters for high-throughput large language model (LLM) inference services can significantly reduce costs and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yi Xiong , Jinqi Huang , Wenjie Huang , Xuebing Yu , Entong Li , Zhixiong Ning , Jinhua Zhou , Li Zeng , Xin Chen

Fueled by advances in distributed deep learning (DDL), recent years have witnessed a rapidly growing demand for resource-intensive distributed/parallel computing to process DDL computing jobs. To resolve network communication bottleneck and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Menglu Yu , Ye Tian , Bo Ji , Chuan Wu , Hridesh Rajan , Jia Liu

The operational cost of a cloud computing platform is one of the most significant Quality of Service (QoS) criteria for schedulers, crucial to keep up with the growing computational demands. Several data-driven deep neural network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Shreshth Tuli , Giuliano Casale , Nicholas R. Jennings

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has recently unlocked strong reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs), triggering rapid exploration of new algorithms and data. However, RLVR training is notoriously…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yiqi Zhang , Fangzheng Jiao , Tian Tang , Boyu Tian , Hangyu Wang , Qiaoling Chen , Guoteng Wang , Zhen Jiang , Peng Sun , Ping Zhang , Xiaohe Hu , Ziming Liu , Menghao Zhang , Yanmin Jia , Yang You , Siyuan Feng

The paper presents an efficient real-time scheduling algorithm for intelligent real-time edge services, defined as those that perform machine intelligence tasks, such as voice recognition, LIDAR processing, or machine vision, on behalf of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Shuochao Yao , Yifan Hao , Yiran Zhao , Huajie Shao , Dongxin Liu , Shengzhong Liu , Tianshi Wang , Jinyang Li , Tarek Abdelzaher

The era of large deep learning models has given rise to advanced training strategies such as 3D parallelism and the ZeRO series. These strategies enable various (re-)configurable execution plans for a training job, which exhibit remarkably…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Xinyi Zhang , Hanyu Zhao , Wencong Xiao , Xianyan Jia , Fei Xu , Yong Li , Wei Lin , Fangming Liu

The massive integration of renewable-based distributed energy resources (DERs) inherently increases the energy system's complexity, especially when it comes to defining its operational schedule. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Hou Shengren , Pedro P. Vergara , Edgar Mauricio Salazar Duque , Peter Palensky

Efficiently scheduling data processing jobs on distributed compute clusters requires complex algorithms. Current systems, however, use simple generalized heuristics and ignore workload characteristics, since developing and tuning a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Hongzi Mao , Malte Schwarzkopf , Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan , Zili Meng , Mohammad Alizadeh

Specialized accelerators such as GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and custom ASICs have been increasingly deployed to train deep learning models. These accelerators exhibit heterogeneous performance behavior across model architectures. Existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Deepak Narayanan , Keshav Santhanam , Fiodar Kazhamiaka , Amar Phanishayee , Matei Zaharia

Task offloading and scheduling in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) are vital for meeting the low-latency demands of modern IoT and dynamic task scheduling scenarios. MEC reduces the processing burden on resource-constrained devices by enabling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Arild Yonkeu , Mohammadreza Amini , Burak Kantarci

Efficient task scheduling in large-scale distributed systems presents significant challenges due to dynamic workloads, heterogeneous resources, and competing quality-of-service requirements. Traditional centralized approaches face…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Daniel Benniah John

The following interdisciplinary article presents a memetic algorithm with applying deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for solving practically oriented dual resource constrained flexible job shop scheduling problems (DRC-FJSSP). From research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Felix Grumbach , Nour Eldin Alaa Badr , Pascal Reusch , Sebastian Trojahn

Recent years have witnessed a large amount of decentralized data in various (edge) devices of end-users, while the decentralized data aggregation remains complicated for machine learning jobs because of regulations and laws. As a practical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Ji Liu , Juncheng Jia , Beichen Ma , Chendi Zhou , Jingbo Zhou , Yang Zhou , Huaiyu Dai , Dejing Dou

Lowering costs by driving high utilization across deep learning workloads is a crucial lever for cloud providers. We present Singularity, Microsoft's globally distributed scheduling service for highly-efficient and reliable execution of…

This paper presents Block, a distributed scheduling framework designed to optimize load balancing and auto-provisioning across instances in large language model serving frameworks by leveraging contextual information from incoming requests.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Wei Da , Evangelia Kalyvianaki

Multi-user delay constrained scheduling is important in many real-world applications including wireless communication, live streaming, and cloud computing. Yet, it poses a critical challenge since the scheduler needs to make real-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Pihe Hu , Ling Pan , Yu Chen , Zhixuan Fang , Longbo Huang

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) is a major workload in datacenters today, resulting in a tremendously fast growth of energy consumption. It is important to reduce the energy consumption while completing the DL training jobs early in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Diandian Gu , Xintong Xie , Gang Huang , Xin Jin , Xuanzhe Liu