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Deep learning has become an indispensable part of life, such as face recognition, NLP, etc., but the training of deep model has always been a challenge, and in recent years, the complexity of training data and models has shown explosive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Sheng Huang

With the rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in recommendation systems, the computational and communication bottlenecks caused by their massive parameter sizes and large data volumes have become increasingly prominent. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Haowei Yang , Yu Tian , Zhongheng Yang , Zhao Wang , Chengrui Zhou , Dannier Li

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

We propose LayerSync, a domain-agnostic approach for improving the generation quality and the training efficiency of diffusion models. Prior studies have highlighted the connection between the quality of generation and the representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Yasaman Haghighi , Bastien van Delft , Mariam Hassan , Alexandre Alahi

Scale of data and scale of computation infrastructures together enable the current deep learning renaissance. However, training large-scale deep architectures demands both algorithmic improvement and careful system configuration. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Shang-Xuan Zou , Chun-Yen Chen , Jui-Lin Wu , Chun-Nan Chou , Chia-Chin Tsao , Kuan-Chieh Tung , Ting-Wei Lin , Cheng-Lung Sung , Edward Y. Chang

We propose self-adaptive training -- a unified training algorithm that dynamically calibrates and enhances training processes by model predictions without incurring an extra computational cost -- to advance both supervised and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Lang Huang , Chao Zhang , Hongyang Zhang

Many deep learning applications benefit from using large models with billions of parameters. Training these models is notoriously expensive due to the need for specialized HPC clusters. In this work, we consider alternative setups for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Max Ryabinin , Tim Dettmers , Michael Diskin , Alexander Borzunov

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

Distributed training is the de facto standard to scale up the training of deep learning models with multiple GPUs. Its performance bottleneck lies in communications for gradient synchronization. Although high tensor sparsity is widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhuang Wang , Zhaozhuo Xu , Jingyi Xi , Yuke Wang , Anshumali Shrivastava , T. S. Eugene Ng

Deep learning is a popular machine learning technique and has been applied to many real-world problems. However, training a deep neural network is very time-consuming, especially on big data. It has become difficult for a single machine to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xing Zhao , Aijun An , Junfeng Liu , Bao Xin Chen

In this paper we analyze, evaluate, and improve the performance of training generalized linear models on modern CPUs. We start with a state-of-the-art asynchronous parallel training algorithm, identify system-level performance bottlenecks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Nikolas Ioannou , Celestine Dünner , Kornilios Kourtis , Thomas Parnell

Many real-world machine learning applications involve several learning tasks which are inter-related. For example, in healthcare domain, we need to learn a predictive model of a certain disease for many hospitals. The models for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Inci M. Baytas , Ming Yan , Anil K. Jain , Jiayu Zhou

We consider stochastic convex optimization problems, where several machines act asynchronously in parallel while sharing a common memory. We propose a robust training method for the constrained setting and derive non asymptotic convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Rotem Zamir Aviv , Ido Hakimi , Assaf Schuster , Kfir Y. Levy

In this paper, we consider hybrid parallelism -- a paradigm that employs both Data Parallelism (DP) and Model Parallelism (MP) -- to scale distributed training of large recommendation models. We propose a compression framework called…

Large-scale Transformer models are known for their exceptional performance in a range of tasks, but training them can be difficult due to the requirement for communication-intensive model parallelism. One way to improve training speed is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Song Bian , Dacheng Li , Hongyi Wang , Eric P. Xing , Shivaram Venkataraman

The increasing complexity of deep learning recommendation models (DLRM) has led to a growing need for large-scale distributed systems that can efficiently train vast amounts of data. In DLRM, the sparse embedding table is a crucial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Xin Zhang , Quanyu Zhu , Liangbei Xu , Zain Huda , Wang Zhou , Jin Fang , Dennis van der Staay , Yuxi Hu , Jade Nie , Jiyan Yang , Chunzhi Yang

Strong semantic representations improve the convergence and generation quality of diffusion and flow models. Existing approaches largely rely on external models, which require separate training, operate on misaligned objectives, and exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hila Chefer , Patrick Esser , Dominik Lorenz , Dustin Podell , Vikash Raja , Vinh Tong , Antonio Torralba , Robin Rombach

Deep reinforcement learning has proven remarkably useful in training agents from unstructured data. However, the opacity of the produced agents makes it difficult to ensure that they adhere to various requirements posed by human engineers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Raz Yerushalmi , Guy Amir , Achiya Elyasaf , David Harel , Guy Katz , Assaf Marron

Training deep networks is a time-consuming process, with networks for object recognition often requiring multiple days to train. For this reason, leveraging the resources of a cluster to speed up training is an important area of work.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-01 Philipp Moritz , Robert Nishihara , Ion Stoica , Michael I. Jordan

Deep Learning has demonstrated a significant improvement against traditional machine learning approaches in different domains such as image and speech recognition. Their success on benchmark datasets is transferred to the real-world through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Ahmad Mustapha , Wael Khreich , Wasim Masr