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Data loading can dominate deep neural network training time on large-scale systems. We present a comprehensive study on accelerating data loading performance in large-scale distributed training. We first identify performance and scalability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Chih-Chieh Yang , Guojing Cong

Because of the superior feature representation ability of deep learning, various deep Click-Through Rate (CTR) models are deployed in the commercial systems by industrial companies. To achieve better performance, it is necessary to train…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Huifeng Guo , Wei Guo , Yong Gao , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He , Wenzhi Liu

As learning models continue to grow in size, enabling on-device local training of these models has emerged as a critical challenge in federated learning. A popular solution is sub-model training, where the server only distributes randomly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuyang Deng , Fuli Qiao , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Distributed Machine Learning refers to the practice of training a model on multiple computers or devices that can be called nodes. Additionally, serverless computing is a new paradigm for cloud computing that uses functions as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Amine Barrak , Fabio Petrillo , Fehmi Jaafar

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms are currently applied to a wide range of products and solutions. DL training jobs are highly resource demanding and they experience great benefits when exploiting AI…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Federica Filippini , Danilo Ardagna , Marco Lattuada , Edoardo Amaldi , Michele Ciavotta , Maciek Riedl , Katarzyna Materka , Paweł Skrzypek , Fabrizio Magugliani , Marco Cicala

To train deep learning models faster, distributed training on multiple GPUs is the very popular scheme in recent years. However, the communication bandwidth is still a major bottleneck of training performance. To improve overall training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Daegun Yoon , Sangyoon Oh

In cloud machine learning (ML) inference systems, providing low latency to end-users is of utmost importance. However, maximizing server utilization and system throughput is also crucial for ML service providers as it helps lower the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yunseong Kim , Yujeong Choi , Minsoo Rhu

The use of GPUs has proliferated for machine learning workflows and is now considered mainstream for many deep learning models. Meanwhile, when training state-of-the-art personal recommendation models, which consume the highest number of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Bilge Acun , Matthew Murphy , Xiaodong Wang , Jade Nie , Carole-Jean Wu , Kim Hazelwood

Current techniques and systems for distributed model training mostly assume that clusters are comprised of homogeneous servers with a constant resource availability. However, cluster heterogeneity is pervasive in computing infrastructure,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Sahil Tyagi , Prateek Sharma

Real-world node embedding applications often contain hundreds of billions of edges with high-dimension node features. Scaling node embedding systems to efficiently support these applications remains a challenging problem. In this paper we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Wanjing Wei , Yangzihao Wang , Pin Gao , Shijie Sun , Donghai Yu

Collocating deep learning training tasks improves GPU utilization but risks resource contention, severe slowdowns, and out-of-memory (OOM) failures. Accurate memory estimation is essential for robust collocation, and GPU utilization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ehsan Yousefzadeh-Asl-Miandoab , Reza Karimzadeh , Danyal Yorulmaz , Bulat Ibragimov , Pınar Tözün

Dramatic increases in the capabilities of neural network models in recent years are driven by scaling model size, training data, and corresponding computational resources. To develop the exceedingly large networks required in modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jared Fernandez , Luca Wehrstedt , Leonid Shamis , Mostafa Elhoushi , Kalyan Saladi , Yonatan Bisk , Emma Strubell , Jacob Kahn

Deep Learning approaches for real, large, and complex scientific data sets can be very challenging to design. In this work, we present a complete search for a finely-tuned and efficiently scaled deep learning classifier to identify usable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Vincent Dumont , Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos , Jonathan Ajo-Franklin , Kesheng Wu

Recent progress in scientific machine learning (SciML) has opened up the possibility of training novel neural network architectures that solve complex partial differential equations (PDEs). Several (nearly data free) approaches have been…

This paper aims to answer the question: Can deep learning models be cost-efficiently trained on a global market of spot VMs spanning different data centers and cloud providers? To provide guidance, we extensively evaluate the cost and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Alexander Erben , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

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

Distributed synchronized GPU training is commonly used for deep learning. The resource constraint of using a fixed number of GPUs makes large-scale training jobs suffer from long queuing time for resource allocation, and lowers the cluster…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Mingzhen Li , Wencong Xiao , Biao Sun , Hanyu Zhao , Hailong Yang , Shiru Ren , Zhongzhi Luan , Xianyan Jia , Yi Liu , Yong Li , Wei Lin , Depei Qian

The speed of deep neural networks training has become a big bottleneck of deep learning research and development. For example, training GoogleNet by ImageNet dataset on one Nvidia K20 GPU needs 21 days. To speed up the training process, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Yang You , Aydin Buluc , James Demmel

The growing demand for computational resources in machine learning has made efficient resource allocation a critical challenge, especially in heterogeneous hardware clusters where devices vary in capability, age, and energy efficiency.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ahmad Raeisi , Mahdi Dolati , Sina Darabi , Sadegh Talebi , Patrick Eugster , Ahmad Khonsari

With deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods achieving results that exceed human capabilities in games, robotics, and simulated environments, continued scaling of RL training is crucial to its deployment in solving complex real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Ahmet Inci , Evgeny Bolotin , Yaosheng Fu , Gal Dalal , Shie Mannor , David Nellans , Diana Marculescu