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Deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs) are widely used in industry, and their memory capacity requirements reach the terabyte scale. Tiered memory architectures provide a cost-effective solution but introduce challenges in…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jie Ren , Bin Ma , Shuangyan Yang , Benjamin Francis , Ehsan K. Ardestani , Min Si , Dong Li

Cache prefetcher greatly eliminates compulsory cache misses, by fetching data from slower memory to faster cache before it is actually required by processors. Sophisticated prefetchers predict next use cache line by repeating program's…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Haoyuan Wang , Zhiwei Luo

Recommendation models are very large, requiring terabytes (TB) of memory during training. In pursuit of better quality, the model size and complexity grow over time, which requires additional training data to avoid overfitting. This model…

Modern recommendation models have increased to trillions of parameters. As cluster scales expand to O(1k), distributed training bottlenecks shift from computation and memory to data movement, especially lookup and communication latency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zhida Jiang , Zhaolong Xing , Huichao Chai , Tianxing Sun , Qiang Peng , Baopeng Yuan , Jiaxing Wang , Hua Du , Zhixin Wu , Xuemiao Li , Yikui Cao , Xinyu Liu , Yongxiang Feng , Zhen Chen , Ke Zhang

Deep learning recommendation systems serve personalized content under diverse tail-latency targets and input-query loads. In order to do so, state-of-the-art recommendation models rely on terabyte-scale embedding tables to learn user…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Samuel Hsia , Udit Gupta , Bilge Acun , Newsha Ardalani , Pan Zhong , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks , Carole-Jean Wu

In this work, we present a learning-based approach to chip placement, one of the most complex and time-consuming stages of the chip design process. Unlike prior methods, our approach has the ability to learn from past experience and improve…

Generative recommendation (GenRec) models typically model user behavior via full attention, but scaling to lifelong sequences is hindered by prohibitive computational costs and noise accumulation from stochastic interactions. To address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yixiao Chen , Yuan Wang , Yue Liu , Qiyao Wang , Ke Cheng , Xin Xu , Juntong Yan , Shuojin Yang , Menghao Guo , Jun Zhang , Huan Yu , Jie Jiang

Training deep neural networks at the edge on light computational devices, embedded systems and robotic platforms is nowadays very challenging. Continual learning techniques, where complex models are incrementally trained on small batches of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Lorenzo Pellegrini , Gabriele Graffieti , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Davide Maltoni

Although deep learning-based personalized recommendation systems provide qualified recommendations, they strain data center resources. The main bottleneck is the embedding layer, which is highly memory-intensive due to its sparse, irregular…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Youngsuk Kim , Junghwan Lim , Hyuk-Jae Lee , Chae Eun Rhee

Training transformer models requires substantial GPU compute and memory resources. In homogeneous clusters, distributed strategies allocate resources evenly, but this approach is inefficient for heterogeneous clusters, where GPUs differ in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Runsheng Benson Guo , Utkarsh Anand , Arthur Chen , Khuzaima Daudjee

Training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) is a resource intensive task that requires specialized hardware for efficient computation. One of the most limiting bottleneck of CNN training is the memory cost associated with storing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Tristan Hascoet , Quentin Febvre , Yasuo Ariki , Tetsuya Takiguchi

Recent studies from several hyperscalars pinpoint to embedding layers as the most memory-intensive deep learning (DL) algorithm being deployed in today's datacenters. This paper addresses the memory capacity and bandwidth challenges of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Youngeun Kwon , Yunjae Lee , Minsoo Rhu

In modern GPU inference, cache efficiency remains a major bottleneck, and heuristic policies such as \textsc{LRU} can perform far worse than the offline optimum. Existing learning-based caching systems improve hit rates mainly through…

In today's context, deploying data-driven services like recommendation on edge devices instead of cloud servers becomes increasingly attractive due to privacy and network latency concerns. A common practice in building compact on-device…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Tong Chen , Hongzhi Yin , Yujia Zheng , Zi Huang , Yang Wang , Meng Wang

Various forms of Peer-Learning Environments are increasingly being used in post-secondary education, often to help build repositories of student generated learning objects. However, large classes can result in an extensive repository, which…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Hassan Khosravi , Kendra Cooper , Kirsty Kitto

Training machine learning algorithms is a computationally intensive process, which is frequently memory-bound due to repeatedly accessing large training datasets. As a result, processor-centric systems (e.g., CPU, GPU) suffer from costly…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Juan Gómez-Luna , Yuxin Guo , Sylvan Brocard , Julien Legriel , Remy Cimadomo , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Gagandeep Singh , Onur Mutlu

Deep learning implementations on CPUs (Central Processing Units) are gaining more traction. Enhanced AI capabilities on commodity x86 architectures are commercially appealing due to the reuse of existing hardware and virtualization ease. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Shabnam Daghaghi , Nicholas Meisburger , Mengnan Zhao , Yong Wu , Sameh Gobriel , Charlie Tai , Anshumali Shrivastava

Deep learning recommendation models have grown to the terabyte scale. Traditional serving schemes--that load entire models to a single server--are unable to support this scale. One approach to support this scale is with distributed serving,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Michael Lui , Yavuz Yetim , Özgür Özkan , Zhuoran Zhao , Shin-Yeh Tsai , Carole-Jean Wu , Mark Hempstead

With the increasing popularity of recommendation systems (RecSys), the demand for compute resources in datacenters has surged. However, the model-wise resource allocation employed in current RecSys model serving architectures falls short in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yujeong Choi , Jiin Kim , Minsoo Rhu

Accurate click-through rate (CTR) prediction is vital for online advertising and recommendation systems. Recent deep learning advancements have improved the ability to capture feature interactions and understand user interests. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Kefan Wang , Hao Wang , Kenan Song , Wei Guo , Kai Cheng , Zhi Li , Yong Liu , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen