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Training deep neural networks (DNNs) in large-cluster computing environments is increasingly necessary, as networks grow in size and complexity. Local memory and processing limitations require robust data and model parallelism for crossing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Russell J. Hewett , Thomas J. Grady

Training task in classical machine learning models, such as deep neural networks, is generally implemented at a remote cloud center for centralized learning, which is typically time-consuming and resource-hungry. It also incurs serious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jinke Ren , Guanding Yu , Guangyao Ding

The wireless network is undergoing a trend from "onnection of things" to "connection of intelligence". With data spread over the communication networks and computing capability enhanced on the devices, distributed learning becomes a hot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jian Wang , Yourui Huangfu , Rong Li , Yiqun Ge , Jun Wang

It is usually infeasible to fit and train an entire large deep neural network (DNN) model using a single edge device due to the limited resources. To facilitate intelligent applications across edge devices, researchers have proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Yuhao Chen , Yuxuan Yan , Qianqian Yang , Yuanchao Shu , Shibo He , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen

Deep neural network (DNN) partition is a research problem that involves splitting a DNN into multiple parts and offloading them to specific locations. Because of the recent advancement in multi-access edge computing and edge intelligence,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Di Xu , Xiang He , Tonghua Su , Zhongjie Wang

We propose a novel method to merge convolutional neural-nets for the inference stage. Given two well-trained networks that may have different architectures that handle different tasks, our method aligns the layers of the original networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Yi-Min Chou , Yi-Ming Chan , Jia-Hong Lee , Chih-Yi Chiu , Chu-Song Chen

To train modern large DNN models, pipeline parallelism has recently emerged, which distributes the model across GPUs and enables different devices to process different microbatches in pipeline. Earlier pipeline designs allow multiple…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ziyue Luo , Xiaodong Yi , Guoping Long , Shiqing Fan , Chuan Wu , Jun Yang , Wei Lin

Parameters of recent neural networks require a huge amount of memory. These parameters are used by neural networks to perform machine learning tasks when processing inputs. To speed up inference, we develop Partition Pruning, an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Sina Shahhosseini , Ahmad Albaqsami , Masoomeh Jasemi , Nader Bagherzadeh

We present a new training methodology for transformers using a multilevel, layer-parallel approach. Through a neural ODE formulation of transformers, our application of a multilevel parallel-in-time algorithm for the forward and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Shuai Jiang , Marc Salvadó-Benasco , Eric C. Cyr , Alena Kopaničáková , Rolf Krause , Jacob B. Schroder

With the growing size of deep neural networks and datasets, the computational costs of training have significantly increased. The layer-freezing technique has recently attracted great attention as a promising method to effectively reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Chence Yang , Ci Zhang , Lei Lu , Qitao Tan , Sheng Li , Ao Li , Xulong Tang , Shaoyi Huang , Jinzhen Wang , Guoming Li , Jundong Li , Xiaoming Zhai , Jin Lu , Geng Yuan

The ubiquitous backpropagation algorithm requires sequential updates through the network introducing a locking problem. In addition, back-propagation relies on the transpose of forward weight matrices to compute updates, introducing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 David Kappel , Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer , Cabrel Teguemne Fokam , Christian Mayr , Anand Subramoney

Parallelization techniques have become ubiquitous for accelerating inference and training of deep neural networks. Despite this, several operations are still performed in a sequential manner. For instance, the forward and backward passes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Federico Danieli , Miguel Sarabia , Xavier Suau , Pau Rodríguez , Luca Zappella

The deep neural networks (DNNs) have been enormously successful in tasks that were hitherto in the human-only realm such as image recognition, and language translation. Owing to their success the DNNs are being explored for use in ever more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Sanket Tavarageri , Srinivas Sridharan , Bharat Kaul

In the era of deep learning (DL), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and large language models (LLMs), machine learning (ML) models are becoming increasingly complex, demanding significant computational resources for both inference and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Madison Threadgill , Andreas Gerstlauer

This paper introduces a new architectural framework, known as input fast-forwarding, that can enhance the performance of deep networks. The main idea is to incorporate a parallel path that sends representations of input values forward to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Ahmed Ibrahim , A. Lynn Abbott , Mohamed E. Hussein

The resource requirements of deep neural networks (DNNs) pose significant challenges to their deployment on edge devices. Common approaches to address this issue are pruning and mixed-precision quantization, which lead to latency and memory…

The training process of Deep Neural Network (DNN) is compute-intensive, often taking days to weeks to train a DNN model. Therefore, parallel execution of DNN training on GPUs is a widely adopted approach to speed up the process nowadays.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Chi-Chung Chen , Chia-Lin Yang , Hsiang-Yun Cheng

As deep neural networks (DNNs) grow in complexity and size, the resultant increase in communication overhead during distributed training has become a significant bottleneck, challenging the scalability of distributed training systems.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Haoyu Li , Yuchen Xu , Jiayi Chen , Rohit Dwivedula , Wenfei Wu , Keqiang He , Aditya Akella , Daehyeok Kim

Device-edge co-inference opens up new possibilities for resource-constrained wireless devices (WDs) to execute deep neural network (DNN)-based applications with heavy computation workloads. In particular, the WD executes the first few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jia Yan , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Gradient-based algorithms for training ResNets typically require a forward pass of the input data, followed by back-propagating the objective gradient to update parameters, which are time-consuming for deep ResNets. To break the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Qi Sun , Hexin Dong , Zewei Chen , Weizhen Dian , Jiacheng Sun , Yitong Sun , Zhenguo Li , Bin Dong