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This paper presents a comprehensive comparative survey of TensorFlow and PyTorch, the two leading deep learning frameworks, focusing on their usability, performance, and deployment trade-offs. We review each framework's programming paradigm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zakariya Ba Alawi

The recent huge advance of Large Language Models (LLMs) is mainly driven by the increase in the number of parameters. This has led to substantial memory capacity requirements, necessitating the use of dozens of GPUs just to meet the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hongsun Jang , Jaeyong Song , Jaewon Jung , Jaeyoung Park , Youngsok Kim , Jinho Lee

Deep Learning (DL) model-based AI services are increasingly offered in a variety of predictive analytics services such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition. However, the quality of the DL models can degrade…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Anirban Bhattacharjee , Ajay Dev Chhokra , Hongyang Sun , Shashank Shekhar , Aniruddha Gokhale , Gabor Karsai , Abhishek Dubey

This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of the PyTorch distributed data parallel module. PyTorch is a widely-adopted scientific computing package used in deep learning research and applications. Recent advances in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Shen Li , Yanli Zhao , Rohan Varma , Omkar Salpekar , Pieter Noordhuis , Teng Li , Adam Paszke , Jeff Smith , Brian Vaughan , Pritam Damania , Soumith Chintala

Effective performance profiling and analysis are essential for optimizing training and inference of deep learning models, especially given the growing complexity of heterogeneous computing environments. However, existing tools often lack…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Qidong Zhao , Hao Wu , Yuming Hao , Zilingfeng Ye , Jiajia Li , Xu Liu , Keren Zhou

The development of large-scale foundation models, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is constrained by significant computational and memory bottlenecks. These challenges elevate throughput optimization from a mere engineering task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Mayank Jha

Neural network frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow are the workhorses of numerous machine learning applications ranging from object recognition to machine translation. While these frameworks are versatile and straightforward to use,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Nicolas Weber , Florian Schmidt , Mathias Niepert , Felipe Huici

Deep learning frameworks have often focused on either usability or speed, but not both. PyTorch is a machine learning library that shows that these two goals are in fact compatible: it provides an imperative and Pythonic programming style…

Deep learning (DL) shows its prosperity in a wide variety of fields. The development of a DL model is a time-consuming and resource-intensive procedure. Hence, dedicated GPU accelerators have been collectively constructed into a GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Wei Gao , Qinghao Hu , Zhisheng Ye , Peng Sun , Xiaolin Wang , Yingwei Luo , Tianwei Zhang , Yonggang Wen

Big data powered Deep Learning (DL) and its applications have blossomed in recent years, fueled by three technological trends: a large amount of digitized data openly accessible, a growing number of DL software frameworks in open source and…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Yanzhao Wu , Ling Liu , Calton Pu , Wenqi Cao , Semih Sahin , Wenqi Wei , Qi Zhang

Multi-label classification (MLC) is an important class of machine learning problems that come with a wide spectrum of applications, each demanding a possibly different evaluation criterion. When solving the MLC problems, we generally expect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yao-Yuan Yang , Yi-An Lin , Hong-Min Chu , Hsuan-Tien Lin

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs), have yielded strong results on a wide range of applications. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have been one key enabling factor leading to the current popularity of DNNs. However, despite…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Matthew W. Moskewicz , Ali Jannesari , Kurt Keutzer

We introduce a learning-based framework to optimize tensor programs for deep learning workloads. Efficient implementations of tensor operators, such as matrix multiplication and high dimensional convolution, are key enablers of effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Tianqi Chen , Lianmin Zheng , Eddie Yan , Ziheng Jiang , Thierry Moreau , Luis Ceze , Carlos Guestrin , Arvind Krishnamurthy

Training deep learning models on petabyte-scale Earth observation (EO) data requires separating compute resources from data storage. However, standard PyTorch data loaders cannot keep modern GPUs utilized when streaming GeoTIFF files…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Akram Zaytar , Caleb Robinson , Girmaw Abebe Tadesse , Tammy Glazer , Gilles Hacheme , Anthony Ortiz , Rahul M Dodhia , Juan M Lavista Ferres

We present PyTorch Geometric Temporal a deep learning framework combining state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for neural spatiotemporal signal processing. The main goal of the library is to make temporal geometric deep learning…

Cloud computing provides a powerful yet low-cost environment for distributed deep learning workloads. However, training complex deep learning models often requires accessing large amounts of data, which can easily exceed the capacity of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Nicholas Krichevsky , Renee St Louis , Tian Guo

Processing data streams arriving at high speed requires the development of models that can provide fast and accurate predictions. Although deep neural networks are the state-of-the-art for many machine learning tasks, their performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Pedro Lara-Benítez , Manuel Carranza-García , Francisco Martínez-Álvarez , José C. Riquelme

We present PyTorch Frame, a PyTorch-based framework for deep learning over multi-modal tabular data. PyTorch Frame makes tabular deep learning easy by providing a PyTorch-based data structure to handle complex tabular data, introducing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Weihua Hu , Yiwen Yuan , Zecheng Zhang , Akihiro Nitta , Kaidi Cao , Vid Kocijan , Jinu Sunil , Jure Leskovec , Matthias Fey

Training large language models (LLMs) in the cloud faces growing memory bottlenecks due to the limited capacity and high cost of GPUs. While GPU memory offloading to CPU and NVMe has made large-scale training more feasible, existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Sabiha Afroz , Redwan Ibne Seraj Khan , Hadeel Albahar , Jingoo Han , Ali R. Butt

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has made groundbreaking advancements in robotics, data center management and other applications. Unfortunately, system-level bottlenecks in RL workloads are poorly understood; we observe fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 James Gleeson , Srivatsan Krishnan , Moshe Gabel , Vijay Janapa Reddi , Eyal de Lara , Gennady Pekhimenko