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Graphs are omnipresent and GNNs are a powerful family of neural networks for learning over graphs. Despite their popularity, scaling GNNs either by deepening or widening suffers from prevalent issues of unhealthy gradients,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Ajay Jaiswal , Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Ying Ding , Zhangyang Wang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), particularly for large-scale graphs, are crucial across numerous domains. However, training distributed full-batch GCNs on large-scale graphs suffers from inefficient memory access patterns and high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chen Zhuang , Lingqi Zhang , Du Wu , Peng Chen , Jiajun Huang , Xin Liu , Rio Yokota , Nikoli Dryden , Toshio Endo , Satoshi Matsuoka , Mohamed Wahib

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in diverse domains. However, training GNNs on large-scale graphs poses significant challenges due to high memory demands and significant communication overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Arefin Niam , M S Q Zulkar Nine

Training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on real-world graphs consisting of billions of nodes and edges is quite challenging, primarily due to the substantial memory needed to store the graph and its intermediate node and edge features, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Kaidi Cao , Rui Deng , Shirley Wu , Edward W Huang , Karthik Subbian , Jure Leskovec

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful and flexible neural networks that use the naturally sparse connectivity information of the data. GNNs represent this connectivity as sparse matrices, which have lower arithmetic intensity and thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Alok Tripathy , Katherine Yelick , Aydin Buluc

Despite the recent success of Graph Neural Networks, it remains challenging to train a GNN on large graphs with millions of nodes and billions of edges, which are prevalent in many graph-based applications. Traditional sampling-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zheng Chai , Guangji Bai , Liang Zhao , Yue Cheng

Mini-batch training of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is fundamentally different from training on i.i.d. data: sampling a subgraph alters the topology and introduces boundary effects, leading prior work to develop structure-aware samplers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Clement Wang , Antoine Vialle , Robin Vaysse , Thomas Bonald

The era of data deluge has sparked the interest in graph-based learning methods in a number of disciplines such as sociology, biology, neuroscience, or engineering. In this paper, we introduce a graph recurrent neural network (GRNN) for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Antonio G. Marques , Georgios B. Giannakis

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used today in recommendation systems, fraud detection, and node/link classification tasks. Real world GNNs continue to scale in size and require a large memory footprint for storing graphs and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jeongmin Brian Park , Kun Wu , Vikram Sharma Mailthody , Zaid Quresh , Scott Mahlke , Wen-mei Hwu

GPUs are currently the platform of choice for training neural networks. However, training a deep neural network (DNN) is a time-consuming process even on GPUs because of the massive number of parameters that have to be learned. As a result,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Behnam Pourghassemi , Chenghao Zhang , Joo Hwan Lee , Aparna Chandramowlishwaran

Modern machine learning techniques are successfully being adapted to data modeled as graphs. However, many real-world graphs are typically very large and do not fit in memory, often making the problem of training machine learning models on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Alexandra Angerd , Keshav Balasubramanian , Murali Annavaram

Graph foundation models have demonstrated remarkable adaptability across diverse downstream tasks through large-scale pretraining on graphs. However, existing implementations of the backbone model, graph transformers, are typically limited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jun-Liang Lin , Kamesh Madduri , Mahmut Taylan Kandemir

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

The recent success of deep learning applications has coincided with those widely available powerful computational resources for training sophisticated machine learning models with huge datasets. Nonetheless, training large models such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Farley Lai , Asim Kadav , Erik Kruus

The graph convolutional network (GCN) is a go-to solution for machine learning on graphs, but its training is notoriously difficult to scale both in terms of graph size and the number of model parameters. Although some work has explored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Cameron R. Wolfe , Jingkang Yang , Arindam Chowdhury , Chen Dun , Artun Bayer , Santiago Segarra , Anastasios Kyrillidis

Edge AI has been recently proposed to facilitate the training and deployment of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models in proximity to the sources of data. To enable the training of large models on resource-constraint edge devices and protect…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Mingjin Zhang , Jiannong Cao , Yuvraj Sahni , Xiangchun Chen , Shan Jiang

Training graph neural networks on large datasets has long been a challenge. Traditional approaches include efficiently representing the whole graph in-memory, designing parameter efficient and sampling-based models, and graph partitioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Dmytro Lopushanskyy , Borun Shi

Graph-based computations are crucial in a wide range of applications, where graphs can scale to trillions of edges. To enable efficient training on such large graphs, mini-batch subgraph sampling is commonly used, which allows training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yue Jin , Yongchao Liu , Chuntao Hong

Classical graph algorithms work well for combinatorial problems that can be thoroughly formalized and abstracted. Once the algorithm is derived, it generalizes to instances of any size. However, developing an algorithm that handles complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Florian Grötschla , Joël Mathys , Roger Wattenhofer

Inspired by the extensive success of deep learning, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proposed to learn expressive node representations and demonstrated promising performance in various graph learning tasks. However, existing endeavors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Kaize Ding , Jianling Wang , James Caverlee , Huan Liu