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In distributed training of deep neural networks, parallel mini-batch SGD is widely used to speed up the training process by using multiple workers. It uses multiple workers to sample local stochastic gradient in parallel, aggregates all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Hao Yu , Sen Yang , Shenghuo Zhu

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), using algorithms like Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), aligns Large Language Models (LLMs) with human values but is costly and unstable. Alternatives have been proposed to replace PPO or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Liang Zhu , Feiteng Fang , Yuelin Bai , Longze Chen , Zhexiang Zhang , Minghuan Tan , Min Yang

Large-scale machine learning training, in particular distributed stochastic gradient descent, needs to be robust to inherent system variability such as node straggling and random communication delays. This work considers a distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Jianyu Wang , Gauri Joshi

As the size of deep learning models gets larger and larger, training takes longer time and more resources, making fault tolerance more and more critical. Existing state-of-the-art methods like CheckFreq and Elastic Horovod need to back up a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Yuchen Zhong , Guangming Sheng , Juncheng Liu , Jinhui Yuan , Chuan Wu

When using large-batch training to speed up stochastic gradient descent, learning rates must adapt to new batch sizes in order to maximize speed-ups and preserve model quality. Re-tuning learning rates is resource intensive, while fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Tyler B. Johnson , Pulkit Agrawal , Haijie Gu , Carlos Guestrin

Recently, ChatGPT or InstructGPT like large language models (LLM) has made a significant impact in the AI world. Many works have attempted to reproduce the complex InstructGPT's training pipeline, namely Reinforcement Learning with Human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Youshao Xiao , Zhenglei Zhou , Fagui Mao , Weichang Wu , Shangchun Zhao , Lin Ju , Lei Liang , Xiaolu Zhang , Jun Zhou

We propose Local Momentum Tracking (LMT), a novel distributed stochastic gradient method for solving distributed optimization problems over networks. To reduce communication overhead, LMT enables each agent to perform multiple local updates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Kun Huang , Shi Pu

This paper investigates the capability of off-the-shelf large language models (LLMs) to solve the economic dispatch (ED) problem. ED is a hard-constrained optimization problem solved on a day-ahead timescale by grid operators to minimize…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Sina Mohammadi , Ali Hassan , Rouzbeh Haghighi , Van-Hai Bui , Wencong Su

Distributed training is an effective way to accelerate the training process of large-scale deep learning models. However, the parameter exchange and synchronization of distributed stochastic gradient descent introduce a large amount of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-16 LingFei Dai , Boyu Diao , Chao Li , Yongjun Xu

In distributed training of deep neural networks, people usually run Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) or its variants on each machine and communicate with other machines periodically. However, SGD might converge slowly in training some deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Mingrui Liu , Zhenxun Zhuang , Yunwei Lei , Chunyang Liao

The increasing size of deep learning models has made distributed training across multiple devices essential. However, current methods such as distributed data-parallel training suffer from large communication and synchronization overheads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Cabrel Teguemne Fokam , Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer , Lukas König , David Kappel , Anand Subramoney

The safe deployment of machine learning and AI models in open-world settings hinges critically on the ability to detect out-of-distribution (OOD) data accurately, data samples that contrast vastly from what the model was trained with.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Andrija Djurisic , Rosanne Liu , Mladen Nikolic

With the increase in the amount of data and the expansion of model scale, distributed parallel training becomes an important and successful technique to address the optimization challenges. Nevertheless, although distributed stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Shuheng Shen , Linli Xu , Jingchang Liu , Xianfeng Liang , Yifei Cheng

Training time on large datasets for deep neural networks is the principal workflow bottleneck in a number of important applications of deep learning, such as object classification and detection in automatic driver assistance systems (ADAS).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Peter H. Jin , Qiaochu Yuan , Forrest Iandola , Kurt Keutzer

With the rapid growth in the volume of data sets, models, and devices in the domain of deep learning, there is increasing attention on large-scale distributed deep learning. In contrast to traditional distributed deep learning, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Feng Liang , Zhen Zhang , Haifeng Lu , Victor C. M. Leung , Yanyi Guo , Xiping Hu

Federated Split Learning has been identified as an efficient approach to address the computational resource constraints of clients in classical federated learning, while guaranteeing data privacy for distributed model training across data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yimeng Shan , Zhaorui Zhang , Sheng Di , Yu Liu , Xiaoyi Lu , Benben Liu

Deep learning networks are typically trained by Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) methods that iteratively improve the model parameters by estimating a gradient on a very small fraction of the training data. A major roadblock faced when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Tao Lin , Lingjing Kong , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Training stability is a persistent challenge in the pre-training of large language models (LLMs), particularly for architectures such as Post-Norm Transformers, which are prone to gradient explosion and dissipation. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Ya Wang , Zhijian Zhuo , Yutao Zeng , Xun Zhou , Jian Yang , Xiaoqing Li

Most efforts to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) involve either scaling the number of parameters and the size of training data, or scaling inference computation by letting models generate complex chains of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yeskendir Koishekenov , Aldo Lipani , Nicola Cancedda

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in natural language processing and content generation. However, current LLMs heavily rely on cloud computing, leading to prolonged latency, high bandwidth cost, and privacy concerns.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mingjin Zhang , Jiannong Cao , Xiaoming Shen , Zeyang Cui