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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in both latency-sensitive online services and cost-sensitive offline workloads. Co-locating these workloads on shared serving instances can improve resource utilization, but directly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Siyu Wu , Zihan Tang , Yuting Zeng , Hui Chen , Guiguang Ding , Tongxuan Liu , Ke Zhang , Hailong Yang

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a critical stage in post-training large language models (LLMs), involving repeated interaction between rollout generation, reward evaluation, and centralized learning. Distributing rollout execution offers…

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance by generating long chains of thought, but longer traces always introduce redundant or ineffective reasoning steps. One typical behavior is that they often perform unnecessary…

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We present JigsawRL, a cost-efficient framework that explores Pipeline Multiplexing as a new dimension of RL parallelism. JigsawRL decomposes each pipeline into a Sub-Stage Graph that exposes the intra-stage and inter-worker imbalance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhengding Hu , Hehua Ouyang , Chang Chen , Zaifeng Pan , Yue Guan , Zhongkai Yu , Zhen Wang , Steven Swanson , Yufei Ding

Multimodal large language models (LLMs) empower LLMs to ingest inputs and generate outputs in multiple forms, such as text, image, and audio. However, the integration of multiple modalities introduces heterogeneity in both the model and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zili Zhang , Yinmin Zhong , Yimin Jiang , Hanpeng Hu , Jianjian Sun , Zheng Ge , Yibo Zhu , Daxin Jiang , Xin Jin

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central post-training tool for improving the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). In these systems, the rollout, the trajectory sampled from a prompt to termination, including…

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant paradigm for training large language models (LLMs), particularly for reasoning tasks. Effective RL for LLMs requires massive parallelization and poses an urgent need for efficient training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wei Fu , Jiaxuan Gao , Xujie Shen , Chen Zhu , Zhiyu Mei , Chuyi He , Shusheng Xu , Guo Wei , Jun Mei , Jiashu Wang , Tongkai Yang , Binhang Yuan , Yi Wu

We propose a framework for distributed robust statistical learning on {\em big contaminated data}. The Distributed Robust Learning (DRL) framework can reduce the computational time of traditional robust learning methods by several orders of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-10 Jiashi Feng , Huan Xu , Shie Mannor

Coflow is a recently proposed networking abstraction to help improve the communication performance of data-parallel computing jobs. In multi-stage jobs, each job consists of multiple coflows and is represented by a Directed Acyclic Graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Xin Wang , Hong Shen

As large language models (LLMs) continue to scale and new GPUs are released even more frequently, there is an increasing demand for LLM post-training in heterogeneous environments to fully leverage underutilized mid-range or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yongjun He , Shuai Zhang , Jiading Gai , Xiyuan Zhang , Boran Han , Bernie Wang , Huzefa Rangwala , George Karypis

Post-training has become central to turning pretrained large language models (LLMs) into aligned, capable, and deployable systems. Recent progress spans supervised fine-tuning (SFT), preference optimization, reinforcement learning (RL),…

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Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a pivotal component of large language model (LLM) post-training, and agentic RL extends this paradigm to operate as agents through multi-turn interaction and tool use. Scaling such systems exposes two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zheyue Tan , Mustapha Abdullahi , Tuo Shi , Huining Yuan , Zelai Xu , Chao Yu , Boxun Li , Bo Zhao

Efficient LLM serving must balance throughput and latency across diverse, bursty workloads. We introduce StreamServe, a disaggregated prefill decode serving architecture that combines metric aware routing across compute lanes with adaptive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Satyam Kumar , Arpit Singh Gautam , Kailash Talreja , Saurabh Jha

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a pivotal post-training technique for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, synchronous RL post-training often suffers from significant GPU underutilization, referred…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Wei Gao , Yuheng Zhao , Dakai An , Tianyuan Wu , Lunxi Cao , Shaopan Xiong , Ju Huang , Weixun Wang , Siran Yang , Wenbo Su , Jiamang Wang , Lin Qu , Bo Zheng , Wei Wang

Applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) to sequence generation models enables the direct optimization of long-term rewards (\textit{e.g.,} BLEU and human feedback), but typically requires large-scale sampling over a space of action sequences.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Chenglong Wang , Hang Zhou , Yimin Hu , Yifu Huo , Bei Li , Tongran Liu , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

As large language model (LLM) agents evolve from isolated tool users into coordinated teams, reinforcement learning (RL) must optimize not only individual actions but also how work is spawned, delegated, communicated, aggregated, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chenchen Zhang

Natural intelligence processes experience as a continuous stream, sensing, acting, and learning moment-by-moment in real time. Streaming learning, the modus operandi of classic reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms like Q-learning and TD,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Mohamed Elsayed , Gautham Vasan , A. Rupam Mahmood

Training Large Reasoning Model (LRM) is usually unstable and unpredictable, especially on hard problems or weak foundation models. We found that the current post-training scaling strategy can still improve on these cases. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yutong Chen , Jiandong Gao , Ji Wu

Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL)-based post-training have led to notable improvements in large language models (LLMs), particularly in enhancing their reasoning capabilities to handle complex tasks. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhenting Wang , Guofeng Cui , Yu-Jhe Li , Kun Wan , Wentian Zhao

Stream reasoning systems are designed for complex decision-making from possibly infinite, dynamic streams of data. Modern approaches to stream reasoning are usually performing their computations using stand-alone solvers, which…

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