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Matrix computations are a fundamental building-block of edge computing systems, with a major recent uptick in demand due to their use in AI/ML training and inference procedures. Existing approaches for distributing matrix computations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

Neural networks have shown great potential in accelerating the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). Recently, there has been a growing interest in introducing physics constraints into training neural PDE solvers to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Xinquan Huang , Wenlei Shi , Qi Meng , Yue Wang , Xiaotian Gao , Jia Zhang , Tie-Yan Liu

This paper aims to mitigate straggler effects in synchronous distributed learning for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problems. Stragglers arise frequently in a distributed learning system, due to the existence of various system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Baoqian Wang , Junfei Xie , Nikolay Atanasov

The increasing complexity of deep learning recommendation models (DLRM) has led to a growing need for large-scale distributed systems that can efficiently train vast amounts of data. In DLRM, the sparse embedding table is a crucial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Xin Zhang , Quanyu Zhu , Liangbei Xu , Zain Huda , Wang Zhou , Jin Fang , Dennis van der Staay , Yuxi Hu , Jade Nie , Jiyan Yang , Chunzhi Yang

With the increasing demand for large-scale training of machine learning models, fully decentralized optimization methods have recently been advocated as alternatives to the popular parameter server framework. In this paradigm, each worker…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Guojun Xiong , Gang Yan , Shiqiang Wang , Jian Li

The growing demand for real-time DNN applications on edge devices necessitates faster inference of increasingly complex models. Although many devices include specialized accelerators (e.g., mobile GPUs), dynamic control-flow operators and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Chong Tang , Hao Dai , Jagmohan Chauhan

The employment of high-performance servers and GPU accelerators for training deep neural network models have greatly accelerated recent advances in deep learning (DL). DL frameworks, such as TensorFlow, MXNet, and Caffe2, have emerged to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Soojeong Kim , Gyeong-In Yu , Hojin Park , Sungwoo Cho , Eunji Jeong , Hyeonmin Ha , Sanha Lee , Joo Seong Jeong , Byung-Gon Chun

Deep learning has emerged as a powerful method for extracting valuable information from large volumes of data. However, when new training data arrives continuously (i.e., is not fully available from the beginning), incremental training…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Thomas Bouvier , Bogdan Nicolae , Hugo Chaugier , Alexandru Costan , Ian Foster , Gabriel Antoniu

Most commonly used distributed machine learning systems are either synchronous or centralized asynchronous. Synchronous algorithms like AllReduce-SGD perform poorly in a heterogeneous environment, while asynchronous algorithms using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Xiangru Lian , Wei Zhang , Ce Zhang , Ji Liu

As the size of models and datasets grows, it has become increasingly common to train models in parallel. However, existing distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithms suffer from insufficient utilization of computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Xin Zhou , Ling Chen , Houming Wu

Load imbalance pervasively exists in distributed deep learning training systems, either caused by the inherent imbalance in learned tasks or by the system itself. Traditional synchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) achieves good…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Shigang Li , Tal Ben-Nun , Salvatore Di Girolamo , Dan Alistarh , Torsten Hoefler

Perfect synchronization in distributed machine learning problems is inefficient and even impossible due to the existence of latency, package losses and stragglers. We propose a Robust Fully-Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Tracking method…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zehan Zhu , Ye Tian , Yan Huang , Jinming Xu , Shibo He

We address the problem of designing an LQR controller in a distributed setting, where M similar but not identical systems share their locally computed policy gradient (PG) estimates with a server that aggregates the estimates and computes a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Leonardo F. Toso , Han Wang , James Anderson

We consider the problem of training a least-squares regression model on a large dataset using gradient descent. The computation is carried out on a distributed system consisting of a master node and multiple worker nodes. Such distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Songze Li , Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan , Qian Yu , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , A. Salman Avestimehr

Edge computing has recently emerged as a promising paradigm to boost the performance of distributed learning by leveraging the distributed resources at edge nodes. Architecturally, the introduction of edge nodes adds an additional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Weiheng Tang , Jingyi Li , Lin Chen , Xu Chen

The primal-dual distributed optimization methods have broad large-scale machine learning applications. Previous primal-dual distributed methods are not applicable when the dual formulation is not available, e.g. the sum-of-non-convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems combine vector similarity search with large language models (LLMs) to deliver accurate, context-aware responses. However, co-locating the vector retriever and the LLM on shared GPU infrastructure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Junkyum Kim , Divya Mahajan

Scheduling deep learning (DL) models to train on powerful clusters with accelerators like GPUs and TPUs, presently falls short, either lacking fine-grained heterogeneity awareness or leaving resources substantially under-utilized. To fill…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Abeda Sultana , Nabin Pakka , Fei Xu , Xu Yuan , Li Chen , Nian-Feng Tzeng

Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) approach has been widely used in large-scale deep learning, and the gradient collective method is vital to ensure the training scalability of the distributed deep learning system. Collective…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Keshi Ge , Yongquan Fu , Zhiquan Lai , Xiaoge Deng , Dongsheng Li

Deploying a large language model (LLM) inference service remains costly because centralized serving depends on specialized GPU clusters and high-bandwidth interconnects in datacenters. An appealing alternative is to leverage collaborative…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Chris Tong , Youhe Jiang , Gufeng Chen , Tianyi Zhao , Sibian Lu , Wenjie Qu , Eric Yang , Lynn Ai , Binhang Yuan