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It has been reported that the communication cost for synchronizing gradients can be a bottleneck, which limits the scalability of distributed deep learning. Using low-precision gradients is a promising technique for reducing the bandwidth…

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While high-capacity AI models have advanced state-of-the-art performance, their practical deployment is often hindered by high inference costs, environmental impact, and a "one-size-fits-all" approach that ignores varying sample complexity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Turkoglu Mikael , Bary Tim , Thielens Vincent , Dausort Manon , Macq Benoît

Open optical networks have been considered to be important for cost-effectively building and operating the networks. Recently, the optical-circuit-switches (OCSes) have attracted industry and academia because of their cost efficiency and…

Low-latency message delivery is crucial for real-time systems. Data originating from a producer must be delivered to consumers, potentially distributed in clusters across metropolitan and continental boundaries. With the growing scale of…

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Rail-optimized network fabrics have become the de facto datacenter scale-out fabric for large-scale ML training. However, the use of high-radix electrical switches to provide all-to-all connectivity in rails imposes massive power, cost, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Eric Ding , Chuhan Ouyang , Rachee Singh

Cache-assisted ultra-dense mobile edge computing (MEC) networks are a promising solution for meeting the increasing demands of numerous Internet-of-Things mobile devices (IMDs). To address the complex interferences caused by small base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Tianqing Zhou , Bobo Wang , Dong Qin , Xuefang Nie , Nan Jiang , Chunguo Li

Rapid CMOS device size reduction resulted in billions of transistors on a chip have led to integration of many cores leading to many challenges such as increased power dissipation, thermal dissipation, occurrence of transient faults and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Shashikiran Venkatesha , Ranjani Parthasarathi

Several Network Operating Systems (NOS) have been proposed in the last few years for Software Defined Networks; however, a few of them are currently offering the resiliency, scalability and high availability required for production…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-27 M. Gerola , M. Santuari , E. Salvadori , S. Salsano , M. Campanella , P. L. Ventre , A. Al-Shabibi , W. Snow

Coflow is a prominent network abstraction for modeling communication patterns in data centers. Since coflow scheduling in large-scale data centers is $\mathcal{NP}$-hard, this paper investigates this problem within heterogeneous parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chi-Yeh Chen

In light of their capability to capture structural information while reducing computing complexity, anchor graph-based multi-view clustering (AGMC) methods have attracted considerable attention in large-scale clustering problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zhiyuan Xue , Ben Yang , Xuetao Zhang , Fei Wang , Zhiping Lin

XL-MIMO emerges as a promising technology to achieve unprecedented enhancements in spectral efficiency and spatial resolution, via orders-of-magnitude increase in the antenna array size. However, the practical issues of high hardware cost…

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The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) has raised increasing concern about targeted cyber attacks. Previous research primarily focused on static Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs), which employ offline training to safeguard IoT…

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We propose a new signaling scheme for on-chip optical-electrical-optical artificial neural networks that utilizes orthogonal delay-division multiplexing and pilot-tone based self-homodyne detection. This scheme offers a more efficient…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Andrea Zazzi , Arka Dipta Das , Lukas Hüssen , Renato Negra , Jeremy Witzens

On-chip communication infrastructure is a central component of modern systems-on-chip (SoCs), and it continues to gain importance as the number of cores, the heterogeneity of components, and the on-chip and off-chip bandwidth continue to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Andreas Kurth , Wolfgang Rönninger , Thomas Benz , Matheus Cavalcante , Fabian Schuiki , Florian Zaruba , Luca Benini

GPUs are widely used to accelerate many important classes of workloads today. However, we observe that several important emerging classes of workloads, including simulation engines for deep reinforcement learning and dynamic neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Sankeerth Durvasula , Adrian Zhao , Raymond Kiguru , Yushi Guan , Zhonghan Chen , Nandita Vijaykumar

We study how to reduce the reconfiguration time in hybrid optical-electrical Datacenter Networks (DCNs). With a layer of Optical Circuit Switches (OCSes), hybrid optical-electrical DCNs can reconfigure its logical topologies to better match…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Shuyuan Zhang , Shu Shan , Shizhen Zhao

Optical data center network architectures are becoming attractive because of their low energy consumption, large bandwidth, and low cabling complexity. In\cite{Xu1605:PODCA}, an AWGR-based passive optical data center architecture (PODCA) is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Chong Liu , Maotong Xu , Suresh Subramaniam

Hybrid switching - in which a high bandwidth circuit switch (optical or wireless) is used in conjunction with a low bandwidth packet switch - is a promising alternative to interconnect servers in today's large scale data-centers. Circuit…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan , Mohammad Alizadeh , Pramod Viswanath

Recent proposals in multicast overlay construction have demonstrated the importance of exploiting underlying network topology. However, these topology-aware proposals often rely on incremental and periodic refinements to improve the system…

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Foundation models have transformed language, vision, and time series data analysis, yet progress on dynamic predictions for physical systems remains limited. Given the complexity of physical constraints, two challenges stand out. $(i)$…

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