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Distributed machine learning (DML) technology makes it possible to train large neural networks in a reasonable amount of time. Meanwhile, as the computing power grows much faster than network capacity, network communication has gradually…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xinchi Han , Weihao Jiang , Peirui Cao , Qinwei Yang , Yunzhuo Liu , Shuyao Qi , Shengkai Lin , Shizhen Zhao

Optical flow estimation is an essential step for many real-world computer vision tasks. Existing deep networks have achieved satisfactory results by mostly employing a pyramidal coarse-to-fine paradigm, where a key process is to adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Lingtong Kong , Xiaohang Yang , Jie Yang

In Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), Internet of Things (IoT) devices offload computationally-intensive tasks to edge nodes, where they are executed within containers, reducing the reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure. Frequent upgrades…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Jiong Lou , Weijia Jia

In large-scale distributed LLM training, communication between devices becomes the key performance bottleneck. Chiplet technology can integrate multiple dies into a package to scale-up node performance with higher bandwidth. Meanwhile,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Kangbo Bai , Zhantong Zhu , Yifan Ding , Tianyu Jia

In high dimensional regression, feature clustering by their effects on outcomes is often as important as feature selection. For that purpose, clustered Lasso and octagonal shrinkage and clustering algorithm for regression (OSCAR) are used…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-17 Atsumori Takahashi , Shunichi Nomura

We examine the problem of smoothed online optimization, where a decision maker must sequentially choose points in a normed vector space to minimize the sum of per-round, non-convex hitting costs and the costs of switching decisions between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Daan Rutten , Nico Christianson , Debankur Mukherjee , Adam Wierman

Artificial Intelligence (AI) demands large data flows within datacenters, heavily relying on multicasting data transfers. As AI models scale, the requirement for high-bandwidth and low-latency networking compounds. The common use of…

Optimal Power Flow (OPF) refers to a wide range of related optimization problems with the goal of operating power systems efficiently and securely. In the simplest setting, OPF determines how much power to generate in order to minimize…

This paper presents a cluster-based transform domain communication system (TDCS) to improve spectrum efficiency. Unlike the utilities of clusters in orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) systems, the cluster-based TDCS framework…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-12-18 Su Hu , Yong Liang Guan , Guoan Bi , Shaoqian Li

Reconfigurable data center networks (DCNs) enhance traditional architectures with optical circuit switches (OCSs), enabling dynamic reconfiguration of inter-pod links, i.e., the logical topology. Optimizing this topology is crucial for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yingming Mao , Qiaozhu Zhai , Ximeng Liu , Xinchi Han , Fafan li , Shizhen Zhao , Yuzhou Zhou , Zhen Yao , Xia Zhu

Existing disaggregated databases separate execution and storage layers, enabling independent and elastic scaling of resources. In most cases, this design makes transaction concurrency control (CC) a critical bottleneck, which demands…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Weixing Zhou , Yanfeng Zhang , Xinji Zhou , Zhiyou Wang , Zeshun Peng , Yang Ren , Sihao Li , Huanchen Zhang , Guoliang Li , Ge Yu

Increasingly large AI workloads are calling for hyper-scale infrastructure; however, traditional interconnection network architecture is neither scalable nor cost-effective enough. Tree-based topologies such as the \textit{Rail-optimized}…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yinxiao Feng , Tiancheng Chen , Yuchen Wei , Siyuan Shen , Shiju Wang , Wei Li , Kaisheng Ma , Torsten Hoefler

The Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect enables compute "pods" that pool memory across servers to reduce cost and improve efficiency. These pods also facilitate pairwise communication whose needs conflict with pooling. Importantly,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhong Zhong , Fiodar Kazhamiaka , Pantea Zardoshti , Shuwei Teng , Rodrigo Fonseca , Mark D. Hill , Daniel S. Berger

Motivated by an imperative to reduce the carbon emissions of cloud data centers, this paper studies the online carbon-aware resource scaling problem with unknown job lengths (OCSU) and applies it to carbon-aware resource scaling for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Roozbeh Bostandoost , Adam Lechowicz , Walid A. Hanafy , Noman Bashir , Prashant Shenoy , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

We propose a novel cost aggregation network, called Cost Aggregation Transformers (CATs), to find dense correspondences between semantically similar images with additional challenges posed by large intra-class appearance and geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Seokju Cho , Sunghwan Hong , Sangryul Jeon , Yunsung Lee , Kwanghoon Sohn , Seungryong Kim

In computer vision, object detection is one of most important tasks, which underpins a few instance-level recognition tasks and many downstream applications. Recently one-stage methods have gained much attention over two-stage approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen , Hao Chen , Tong He

Clustering is a promising approach for building hierarchies and simplifying the routing process in mobile ad-hoc network environments. The main objective of clustering is to identify suitable node representatives, i.e. cluster heads (CHs),…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Damianos Gavalas , Grammati Pantziou , Charalampos Konstantopoulos , Basilis Mamalis

More than 70% of cloud computing is paid for but sits idle. A large fraction of these idle compute are cheap CPUs with few cores that are not utilized during the less busy hours. This paper aims to enable those CPU cycles to train…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Minghao Yan , Nicholas Meisburger , Tharun Medini , Anshumali Shrivastava

The proliferation of multi-core and multiprocessor-based computer systems has led to explosive development of parallel applications and hence the need for efficient schedulers. In this paper, we study hierarchical scheduling for malleable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Yangjie Cao , Hongyang Sun , Depei Qian , Weiguo Wu

We design a low complexity decentralized learning algorithm to train a recently proposed large neural network in distributed processing nodes (workers). We assume the communication network between the workers is synchronized and can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Xinyue Liang , Alireza M. Javid , Mikael Skoglund , Saikat Chatterjee