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Persistent homology is a crucial invariant that is used in many areas to understand data. The $O(N^4)$ run time is a hindrance to its use on most large datasets. We give a parallelization method to utilize multi-core machines and clusters.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Michael G. Rawson

We consider the solvable neural scaling model with three parameters: data complexity, target complexity, and model-parameter-count. We use this neural scaling model to derive new predictions about the compute-limited, infinite-data scaling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-22 Elliot Paquette , Courtney Paquette , Lechao Xiao , Jeffrey Pennington

The expedient design of precision components in aerospace and other high-tech industries requires simulations of physical phenomena often described by partial differential equations (PDEs) without exact solutions. Modern design problems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Daniel J Magee , Kyle E Niemeyer

Deploying local large language models and vision-language models on edge devices requires balancing accuracy with constrained computational and energy budgets. Although graphics processors dominate modern artificial-intelligence deployment,…

Neural scaling laws describe how model performance improves as a power law with size, but existing work focuses on models above 100M parameters. The sub-20M regime -- where TinyML and edge AI operate -- remains unexamined. We train 90…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohammed Alnemari , Rizwan Qureshi , Nader Begrazadah

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) support dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) in order to balance computational performance and energy consumption. However, there still lacks simple and accurate performance estimation of a given GPU…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

While large neural networks demonstrate higher performance in various tasks, training large networks is difficult due to limitations on GPU memory size. We propose a novel out-of-core algorithm that enables faster training of extremely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Akio Hayakawa , Takuya Narihira

We model the performance of an ideal closed chain of L processing elements that work in parallel in an asynchronous manner. Their state updates follow a generic conservative algorithm. The conservative update rule determines the growth of a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kolakowska , M. A. Novotny , Per Arne Rikvold

We study the compute-optimal trade-off between model and training data set sizes for large neural networks. Our result suggests a linear relation similar to that supported by the empirical analysis of chinchilla. While that work studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hong Jun Jeon , Benjamin Van Roy

Modern LLMs scale at test-time, e.g. via repeated sampling, where inference cost grows with model size and the number of samples. This creates a trade-off that pretraining scaling laws, such as Chinchilla, do not address. We present…

Modern foundation models rely heavily on using scaling laws to guide crucial training decisions. Researchers often extrapolate the optimal architecture and hyper parameters settings from smaller training runs by describing the relationship…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Margaret Li , Sneha Kudugunta , Luke Zettlemoyer

Deep video recognition is more computationally expensive than image recognition, especially on large-scale datasets like Kinetics [1]. Therefore, training scalability is essential to handle a large amount of videos. In this paper, we study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Ji Lin , Chuang Gan , Song Han

We study empirical scaling laws for language model performance on the cross-entropy loss. The loss scales as a power-law with model size, dataset size, and the amount of compute used for training, with some trends spanning more than seven…

Recent advances in multi and many-core processors have led to significant improvements in the performance of scientific computing applications. However, the addition of a large number of complex cores have also increased the overall power…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Akash Dutta , Jee Choi , Ali Jannesari

The historic trend of Moore's Law, which predicted exponential growth in computational performance per dollar, has diverged for modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). While Floating Point Operations per Second (FLOPs) capabilities have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Ian McDougall , Noah Scott , Joon Huh , Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Karthikeyan Sankaralingam

A speed scaling problem is considered, where time is divided into slots, and jobs with payoff $v$ arrive at the beginning of the slot with associated deadlines $d$. Each job takes one slot to be processed, and multiple jobs can be processed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Goonwanth Reddy , Rahul Vaze

We are given a set of jobs, each one specified by its release date, its deadline and its processing volume (work), and a single (or a set of) speed-scalable processor(s). We adopt the standard model in speed-scaling in which if a processor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Evripidis Bampis , Giorgio Lucarelli , Ioannis Nemparis

Dynamic Voltage Scaling techniques allow the processor to set its speed dynamically in order to reduce energy consumption. In the continuous model, the processor can run at any speed, while in the discrete model, the processor can only run…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Minming Li , Frances F. Yao , Hao Yuan

Wall-clock-time is minimized for a solution to a linear-program with block-diagonal-structure, by decomposing the linear-program into as many small-sized subproblems as possible, each block resulting in a separate subproblem, when the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Deepak Ponvel Chermakani

Scaling up language models has been empirically shown to improve performance on a wide range of downstream tasks. However, if we were to observe worse performance as a function of scale ("inverse scaling") on certain tasks, this would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jason Wei , Najoung Kim , Yi Tay , Quoc V. Le