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Code Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing software engineering. However, scaling laws that guide the efficient training are predominantly analyzed on Natural Language (NL). Given the fundamental differences like strict syntax…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) consistently benefit from scaled Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning, but also suffer from heavy computational overhead. To address this issue, efficient reasoning aims to incentivize short yet accurate thinking…

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In recent years, the state-of-the-art in deep learning has been dominated by very large models that have been pre-trained on vast amounts of data. The paradigm is very simple: investing more computational resources (optimally) leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Sotiris Anagnostidis , Gregor Bachmann , Imanol Schlag , Thomas Hofmann

An out-of-core stencil computation code handles large data whose size is beyond the capacity of GPU memory. Whereas, such an code requires streaming data to and from the GPU frequently. As a result, data movement between the CPU and GPU…

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We show how Zipf's Law can be used to scale up language modeling (LM) to take advantage of more training data and more GPUs. LM plays a key role in many important natural language applications such as speech recognition and machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Mostofa Patwary , Milind Chabbi , Heewoo Jun , Jiaji Huang , Gregory Diamos , Kenneth Church

Modern machine learning models are typically trained using Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) on massively parallel computing resources such as GPUs. Increasing mini-batch size is a simple and direct way to utilize the parallel computing…

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Dramatic increases in the capabilities of neural network models in recent years are driven by scaling model size, training data, and corresponding computational resources. To develop the exceedingly large networks required in modern…

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Applications that exploit the architectural details of high-performance computing (HPC) systems have become increasingly invaluable in academia and industry over the past two decades. The most important hardware development of the last…

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Since compute grows much faster than web text available for language model pre-training, we ask how one should approach pre-training under fixed data and no compute constraints. We first show that existing data-constrained approaches of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Konwoo Kim , Suhas Kotha , Percy Liang , Tatsunori Hashimoto

The explosion in Machine Learning (ML) over the past ten years has led to a dramatic increase in demand for GPUs to train ML models. Because it is prohibitively expensive for most users to build and maintain a large GPU cluster, large cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Zhouzi Li , Benjamin Berg , Arpan Mukhopadhyay , Mor Harchol-Balter

Recent advances in mathematical reasoning typically rely on massive scale, yet the question remains: can strong reasoning capabilities be induced in small language models ($\leq1.5\text{B}$) under extreme constraints? We investigate this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zohaib Khan , Omer Tafveez , Zoha Hayat Bhatti

Due to their highly parallel multi-cores architecture, GPUs are being increasingly used in a wide range of computationally intensive applications. Compared to CPUs, GPUs can achieve higher performances at accelerating the programs'…

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Training and deploying large-scale machine learning models is time-consuming, requires significant distributed computing infrastructures, and incurs high operational costs. Our analysis, grounded in real-world large model training on…

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In the recent years it can be observed increasing popularity of parallel processing using multi-core processors, local clusters, GPU and others. Moreover, currently one of the main requirements the IT users is the reduction of maintaining…

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In the last three years, the largest dense deep learning models have grown over 1000x to reach hundreds of billions of parameters, while the GPU memory has only grown by 5x (16 GB to 80 GB). Therefore, the growth in model scale has been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Samyam Rajbhandari , Olatunji Ruwase , Jeff Rasley , Shaden Smith , Yuxiong He

The number of cores on graphical computing units (GPUs) is reaching thousands nowadays, whereas the clock speed of processors stagnates. Unfortunately, constraint programming solvers do not take advantage yet of GPU parallelism. One reason…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pierre Talbot , Frédéric Pinel , Pascal Bouvry

Large language model (LLM) scaling laws are empirical formulas that estimate changes in model quality as a result of increasing parameter count and training data. However, these formulas, including the popular Deepmind Chinchilla scaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Nikhil Sardana , Jacob Portes , Sasha Doubov , Jonathan Frankle

Deep graph models (e.g., graph neural networks and graph transformers) have become important techniques for leveraging knowledge across various types of graphs. Yet, the neural scaling laws on graphs, i.e., how the performance of deep graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jingzhe Liu , Haitao Mao , Zhikai Chen , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang

We present distributed algorithms for training dynamic Graph Neural Networks (GNN) on large scale graphs spanning multi-node, multi-GPU systems. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first scaling study on dynamic GNN. We devise…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy , Shivmaran S. Pandian , Saurabh Raje , Yogish Sabharwal , Toyotaro Suzumura , Shashanka Ubaru

As emerging deep neural network (DNN) models continue to grow in size, using large GPU clusters to train DNNs is becoming an essential requirement to achieving acceptable training times. In this paper, we consider the case where future…

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