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Current large scale implementations of deep learning and data mining require thousands of processors, massive amounts of off-chip memory, and consume gigajoules of energy. Emerging memory technologies such as nanoscale two-terminal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 S. Burc Eryilmaz , Emre Neftci , Siddharth Joshi , SangBum Kim , Matthew BrightSky , Hsiang-Lan Lung , Chung Lam , Gert Cauwenberghs , H. -S. Philip Wong

Scaling CNN training is necessary to keep up with growing datasets and reduce training time. We also see an emerging need to handle datasets with very large samples, where memory requirements for training are large. Existing training…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Nikoli Dryden , Naoya Maruyama , Tom Benson , Tim Moon , Marc Snir , Brian Van Essen

It is a challenging task to train large DNN models on sophisticated GPU platforms with diversified interconnect capabilities. Recently, pipelined training has been proposed as an effective approach for improving device utilization. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Shiqing Fan , Yi Rong , Chen Meng , Zongyan Cao , Siyu Wang , Zhen Zheng , Chuan Wu , Guoping Long , Jun Yang , Lixue Xia , Lansong Diao , Xiaoyong Liu , Wei Lin

Hybrid parallelism underpins large-scale LLM training across tens of thousands of GPUs. At such scale, hardware failures on individual devices lead to performance skew across devices, diminishing overall training efficiency. Existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tenghui Ma , Jihu Guo , Wei Gao , Sitian Lu , Zhisheng Ye , Hanjing Wang , Dahua Lin

Pipeline parallelism (PP) has become a standard technique for scaling large language model (LLM) training across multiple devices. However, despite recent progress in reducing memory consumption through activation offloading, existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Hongpei Li , Han Zhang , Huikang Liu , Dongdong Ge , Yinyu Ye

Pipeline parallelism is widely used to train large language models (LLMs). However, increasing heterogeneity in model architectures exacerbates pipeline bubbles, thereby reducing training efficiency. Existing approaches overlook the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jihu Guo , Tenghui Ma , Wei Gao , Peng Sun , Jiaxing Li , Xun Chen , Yuyang Jin , Dahua Lin

The advent of the Transformer architecture has propelled the growth of natural language processing (NLP) models, leading to remarkable achievements in numerous NLP tasks. Yet, the absence of specialized hardware like expansive GPU memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xiaofeng Wu , Jia Rao , Wei Chen

Pipeline parallelism has been widely explored, but most existing schedules lack a systematic methodology. In this paper, we propose a framework to decompose pipeline schedules as repeating a building block, and show that the lifespan of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Penghui Qi , Xinyi Wan , Nyamdavaa Amar , Min Lin

Pipeline parallelism is essential for large-scale model training, but existing asynchronous approaches often degrade convergence due to parameter mismatch between forward and backward passes. We propose Asynchronous Multi-Directional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ling Chen , Houming Wu , Wenjie Yu

The use of FPGAs for efficient graph processing has attracted significant interest. Recent memory subsystem upgrades including the introduction of HBM in FPGAs promise to further alleviate memory bottlenecks. However, modern multi-channel…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Xinyu Chen , Yao Chen , Feng Cheng , Hongshi Tan , Bingsheng He , Weng-Fai Wong

We present a novel multiscale super-resolution framework (SRLBM) that applies deep learning directly to the mesoscopic density distribution functions of the lattice Boltzmann method for high-fidelity flow reconstruction. Two neural network…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-19 Gengchao Yang , Renyu Luo , Qinghe Yao , Peiji Wang , Jinxiu Zhang

Pipeline parallelism is widely used to scale the training of transformer-based large language models, various works have been done to improve its throughput and memory footprint. In this paper, we address a frequently overlooked issue: the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Man Tsung Yeung , Penghui Qi , Min Lin , Xinyi Wan

With the increasing scale of models, the need for efficient distributed training has become increasingly urgent. Recently, many synchronous pipeline parallelism approaches have been proposed to improve training throughput. However, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Houming Wu , Ling Chen , Wenjie Yu

One of the most computationally intensive parts in modern recognition systems is an inference of deep neural networks that are used for image classification, segmentation, enhancement, and recognition. The growing popularity of edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Elena Limonova , Daniil Alfonso , Dmitry Nikolaev , Vladimir V. Arlazarov

Model parallelism has become a necessity for training modern large-scale deep language models. In this work, we identify a new and orthogonal dimension from existing model parallel approaches: it is possible to perform pipeline parallelism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Zhuohan Li , Siyuan Zhuang , Shiyuan Guo , Danyang Zhuo , Hao Zhang , Dawn Song , Ion Stoica

This paper investigates a novel lossy compression framework operating under logarithmic loss, designed to handle situations where the reconstruction distribution diverges from the source distribution. This framework is especially relevant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 M. Reza Ebrahimi , Jun Chen , Ashish Khisti

A restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is a two-layer neural network with shared weights and has been extensively studied for dimensionality reduction, data representation and recommendation systems in the literature. The traditional RBM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jiangsheng You , Chun-Yen Liu

Gradient-based methods for the distributed training of residual networks (ResNets) typically require a forward pass of the input data, followed by back-propagating the error gradient to update model parameters, which becomes time-consuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Qi Sun , Hexin Dong , Zewei Chen , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Bin Dong

Catastrophic Forgetting (CF) is a prominent issue in continual learning. Parameter isolation addresses this challenge by masking a sub-network for each task to mitigate interference with old tasks. However, these sub-networks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Cheng Chen , Jingkuan Song , LianLi Gao , Heng Tao Shen

In-memory computing is an emerging computing paradigm that could enable deeplearning inference at significantly higher energy efficiency and reduced latency. The essential idea is to map the synaptic weights corresponding to each layer to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Martino Dazzi , Abu Sebastian , Pier Andrea Francese , Thomas Parnell , Luca Benini , Evangelos Eleftheriou