English
Related papers

Related papers: Mosaic: Towards Efficient Training of Multimodal M…

200 papers

Is there a way for a designer to evaluate the performance of a given hood frame geometry without spending significant time on simulation setup? This paper seeks to address this challenge by developing a multimodal machine-learning (MMML)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Abhishek Indupally , Satchit Ramnath

Scheduling problems pose significant challenges in resource, industry, and operational management. This paper addresses the Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem (UPMS) with setup times and resources using a Multi-Agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Maria Zampella , Urtzi Otamendi , Xabier Belaunzaran , Arkaitz Artetxe , Igor G. Olaizola , Giuseppe Longo , Basilio Sierra

We propose a generic algorithmic building block to accelerate training of machine learning models on heterogeneous compute systems. Our scheme allows to efficiently employ compute accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs for the training of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Celestine Dünner , Thomas Parnell , Martin Jaggi

As machine learning techniques are applied to a widening range of applications, high throughput machine learning (ML) inference servers have become critical for online service applications. Such ML inference servers pose two challenges:…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Seungbeom Choi , Sunho Lee , Yeonjae Kim , Jongse Park , Youngjin Kwon , Jaehyuk Huh

Training transformer models requires substantial GPU compute and memory resources. In homogeneous clusters, distributed strategies allocate resources evenly, but this approach is inefficient for heterogeneous clusters, where GPUs differ in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Runsheng Benson Guo , Utkarsh Anand , Arthur Chen , Khuzaima Daudjee

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have recently shown strong potential in domains such as automated coding, deep research, and graphical user interface manipulation. However, training them to succeed on long-horizon, domain-specialized…

Reinforcement learning is time-consuming for complex tasks due to the need for large amounts of training data. Recent advances in GPU-based simulation, such as Isaac Gym, have sped up data collection thousands of times on a commodity GPU.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zechu Li , Tao Chen , Zhang-Wei Hong , Anurag Ajay , Pulkit Agrawal

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is a powerful tool to learn Pareto-optimal policy families across conflicting objectives. However, unlike traditional RL algorithms, existing MORL algorithms do not effectively leverage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Neil Janwani , Ellen Novoseller , Vernon J. Lawhern , Maegan Tucker

Serving deep neural networks in latency critical interactive settings often requires GPU acceleration. However, the small batch sizes typical in online inference results in poor GPU utilization, a potential performance gap which GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Paras Jain , Xiangxi Mo , Ajay Jain , Harikaran Subbaraj , Rehan Sohail Durrani , Alexey Tumanov , Joseph Gonzalez , Ion Stoica

Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoC) can deliver high performance needed in many industrial domains, including aerospace. However, their high power consumption, combined with avionics safety standards, brings new thermal management…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ondřej Benedikt , Michal Sojka , Přemysl Šůcha , Pavel Zaykov , Zdeněk Hanzálek

Executing multiple applications on a single MPSoC brings the major challenge of satisfying multiple quality requirements regarding real-time, energy, etc. Hybrid application mapping denotes the combination of design-time analysis with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Andreas Weichslgartner , Stefan Wildermann , Deepak Gangadharan , Michael Glaß , Jürgen Teich

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable advances by integrating text, image, and audio understanding within a unified architecture. However, existing distributed training frameworks remain fundamentally data-blind:…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hyeonjun An , Sihyun Kim , Chaerim Lim , Hyunjoon Kim , Rathijit Sen , Sangmin Jung , Hyeonsoo Lee , Dongwook Kim , Takki Yu , Jinkyu Jeong , Youngsok Kim , Kwanghyun Park

Modern deployment of large language models (LLMs) frequently involves both inference serving and continuous retraining to stay aligned with evolving data and user feedback. Common practices separate these workloads onto distinct servers in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yufei Li , Zexin Li , Yinglun Zhu , Cong Liu

Efficiently training large language models requires parallelizing across hundreds of hardware accelerators and invoking various compute and memory optimizations. When combined, many of these strategies have complex interactions regarding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Johannes Hagemann , Samuel Weinbach , Konstantin Dobler , Maximilian Schall , Gerard de Melo

Despite the rapid integration of video perception capabilities into Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), the underlying mechanisms driving their video understanding remain poorly understood. Consequently, many design decisions in this domain are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Orr Zohar , Xiaohan Wang , Yann Dubois , Nikhil Mehta , Tong Xiao , Philippe Hansen-Estruch , Licheng Yu , Xiaofang Wang , Felix Juefei-Xu , Ning Zhang , Serena Yeung-Levy , Xide Xia

Large-scale computing systems are increasingly using accelerators such as GPUs to enable peta- and exa-scale levels of compute to meet the needs of Machine Learning (ML) and scientific computing applications. Given the widespread and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Rutwik Jain , Brandon Tran , Keting Chen , Matthew D. Sinclair , Shivaram Venkataraman

Multi-agent reinforcement learning for incomplete information environments has attracted extensive attention from researchers. However, due to the slow sample collection and poor sample exploration, there are still some problems in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Shuhan Qi , Shuhao Zhang , Xiaohan Hou , Jiajia Zhang , Xuan Wang , Jing Xiao

The scaling up of deep neural networks has been demonstrated to be effective in improving model quality, but also encompasses several training challenges in terms of training efficiency, programmability, and resource adaptability. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xianyan Jia , Le Jiang , Ang Wang , Wencong Xiao , Ziji Shi , Jie Zhang , Xinyuan Li , Langshi Chen , Yong Li , Zhen Zheng , Xiaoyong Liu , Wei Lin

As large language models (LLMs) continue to scale and new GPUs are released even more frequently, there is an increasing demand for LLM post-training in heterogeneous environments to fully leverage underutilized mid-range or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yongjun He , Shuai Zhang , Jiading Gai , Xiyuan Zhang , Boran Han , Bernie Wang , Huzefa Rangwala , George Karypis

Large language models have led to state-of-the-art accuracies across a range of tasks. However, training these models efficiently is challenging for two reasons: a) GPU memory capacity is limited, making it impossible to fit large models on…