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As Machine Learning (ML) applications increase in data size and model complexity, practitioners turn to distributed clusters to satisfy the increased computational and memory demands. Unfortunately, effective use of clusters for ML requires…

To keep up with increasing dataset sizes and model complexity, distributed training has become a necessity for large machine learning tasks. Parameter servers ease the implementation of distributed parameter management---a key concern in…

Parameter servers (PSs) facilitate the implementation of distributed training for large machine learning tasks. In this paper, we argue that existing PSs are inefficient for tasks that exhibit non-uniform parameter access; their performance…

Many emerging AI applications request distributed machine learning (ML) among edge systems (e.g., IoT devices and PCs at the edge of the Internet), where data cannot be uploaded to a central venue for model training, due to their large…

Efficiently scaling deep neural networks across GPU clusters requires navigating complex trade-offs between computational throughput, memory utilization, and synchronization overhead. This paper presents a unified empirical evaluation of…

The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of current straggler mitigation techniques over different important iterative convergent machine learning(ML) algorithm including Matrix Factorization (MF), Multinomial Logistic…

In distributed ML applications, shared parameters are usually replicated among computing nodes to minimize network overhead. Therefore, proper consistency model must be carefully chosen to ensure algorithm's correctness and provide high…

Distributed Machine Learning refers to the practice of training a model on multiple computers or devices that can be called nodes. Additionally, serverless computing is a new paradigm for cloud computing that uses functions as a…

Recent years, many applications have been driven advances by the use of Machine Learning (ML). Nowadays, it is common to see industrial-strength machine learning jobs that involve millions of model parameters, terabytes of training data,…

Big data powered Deep Learning (DL) and its applications have blossomed in recent years, fueled by three technological trends: a large amount of digitized data openly accessible, a growing number of DL software frameworks in open source and…

Deep learning is a popular machine learning technique and has been applied to many real-world problems. However, training a deep neural network is very time-consuming, especially on big data. It has become difficult for a single machine to…

Distributed Stream Processing (DSP) focuses on the near real-time processing of large streams of unbounded data. To increase processing capacities, DSP systems are able to dynamically scale across a cluster of commodity nodes, ensuring a…

Motivated by extreme multi-label classification applications, we consider training deep learning models over sparse data in multi-GPU servers. The variance in the number of non-zero features across training batches and the intrinsic GPU…

Most work in the deep learning systems community has focused on faster inference, but arriving at a trained model requires lengthy experiments. Accelerating training lets developers iterate faster and come up with better models. DNN…

Distributed Machine Learning (DML) systems are utilized to enhance the speed of model training in data centers (DCs) and edge nodes. The Parameter Server (PS) communication architecture is commonly employed, but it faces severe long-tail…

The increased use of deep learning (DL) in academia, government and industry has, in turn, led to the popularity of on-premise and cloud-hosted deep learning platforms, whose goals are to enable organizations utilize expensive resources…

Existing Deep Learning frameworks exclusively use either Parameter Server(PS) approach or MPI parallelism. In this paper, we discuss the drawbacks of such approaches and propose a generic framework supporting both PS and MPI programming…

Model merging combines multiple homologous models into one model, achieving convincing generalization without the necessity of additional training. A key challenge in this problem is resolving parameter redundancies and conflicts across…

We study how to support elasticity, i.e., the ability to dynamically adjust the parallelism (number of GPUs), for deep neural network (DNN) training. Elasticity can benefit multi-tenant GPU cluster management in many ways, e.g., achieving…

Distributed machine learning (DML) over time-varying networks can be an enabler for emerging decentralized ML applications such as autonomous driving and drone fleeting. However, the commonly used weighted arithmetic mean model aggregation…