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most citedHigh-Performance Distributed ML at Scale through Parameter Server Consistency Models

71 citations · 251 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.DC2021★ 19 cited

Dorylus: Affordable, Scalable, and Accurate GNN Training with Distributed CPU Servers and Serverless Threads

John Thorpe, Yifan Qiao, Jonathan Eyolfson +8

A graph neural network (GNN) enables deep learning on structured graph data. There are two major GNN training obstacles: 1) it relies on high-end servers with many GPUs which are e…

cs.DC2019★ 42 cited

Priority-based Parameter Propagation for Distributed DNN Training

Anand Jayarajan, Jinliang Wei, Garth Gibson +2

Data parallel training is widely used for scaling distributed deep neural network (DNN) training. However, the performance benefits are often limited by the communication-heavy par…

cs.LG2017★ 48 cited

Poseidon: An Efficient Communication Architecture for Distributed Deep Learning on GPU Clusters

Hao Zhang, Zeyu Zheng, Shizhen Xu +7

Deep learning models can take weeks to train on a single GPU-equipped machine, necessitating scaling out DL training to a GPU-cluster. However, current distributed DL implementatio…

cs.LG2015★ 42 cited

Poseidon: A System Architecture for Efficient GPU-based Deep Learning on Multiple Machines

Hao Zhang, Zhiting Hu, Jinliang Wei +4

Deep learning (DL) has achieved notable successes in many machine learning tasks. A number of frameworks have been developed to expedite the process of designing and training deep…

stat.ML2014★ 15 cited

LightLDA: Big Topic Models on Modest Compute Clusters

Jinhui Yuan, Fei Gao, Qirong Ho +6

When building large-scale machine learning (ML) programs, such as big topic models or deep neural nets, one usually assumes such tasks can only be attempted with industrial-sized c…

cs.LG2014★ 71 cited

High-Performance Distributed ML at Scale through Parameter Server Consistency Models

Wei Dai, Abhimanu Kumar, Jinliang Wei +3

As Machine Learning (ML) applications increase in data size and model complexity, practitioners turn to distributed clusters to satisfy the increased computational and memory deman…

stat.ML2013★ 5 cited

Consistent Bounded-Asynchronous Parameter Servers for Distributed ML

Jinliang Wei, Wei Dai, Abhimanu Kumar +3

In distributed ML applications, shared parameters are usually replicated among computing nodes to minimize network overhead. Therefore, proper consistency model must be carefully c…

stat.ML2013★ 9 cited

Petuum: A New Platform for Distributed Machine Learning on Big Data

Eric P. Xing, Qirong Ho, Wei Dai +7

What is a systematic way to efficiently apply a wide spectrum of advanced ML programs to industrial scale problems, using Big Models (up to 100s of billions of parameters) on Big D…