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20152021
most citedStaleness-aware Async-SGD for Distributed Deep Learning

188 citations · 288 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Multi-Domain Transformer-Based Counterfactual Augmentation for Earnings Call Analysis

Zixuan Yuan, Yada Zhu, Wei Zhang +3

Earnings call (EC), as a periodic teleconference of a publicly-traded company, has been extensively studied as an essential market indicator because of its high analytical value in…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Loss Landscape Dependent Self-Adjusting Learning Rates in Decentralized Stochastic Gradient Descent

Wei Zhang, Mingrui Liu, Yu Feng +3

Distributed Deep Learning (DDL) is essential for large-scale Deep Learning (DL) training. Synchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent (SSGD) 1 is the de facto DDL optimization method.…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Asynchronous Decentralized Distributed Training of Acoustic Models

Xiaodong Cui, Wei Zhang, Abdullah Kayi +5

Large-scale distributed training of deep acoustic models plays an important role in today's high-performance automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper we investigate a vari…

cs.CL2021

4-bit Quantization of LSTM-based Speech Recognition Models

Andrea Fasoli, Chia-Yu Chen, Mauricio Serrano +9

We investigate the impact of aggressive low-precision representations of weights and activations in two families of large LSTM-based architectures for Automatic Speech Recognition…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

On Sample Based Explanation Methods for NLP:Efficiency, Faithfulness, and Semantic Evaluation

Wei Zhang, Ziming Huang, Yada Zhu +3

In the recent advances of natural language processing, the scale of the state-of-the-art models and datasets is usually extensive, which challenges the application of sample-based…

cs.LG2021★ 13 cited

ScaleCom: Scalable Sparsified Gradient Compression for Communication-Efficient Distributed Training

Chia-Yu Chen, Jiamin Ni, Songtao Lu +8

Large-scale distributed training of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on state-of-the-art platforms is expected to be severely communication constrained. To overcome this limitation, num…