6 papers
Training Variable Long Sequences with Data-Centric Parallel
Geng Zhang, Xuanlei Zhao, Kai Wang +1
Training deep learning models on variable long sequences poses significant computational challenges. Existing methods force a difficult trade-off between efficiency and ease-of-use…
ElasticMM: Efficient Multimodal LLMs Serving with Elastic Multimodal Parallelism
Zedong Liu, Shenggan Cheng, Guangming Tan +2
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) extend LLMs to handle images, videos, and audio by incorporating feature extractors and projection modules. However, these additional compo…
StarTrail: Concentric Ring Sequence Parallelism for Efficient Near-Infinite-Context Transformer Model Training
Ziming Liu, Shaoyu Wang, Shenggan Cheng +5
Training Transformer models on long sequences in a distributed setting poses significant challenges in terms of efficiency and scalability. Current methods are either constrained b…
HelixPipe: Efficient Distributed Training of Long Sequence Transformers with Attention Parallel Pipeline Parallelism
Geng Zhang, Shenggan Cheng, Xuanlei Zhao +2
As transformer sequence lengths grow, existing pipeline parallelisms incur suboptimal performance due to the quadratic attention computation and the substantial memory overhead. To…
DSP: Dynamic Sequence Parallelism for Multi-Dimensional Transformers
Xuanlei Zhao, Shenggan Cheng, Chang Chen +4
Scaling multi-dimensional transformers to long sequences is indispensable across various domains. However, the challenges of large memory requirements and slow speeds of such seque…
CDIO: Cross-Domain Inference Optimization with Resource Preference Prediction for Edge-Cloud Collaboration
Zheming Yang, Wen Ji, Qi Guo +7
Currently, massive video tasks are processed by edge-cloud collaboration. However, the diversity of task requirements and the dynamics of resources pose great challenges to efficie…