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most citedSparsity in Deep Learning: Pruning and growth for efficient inference and training in neural networks

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cs.LG2025

Polar Sparsity: High Throughput Batched LLM Inferencing with Scalable Contextual Sparsity

Susav Shrestha, Brad Settlemyer, Nikoli Dryden +1

Accelerating large language model (LLM) inference is critical for real-world deployments requiring high throughput and low latency. Contextual sparsity, where each token dynamicall…

cs.LG2024

Lion Cub: Minimizing Communication Overhead in Distributed Lion

Satoki Ishikawa, Tal Ben-Nun, Brian Van Essen +2

Communication overhead is a key challenge in distributed deep learning, especially on slower Ethernet interconnects, and given current hardware trends, communication is likely to b…

cs.LG2023

Cached Operator Reordering: A Unified View for Fast GNN Training

Julia Bazinska, Andrei Ivanov, Tal Ben-Nun +4

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a powerful tool for handling structured graph data and addressing tasks such as node classification, graph classification, and clustering. However,…

cs.LG2023

STen: Productive and Efficient Sparsity in PyTorch

Andrei Ivanov, Nikoli Dryden, Tal Ben-Nun +2

As deep learning models grow, sparsity is becoming an increasingly critical component of deep neural networks, enabling improved performance and reduced storage. However, existing…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

Spatial Mixture-of-Experts

Nikoli Dryden, Torsten Hoefler

Many data have an underlying dependence on spatial location; it may be weather on the Earth, a simulation on a mesh, or a registered image. Yet this feature is rarely taken advanta…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Neural Graph Databases

Maciej Besta, Patrick Iff, Florian Scheidl +5

Graph databases (GDBs) enable processing and analysis of unstructured, complex, rich, and usually vast graph datasets. Despite the large significance of GDBs in both academia and i…

cs.LG2022★ 8 cited

ENS-10: A Dataset For Post-Processing Ensemble Weather Forecasts

Saleh Ashkboos, Langwen Huang, Nikoli Dryden +5

Post-processing ensemble prediction systems can improve the reliability of weather forecasting, especially for extreme event prediction. In recent years, different machine learning…

cs.LG2021

A Data-Centric Optimization Framework for Machine Learning

Oliver Rausch, Tal Ben-Nun, Nikoli Dryden +3

Rapid progress in deep learning is leading to a diverse set of quickly changing models, with a dramatically growing demand for compute. However, as frameworks specialize performanc…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Learning Combinatorial Node Labeling Algorithms

Lukas Gianinazzi, Maximilian Fries, Nikoli Dryden +3

We present a novel neural architecture to solve graph optimization problems where the solution consists of arbitrary node labels, allowing us to solve hard problems like graph colo…

cs.LG2021★ 341 cited

Sparsity in Deep Learning: Pruning and growth for efficient inference and training in neural networks

Torsten Hoefler, Dan Alistarh, Tal Ben-Nun +2

The growing energy and performance costs of deep learning have driven the community to reduce the size of neural networks by selectively pruning components. Similarly to their biol…

cs.LG2020★ 24 cited

Data Movement Is All You Need: A Case Study on Optimizing Transformers

Andrei Ivanov, Nikoli Dryden, Tal Ben-Nun +2

Transformers are one of the most important machine learning workloads today. Training one is a very compute-intensive task, often taking days or weeks, and significant attention ha…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Neural Parameter Allocation Search

Bryan A. Plummer, Nikoli Dryden, Julius Frost +2

Training neural networks requires increasing amounts of memory. Parameter sharing can reduce memory and communication costs, but existing methods assume networks have many identica…

cs.LG2020★ 203 cited

Deep Learning for Post-Processing Ensemble Weather Forecasts

Peter Grönquist, Chengyuan Yao, Tal Ben-Nun +4

Quantifying uncertainty in weather forecasts is critical, especially for predicting extreme weather events. This is typically accomplished with ensemble prediction systems, which c…

cs.LG2019★ 6 cited

Predicting Weather Uncertainty with Deep Convnets

Peter Grönquist, Tal Ben-Nun, Nikoli Dryden +4

Modern weather forecast models perform uncertainty quantification using ensemble prediction systems, which collect nonparametric statistics based on multiple perturbed simulations.…