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20202026
most citedDeepRecSys: A System for Optimizing End-To-End At-scale Neural Recommendation Inference

38 citations · 43 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.DC2026

WeightBridge: An Efficient Weight Transfer Library for Reinforcement Learning

Xuanlin Jiang, Samuel Hsia, Michael Kuchnik +3

Weight transfer - the propagation of updated parameters from trainers to rollout generators - is becoming an important performance bottleneck in reinforcement learning (RL) systems…

cs.DC2026

ScaleAcross Explorer: Exploring Communication Optimization for Scale-Across AI Model Training

Minghao Li, Alicia Golden, Samuel Hsia +14

The rapid scaling of large language model training requires distributing GPU resources across multiple data center buildings and regions. We refer to such paradigm as "scale-across…

cs.LG2025

KernelEvolve: Scaling Agentic Kernel Coding for Heterogeneous AI Accelerators at Meta

Gang Liao, Hongsen Qin, Ying Wang +36

Making deep learning recommendation model (DLRM) training and inference fast and efficient is important. However, this presents three key system challenges - model architecture div…

cs.DC2025

PRISM: Probabilistic Runtime Insights and Scalable Performance Modeling for Large-Scale Distributed Training

Alicia Golden, Michael Kuchnik, Samuel Hsia +4

Large model training beyond tens of thousands of GPUs is an uncharted territory. At such scales, disruptions to the training process are not a matter of if, but a matter of when --…

cs.LG2025

CATransformers: Carbon Aware Transformers Through Joint Model-Hardware Optimization

Irene Wang, Newsha Ardalani, Mostafa Elhoushi +6

Machine learning solutions are rapidly adopted to enable a variety of key use cases, from conversational AI assistants to scientific discovery. This growing adoption is expected to…

cs.LG2024

Is Flash Attention Stable?

Alicia Golden, Samuel Hsia, Fei Sun +8

Training large-scale machine learning models poses distinct system challenges, given both the size and complexity of today's workloads. Recently, many organizations training state-…

cs.DC2023★ 1 cited

Generative AI Beyond LLMs: System Implications of Multi-Modal Generation

Alicia Golden, Samuel Hsia, Fei Sun +8

As the development of large-scale Generative AI models evolve beyond text (1D) generation to include image (2D) and video (3D) generation, processing spatial and temporal informati…

cs.DC2023

MAD Max Beyond Single-Node: Enabling Large Machine Learning Model Acceleration on Distributed Systems

Samuel Hsia, Alicia Golden, Bilge Acun +5

Training and deploying large-scale machine learning models is time-consuming, requires significant distributed computing infrastructures, and incurs high operational costs. Our ana…

cs.AR2023

MP-Rec: Hardware-Software Co-Design to Enable Multi-Path Recommendation

Samuel Hsia, Udit Gupta, Bilge Acun +5

Deep learning recommendation systems serve personalized content under diverse tail-latency targets and input-query loads. In order to do so, state-of-the-art recommendation models…

cs.AR2021

RecPipe: Co-designing Models and Hardware to Jointly Optimize Recommendation Quality and Performance

Udit Gupta, Samuel Hsia, Jeff Zhang +6

Deep learning recommendation systems must provide high quality, personalized content under strict tail-latency targets and high system loads. This paper presents RecPipe, a system…

cs.AR2021★ 4 cited

RecSSD: Near Data Processing for Solid State Drive Based Recommendation Inference

Mark Wilkening, Udit Gupta, Samuel Hsia +4

Neural personalized recommendation models are used across a wide variety of datacenter applications including search, social media, and entertainment. State-of-the-art models compr…

cs.AR2020

Cross-Stack Workload Characterization of Deep Recommendation Systems

Samuel Hsia, Udit Gupta, Mark Wilkening +3

Deep learning based recommendation systems form the backbone of most personalized cloud services. Though the computer architecture community has recently started to take notice of…

cs.DC2020★ 38 cited

DeepRecSys: A System for Optimizing End-To-End At-scale Neural Recommendation Inference

Udit Gupta, Samuel Hsia, Vikram Saraph +6

Neural personalized recommendation is the corner-stone of a wide collection of cloud services and products, constituting significant compute demand of the cloud infrastructure. Thu…