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most citedMerak: An Efficient Distributed DNN Training Framework with Automated 3D Parallelism for Giant Foundation Models

67 citations · 82 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.DC2024

Pro-Prophet: A Systematic Load Balancing Method for Efficient Parallel Training of Large-scale MoE Models

Wei Wang, Zhiquan Lai, Shengwei Li +5

The size of deep learning models has been increasing to enhance model quality. The linear increase in training computation budget with model size means that training an extremely l…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Accurate and Efficient Fine-Tuning of Quantized Large Language Models Through Optimal Balance

Ao Shen, Qiang Wang, Zhiquan Lai +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across various domains. However, the enormous number of model parameters makes fine-tuning challenging, signif…

cs.DC2023★ 1 cited

Oases: Efficient Large-Scale Model Training on Commodity Servers via Overlapped and Automated Tensor Model Parallelism

Shengwei Li, Zhiquan Lai, Dongsheng Li +5

Deep learning is experiencing a rise in large-scale models. Training large-scale models is costly, prompting researchers to train large-scale models on commodity servers that more…

cs.LG2022★ 67 cited

Merak: An Efficient Distributed DNN Training Framework with Automated 3D Parallelism for Giant Foundation Models

Zhiquan Lai, Shengwei Li, Xudong Tang +5

Foundation models are becoming the dominant deep learning technologies. Pretraining a foundation model is always time-consumed due to the large scale of both the model parameter an…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

DELTA: Dynamically Optimizing GPU Memory beyond Tensor Recomputation

Yu Tang, Chenyu Wang, Yufan Zhang +5

The further development of deep neural networks is hampered by the limited GPU memory resource. Therefore, the optimization of GPU memory resources is highly demanded. Swapping and…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

EmbRace: Accelerating Sparse Communication for Distributed Training of NLP Neural Networks

Shengwei Li, Zhiquan Lai, Dongsheng Li +3

Distributed data-parallel training has been widely adopted for deep neural network (DNN) models. Although current deep learning (DL) frameworks scale well for dense models like ima…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Hierarchical Adaptive Pooling by Capturing High-order Dependency for Graph Representation Learning

Ning Liu, Songlei Jian, Dongsheng Li +3

Graph neural networks (GNN) have been proven to be mature enough for handling graph-structured data on node-level graph representation learning tasks. However, the graph pooling te…

cs.LG2020

P-ADMMiRNN: Training RNN with Stable Convergence via An Efficient and Paralleled ADMM Approach

Yu Tang, Zhigang Kan, Dequan Sun +4

It is hard to train Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with stable convergence and avoid gradient vanishing and exploding problems, as the weights in the recurrent unit are repeated fr…