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most citedASTRA-sim2.0: Modeling Hierarchical Networks and Disaggregated Systems for Large-model Training at Scale

78 citations · 160 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.DC2026

NUNA: Characterizing and Mitigating Non-Uniform Network Access in Multi-Die GPU Scale-Up Systems

Conor James Green, William Won, Tuan Ta +1

Graphics processing unit (GPU) architectures are growing in size to meet the increasing compute and memory requirements. As GPU sizes increase, intra-socket wire transfer delay inc…

cs.DC2026

ASTRA-sim 3.0: Next-Level Distributed Machine Learning Simulations via High-Fidelity GPU and Infrastructure Modeling

William Won, Jinsun Yoo, Tuan Ta +16

Distributed machine learning (ML) is a key paradigm for today's large-scale artificial intelligence applications. As model inference arises as an important use case, faithful model…

cs.DC2026

PCCL: Process Group-Aware Scalable and Generic Collective Algorithm Synthesizer

William Won, Kartik Lakhotia, Madhu Kumar +2

Distributed machine learning has become increasingly important due to the massive scale of large-scale generative models. Both model parameters and data are distributed across many…

cs.LG2026

How Far Can Disaggregation Go? A Design-Space Exploration of Attention-FFN Disaggregation for Efficient MoE LLM Serving

Hanjiang Wu, Abhimanyu Rajeshkumar Bambhaniya, Sarbartha Banerjee +9

Modern large language model (LLM) inference has progressively disaggregated to keep pace with growing model sizes and tight TTFT and TPOT service-level objectives: from chunked-pre…

cs.DC2026

MLCommons Chakra: Advancing Performance Benchmarking and Co-design using Standardized Execution Traces

Srinivas Sridharan, Theodor-Adrian Badea, Andy Balogh +26

The fast pace of artificial intelligence~(AI) innovation demands an agile methodology for observation, reproduction and optimization of distributed machine learning~(ML) workload b…

cs.DC2025★ 1 cited

COSMIC: Enabling Full-Stack Co-Design and Optimization of Distributed Machine Learning Systems

Aditi Raju, Jared Ni, William Won +6

Large-scale machine learning models necessitate distributed systems, posing significant design challenges due to the large parameter space across distinct design stacks. Existing s…

cs.DC2024★ 1 cited

Towards a Standardized Representation for Deep Learning Collective Algorithms

Jinsun Yoo, William Won, Meghan Cowan +4

The explosion of machine learning model size has led to its execution on distributed clusters at a very large scale. Many works have tried to optimize the process of producing coll…

cs.AR2024

FRED: Flexible REduction-Distribution Interconnect and Communication Implementation for Wafer-Scale Distributed Training of DNN Models

Saeed Rashidi, William Won, Sudarshan Srinivasan +2

Distributed Deep Neural Network (DNN) training is a technique to reduce the training overhead by distributing the training tasks into multiple accelerators, according to a parallel…

cs.DC2023★ 34 cited

TACOS: Topology-Aware Collective Algorithm Synthesizer for Distributed Machine Learning

William Won, Midhilesh Elavazhagan, Sudarshan Srinivasan +2

The surge of artificial intelligence, particularly large language models, has driven the rapid development of large-scale machine learning clusters. Executing distributed models on…

cs.DC2023★ 78 cited

ASTRA-sim2.0: Modeling Hierarchical Networks and Disaggregated Systems for Large-model Training at Scale

William Won, Taekyung Heo, Saeed Rashidi +3

As deep learning models and input data are scaling at an unprecedented rate, it is inevitable to move towards distributed training platforms to fit the model and increase training…

cs.DC2021★ 40 cited

Themis: A Network Bandwidth-Aware Collective Scheduling Policy for Distributed Training of DL Models

Saeed Rashidi, William Won, Sudarshan Srinivasan +2

Distributed training is a solution to reduce DNN training time by splitting the task across multiple NPUs (e.g., GPU/TPU). However, distributed training adds communication overhead…

cs.DC2021★ 6 cited

LIBRA: Enabling Workload-aware Multi-dimensional Network Topology Optimization for Distributed Training of Large AI Models

William Won, Saeed Rashidi, Sudarshan Srinivasan +1

As model sizes in machine learning continue to scale, distributed training is necessary to accommodate model weights within each device and to reduce training time. However, this c…

cs.DC2021

Extending Sparse Tensor Accelerators to Support Multiple Compression Formats

Eric Qin, Geonhwa Jeong, William Won +7

Sparsity, which occurs in both scientific applications and Deep Learning (DL) models, has been a key target of optimization within recent ASIC accelerators due to the potential mem…