5 papers
BigMac: Breaking the Pareto Frontier of Compute and Memory in Multimodal LLM Training
Zili Zhang, Chengxu Yang, Shenglong Zhang +8
Training multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is challenged by both model and data heterogeneity. Existing systems redesign the training pipeline to address these challenges, b…
Experience Graphs: The Data Foundation for Self-Improving Agents
Gang Liao, Yujia He, Abdullah Ozturk +22
The database community has repeatedly advanced the state of the art by recognizing that new workloads demand new system architectures. We argue that long-horizon agentic tasks -- c…
UltraEP: Unleash MoE Training and Inference on Rack-Scale Nodes with Near-Optimal Load Balancing
Xinming Wei, Chao Jin, Tuo Dai +10
Large-scale expert parallelism (EP) is becoming pivotal for training and serving frontier MoE models, but it also amplifies device-level expert load imbalance into compute straggle…
SlimPack: Fine-Grained Asymmetric Packing for Balanced and Efficient Variable-Length LLM Training
Yuliang Liu, Guohao Wu, Shenglong Zhang +4
The efficient distributed training of Large Language Models (LLMs) is severely hampered by the extreme variance in context lengths. This data heterogeneity, amplified by convention…
SlimPipe: Memory-Thrifty and Efficient Pipeline Parallelism for Long-Context LLM Training
Zhouyang Li, Yuliang Liu, Wei Zhang +4
Pipeline Parallelism (PP) serves as a crucial technique for training Large Language Models (LLMs), owing to its capability to alleviate memory pressure from model states with relat…