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most citedCharacterization and Prediction of Deep Learning Workloads in Large-Scale GPU Datacenters

131 citations · 165 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.AI2026

Task-Aware Harness Provisioning for LLM Agents in Mission-Critical Infrastructure Operations

Liangtao Lin, Qingang Zhang, Zhaomeng Zhu +2

LLM agents have been widely adopted to operate mission-critical infrastructure (MCI). These agents normally rely on a harness that determines what information they can access, whic…

cs.DC2026

PromptTuner: SLO-Aware Elastic System for LLM Prompt Tuning

Wei Gao, Peng Sun, Dmitrii Ustiugov +2

Prompt tuning has become a prominent strategy for enhancing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) on downstream tasks. Many IT enterprises now offer Prompt-Tuning-as-a-Se…

cs.AI2026

SOPRAG: Multi-view Graph Experts Retrieval for Industrial Standard Operating Procedures

Liangtao Lin, Zhaomeng Zhu, Tianwei Zhang +1

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are essential for ensuring operational safety and consistency in industrial environments. However, retrieving and following these procedures pr…

cs.CL2026

DSB: Dynamic Sliding Block Scheduling for Diffusion LLMs

Lizhuo Luo, Shenggui Li, Yonggang Wen +1

Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative for text generation, distinguished by their native support for parallel decoding. In practice, block…

cs.DC2026

CONCUR: High-Throughput Agentic Batch Inference of LLM via Congestion-Based Concurrency Control

Qiaoling Chen, Zhisheng Ye, Tian Tang +7

Batch inference for agentic workloads stresses the GPU key-value (KV) cache in a sustained and cumulative manner, often causing severe throughput degradation well before memory cap…

cs.LG2025

ReSpec: Towards Optimizing Speculative Decoding in Reinforcement Learning Systems

Qiaoling Chen, Zijun Liu, Peng Sun +6

Adapting large language models (LLMs) via reinforcement learning (RL) is often bottlenecked by the generation stage, which can consume over 75\% of the training time. Speculative d…

cs.LG2025

Semantic-Aware Scheduling for GPU Clusters with Large Language Models

Zerui Wang, Qinghao Hu, Ana Klimovic +4

Deep learning (DL) schedulers are pivotal in optimizing resource allocation in GPU clusters, but operate with a critical limitation: they are largely blind to the semantic context…

cs.AI2025

InfraMind: A Novel Exploration-based GUI Agentic Framework for Mission-critical Industrial Management

Liangtao Lin, Zhaomeng Zhu, Tianwei Zhang +1

Mission-critical industrial infrastructure, such as data centers, increasingly depends on complex management software. Its operations, however, pose significant challenges due to t…

cs.LG2025

Rethinking Key-Value Cache Compression Techniques for Large Language Model Serving

Wei Gao, Xinyu Zhou, Peng Sun +2

Key-Value cache (\texttt{KV} \texttt{cache}) compression has emerged as a promising technique to optimize Large Language Model (LLM) serving. It primarily decreases the memory cons…

cs.DC2025★ 1 cited

SPPO:Efficient Long-sequence LLM Training via Adaptive Sequence Pipeline Parallel Offloading

Qiaoling Chen, Shenggui Li, Wei Gao +3

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities, driving advancements in real-world applications. However, training LLMs on increasingly long i…

cs.DC2024

Efficient Training of Large Language Models on Distributed Infrastructures: A Survey

Jiangfei Duan, Shuo Zhang, Zerui Wang +13

Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT and LLaMA are revolutionizing the AI industry with their sophisticated capabilities. Training these models requires vast GPU clusters and sign…

cs.DC2024

TorchGT: A Holistic System for Large-scale Graph Transformer Training

Meng Zhang, Jie Sun, Qinghao Hu +4

Graph Transformer is a new architecture that surpasses GNNs in graph learning. While there emerge inspiring algorithm advancements, their practical adoption is still limited, parti…

cs.DC2024★ 1 cited

LoongTrain: Efficient Training of Long-Sequence LLMs with Head-Context Parallelism

Diandian Gu, Peng Sun, Qinghao Hu +11

Efficiently training LLMs with long sequences is important yet challenged by the massive computation and memory requirements. Sequence parallelism has been proposed to tackle these…

cs.DC2024★ 6 cited

Characterization of Large Language Model Development in the Datacenter

Qinghao Hu, Zhisheng Ye, Zerui Wang +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) have presented impressive performance across several transformative tasks. However, it is non-trivial to efficiently utilize large-scale cluster resour…

cs.DC2024

InternEvo: Efficient Long-sequence Large Language Model Training via Hybrid Parallelism and Redundant Sharding

Qiaoling Chen, Diandian Gu, Guoteng Wang +8

Large language models (LLMs) with long sequences begin to power more and more fundamentally new applications we use every day. Existing methods for long-sequence LLM training are n…

cs.DC2023

AMSP: Reducing Communication Overhead of ZeRO for Efficient LLM Training

Qiaoling Chen, Qinghao Hu, Guoteng Wang +8

Training large language models (LLMs) encounters challenges in GPU memory consumption due to the high memory requirements of model states. The widely used Zero Redundancy Optimizer…

cs.DC2023★ 4 cited

Boosting Distributed Full-graph GNN Training with Asynchronous One-bit Communication

Meng Zhang, Qinghao Hu, Peng Sun +2

Training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on large graphs is challenging due to the conflict between the high memory demand and limited GPU memory. Recently, distributed full-graph GNN…

cs.DC2022★ 22 cited

Deep Learning Workload Scheduling in GPU Datacenters: Taxonomy, Challenges and Vision

Wei Gao, Qinghao Hu, Zhisheng Ye +5

Deep learning (DL) shows its prosperity in a wide variety of fields. The development of a DL model is a time-consuming and resource-intensive procedure. Hence, dedicated GPU accele…

cs.DC2021★ 131 cited

Characterization and Prediction of Deep Learning Workloads in Large-Scale GPU Datacenters

Qinghao Hu, Peng Sun, Shengen Yan +2

Modern GPU datacenters are critical for delivering Deep Learning (DL) models and services in both the research community and industry. When operating a datacenter, optimization of…