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most citedHET: Scaling out Huge Embedding Model Training via Cache-enabled Distributed Framework

57 citations · 194 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CV2026

Improving Video Sparse Attention with Fine-grained Router and Sparse Rebasing

Peiyuan Zhang, Guoqiang Wei, Yilong Zhao +7

We present VSA2, a frontier trainable sparse attention for video DiTs. VSA2 includes a variety of new architectural features and training procedures that we apply across all stages…

cs.DC2026

Unleashing Scalable Context Parallelism for Foundation Models Pre-Training via FCP

Yilong Zhao, Xiaonan Nie, Kan Zhu +6

Context parallelism (CP) has been widely adopted to support the growing context length in foundation model pretraining. However, existing designs fail to handle the large variation…

cs.DC2025★ 4 cited

ByteScale: Efficient Scaling of LLM Training with a 2048K Context Length on More Than 12,000 GPUs

Hao Ge, Junda Feng, Qi Huang +6

Scaling long-context ability is essential for Large Language Models (LLMs). To amortize the memory consumption across multiple devices in long-context training, inter-data partitio…

cs.DC2024★ 1 cited

LSH-MoE: Communication-efficient MoE Training via Locality-Sensitive Hashing

Xiaonan Nie, Qibin Liu, Fangcheng Fu +6

Larger transformer models always perform better on various tasks but require more costs to scale up the model size. To efficiently enlarge models, the mixture-of-experts (MoE) arch…

cs.CL2024

DataSculpt: Crafting Data Landscapes for Long-Context LLMs through Multi-Objective Partitioning

Keer Lu, Xiaonan Nie, Zheng Liang +8

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant improvements across a variety of tasks, one of which is the long-context capability. The key to improvin…

cs.DC2024

Malleus: Straggler-Resilient Hybrid Parallel Training of Large-scale Models via Malleable Data and Model Parallelization

Haoyang Li, Fangcheng Fu, Hao Ge +7

As the scale of models and training data continues to grow, there is an expanding reliance on more GPUs to train large-scale models, which inevitably increases the likelihood of en…

cs.DC2024★ 2 cited

HexiScale: Facilitating Large Language Model Training over Heterogeneous Hardware

Ran Yan, Youhe Jiang, Xiaonan Nie +3

Training large language models (LLMs) is a computationally intensive task, which is typically conducted in data centers with homogeneous high-performance GPUs. In this paper, we ex…

cs.CL2024

BaichuanSEED: Sharing the Potential of ExtensivE Data Collection and Deduplication by Introducing a Competitive Large Language Model Baseline

Guosheng Dong, Da Pan, Yiding Sun +17

The general capabilities of Large Language Models (LLM) highly rely on the composition and selection on extensive pretraining datasets, treated as commercial secrets by several ins…

cs.CL2024

PQCache: Product Quantization-based KVCache for Long Context LLM Inference

Hailin Zhang, Xiaodong Ji, Yilin Chen +5

As the field of Large Language Models (LLMs) continues to evolve, the context length in inference is steadily growing. Key-Value Cache (KVCache), the intermediate representations o…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

MEMO: Fine-grained Tensor Management For Ultra-long Context LLM Training

Pinxue Zhao, Hailin Zhang, Fangcheng Fu +9

Nowadays, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been trained using extended context lengths to foster more creative applications. However, long context training poses great challenges…

cs.CL2024

Clover: Regressive Lightweight Speculative Decoding with Sequential Knowledge

Bin Xiao, Chunan Shi, Xiaonan Nie +5

Large language models (LLMs) suffer from low efficiency as the mismatch between the requirement of auto-regressive decoding and the design of most contemporary GPUs. Specifically,…

cs.LG2023★ 13 cited

Improving Automatic Parallel Training via Balanced Memory Workload Optimization

Yujie Wang, Youhe Jiang, Xupeng Miao +5

Transformer models have emerged as the leading approach for achieving state-of-the-art performance across various application domains, serving as the foundation for advanced large-…

cs.DC2023

OSDP: Optimal Sharded Data Parallel for Distributed Deep Learning

Youhe Jiang, Fangcheng Fu, Xupeng Miao +2

Large-scale deep learning models contribute to significant performance improvements on varieties of downstream tasks. Current data and model parallelism approaches utilize model re…

cs.DC2023★ 38 cited

FlexMoE: Scaling Large-scale Sparse Pre-trained Model Training via Dynamic Device Placement

Xiaonan Nie, Xupeng Miao, Zilong Wang +5

With the increasing data volume, there is a trend of using large-scale pre-trained models to store the knowledge into an enormous number of model parameters. The training of these…

cs.LG2023

Angel-PTM: A Scalable and Economical Large-scale Pre-training System in Tencent

Xiaonan Nie, Yi Liu, Fangcheng Fu +5

Recent years have witnessed the unprecedented achievements of large-scale pre-trained models, especially the Transformer models. Many products and services in Tencent Inc., such as…

cs.LG2022★ 57 cited

Galvatron: Efficient Transformer Training over Multiple GPUs Using Automatic Parallelism

Xupeng Miao, Yujie Wang, Youhe Jiang +4

Transformer models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various domains of applications and gradually becomes the foundations of the advanced large deep learning (DL) mode…

cs.DC2022

OSDP: Optimal Sharded Data Parallel for Distributed Deep Learning

Youhe Jiang, Fangcheng Fu, Xupeng Miao +2

Large-scale deep learning models contribute to significant performance improvements on varieties of downstream tasks. Current data and model parallelism approaches utilize model re…

cs.DC2022★ 13 cited

HetuMoE: An Efficient Trillion-scale Mixture-of-Expert Distributed Training System

Xiaonan Nie, Pinxue Zhao, Xupeng Miao +2

As giant dense models advance quality but require large amounts of GPU budgets for training, the sparsely gated Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), a kind of conditional computation architec…

cs.LG2021★ 57 cited

HET: Scaling out Huge Embedding Model Training via Cache-enabled Distributed Framework

Xupeng Miao, Hailin Zhang, Yining Shi +4

Embedding models have been an effective learning paradigm for high-dimensional data. However, one open issue of embedding models is that their representations (latent factors) ofte…

cs.LG2021★ 7 cited

EvoMoE: An Evolutional Mixture-of-Experts Training Framework via Dense-To-Sparse Gate

Xiaonan Nie, Xupeng Miao, Shijie Cao +7

Mixture-of-experts (MoE) is becoming popular due to its success in improving the model quality, especially in Transformers. By routing tokens with a sparse gate to a few experts (i…