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most citedMegaScale: Scaling Large Language Model Training to More Than 10,000 GPUs

24 citations · 93 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.DC2026

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec): A Sandbox Infrastructure for Effective Agentic Training at Scale

Jialiang Huang, Hongxuan Tang, Jingchang Chen +128

Large-scale agentic training and evaluation with large language models (LLMs) rely on isolated, stateful execution environments in which models inspect repositories, invoke tools,…

cs.CL2026

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression

DeepSeek-AI, :, Anyi Xu +585

The widespread adoption of long-horizon agents has made model workloads increasingly input-heavy. Although prior work has substantially reduced the cost of long-context computation…

cs.DC2026

ExpertPlex: A High-Goodput Disaggregated Serving System for MoE LLMs with Adaptive Persistent Kernels

Bingyang Wu, Chao Jin, Zili Zhang +6

LLMs scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) parameters for superior intelligence, but massive weights and dynamic computation impede efficient serving. Existing instance-level prefill-deco…

cs.DC2026

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…

cs.CL2026

DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence

DeepSeek-AI, Anyi Xu, Bangcai Lin +315

We present a preview version of DeepSeek-V4 series, including two strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models -- DeepSeek-V4-Pro with 1.6T parameters (49B activated) and DeepSe…

cs.LG2026

ReLibra: Routing-Replay-Guided Load Balancing for MoE Training in Reinforcement Learning

Chao Jin, Xinming Wei, Yinmin Zhong +6

Load imbalance is a long-standing challenge in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) training and is exacerbated in reinforcement learning (RL) for LLMs, where hot experts can shift frequently…

cs.LG2026

Heddle: A Distributed Orchestration System for Agentic RL Rollout

Zili Zhang, Yinmin Zhong, Chengxu Yang +5

Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables LLMs to solve complex tasks by alternating between a data-collection rollout phase and a policy training phase. During rollout, the agen…

cs.DC2026★ 1 cited

DualPath: Breaking the Storage Bandwidth Bottleneck in Agentic LLM Inference

Yongtong Wu, Shaoyuan Chen, Yinmin Zhong +10

The performance of multi-turn, agentic LLM inference is increasingly dominated by KV-Cache storage I/O rather than computation. In prevalent disaggregated architectures, loading th…

cs.CL2025★ 8 cited

DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models

DeepSeek-AI, Aixin Liu, Aoxue Mei +260

We introduce DeepSeek-V3.2, a model that harmonizes high computational efficiency with superior reasoning and agent performance. The key technical breakthroughs of DeepSeek-V3.2 ar…

cs.DC2025

TokenLake: A Unified Segment-level Prefix Cache Pool for Fine-grained Elastic Long-Context LLM Serving

Bingyang Wu, Zili Zhang, Yinmin Zhong +4

Prefix caching is crucial to accelerate multi-turn interactions and requests with shared prefixes. At the cluster level, existing prefix caching systems are tightly coupled with re…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

StreamRL: Scalable, Heterogeneous, and Elastic RL for LLMs with Disaggregated Stream Generation

Yinmin Zhong, Zili Zhang, Xiaoniu Song +11

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the core post-training technique for large language models (LLMs). RL for LLMs involves two stages: generation and training. The LLM first ge…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Step-Audio: Unified Understanding and Generation in Intelligent Speech Interaction

Ailin Huang, Boyong Wu, Bruce Wang +142

Real-time speech interaction, serving as a fundamental interface for human-machine collaboration, holds immense potential. However, current open-source models face limitations such…

cs.LG2024

Optimizing RLHF Training for Large Language Models with Stage Fusion

Yinmin Zhong, Zili Zhang, Bingyang Wu +8

We present RLHFuse, an efficient training system with stage fusion for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). Due to the intrinsic nature of RLHF training, i.e., the da…

cs.DC2024★ 13 cited

DistTrain: Addressing Model and Data Heterogeneity with Disaggregated Training for Multimodal Large Language Models

Zili Zhang, Yinmin Zhong, Yimin Jiang +6

Multimodal large language models (LLMs) empower LLMs to ingest inputs and generate outputs in multiple forms, such as text, image, and audio. However, the integration of multiple m…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

FLUX: Fast Software-based Communication Overlap On GPUs Through Kernel Fusion

Li-Wen Chang, Wenlei Bao, Qi Hou +10

Large deep learning models have demonstrated strong ability to solve many tasks across a wide range of applications. Those large models typically require training and inference to…

cs.DC2024★ 2 cited

LoongServe: Efficiently Serving Long-Context Large Language Models with Elastic Sequence Parallelism

Bingyang Wu, Shengyu Liu, Yinmin Zhong +3

The context window of large language models (LLMs) is rapidly increasing, leading to a huge variance in resource usage between different requests as well as between different phase…

cs.LG2024★ 24 cited

MegaScale: Scaling Large Language Model Training to More Than 10,000 GPUs

Ziheng Jiang, Haibin Lin, Yinmin Zhong +29

We present the design, implementation and engineering experience in building and deploying MegaScale, a production system for training large language models (LLMs) at the scale of…

cs.DC2024★ 15 cited

DistServe: Disaggregating Prefill and Decoding for Goodput-optimized Large Language Model Serving

Yinmin Zhong, Shengyu Liu, Junda Chen +5

DistServe improves the performance of large language models (LLMs) serving by disaggregating the prefill and decoding computation. Existing LLM serving systems colocate the two pha…

cs.LG2023★ 23 cited

Fast Distributed Inference Serving for Large Language Models

Bingyang Wu, Yinmin Zhong, Zili Zhang +6

Large language models (LLMs) power a new generation of interactive AI applications exemplified by ChatGPT. The interactive nature of these applications demands low latency for LLM…