4 papers
Mechanism-Driven Monitors for Preemptive Detection of LLM Training Instability
Ruixuan Huang, Hantao Huang, Yifan Huang +3
Frontier large language model training consumes massive accelerator fleets and long wall-clock computation, making stability failures costly when they occur. After a numerical or a…
Understanding the Robustness of Distributed Self-Supervised Learning Frameworks Against Non-IID Data
Xuanyu Chen, Nan Yang, Shuai Wang +1
Recent research has introduced distributed self-supervised learning (D-SSL) approaches to leverage vast amounts of unlabeled decentralized data. However, D-SSL faces the critical c…
SQ-format: A Unified Sparse-Quantized Hardware-friendly Data Format for LLMs
Ruixuan Huang, Hao Zeng, Hantao Huang +4
Post-training quantization (PTQ) plays a crucial role in the democratization of large language models (LLMs). However, existing low-bit quantization and sparsification techniques a…
Scaling Law Analysis in Federated Learning: How to Select the Optimal Model Size?
Xuanyu Chen, Nan Yang, Shuai Wang +1
The recent success of large language models (LLMs) has sparked a growing interest in training large-scale models. As the model size continues to scale, concerns are growing about t…