7 papers
Parallel Track Transformers: Enabling Fast GPU Inference with Reduced Synchronization
Chong Wang, Nan Du, Tom Gunter +8
Efficient large-scale inference of transformer-based large language models (LLMs) remains a fundamental systems challenge, frequently requiring multi-GPU parallelism to meet string…
Reusing Pre-Training Data at Test Time is a Compute Multiplier
Alex Fang, Thomas Voice, Ruoming Pang +2
Large language models learn from their vast pre-training corpora, gaining the ability to solve an ever increasing variety of tasks; yet although researchers work to improve these d…
Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models: Tech Report 2025
Ethan Li, Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen, Chen Zhang +395
We introduce two multilingual, multimodal foundation language models that power Apple Intelligence features across Apple devices and services: i a 3B-parameter on-device model opti…
Can External Validation Tools Improve Annotation Quality for LLM-as-a-Judge?
Arduin Findeis, Floris Weers, Guoli Yin +3
Pairwise preferences over model responses are widely collected to evaluate and provide feedback to large language models (LLMs). Given two alternative model responses to the same i…
Language Models Improve When Pretraining Data Matches Target Tasks
David Mizrahi, Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen, Jesse Allardice +7
Every data selection method inherently has a target. In practice, these targets often emerge implicitly through benchmark-driven iteration: researchers develop selection strategies…
AXLearn: Modular, Hardware-Agnostic Large Model Training
Mark Lee, Chang Lan, Tom Gunter +34
AXLearn is a production system which facilitates scalable and high-performance training of large deep learning models. Compared to other state-of-art deep learning systems, AXLearn…