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cs.CL2024
Optimus: Accelerating Large-Scale Multi-Modal LLM Training by Bubble Exploitation
Weiqi Feng, Yangrui Chen, Shaoyu Wang +3
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have extended the success of large language models (LLMs) to multiple data types, such as image, text and audio, achieving significant perf…
cs.DC2024
StarTrail: Concentric Ring Sequence Parallelism for Efficient Near-Infinite-Context Transformer Model Training
Ziming Liu, Shaoyu Wang, Shenggan Cheng +5
Training Transformer models on long sequences in a distributed setting poses significant challenges in terms of efficiency and scalability. Current methods are either constrained b…