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most citedMerak: An Efficient Distributed DNN Training Framework with Automated 3D Parallelism for Giant Foundation Models

67 citations · 76 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.DC2024

Pro-Prophet: A Systematic Load Balancing Method for Efficient Parallel Training of Large-scale MoE Models

Wei Wang, Zhiquan Lai, Shengwei Li +5

The size of deep learning models has been increasing to enhance model quality. The linear increase in training computation budget with model size means that training an extremely l…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Towards Understanding the Generalizability of Delayed Stochastic Gradient Descent

Xiaoge Deng, Li Shen, Shengwei Li +3

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) performed in an asynchronous manner plays a crucial role in training large-scale machine learning models. However, the generalization performance…

cs.DC2023★ 1 cited

Oases: Efficient Large-Scale Model Training on Commodity Servers via Overlapped and Automated Tensor Model Parallelism

Shengwei Li, Zhiquan Lai, Dongsheng Li +5

Deep learning is experiencing a rise in large-scale models. Training large-scale models is costly, prompting researchers to train large-scale models on commodity servers that more…

cs.LG2022★ 67 cited

Merak: An Efficient Distributed DNN Training Framework with Automated 3D Parallelism for Giant Foundation Models

Zhiquan Lai, Shengwei Li, Xudong Tang +5

Foundation models are becoming the dominant deep learning technologies. Pretraining a foundation model is always time-consumed due to the large scale of both the model parameter an…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

EmbRace: Accelerating Sparse Communication for Distributed Training of NLP Neural Networks

Shengwei Li, Zhiquan Lai, Dongsheng Li +3

Distributed data-parallel training has been widely adopted for deep neural network (DNN) models. Although current deep learning (DL) frameworks scale well for dense models like ima…