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most citedHigh-Performance Distributed ML at Scale through Parameter Server Consistency Models

71 citations · 253 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

cs.LG2026

Measuring and Reducing Cross-Vendor Mismatch in Language Models

Erland Hilman Fuadi, Chong Tian, Xiaosong Ma +1

Running the same language model on different graphics processing unit (GPU) vendors can produce different logits, even when the model weights and inputs are the same. We analyze cr…

cs.DC2026

DeltaServe: Host-Agnostic Co-Serving of Inference and Fine-Tuning for LLMs

Jiaxuan Chen, Jianshu She, Ye Yuan +5

LLM serving systems are provisioned for peak load to meet strict latency targets, leaving substantial GPU compute idle whenever traffic falls below peak. We present DeltaServe, a h…

cs.DC2026

COPUS: Co-adaptive Parallelism and Batch Size Selection in Large Language Model Training

Akhmed Sakip, Erland Hilman Fuadi, Omar Sayedelahl +6

Training large language models requires jointly configuring two interdependent aspects of the system: the global batch size, which governs statistical efficiency, and the 3D parall…

cs.AI2026

Exposing Cross-Modal Consistency for Fake News Detection in Short-Form Videos

Chong Tian, Yu Wang, Chenxu Yang +5

Short-form video platforms are major channels for news but also fertile ground for multimodal misinformation where each modality appears plausible alone yet cross-modal relationshi…

cs.DC2026

LAPS: A Length-Aware-Prefill LLM Serving System

Jianshu She, Zonghang Li, Hongchao Du +7

LAPS identifies and disaggregates requests with different prompt lengths in LLM serving to reduce TTFT latency. While recent systems have decoupled the prefill and decode stages to…

cs.CL2025

A Symbolic Adversarial Learning Framework for Evolving Fake News Generation and Detection

Chong Tian, Qirong Ho, Xiuying Chen

Rapid LLM advancements heighten fake news risks by enabling the automatic generation of increasingly sophisticated misinformation. Previous detection methods, including fine-tuned…

cs.LG2025

How Does Controllability Emerge In Language Models During Pretraining?

Jianshu She, Xinyue Li, Eric Xing +2

Language models can be steered by modifying their internal representations to control concepts such as emotion, style, or truthfulness in generation. However, the conditions for an…

cs.DC2025

Learning In Chaos: Efficient Autoscaling and Self-Healing for Multi-Party Distributed Training

Wenjiao Feng, Rongxing Xiao, Zonghang Li +6

Node and link churn in multi-party, cross-region clusters over wide-area networks (WANs) often disrupts distributed training. However, checkpoint-based recovery and cloud-centric a…

cs.CL2025

Token Level Routing Inference System for Edge Devices

Jianshu She, Wenhao Zheng, Zhengzhong Liu +4

The computational complexity of large language model (LLM) inference significantly constrains their deployment efficiency on edge devices. In contrast, small language models offer…

cs.DC2025★ 1 cited

Prima.cpp: Fast 30-70B LLM Inference on Heterogeneous and Low-Resource Home Clusters

Zonghang Li, Tao Li, Wenjiao Feng +8

On-device inference offers privacy, offline use, and instant response, but consumer hardware restricts large language models (LLMs) to low throughput and capability. To overcome th…

cs.AI2025

Hawkeye:Efficient Reasoning with Model Collaboration

Jianshu She, Zhuohao Li, Zhemin Huang +4

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, its efficiency remains a c…

cs.CV2024

FIAS: Feature Imbalance-Aware Medical Image Segmentation with Dynamic Fusion and Mixing Attention

Xiwei Liu, Min Xu, Qirong Ho

With the growing application of transformer in computer vision, hybrid architecture that combine convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers demonstrates competitive abil…

cs.LG2024

Reducing Hyperparameter Tuning Costs in ML, Vision and Language Model Training Pipelines via Memoization-Awareness

Abdelmajid Essofi, Ridwan Salahuddeen, Munachiso Nwadike +5

The training or fine-tuning of machine learning, vision, and language models is often implemented as a pipeline: a sequence of stages encompassing data preparation, model training…

eess.IV2024

J-Invariant Volume Shuffle for Self-Supervised Cryo-Electron Tomogram Denoising on Single Noisy Volume

Xiwei Liu, Mohamad Kassab, Min Xu +1

Cryo-Electron Tomography (Cryo-ET) enables detailed 3D visualization of cellular structures in near-native states but suffers from low signal-to-noise ratio due to imaging constrai…

cs.LG2024

Continual Learning of Nonlinear Independent Representations

Boyang Sun, Ignavier Ng, Guangyi Chen +3

Identifying the causal relations between interested variables plays a pivotal role in representation learning as it provides deep insights into the dataset. Identifiability, as the…

cs.CL2024

A Factuality and Diversity Reconciled Decoding Method for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation

Chenxu Yang, Zheng Lin, Chong Tian +6

Grounding external knowledge can enhance the factuality of responses in dialogue generation. However, excessive emphasis on it might result in the lack of engaging and diverse expr…

cs.LG2023

FedNAR: Federated Optimization with Normalized Annealing Regularization

Junbo Li, Ang Li, Chong Tian +3

Weight decay is a standard technique to improve generalization performance in modern deep neural network optimization, and is also widely adopted in federated learning (FL) to prev…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

On Optimizing the Communication of Model Parallelism

Yonghao Zhuang, Hexu Zhao, Lianmin Zheng +6

We study a novel and important communication pattern in large-scale model-parallel deep learning (DL), which we call cross-mesh resharding. This pattern emerges when the two paradi…

cs.DC2020★ 24 cited

Pollux: Co-adaptive Cluster Scheduling for Goodput-Optimized Deep Learning

Aurick Qiao, Sang Keun Choe, Suhas Jayaram Subramanya +5

Pollux improves scheduling performance in deep learning (DL) clusters by adaptively co-optimizing inter-dependent factors both at the per-job level and at the cluster-wide level. M…

cs.LG2017★ 1 cited

Cavs: A Vertex-centric Programming Interface for Dynamic Neural Networks

Hao Zhang, Shizhen Xu, Graham Neubig +4

Recent deep learning (DL) models have moved beyond static network architectures to dynamic ones, handling data where the network structure changes every example, such as sequences…

cs.LG2017★ 48 cited

Poseidon: An Efficient Communication Architecture for Distributed Deep Learning on GPU Clusters

Hao Zhang, Zeyu Zheng, Shizhen Xu +7

Deep learning models can take weeks to train on a single GPU-equipped machine, necessitating scaling out DL training to a GPU-cluster. However, current distributed DL implementatio…

cs.LG2016★ 1 cited

Distributed Multi-Task Relationship Learning

Sulin Liu, Sinno Jialin Pan, Qirong Ho

Multi-task learning aims to learn multiple tasks jointly by exploiting their relatedness to improve the generalization performance for each task. Traditionally, to perform multi-ta…

stat.ML2015★ 12 cited

Strategies and Principles of Distributed Machine Learning on Big Data

Eric P. Xing, Qirong Ho, Pengtao Xie +1

The rise of Big Data has led to new demands for Machine Learning (ML) systems to learn complex models with millions to billions of parameters, that promise adequate capacity to dig…

cs.LG2015★ 42 cited

Poseidon: A System Architecture for Efficient GPU-based Deep Learning on Multiple Machines

Hao Zhang, Zhiting Hu, Jinliang Wei +4

Deep learning (DL) has achieved notable successes in many machine learning tasks. A number of frameworks have been developed to expedite the process of designing and training deep…