2 papers
cs.DC2026
Covenant-72B: Pre-Training a 72B LLM with Trustless Peers Over-the-Internet
Joel Lidin, Amir Sarfi, Erfan Miahi +6
Recently, there has been increased interest in globally distributed training, which has the promise to both reduce training costs and democratize participation in building large-sc…
cs.LG2025
Incentivizing Permissionless Distributed Learning of LLMs
Joel Lidin, Amir Sarfi, Evangelos Pappas +3
We describe an incentive system for distributed deep learning of foundational models where peers are rewarded for contributions. The incentive system, \textit{Gauntlet}, has been d…