6 papers
BootSeer: Analyzing and Mitigating Initialization Bottlenecks in Large-Scale LLM Training
Rui Li, Xiaoyun Zhi, Jinxin Chi +14
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a cornerstone of modern AI, driving breakthroughs in natural language processing and expanding into multimodal jobs involving images, audio…
Robust LLM Training Infrastructure at ByteDance
Borui Wan, Gaohong Liu, Zuquan Song +32
The training scale of large language models (LLMs) has reached tens of thousands of GPUs and is still continuously expanding, enabling faster learning of larger models. Accompanyin…
SwiftSpec: Ultra-Low Latency LLM Decoding by Scaling Asynchronous Speculative Decoding
Ziyi Zhang, Ziheng Jiang, Chengquan Jiang +5
Low-latency decoding for large language models (LLMs) is crucial for applications like chatbots and code assistants, yet generating long outputs remains slow in single-query settin…
Understanding Stragglers in Large Model Training Using What-if Analysis
Jinkun Lin, Ziheng Jiang, Zuquan Song +13
Large language model (LLM) training is one of the most demanding distributed computations today, often requiring thousands of GPUs with frequent synchronization across machines. Su…
Seed1.5-Thinking: Advancing Superb Reasoning Models with Reinforcement Learning
ByteDance Seed, :, Jiaze Chen +267
We introduce Seed1.5-Thinking, capable of reasoning through thinking before responding, resulting in improved performance on a wide range of benchmarks. Seed1.5-Thinking achieves 8…
ByteCheckpoint: A Unified Checkpointing System for Large Foundation Model Development
Borui Wan, Mingji Han, Yiyao Sheng +9
Checkpointing to preserve training states is crucial during the development of Large Foundation Models (LFMs), for training resumption upon various failures or changes in GPU resou…