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…
Fast LLM Post-training via Decoupled and Fastest-of-N Speculation
Rongxin Cheng, Kai Zhou, Xingda Wei +8
Rollout dominates the training time in large language model (LLM) post-training, where the trained model is used to generate tokens given a batch of prompts. This work, SpecActor,…
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…
Efficient Pre-Training of LLMs via Topology-Aware Communication Alignment on More Than 9600 GPUs
Guoliang He, Youhe Jiang, Wencong Xiao +8
The scaling law for large language models (LLMs) depicts that the path towards machine intelligence necessitates training at large scale. Thus, companies continuously build large-s…
Mycroft: Tracing Dependencies in Collective Communication Towards Reliable LLM Training
Yangtao Deng, Lei Zhang, Qinlong Wang +13
Reliability is essential for ensuring efficiency in LLM training. However, many real-world reliability issues remain difficult to resolve, resulting in wasted resources and degrade…
Efficient Heterogeneous Large Language Model Decoding with Model-Attention Disaggregation
Shaoyuan Chen, Wencong Xiao, Yutong Lin +5
Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive performance in generative tasks but also introduce significant challenges in real-world serving due to inefficient…