16 papers
Quantifying Depth Sufficiency in Residual Neural Networks: A First-Order Criterion
Zeyu Liu, Jinhao Zhang, Yunquan Zhang +4
How can we determine whether a trained neural network is already deep enough? We study this under a fixed function-preserving residual-growth protocol specifying insertion location…
Mechanisms of Width Scaling in Normalized Residual Networks: The Effective Alignment Dimension
Jinhao Zhang, Zeyu Liu, Zicheng Yan +4
Existing theories of neural-network width characterize asymptotic limits, but provide limited guidance on whether an expansion direction identified from finite training data remain…
ReMP: Low-Downtime Runtime Model-Parallelism Reconfiguration for LLM Serving
Haipeng Yuan, Kaining Zheng, Yongshu Bai +5
Current large language model (LLM) inference systems universally deploy ultra-large-scale models using a combination of Tensor Parallelism (TP) and Pipeline Parallelism (PP). Howev…
HeRo-Q: A General Framework for Stable Low Bit Quantization via Hessian Conditioning
Jinhao Zhang, Yunquan Zhang, Zicheng yan +3
Post Training Quantization (PTQ), a mainstream model compression technique, often leads to the paradoxical 'low error, high loss' phenomenon because it focuses solely on minimizing…
DynaTrain: Fast Online Parallelism Switching for Elastic LLM Training
Yuanqing Wang, Yuchen Zhang, Hao Lin +9
Modern large language model (LLM) training is inherently dynamic: resource fluctuations, RLHF phase shifts, and cluster elasticity continually reshape the optimal parallelism layou…
A Qualitative Test-Risk Mechanism for Scaling Behavior in Normalized Residual Networks
Daning Cheng, Zeyu Liu, Jun Sun +4
The scaling behavior, in which test performance often improves as model size and data increase, is a central empirical phenomenon in modern deep learning, yet its theoretical basis…