5 papers
PRISM: Evaluating POSIX Storage Systems for AI Research Workflows
Adithya Kumar, Aditya Basu, Jacob Kahn +3
The rapid advancement of AI research is driven by massive investments in GPU clusters, yet the critical role of storage systems in enabling efficient research workflows is often ov…
Towards Artwork Explanation in Large-scale Vision Language Models
Kazuki Hayashi, Yusuke Sakai, Hidetaka Kamigaito +2
Large-scale Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) output text from images and instructions, demonstrating capabilities in text generation and comprehension. However, it has not been clari…
Hardware Scaling Trends and Diminishing Returns in Large-Scale Distributed Training
Jared Fernandez, Luca Wehrstedt, Leonid Shamis +5
Dramatic increases in the capabilities of neural network models in recent years are driven by scaling model size, training data, and corresponding computational resources. To devel…
Revisiting Reliability in Large-Scale Machine Learning Research Clusters
Apostolos Kokolis, Michael Kuchnik, John Hoffman +7
Reliability is a fundamental challenge in operating large-scale machine learning (ML) infrastructures, particularly as the scale of ML models and training clusters continues to gro…
When Benchmarks are Targets: Revealing the Sensitivity of Large Language Model Leaderboards
Norah Alzahrani, Hisham Abdullah Alyahya, Yazeed Alnumay +9
Large Language Model (LLM) leaderboards based on benchmark rankings are regularly used to guide practitioners in model selection. Often, the published leaderboard rankings are take…