arXiv Machine Learning

Photon: Federated LLM Pre-Training

arXiv:2411. 02908v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling large language models (LLMs) demands extensive data and computing resources, which are traditionally constrained to data centers by the high-bandwidth requirements of distributed training.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 3

SCAPE: Accurate and Efficient LLM Training with Extreme Sparse Communication

arXiv:2607. 01678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Communication increasingly dominates the cost of Large Language Model (LLM) pre-training, especially under data-parallel and sharded training schemes, where gradient synchronization and parameter reconstruction overhead increase with model size and system scale.

By Mingkai Zheng, Junlin Chen, Haotian Xie, Zhao Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Piper: A Programmable Distributed Training System

arXiv:2606. 11169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale model training increasingly relies on composing multiple parallelism strategies, such as data, pipeline, and expert parallelism, together with memory-saving optimizations like ZeRO.

By Megan Frisella, Shubham Tiwari, Andy Ruan, Yi Pan, Parker Gustafson, Mat Jacob, Gilbert Bernstein, Stephanie Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 2

FED-FSTQ: Fisher-Guided Token Quantization for Communication-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning of LLMs on Edge Devices

arXiv:2604. 25421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated fine-tuning provides a practical route to adapt large language models (LLMs) on edge devices without centralizing private data, yet in mobile deployments the training wall-clock is often bottlenecked by straggler-limited uplink communication under heterogeneous bandwidth and intermittent participation.

By Changyu Li, Shuanghong Huang, Jiashen Liu, Ming Lei, Jidu Xing, Kaishun Wu, Lu Wang, Fei Luo