arXiv:2606. 11081v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Communication-efficient pre-training of LLMs is increasingly important as training draws on compute distributed across clusters, data centers, and lower-bandwidth links.
Communication-efficient pre-training of LLMs is increasingly important as training draws on compute distributed across clusters, data centers, and lower-bandwidth links. Many practical methods reduce communication frequency but still rely on synchronous All-Reduce operations that maintain identical model states and tie progress to global collectives.
arXiv:2508. 15706v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Communication-efficient distributed training algorithms (e.
arXiv:2506.10911v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training large language models is generally done on clusters containing thousands of accelerators, communicating over a high-bandwidth interconnect...
SeedFlood is a novel decentralized fine‑tuning method for large language models that scales to billions of parameters and hundreds of clients. It leverages the seed‑reconstructible structure of zeroth‑order gradients to reduce message sizes to near‑zero, enabling efficient flooding across the network. Experiments show SeedFlood outperforms standard zeroth‑order baselines in communication efficiency and generalization, and rivals first‑order gossip methods while incurring far less communication cost.
arXiv:2609.36662v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The pre-training of Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly conducted across multiple data centers. As training scales to a larger number of acc...
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:2606. 19025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) typically demands large-scale infrastructure with tightly coupled hardware accelerators.
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.
arXiv:2606. 01128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Communication overhead is a crucial bottleneck in scalable distributed learning.
arXiv:2608. 06563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning and optimization have advanced together, with practical demands motivating new theory and theoretical breakthroughs enabling new applications.
arXiv:2606. 06687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate cluster formation, involving the number and composition of clusters, in decentralized federated learning (FL) with heterogeneous machine learning (ML) optimizers.
arXiv:2607. 03011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model merging techniques, which aggregate independently finetuned models into one to combine their capabilities, have become a topic of significant interest in recent years, with a broad array of methods having been proposed to tackle this problem.