arXiv:2502. 10239v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is a promising paradigm for finetuning Large Language Models (LLMs) across distributed data sources while preserving data privacy.
By Mohamed Aboelenien Ahmed, Kilian Pfeiffer, Ramin Khalili, Heba Khdr, J\"org Henkel
arXiv:2605. 25451v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is challenged by both model and data heterogeneity.
By Zili Zhang, Chengxu Yang, Shenglong Zhang, Chenyu Wang, Yufan Zhang, Tuo Dai, Zhouyang Li, Yuhong Ge, Chao Jin, Xin Jin, Yuliang Liu
arXiv:2607. 22583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved widespread adoption because of their strong reasoning and query-response capabilities.
By Muhammad Junaid Ali, Smail Niar, El-Ghazali Talbi
arXiv:2602. 10431v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demand substantial computational and memory resources, posing challenges for efficient deployment.
By Kanghyun Noh, Jinheon Choi, Yulhwa Kim
arXiv:2602. 21788v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling long-context capabilities is crucial for Large Language Models (LLMs).
By Yifan Niu, Han Xiao, Dongyi Liu, Wei Zhou, Jia Li
arXiv:2607. 13088v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly moving from research settings into the wild, deployed on enterprise infrastructure, personal devices, and edge platforms.
By Ren-Yi Huang, Mingchen Li, Dumindu Samaraweera, Morris Chang
arXiv:2606. 14970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) has become a central application of modern optimization, enabling pretrained models to adapt to diverse downstream tasks and domain-specific data.
By Dmitriy Bystrov, Daniil Medyakov, Dmitry Bylinkin, Aleksandr Beznosikov
arXiv:2608. 00029v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The performance of deep learning models at scale relies heavily on how effectively high-level mathematical operations are mapped to underlying physical hardware.
By Adwaid Suresh, Aparna A, Harshini V M, Jona Delcy C A, Killi Uma Maheswara Rao, Ram Charan Golla, Surendra Vendra
arXiv:2607. 17652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Block-wise diffusion large language models (dLLMs) decode sequentially at the block level, enabling effective KV-cache reuse across blocks but making inter-block decoding strictly serial.
By Bing Tian, Haikun Liu, Xiaocheng Zhong, Zhuohui Duan, Zhaokai Luo, Huayi Jin, Zhiyong Wang, Xiaofei Liao
Block-wise diffusion large language models (dLLMs) decode sequentially at the block level, enabling effective KV-cache reuse across blocks but making inter-block decoding strictly serial. Prior work has attempted to unlock inter-block parallelism through post-training methods, but achieves only modest speedups and often degrades accuracy.
arXiv:2607. 20145v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Full-parameter post-training of trillion-parameter-scale MoE models introduces substantial system-level challenges for large-scale distributed training, including severe memory pressure, non-overlapped communication overhead, and inefficient kernel execution.
By Dongfang Li, Xiaodong Luo, Ruoyu Sun, Xuhui Chen, Linyuan Qiu, Jian Meng, Zhengxuan Lu, Yiting Wang, Yucheng Xie, Tao Guo, Tianxiang Fang, Jing Li, Sihang Chen, Shihao Hong, Chang Liu, Weihua Dai, Zirong Zeng, Ziwei Zhu, Zhuohan Wang, Zhengjun Yue, Igor Vasilyev, Min Liu, Weijian Sun, Xin Chen, Yingmeng Gao, Jinhua Zhou, Taolue Chen, Chenwei Wu, Dong Zhang, Wenlong Jin, Jinmin Xiang, Barkova Maria, Ushakov Anton, Xianfei Jin, Tian Ding, Zhihang Lin, Qian Chen, Linxin Yang, Mingzhe Yang, Bingwei Zhang, Hongzhang Yang, Fangxue Zhang, Shijun Qin, Jie Yu, Cuihua Hu, Tolstykh Vasiliy, Nosov Ivan, Abdullin Amir, Zhichen Zhou, Xin Zhang, Zhixiong Ning, Xutong Zhao, Junjie Huang, Jiajun Liu, Weiyan Kong, Zheng Zhang, Wenhan Luo, Lin Hu, Yangbo Guo, Li Zeng, Shihao Zeng, Baotian Hu, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, Zhiquan Luo
arXiv:2506. 21833v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Forward-mode automatic differentiation (FmAD) and zero-order (ZO) optimization are increasingly proposed as memory-efficient, backpropagation-free alternatives for large language model (LLM) fine-tuning, yet their benefits are typically evaluated only against standard backpropagation (BP), omitting memory-efficient variants such as activation checkpointing.
By Kunjal Panchal, Sunav Choudhary, Yuriy Brun, Hui Guan