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:2508. 15706v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Communication-efficient distributed training algorithms (e.
By Amir Sarfi, Benjamin Th\'erien, Joel Lidin, Eugene Belilovsky
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...
By Pengyu He, Yan Zhang, Ruien Li, Guangwen Yang
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.
By Pietro Cagnasso, Eugene Belilovsky, Edouard Oyallon
arXiv:2606. 19025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) typically demands large-scale infrastructure with tightly coupled hardware accelerators.
By Lorenzo Sani, Zeyu Cao, Meghdad Kurmanji, Alex Iacob, Andrej Jovanovic, Yan Gao, Wanru Zhao, Nicholas D. Lane
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.
By Stefan Horoi, Benjamin Th\'erien, Guy Wolf, Eugene Belilovsky
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:2602. 04396v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distributed training of foundation models via $\texttt{DDP}$ is limited by interconnect bandwidth.
By Andrej Jovanovi\'c, Alex Iacob, Mher Safaryan, Ionut-Vlad Modoranu, Lorenzo Sani, William F. Shen, Xinchi Qiu, Dan Alistarh, Nicholas D. Lane
arXiv:2607. 13332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language models at the multi-billion to trillion parameter scale is confined to datacenters, where data-parallel (DP) and model-parallel (MP) techniques presume homogeneous accelerators, high-speed interconnects, and a single orchestrating entity.
By Gil Avraham, Violetta Shevchenko, Hadi Mohaghegh Dolatabadi, Karol Pajak, James Snewin, Harry Xi, Rodney O'Donnell, Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan, Sameera Ramasinghe, Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage, Shamane Siriwardhana, Alexander Long
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. 01844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper showcases a memory-efficient training stack for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models.
By Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Shrey Pandit, Yiran Zhao, Semih Yavuz, Silvio Savarese, Shafiq Joty
arXiv:2606. 16384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretraining language models with extended context windows enhances their ability to leverage rich information during generation.
By Sameera Ramasinghe, Ajanthan Thalaiyasingam, Hadi Mohaghegh Dolatabadi, Gil Avraham, Violetta Shevchenko, Yan Zuo, Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage, Alexander Long