arXiv Machine Learning

NoLoCo: No-all-reduce Low Communication Training Method for Large Models

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
Jul 7

Can Model Merging Improve Aggregation in DiLoCo?

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 16

Agora: Collective and Permissionless Internet-Scale Pretraining of Large Language Models

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 Machine Learning
Jun 16

Mixtures of Subspaces for Bandwidth Efficient Context Parallel Training

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