arXiv Machine Learning

Memory-Efficient Activation Checkpointing with Sliding Window and Hirschberg's Algorithm for 0/1 Knapsack Solving in PyTorch

arXiv:2608. 08740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation checkpointing minimizes the runtime of neural networks under a given memory budget, by selecting which intermediate tensors to store and which to recompute.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Nova: An End-to-End MLIR Compiler for Deep Learning

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 AI
Jun 12

MiniMax Sparse Attention

arXiv:2606. 13392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultra-long-context capability is becoming indispensable for frontier LLMs: agentic workflows, repository-scale code reasoning, and persistent memory all require the model to jointly attend over hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens, yet the quadratic cost of softmax attention makes this untenable at deployment scale.

By Xunhao Lai, Weiqi Xu, Yufeng Yang, Qiaorui Chen, Yang Xu, Lunbin Zeng, Xiaolong Li, Haohai Sun, Haichao Zhu, Vito Zhang, Pengyu Zhao
arXiv AI
Jul 22

Cost Accounting for Reactive Computational Graphs: Exhaustive Sweeps, Sequential Mutation, and the Backward-Locality Gap

arXiv:2607. 18323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Exhaustive site-by-site interventions on a neural network's computational graph -- activation-patching sweeps, circuit-discovery searches, systematic ablation studies -- mutate the graph at every candidate site, and their cost is dominated by recomputation after each mutation.

By Abdallah Khemais (ISITCOM, University of Sousse)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

MuLoCo: Muon is a practical inner optimizer for DiLoCo

arXiv:2505. 23725v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: DiLoCo is a powerful framework for training large language models (LLMs), enabling larger optimal batch sizes and increased accelerator utilization under networking constraints.

By Benjamin Th\'erien, Xiaolong Huang, Aaron Defazio, Irina Rish, Eugene Belilovsky