arXiv AI

OctoPipe: Reducing Pipeline Bubbles for Heterogeneous Models via Co-Optimizing Partitioning, Placement, and Scheduling

arXiv:2509. 23722v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pipeline parallelism is widely used to train large language models (LLMs).

arXiv AI
Jul 7

Data Driven Optimization of GPU efficiency for Distributed LLM-Adapter Serving

arXiv:2602. 24044v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) adapters enable low-cost model specialization, but introduce complex caching and scheduling challenges in distributed serving systems where hundreds of adapters must be hosted concurrently.

By Ferran Agullo, Joan Oliveras, Chen Wang, Alberto Gutierrez-Torre, Olivier Tardieu, Alaa Youssef, Jordi Torres, Josep Ll. Berral
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Meeting SLOs, Slashing Hours: Automated Enterprise LLM Optimization with OptiKIT

arXiv:2601. 20408v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Enterprise LLM deployment faces a critical scalability challenge: organizations must optimize models systematically to scale AI initiatives within constrained compute budgets, yet the specialized expertise required for manual optimization remains a niche and scarce skillset.

By Nicholas Santavas, Kareem Eissa, Patrycja Cieplicka, Piotr Florek, Matteo Nulli, Stefan Vasilev, Seyyed Hadi Hashemi, Antonios Gasteratos, Shahram Khadivi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

ParEVO: Synthesizing Code for Irregular Data: High-Performance Parallelism through Agentic Evolution

arXiv:2603. 02510v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The transition from sequential to parallel computing is essential for modern high-performance applications but is hindered by the steep learning curve of concurrent programming.

By Liu Yang, Zeyu Nie, Andrew Liu, Felix Zou, Deniz Altinb\"uken, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Quanquan C. Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Piper: A Programmable Distributed Training System

arXiv:2606. 11169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale model training increasingly relies on composing multiple parallelism strategies, such as data, pipeline, and expert parallelism, together with memory-saving optimizations like ZeRO.

By Megan Frisella, Shubham Tiwari, Andy Ruan, Yi Pan, Parker Gustafson, Mat Jacob, Gilbert Bernstein, Stephanie Wang