arXiv Machine Learning

Tuning Collective Patterns to Alleviate Congestion in Shared AI Clusters

The paper introduces REACT, a system that dynamically tunes communication collectives in distributed AI training to mitigate congestion without requiring network infrastructure changes. REACT operates at the application layer, detecting congestion via flow statistics and adjusting the pattern of data exchange—such as selecting different aggregation nodes in an AllReduce tree—while preserving the semantics of the communication. Evaluations on a shared academic GPU cluster show that REACT improves algorithm bandwidth by 13%–38% under congestion, with simulations indicating potential gains up to 75%.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

mKernel: Fast Multi-GPU, Multi-Node Fused Kernels

arXiv:2609.13585v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Communication has become a bottleneck in distributed training and inference of large models. Overlapping communication with computation at the granul...

By Ziming Mao, Yihan Zhang, Shawn Wei Chew, Shuang Ma, Costin Raiciu, Yang Zhou, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

Gleam: Adaptive Network-Efficient CUDA API Remoting for Cross-Device GPU Sharing over LANs

arXiv:2607. 23115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper aims to enable computation- and communication-efficient GPU sharing across devices within local area networks (LANs), facilitating ubiquitous AI inference on heterogeneous personal devices.

By Zhihao Xu, Hao Zhong, Zeting Zhou, Yuhang Xu, Haoyu Tong, Wei Wang, Jinshan Chen, Keqiang He, Chong Zhu, Shengzhong Liu, Fan Wu, Guihai Chen
arXiv AI
6d ago

Scepsy: Serving Agentic Workflows Using Aggregate LLM Pipelines

Scepsy is a serving system designed to efficiently schedule arbitrary multi‑LLM agentic workflows on GPU clusters. It leverages the observation that each LLM’s share of execution time remains relatively stable across requests, profiling LLMs under various parallelism levels to build an Aggregate LLM Pipeline that predicts throughput and latency. Using this predictor, Scepsy searches for optimal GPU allocations—balancing fractional GPU shares, tensor parallelism, and replica counts—and then heuristically places them on the cluster to reduce fragmentation and honor network topology, achieving up to 2.5× higher throughput and 1.0–3.3× lower latency compared to baseline approaches.

By Otto White, Marcel Wagenl\"ander, Britannio Jarrett, Xijin Zhao, Yanda Tao, Pedro Silvestre, Guo Li, Huanzhou Zhu, Llu\'is Vilanova, Peter Pietzuch
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Diamond Agent: Agentic Control of Federated HPC Resources as a Service

arXiv:2609.06181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficiently aggregating and orchestrating computing power across heterogeneous clusters for HPC workflows faces four practical challenges: preserving...

By Haotian Xie, Junlin Chen, Mingkai Zheng, Yifan Zhu, Minu Mathew, Max Burnette, Yadu Babuji, Volodymyr Kindratenko, Shivaram Venkataraman, Kyle Chard, Ian Foster, Zhao Zhang
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