arXiv AI

FoMoE: Breaking the Full-Replica Barrier with a Federation of MoEs

arXiv:2606. 19025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) typically demands large-scale infrastructure with tightly coupled hardware accelerators.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Photon: Federated LLM Pre-Training

arXiv:2411. 02908v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling large language models (LLMs) demands extensive data and computing resources, which are traditionally constrained to data centers by the high-bandwidth requirements of distributed training.

By Lorenzo Sani, Alex Iacob, Zeyu Cao, Royson Lee, Bill Marino, Yan Gao, Dongqi Cai, Zexi Li, Wanru Zhao, Xinchi Qiu, Nicholas D. Lane
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