arXiv:2506. 01260v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling models has led to significant advancements in deep learning, but training these models in decentralized settings remains challenging due to communication bottlenecks.
By Sameera Ramasinghe, Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan, Gil Avraham, Yan Zuo, Alexander Long
arXiv:2506. 01260v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling models has led to significant advancements in deep learning, but training these models in decentralized settings remains challenging due to communication bottlenecks.
By Sameera Ramasinghe, Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan, Gil Avraham, Yan Zuo, Alexander Long
arXiv:2602. 21788v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling long-context capabilities is crucial for Large Language Models (LLMs).
By Yifan Niu, Han Xiao, Dongyi Liu, Wei Zhou, Jia Li
arXiv:2606. 05484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pipeline parallelism enables training of large language models that exceed single-device memory, yet inter-stage activation communication becomes the dominant bottleneck when trained on low-bandwidth networks.
By Paul Janson, Edouard Oyallon, Eugene Belilovsky
arXiv:2606. 09659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context language model inference is bottlenecked by memory, as the KV cache grows with context length.
By Ang Li, Sean McLeish, Haozhe Chen, Nimit Kalra, Zaiqian Chen, Artem Gazizov, Venkata Anoop Suhas Kumar Morisetty, Bhavya Kailkhura, Harshitha Menon, Zhuang Liu, Brian R. Bartoldson, Tom Goldstein, Sanae Lotfi, Micah Goldblum, Pavel Izmailov
Long-context language model inference is bottlenecked by memory, as the KV cache grows with context length. Recent techniques to compress the KV cache fall short: they either degrade model quality substantially or require considerable time and compute to compress a single long prompt.
MILO is a compression framework that reduces the key-value cache memory used in many-shot in-context learning by applying block-wise low-rank compression. It dynamically allocates rank budgets to blocks based on information entropy, preserving important information while aggressively compressing redundant parts. Experiments on Qwen2.5 models show up to a 50% reduction in KV cache memory and a 1.8× throughput improvement with negligible performance loss on classification and reasoning tasks.
By Youpeng Zhao, Tian Tan, Liqian Peng, Jun Wang, Alec Go
arXiv:2508. 15706v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Communication-efficient distributed training algorithms (e.
By Amir Sarfi, Benjamin Th\'erien, Joel Lidin, Eugene Belilovsky
arXiv:2506.10911v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Training large language models is generally done on clusters containing thousands of accelerators, communicating over a high-bandwidth interconnect...
By Jari Kolehmainen, Nikolay Blagoev, Semih Kara, John Donaghy, Christopher Nies, O\u{g}uzhan Ersoy
arXiv:2605. 08696v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Over the last two decades, language modeling has experienced a shift from the use of predominantly recurrent architectures that process tokens sequentially during training and inference to non-recurrent models that process sequence elements in parallel during training, which results in greater training efficiency and stability at the expense of lower inference throughput.
By Benjamin L. Badger
arXiv:2601. 00549v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The deployment of large-scale neural networks within the Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture is pivotal for enabling native edge intelligence.
By Zhiheng Guo, Zhaoyang Liu, Zihan Cen, Chenyuan Feng, Xinghua Sun, Xiang Chen, Tony Q. S. Quek, Xijun Wang
The quadratic growth of attention computation and key-value (KV) cache with respect to sequence length is a central bottleneck for ultra-long-context language models and high-resolution generative mod...