Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 nodes
We’ve scaled Kubernetes clusters to 7,500 nodes, producing a scalable infrastructure for large models like GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E, but also for rapid small-scale iterative research such as Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.
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Scaling laws for neural language models
Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks for Small Language Models
arXiv:2607. 15525v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks (KANs) replace fixed node activations with learned one-dimensional edge functions, offering an explicit interface for interpretation and a possible alternative to transformer feed-forward networks.
Does Runtime Topology Context Improve LLM-Generated Kubernetes Security Patches?
arXiv:2607. 25995v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kubernetes is central to the cloud-native ecosystem, orchestrating containerised workloads.
Techniques for training large neural networks
Large neural networks are at the core of many recent advances in AI, but training them is a difficult engineering and research challenge which requires orchestrating a cluster of GPUs to perform a single synchronized calculation.
Towards Engineering Scaling Laws with Pretraining Data Composition
arXiv:2606. 19781v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural scaling laws describe how model performance improves as a power law in compute, model size, and dataset size.
Scaling Laws of Global Weather Models
arXiv:2602. 22962v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Data-driven models are revolutionizing weather forecasting.
Kilobyte Models: Neural Networks as a Seed and a Quantized Latent
arXiv:2608. 00860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The cost of storing and transmitting a trained neural network scales with its parameter count, a bottleneck for over-the-air updates, on-device libraries, and other bandwidth-bound deployments.
How to Allocate Your Tokens? Scaling Laws with Training Steps and Batch Size
arXiv:2607. 01487v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a scaling law that takes into account model size and training data while explicitly splitting the latter into training steps and batch size (called three-term law).
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.
KANLib -- An Modular, Extensible and Fast Kolmogorov-Arnold Network Implementation
arXiv:2606. 17927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to traditional multilayer perceptrons by replacing linear weights with learnable univariate functions.
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.