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Decentralised AI Training and Inference with BlockTrain

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arXiv:2606. 24722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier AI training is increasingly shaped by access to dense, centrally controlled accelerator clusters.

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Pre-Compiled Pipeline Shards for Distributed LLM Inference on Intel AI PC Fleets

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Scaling Zero-Order Pretraining through Model Sharding

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Fine-Tuning and Serving Gemma 4 31B on Google Cloud TPU: A Technical Comparison with GPU Baselines

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Mixture-of-Kittens: MoE Megakernel for NVL72s

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