Modern large-scale LLM pretraining benefits from utilizing Pipeline Parallelism; however, synchronous implementations leave GPUs idle during pipeline bubbles, wasting computational resources. Asynchronous Pipeline Parallelism eliminates these bubbles, maximizing throughput at the cost of gradient staleness.
arXiv:2606. 30634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large-scale LLM pretraining benefits from utilizing Pipeline Parallelism; however, synchronous implementations leave GPUs idle during pipeline bubbles, wasting computational resources.
By Philip Zmushko, Egor Petrov, Nursultan Abdullaev, Mikhail Khrushchev, Samuel Horv\'ath
arXiv:2606. 07881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pipeline parallelism is essential for training large neural networks, but existing schedules trade off throughput, memory, and optimization consistency.
By Itay Elam, Eliron Rahimi, Avi Mendelson, Chaim Baskin
arXiv:2606. 09377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Formal neural network verification -- proving that a network satisfies safety properties for \emph{all} inputs in a specified domain -- is bounded in practice by GPU memory: standard implementations of bound-propagation algorithms (IBP, CROWN, $\alpha$-CROWN) require weight and relaxation-coefficient matrices to reside entirely on one accelerator.
By Sergei Vorobyov, Eugene Ilyushin
arXiv:2609.13846v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Delayed Tensor Parallelism (DTP) removes the blocking all-reduce of tensor-parallel Transformer inference. Every device adds its own partial output to...
By Eloi de Reynal
arXiv:2609.37899v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Zero-order optimization (ZO) trains without backpropagation, making it relevant to forward-only hardware and non-differentiable loss, but its gradient...
By Francois Chaubard, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Chris R\'e