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.