Zephon: Elastic Determinism for Online, Stateful Foundation Model Data Loading Pipelines
Read the original on arXiv AI →Zephon is a data loader designed for foundation model training that ensures deterministic ordering of training data batches even when GPU resources change, checkpoints are resumed, or different processing backends are used. It handles online, stateful pipelines—where tokenization, packing, and mixing of samples create complex n‑to‑m transformations—by partitioning the data stream into topology‑independent lanes, serializing ordering decisions, and checkpointing only bounded in‑flight state. Experiments on text and vision‑language tasks show Zephon delivers competitive throughput while offering guarantees that existing loaders lack for such pipelines.
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