Massively parallel architectures such as the GPU are becoming increasingly important due to the recent proliferation of data. In this paper, we propose a key class of hybrid parallel graphlet algorithms that leverages multiple CPUs and GPUs simultaneously for computing k-vertex induced subgraph statistics (called graph…
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Signatory is a library for calculating and performing functionality related to the signature and logsignature transforms. The focus is on machine learning, and as such includes features such as CPU parallelism, GPU support, and backpropagation. To our knowledge it is the first GPU-capable library for these operations. …
Stochastic simulation techniques employed for the analysis of portfolios of insurance/reinsurance risk, often referred to as `Aggregate Risk Analysis', can benefit from exploiting state-of-the-art high-performance computing platforms. In this paper, parallel methods to speed-up aggregate risk analysis for supporting re…
We introduce CuLE (CUDA Learning Environment), a CUDA port of the Atari Learning Environment (ALE) which is used for the development of deep reinforcement algorithms. CuLE overcomes many limitations of existing CPU-based emulators and scales naturally to multiple GPUs. It leverages GPU parallelization to run thousands …
LoRA fine-tuning on CPUs without GPUs achieves comparable performance to GPU-based methods.
problem Limited computational resources for fine-tuning LLMs.
method Developed a CPU-efficient method to learn meta-operators for LoRA weights.
result LoRA adapters trained on CPUs outperform base models on downstream tasks.
Polylab is a MATLAB toolbox for multivariate polynomial modeling.
problem Efficiently modeling and manipulating multivariate polynomials across CPU and GPU.
method Unified symbolic-numeric interface, three aligned classes (MPOLY, MPOLY_GPU, MPOLY_HP), polynomial operations, differentiation, matrix computations.
result Advantages of MPOLY-HP for reduction-heavy simplification and large-scale computations, and the stochastic log-determinant variant for sparse regimes.
RFX accelerates and compresses Random Forests for large datasets.
problem Memory bottleneck in proximity matrices limits Random Forest analysis.
method QLORA compression, CPU TriBlock storage, GPU batch sizing, 3D MDS visualization.
result Proximity-based Random Forest analysis on larger datasets is feasible.
Paper explores reducing precision in SVM for faster text classification.
problem Efficiency in multi-class text classification training.
method Comparison of SVM trained with reduced precision (16-bit, half) vs original.
result Reduced precision training maintains text classification accuracy.
A Reduction of the Elastic Net to Support Vector Machines with an Application to GPU Computingstat.ML
The past years have witnessed many dedicated open-source projects that built and maintain implementations of Support Vector Machines (SVM), parallelized for GPU, multi-core CPUs and distributed systems. Up to this point, no comparable effort has been made to parallelize the Elastic Net, despite its popularity in many h…
Framework optimizes cloud container sizing for ML tasks.
problem Challenges in cloud container configuration for ML services.
method Autonomous scaling using nested-loop Monte Carlo simulation.
result Reduces compute cost and accelerates ML algorithms.
Asymmetry PRISM outperforms CPU and GPU solvers for institutional rebalancing.
problem Institutional rebalancing with deadline constraints
method Asymmetry PRISM
result Asymmetry PRISM-CPU is 4.5x to 24.1x faster than the fastest completed reference row in the same lane.
The graphics processing unit (GPU) has emerged as a powerful and cost effective processor for general performance computing. GPUs are capable of an order of magnitude more floating-point operations per second as compared to modern central processing units (CPUs), and thus provide a great deal of promise for computation…
RFX-Fuse combines Breiman and Cutler's Random Forest with modern ML capabilities.
problem Lack of a unified ML engine with diverse capabilities.
method Unified ML engine with native GPU/CPU support, delivering 5+ functionalities in one model.
result Native explainable similarity and imputation validation.
The realized stochastic volatility (RSV) model that utilizes the realized volatility as additional information has been proposed to infer volatility of financial time series. We consider the Bayesian inference of the RSV model by the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm. The HMC algorithm can be parallelized and thus per…
Learning continuous representations of nodes is attracting growing interest in both academia and industry recently, due to their simplicity and effectiveness in a variety of applications. Most of existing node embedding algorithms and systems are capable of processing networks with hundreds of thousands or a few millio…
pySigLib speeds up signature-based computations on CPUs and GPUs.
problem Efficient signature-based computations on large datasets and long sequences.
method Optimised Python library for CPU and GPU, novel differentiation scheme.
result Accurate gradients at a fraction of the runtime of existing libraries.
In this paper we present CatBoost, a new open-sourced gradient boosting library that successfully handles categorical features and outperforms existing publicly available implementations of gradient boosting in terms of quality on a set of popular publicly available datasets. The library has a GPU implementation of lea…
KineticSim accelerates financial market simulations 3406x over CPU.
problem Simulating financial markets at scale with multi-agent models is bottlenecked by sequential processing and GPU kernel overhead.
method Formalized and implemented a reusable parallel design pattern for iterative multi-agent reductions in thread-block shared memory.
result Achieved a peak throughput of over 54.7 billion agent-events per second, delivering 3406x speedup over CPU.
New hybrid model reduces MILP solver time by up to 26%.
problem Improving CPU-based MILP solver efficiency.
method Combines GNN and MLP for efficient CPU-based branching.
result Up to 26% reduction in solver running time compared to state-of-the-art methods.
A GPU framework speeds up BnB for discrete optimization problems.
problem Optimizing large-scale discrete problems with GPU limitations.
method Parallel BnB nodes in GPU batches, using padding and custom kernels.
result One to two orders of magnitude speedup and zero optimality gap.
We introduce a learning-based framework to optimize tensor programs for deep learning workloads. Efficient implementations of tensor operators, such as matrix multiplication and high dimensional convolution, are key enablers of effective deep learning systems. However, existing systems rely on manually optimized librar…
BiQGEMM efficiently multiplies quantized DNN weights using lookup tables.
problem Efficiently multiplying quantized DNN weights on CPUs/GPUs with limited memory.
method BiQGEMM pre-computes and stores redundant intermediate results in lookup tables.
result BiQGEMM achieves lower overall computations and higher performance.
Matrix Factorization (MF) on large scale matrices is computationally as well as memory intensive task. Alternative convergence techniques are needed when the size of the input matrix is higher than the available memory on a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Graphical Processing Unit (GPU). While alternating least squar…
KineticSim: A lightweight, high-performance execution engine for real-time market simulators
problem Simulating financial markets at scale with multi-agent models
method Reusable parallel design pattern: persistent, state-carrying clearing for iterative multi-agent reductions
result Reduces per-step critical-path depth from Theta(L+A) to Theta(log L + ceil(A/L))
Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular tool for analyzing discrete count data such as text and images. Applications require LDA to handle both large datasets and a large number of topics. Though distributed CPU systems have been used, GPU-based systems have emerged as a promising alternative because of the high…
XGBoost implements AFT models for survival regression.
problem Survival regression for time-to-event data.
method Loss functions for AFT models in XGBoost.
result XGBoost's AFT model improves generalization and training speed.
Training deep learning models is compute-intensive and there is an industry-wide trend towards hardware specialization to improve performance. To systematically benchmark deep learning platforms, we introduce ParaDnn, a parameterized benchmark suite for deep learning that generates end-to-end models for fully connected…
New software package for scalable DPMM inference on large datasets.
problem Scalability and practical adoption of Dirichlet Process Mixture Models.
method Efficient distributed sampling-based inference on CPUs and GPUs.
result Significant speedups and fitting of larger datasets.
Paper proposes a GPU-based system for training massive deep learning models in ads systems.
problem Training massive deep learning models with terabyte-scale parameters in ads systems.
method Hierarchical GPU parameter server with 3-layer storage (GPU High-Bandwidth Memory, CPU main memory, SSD).
result 4-node hierarchical GPU parameter server trains a model 2X faster than a 150-node in-memory system.
The evolution of MobileNets has laid a solid foundation for neural network applications on mobile end. With the latest MobileNetV3, neural architecture search again claimed its supremacy in network design. Unfortunately, till today all mobile methods mainly focus on CPU latencies instead of GPU, the latter, however, is…
Unrealized Expectations: Comparing AI Methods vs Classical Algorithms for Maximum Independent Setcs.LG
AI methods often fail to outperform classical CPU-based solvers on Maximum Independent Set problems.
problem Comparing AI methods with classical CPU-based solvers on Maximum Independent Set problems.
method Comparison of AI methods (e.g., generative models, reinforcement learning) with classical CPU-based solvers (e.g., KaMIS) on Maximum Independent Set problem.
result AI-inspired methods are often outperformed by classical CPU-based solvers, even with post-processing techniques.
We present Caffe con Troll (CcT), a fully compatible end-to-end version of the popular framework Caffe with rebuilt internals. We built CcT to examine the performance characteristics of training and deploying general-purpose convolutional neural networks across different hardware architectures. We find that, by employi…
GPU speeds up derivatives sensitivity computation for Heston model options.
problem Efficient computation of option Greeks under the Heston model.
method Implemented exact simulation and novel Milstein discretisation methods on GPU.
result GPU speeds up Greeks computation up to 200x compared to CPU methods.
GPU computing has become popular in computational finance and many financial institutions are moving their CPU based applications to the GPU platform. Since most Monte Carlo algorithms are embarrassingly parallel, they benefit greatly from parallel implementations, and consequently Monte Carlo has become a focal point …
JAXFit speeds up curve fitting on GPUs.
problem Nonlinear least squares curve fitting problems.
method Trust region method on GPU with automatic differentiation.
result Significantly faster than CPU and other GPU libraries.
High performance computing (HPC) is a very attractive and relatively new area of research, which gives promising results in many applications. In this paper HPC is used for pricing of American options. Although the American options are very significant in computational finance; their valuation is very challenging, espe…
Deep Learning Library (DLL) is a new library for machine learning with deep neural networks that focuses on speed. It supports feed-forward neural networks such as fully-connected Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). It also has very comprehensive support for Restricted Boltzmann …
BoXHED2.0 boosts survival analysis for complex data.
problem Survival analysis with time-dependent covariates.
method Tree-boosted hazard estimator, fully nonparametric, scalable.
result Scalable to parametric boosted survival models in speed.
aweSOM accelerates SOM clustering for large datasets.
problem Scalability issues in existing SOM implementations for large, multidimensional data.
method CPU/GPU-accelerated Self-organizing Maps (SOM) with ensemble stacking.
result 10-100x speed up and improved memory efficiency for large datasets.
The wavelet scattering transform is an invariant signal representation suitable for many signal processing and machine learning applications. We present the Kymatio software package, an easy-to-use, high-performance Python implementation of the scattering transform in 1D, 2D, and 3D that is compatible with modern deep …
Recent technological advances have proliferated the available computing power, memory, and speed of modern Central Processing Units (CPUs), Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Consequently, the performance and complexity of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) is burgeoning. While…
GPU-accelerated BART speeds up Bayesian regression.
problem Long running time of BART makes it impractical for large datasets.
method GPU-enabled implementation of BART.
result BART is now 200x faster on GPUs.
The rising use of deep learning and other big-data algorithms has led to an increasing demand for hardware platforms that are computationally powerful, yet energy-efficient. Due to the amount of data parallelism in these algorithms, high-performance 3D manycore platforms that incorporate both CPUs and GPUs present a pr…
In this paper, we present a novel massively parallel algorithm for accelerating the decision tree building procedure on GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), which is a crucial step in Gradient Boosted Decision Tree (GBDT) and random forests training. Previous GPU based tree building algorithms are based on parallel multi-…
Quasi-Monte Carlo speeds up option Greeks calculation on GPUs.
problem Efficiently calculating option Greeks for risk management.
method Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) combined with GPU acceleration for pathwise sensitivity calculation.
result Increased computational speed and efficiency in estimating option Greeks.
Poseidon: An Efficient Communication Architecture for Distributed Deep Learning on GPU Clusterscs.LG
Deep learning models can take weeks to train on a single GPU-equipped machine, necessitating scaling out DL training to a GPU-cluster. However, current distributed DL implementations can scale poorly due to substantial parameter synchronization over the network, because the high throughput of GPUs allows more data batc…
cuRegOT accelerates GPU-based entropic OT solving.
problem Slow convergence and high computational cost of optimal transport on GPUs.
method High-performance GPU solver with algorithmic and architectural optimizations.
result Significant speedups over state-of-the-art solvers.
We demonstrate the use of tensor networks for image classification with the TensorNetwork open source library. We explain in detail the encoding of image data into a matrix product state form, and describe how to contract the network in a way that is parallelizable and well-suited to automatic gradients for optimizatio…