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48 results for GPU memory

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.

New GPU kernels boost deep learning speed and memory efficiency.

problem Sparse deep learning matrices are not well-suited for existing sparse kernels.
method Identified favorable properties of sparse matrices from deep learning, developed high-performance GPU kernels for sparse matrix operations.
result 27% of single-precision peak performance on Nvidia V100 GPUs achieved with new kernels.

GPU (graphics processing unit) has been used for many data-intensive applications. Among them, deep learning systems are one of the most important consumer systems for GPU nowadays. As deep learning applications impose deeper and larger models in order to achieve higher accuracy, memory management becomes an important …

2019-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm reduces costs and latency for large language model inference.

problem Optimizing inference costs and latency for large language models with GPU constraints.
method Formulated as an online scheduling problem with endogenous memory growth, introduced fluid model and WAIT algorithms.
result Reduced costs and latency, especially in near-overloaded and overloaded regimes.

Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) require huge GPU memory when training on modern image/video databases. Unfortunately, the GPU memory is physically finite, which limits the image resolutions and batch sizes that could be used in training for better DNN performance. Unlike solutions that require physically upgrade GPUs, the G…

2018-07-31abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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))

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…

2019-01-02abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2016-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We describe the multi-GPU gradient boosting algorithm implemented in the XGBoost library (https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost). Our algorithm allows fast, scalable training on multi-GPU systems with all of the features of the XGBoost library. We employ data compression techniques to minimise the usage of scarce GPU memory …

2018-06-29abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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-…

2017-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Cyclic Data Parallelism reduces memory usage and balances gradient communications.

problem Training large deep learning models requires efficient parallelism to scale.
method Cyclic Data Parallelism shifts micro-batches from simultaneous to sequential execution, balancing memory and gradient communications.
result Cyclic Data Parallelism reduces total memory usage and balances gradient communications.

NetFuse merges different DNN models with varying weights for faster inference.

problem Inference speed of DNN models with different weights cannot be improved using existing techniques.
method NetFuse merges models with the same architecture but different weights and inputs, replacing operations with more general ones.
result NetFuse can speed up DNN inference time up to 3.6x on a NVIDIA V100 GPU.

Proposes RBGP framework for efficient block sparse neural networks.

problem Efficiently exploit structured sparsity patterns for sparse neural networks on GPU.
method Uses Ramanujan Bipartite Graph Product to generate structured multi-level block sparse neural networks.
result Achieves 5-9x and 2-5x runtime gains over unstructured and block sparsity patterns respectively, while maintaining accuracy.

DoRA improves adaptation efficiency for large models by factoring norms and fusing kernels.

problem High-rank DoRA is computationally expensive and infeasible on common GPUs.
method Factored norms and fused Triton kernels to reduce memory and speed up computation.
result Fused implementation is up to 2.0x faster for inference and 1.9x faster for gradient computation.

This paper proposes an alternative to E2E training for deep networks, reducing memory footprint.

problem High GPUs memory footprint in end-to-end training of deep networks.
method Locally supervised learning with information propagation loss to avoid information collapse.
result The proposed method achieves competitive performance with less than 40% memory footprint compared to E2E training.

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 …

2018-12-28abs ↗pdf ↗

NVIDIA cuDNN is a low-level library that provides GPU kernels frequently used in deep learning. Specifically, cuDNN implements several equivalent convolution algorithms, whose performance and memory footprint may vary considerably, depending on the layer dimensions. When an algorithm is automatically selected by cuDNN,…

2018-04-13abs ↗pdf ↗

High-speed model accurately simulates neuromorphic devices.

problem Accurately modeling stochastic synapses in large-scale neuromorphic systems.
method Generative vector autoregressive model based on resistive memory cell data.
result Fast, high-throughput model reproduces synaptic parameters and correlations.

Alternatives to recurrent neural networks, in particular, architectures based on attention or convolutions, have been gaining momentum for processing input sequences. In spite of their relevance, the computational properties of these alternatives have not yet been fully explored. We study the computational power of two…

2019-01-10abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

The fully connected layers of a deep convolutional neural network typically contain over 90% of the network parameters, and consume the majority of the memory required to store the network parameters. Reducing the number of parameters while preserving essentially the same predictive performance is critically important …

2014-12-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved EXACT strategy reduces GNN memory consumption and runtime.

problem Efficiently training large-scale GNNs with reduced memory usage.
method Block-wise quantization of intermediate activation maps with improved variance minimization.
result Further reduction in memory consumption (>15%) and runtime speedup (5%) with similar performance trade-offs.

Deep Learning has established itself to be a common occurrence in the business lexicon. The unprecedented success of deep learning in recent years can be attributed to: abundance of data, availability of gargantuan compute capabilities offered by GPUs, and adoption of open-source philosophy by the researchers and indus…

2019-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Train a lightweight carry-on model on existing LLMs for faster customization.

problem Customizing large language models for specific tasks is computationally expensive.
method Train an additional branch of transformer blocks on the final-layer embedding of pretrained LLMs, then merge them with a carry-on module.
result Training a 100M carry-on layer requires less than 1GB GPU memory, making it scalable and affordable.