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48 results for GPU parallelism

In this work, we present an extension of Gaussian process (GP) models with sophisticated parallelization and GPU acceleration. The parallelization scheme arises naturally from the modular computational structure w.r.t. datapoints in the sparse Gaussian process formulation. Additionally, the computational bottleneck is …

2014-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper improves financial trading models using GPU parallelism.

problem Challenges in policy instability and sampling bottlenecks in reinforcement learning for financial tasks.
method Revisits ensemble methods with massively parallel simulations on GPUs.
result Significantly improved computational efficiency and robustness of financial decision-making strategies.

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…

2016-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

GPU speeds up Monte Carlo simulations for large time steps.

problem Slow convergence and inaccurate solutions with large time steps in Monte Carlo simulations.
method Generalizes the Seven League scheme for GPU acceleration.
result Significantly improved computational speed.

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a statistical technique commonly used in multivariate data analysis. However, PCA can be difficult to interpret and explain since the principal components (PCs) are linear combinations of the original variables. Sparse PCA (SPCA) aims to balance statistical fidelity and interpretab…

2013-12-21abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

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 ↗

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.

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.

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 …

2019-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Modern machine learning models are typically trained using Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) on massively parallel computing resources such as GPUs. Increasing mini-batch size is a simple and direct way to utilize the parallel computing capacity. For small batch an increase in batch size results in the proportional red…

2018-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

It is time-consuming and error-prone to implement inference procedures for each new probabilistic model. Probabilistic programming addresses this problem by allowing a user to specify the model and having a compiler automatically generate an inference procedure for it. For this approach to be practical, it is important…

2013-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

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 describe a simple, low-level approach for embedding probabilistic programming in a deep learning ecosystem. In particular, we distill probabilistic programming down to a single abstraction---the random variable. Our lightweight implementation in TensorFlow enables numerous applications: a model-parallel variational …

2018-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2013-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

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))

New method ensures consistent inference across different tensor parallel sizes for large language models.

problem Non-deterministic inference in large language models due to inconsistent reduction orders across GPUs.
method Tree-Based Invariant Kernels (TBIK) that align intra- and inter-GPU reduction orders through a unified hierarchical binary tree structure.
result Bit-wise identical results across different tensor parallel sizes for RL training.

Classical optimization algorithms in machine learning often take a long time to compute when applied to a multi-dimensional problem and require a huge amount of CPU and GPU resource. Quantum parallelism has a potential to speed up machine learning algorithms. We describe a generic mathematical model to leverage quantum…

2019-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

The Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) is a state-of-the art metric for comparing discrete probability distributions, but its high distinguishability comes at a high cost in computational complexity. Even though linear-complexity approximation algorithms have been proposed to improve its scalability, these algorithms are eit…

2018-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficient kernel methods for large datasets using GPU acceleration.

problem Handling large-scale nonparametric learning problems efficiently.
method Preconditioned gradient solver, GPU acceleration, parallelization, out-of-core linear algebra, numerical precision optimization.
result Dramatic speedups on datasets with billions of points, maintaining state-of-the-art performance.

We propose a new algorithm called Parle for parallel training of deep networks that converges 2-4x faster than a data-parallel implementation of SGD, while achieving significantly improved error rates that are nearly state-of-the-art on several benchmarks including CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, without introducing any additi…

2017-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Nested Slice Sampling accelerates Nested Sampling for GPU acceleration.

problem Challenging inference for complex, multimodal targets.
method Vectorized Nested Slice Sampling using Hit-and-Run Slice Sampling.
result NSS maintains accurate evidence estimates and high-quality posterior samples, robust on multimodal problems.

Most commonly used distributed machine learning systems are either synchronous or centralized asynchronous. Synchronous algorithms like AllReduce-SGD perform poorly in a heterogeneous environment, while asynchronous algorithms using a parameter server suffer from 1) communication bottleneck at parameter servers when wo…

2017-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose an O(NM)O(N\cdot M) sorting algorithm by Machine Learning method, which shows a huge potential sorting big data. This sorting algorithm can be applied to parallel sorting and is suitable for GPU or TPU acceleration. Furthermore, we discuss the application of this algorithm to sparse hash table.

2018-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a key kernel for unsupervised dimension reduction used in a wide range of applications, including topic modeling, recommender systems and bioinformatics. Due to the compute-intensive nature of applications that must perform repeated NMF, several parallel implementations have b…

2019-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2019-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

This is a report of our lessons learned building acoustic models from 1 Million hours of unlabeled speech, while labeled speech is restricted to 7,000 hours. We employ student/teacher training on unlabeled data, helping scale out target generation in comparison to confidence model based methods, which require a decoder…

2019-04-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a method to reduce parallel complexity of MLMC in SGD.

problem Poor scalability of MLMC in SGD on parallel platforms.
method Proposes a delayed MLMC gradient estimator to reduce parallel complexity.
result Proves reduction in average parallel complexity per iteration at the cost of slightly worse convergence rate.