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GPU-accelerated particle methods outperform neural samplers in LFT benchmarks.

problem High-dimensional multimodal sampling problems in lattice field theory.
method GPU-accelerated particle Monte Carlo methods (Sequential Monte Carlo and nested sampling).
result These methods match or outperform neural samplers in sample quality and wall-clock time.

Efficiently checks local robustness in neural networks using geometric projections.

problem Ensuring robustness of neural networks against adversarial inputs.
method Systematic search for decision boundaries in convex polyhedral regions using geometric projections.
result Shows geometric projections can efficiently check robustness in neural networks.

SOLAR improves search efficiency and accuracy with sparse, orthogonal embeddings.

problem Bottleneck of indexing large dense vectors and NNS for query efficiency and accuracy.
method Proposes SOLAR embeddings: sparse, orthogonal, learned, and random vectors across multiple GPUs.
result Successfully trains 500K dimensional SOLAR embeddings for 1.6M books and multi-label classification.

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 ↗

Training convolutional networks (CNN's) that fit on a single GPU with minibatch stochastic gradient descent has become effective in practice. However, there is still no effective method for training large CNN's that do not fit in the memory of a few GPU cards, or for parallelizing CNN training. In this work we show tha…

2017-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

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 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 ↗

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 ↗

Training modern deep learning models requires large amounts of computation, often provided by GPUs. Scaling computation from one GPU to many can enable much faster training and research progress but entails two complications. First, the training library must support inter-GPU communication. Depending on the particular …

2018-02-15abs ↗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 ↗

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.

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.

We introduce a new spatial data structure for high dimensional data called the \emph{approximate principal direction tree} (APD tree) that adapts to the intrinsic dimension of the data. Our algorithm ensures vector-quantization accuracy similar to that of computationally-expensive PCA trees with similar time-complexity…

2012-06-18abs ↗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.

We introduce JAX MD, a software package for performing differentiable physics simulations with a focus on molecular dynamics. JAX MD includes a number of physics simulation environments, as well as interaction potentials and neural networks that can be integrated into these environments without writing any additional c…

2019-12-09abs ↗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 ↗

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.

Gaussian processes (GPs) are flexible non-parametric models, with a capacity that grows with the available data. However, computational constraints with standard inference procedures have limited exact GPs to problems with fewer than about ten thousand training points, necessitating approximations for larger datasets. …

2019-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2019-08-04abs ↗pdf ↗

SparseRT accelerates sparse computations on GPUs for deep learning inference.

problem Efficiently handling unstructured sparsity patterns on GPUs for deep learning.
method SparseRT, a code generator that leverages unstructured sparsity for accelerating sparse linear algebra operations.
result Geometric mean speedups of 3.4x at 90% sparsity and 5.4x at 95% sparsity for 1x1 convolutions and fully connected layers.

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.