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Kaixu Ren
dblp:321/0797
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Distributed systems · 67% Parallel and multicore computing · 33% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Distributed systems › distributed machine learning
distributed training |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | GBA: A Tuning-free Approach to Switch between Synchronous and Asynchronous Training for Recommendation Models · NeurIPS 2022 |
Parallel and multicore computing › parallel computing › parallel machine learning
parallel training |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | GBA: A Tuning-free Approach to Switch between Synchronous and Asynchronous Training for Recommendation Models · NeurIPS 2022 |
Distributed systems › distributed machine learning
parameter server |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | GBA: A Tuning-free Approach to Switch between Synchronous and Asynchronous Training for Recommendation Models · NeurIPS 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
token-control gradient decay · 0.6global batch gradient aggregation · 0.6convergence analysis · 0.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | GBA: A Tuning-free Approach to Switch between Synchronous and Asynchronous Training for Recommendation ModelsabstractHigh-concurrency asynchronous training upon parameter server (PS) architecture and high-performance synchronous training upon all-reduce (AR) architecture are the most commonly deployed distributed training modes for recommendation models. Although synchronous AR training is designed to have higher training efficiency, asynchronous PS training would be a better choice for training speed when there are stragglers (slow workers) in the shared cluster, especially under limited computing resources. An ideal way to take full advantage of these two training modes is to switch between them upon the cluster status. However, switching training modes often requires tuning hyper-parameters, which is extremely time- and resource-consuming. We find two obstacles to a tuning-free approach: the different distribution of the gradient values and the stale gradients from the stragglers. This paper proposes Global Batch gradients Aggregation (GBA) over PS, which aggregates and applies gradients with the same global batch size as the synchronous training. A token-control process is implemented to assemble the gradients and decay the gradients with severe staleness. We provide the convergence analysis to reveal that GBA has comparable convergence properties with the synchronous training, and demonstrate the robustness of GBA the recommendation models against the gradient staleness. Experiments on three industrial-scale recommendation tasks show that GBA is an effective tuning-free approach for switching. Compared to the state-of-the-art derived asynchronous training, GBA achieves up to 0.2% improvement on the AUC metric, which is significant for the recommendation models. Meanwhile, under the strained hardware resource, GBA speeds up at least 2.4x compared to synchronous training. Wenbo Su, Yuanxing Zhang, Yufeng Cai, Kaixu Ren, Pengjie Wang 0002, Huimin Yi, Hongbo Deng, Jian Xu 0015, Lin Qu, Bo Zheng 0007 |
NeurIPS | 4 |