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Training foundation models, such as GPT-3 and PaLM, can be extremely expensive, often involving tens of thousands of GPUs running continuously for months. These models are typically trained in specialized clusters featuring fast, homogeneous interconnects and using carefully designed software systems that support both data parallelism and model/pipeline parallelism. Such dedicated clusters can be costly and difficult to obtain. Can we instead leverage the much greater amount of decentralized, heterogeneous, and lower-bandwidth interconnected compute? Previous works examining the heterogeneous, decentralized setting focus on relatively small models that can be trained in a purely data parallel manner. State-of-the-art schemes for model parallel foundation model training, such as Megatron and Deepspeed, only consider the homogeneous data center setting. In this paper, we present the first study of training large foundation models with model parallelism in a decentralized regime over a heterogeneous network. Our key technical contribution is a scheduling algorithm that allocates different computational “tasklets” in the training of foundation models to a group of decentralized GPU devices connected by a slow heterogeneous network. We provide a formal cost model and further propose an efficient evolutionary algorithm to find the optimal allocation strategy. We conduct extensive experiments that represent different scenarios for learning over geo-distributed devices simulated using real-world network measurements. In the most extreme case, across 8 different cities spanning 3 continents, our approach is 4.8× faster than prior state-of-the-art training systems.
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Binhang Yuan (ETH Zurich)
Yongjun He (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)
Jared Davis (Computer Science Department, Stanford University)
Tianyi Zhang (Stanford University)
Tri Dao (Stanford University)
Beidi Chen (Stanford University)
Percy Liang (Stanford University)

Percy Liang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (B.S. from MIT, 2004; Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, 2011). His research spans machine learning and natural language processing, with the goal of developing trustworthy agents that can communicate effectively with people and improve over time through interaction. Specific topics include question answering, dialogue, program induction, interactive learning, and reliable machine learning. His awards include the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (2016), an NSF CAREER Award (2016), a Sloan Research Fellowship (2015), and a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship (2014).
Christopher Ré (Stanford)
Ce Zhang (ETH Zurich)
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Xinghao Pan · Haijie Gu · Joseph Gonzalez · Sameer Singh · Yucheng Low · Joseph Hellerstein · Derek G Murray · Raghu Ramakrishnan · Michael Jordan · Christopher Ré -
2013 Poster: Dropout Training as Adaptive Regularization »
Stefan Wager · Sida Wang · Percy Liang -
2013 Spotlight: Dropout Training as Adaptive Regularization »
Stefan Wager · Sida Wang · Percy Liang -
2012 Poster: Identifiability and Unmixing of Latent Parse Trees »
Percy Liang · Sham M Kakade · Daniel Hsu -
2009 Workshop: The Generative and Discriminative Learning Interface »
Simon Lacoste-Julien · Percy Liang · Guillaume Bouchard -
2009 Poster: Asymptotically Optimal Regularization in Smooth Parametric Models »
Percy Liang · Francis Bach · Guillaume Bouchard · Michael Jordan -
2008 Workshop: Speech and Language: Unsupervised Latent-Variable Models »
Slav Petrov · Aria Haghighi · Percy Liang · Dan Klein -
2007 Poster: Agreement-Based Learning »
Percy Liang · Dan Klein · Michael Jordan -
2007 Spotlight: Agreement-Based Learning »
Percy Liang · Dan Klein · Michael Jordan -
2007 Poster: A Probabilistic Approach to Language Change »
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté · Percy Liang · Tom Griffiths · Dan Klein