Awesome Large Model (LM) System

This repo collects papers, repos, tools for large model system, including training, inference, serving and compression.

• Awesome Large Model (LM) System
  • Papers
    • Training
    • Inference
    • Benchmark
    • Survey
  • Frameworks

Papers

Training

Year	Publisher	Title	Framework
2023		Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning
2023		Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models
2023	ICLR	DySR: Adaptive Super-Resolution via Algorithm and System Co-design	DeepSpeed
2023		Scaling Vision-Language Models with Sparse Mixture of Experts	DeepSpeed
2023	IPDPS	MCR-DL: Mix-and-Match Communication Runtime for Deep Learning	DeepSpeed
2023	ICS	A Hybrid Tensor-Expert-Data Parallelism Approach to Optimize Mixture-of-Experts Training	DeepSpeed
2023	OSDI	AlpaServe: Statistical Multiplexing with Model Parallelism for Deep Learning Serving	Alpa
2023	MLSys	On Optimizing the Communication of Model Parallelism	Alpa
2023		Colossal-Auto: Unified Automation of Parallelization and Activation Checkpoint for Large-scale Models	ColossalAI
2022	CVPR	Perception Prioritized Training of Diffusion Models
2022		Reducing Activation Recomputation in Large Transformer Models	Megatron-LM
2022	HiPC	1-bit LAMB: Communication Efficient Large-Scale Large-Batch Training with LAMB's Convergence Speed	DeepSpeed
2022	NeurIPS	The Stability-Efficiency Dilemma: Investigating Sequence Length Warmup for Training GPT Models	DeepSpeed
2022		Maximizing Communication Efficiency for Large-scale Training via 0/1 Adam	DeepSpeed
2022	ICML	DeepSpeed-MoE: Advancing Mixture-of-Experts Inference and Training to Power Next-Generation AI Scale	DeepSpeed
2022		Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, A Large-Scale Generative Language Model	DeepSpeed
2022		Random-LTD: Random and Layerwise Token Dropping Brings Efficient Training for Large-scale Transformers	DeepSpeed
2022		DeepSpeed Data Efficiency: Improving Deep Learning Model Quality and Training Efficiency via Efficient Data Sampling and Routing	DeepSpeed
2022	OSDI	Alpa: Automating Inter- and Intra-Operator Parallelism for Distributed Deep Learning	Alpa
2022	ICPP	Tesseract: Parallelize the Tensor Parallelism Efficiently	ColossalAI
2022		A Frequency-aware Software Cache for Large Recommendation System Embeddings	ColossalAI
2022	TPDS	Parallel Training of Pre-Trained Models via Chunk-Based Dynamic Memory Management	ColossalAI
2021		Efficient Large-Scale Language Model Training on GPU Clusters Using Megatron-LM	Megatron-LM
2021		LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
2021	SC	ZeRO-Infinity: Breaking the GPU Memory Wall for Extreme Scale Deep Learning	DeepSpeed
2021	ICML	1-bit Adam: Communication Efficient Large-Scale Training with Adam's Convergence Speed	DeepSpeed
2021	ATC	ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training.	DeepSpeed
2021	PPoPP	DAPPLE: a pipelined data parallel approach for training large models
2021	ICML	TeraPipe: Token-Level Pipeline Parallelism for Training Large	TeraPipe
2021	ICML	Memory-Efficient Pipeline-Parallel DNN Training	PipeDream
2021		An Efficient 2D Method for Training Super-Large Deep Learning Models	ColossalAI
2021		Maximizing Parallelism in Distributed Training for Huge Neural Networks	ColossalAI
2021		Sequence Parallelism: Long Sequence Training from System Perspective	ColossalAI
2021		Colossal-AI: A Unified Deep Learning System For Large-Scale Parallel Training	ColossalAI
2020	KDD Tutorial	DeepSpeed: System Optimizations Enable Training Deep Learning Models with Over 100 Billion Parameters.	DeepSpeed
2020	SC	ZeRO: memory optimizations toward training trillion parameter models.	DeepSpeed
2020	NeuraIPS	Accelerating Training of Transformer-Based Language Models with Progressive Layer Dropping	DeepSpeed
2020		Megatron-LM: Training Multi-Billion Parameter Language Models Using Model Parallelism	Megatron-LM
2020		torchgpipe: On-the-fly Pipeline Parallelism for Training Giant Models	TorchGpipe
2019	NeuraIPS	GPipe: efficient training of giant neural networks using pipeline parallelism	TorchGpipe
2019	SOSP	PipeDream: Generalized pipeline parallelism for DNN training	PipeDream

Compression

Year	Publisher	Title	Framework
2023		Agile-Quant: Activation-Guided Quantization for Faster Inference of LLMs on the Edge
2023		CBQ: Cross-Block Quantization for Large Language Models
2023		Norm Tweaking: High-performance Low-bit Quantization of Large Language Models
2023		Dual Grained Quantization: Efficient Fine-Grained Quantization for LLM
2023		Atom: Low-bit Quantization for Efficient and Accurate LLM Serving
2023		RPTQ: Reorder-based Post-training Quantization for Large Language Models
2023		SpQR: A Sparse-Quantized Representation for Near-Lossless LLM Weight Compression
2023		LQ-LoRA: Low-rank Plus Quantized Matrix Decomposition for Efficient Language Model Finetuning
2023		QA-LoRA: Quantization-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
2023		LoftQ: LoRA-Fine-Tuning-Aware Quantization for Large Language Models
2023		AffineQuant: Affine Transformation Quantization for Large Language Models
2023		LLM-QAT: Data-Free Quantization Aware Training for Large Language Models
2023		QLLM: Accurate and Efficient Low-Bitwidth Quantization for Large Language Models
2023		LLM-Pruner: On the Structural Pruning of Large Language Models
2023		OmniQuant: Omnidirectionally Calibrated Quantization for Large Language Models
2023		SqueezeLLM: Dense-and-Sparse Quantization
2023		A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models
2023		On Architectural Compression of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
2023	ICML	SparseGPT: Massive Language Models Can Be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot
2023		AWQ: Activation-aware Weight Quantization for LLM Compression and Acceleration
2023		OWQ: Lessons learned from activation outliers for weight quantization in large language models
2023	ICLR	GPTQ: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Generative Pre-trained Transformers
2023	ISCA	OliVe: Accelerating Large Language Models via Hardware-friendly Outlier-Victim Pair Quantization
2023		Quantizable Transformers: Removing Outliers by Helping Attention Heads Do Nothing
2023		ZeroQuant-V2: Exploring Post-training Quantization in LLMs from Comprehensive Study to Low Rank Compensation
2023	ICML	SmoothQuant: Accurate and Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models
2023	ICML	Understanding INT4 Quantization for Transformer Models: Latency Speedup, Composability, and Failure Cases	DeepSpeed
2023		Outlier Suppression+: Accurate quantization of large language models by equivalent and optimal shifting and scaling
2023		QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
2022	NeuraIPS	ZeroQuant: Efficient and Affordable Post-Training Quantization for Large-Scale Transformers	DeepSpeed
2022	NeuraIPS	Extreme Compression for Pre-trained Transformers Made Simple and Efficient	DeepSpeed
2022	NeuraIPS	Outlier Suppression: Pushing the Limit of Low-bit Transformer Language Models
2022	NeuraIPS	LLM.int8(): 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
2022	NeuraIPS	ZeroQuant: Efficient and Affordable Post-Training Quantization for Large-Scale Transformers
2021	EMNLP	Understanding and Overcoming the Challenges of Efficient Transformer Quantization

Inference

Year	Publisher	Title	Framework
2023		Fast Inference in Denoising Diffusion Models via MMD Finetuning
2023		EnergonAI: An Inference System for 10-100 Billion Parameter Transformer Models	EnergonAI
2023		H2O: Heavy-Hitter Oracle for Efficient Generative Inference of Large Language Models
2023		FlexGen: High-Throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPU
2022	ICML	DeepSpeed-MoE: Advancing Mixture-of-Experts Inference and Training to Power Next-Generation AI Scale	DeepSpeed
2022	SC	DeepSpeed Inference: Enabling Efficient Inference of Transformer Models at Unprecedented Scale	DeepSpeed

Benchmark

Year	Publisher	Title	Framework
Year	Pub	Title	Framework
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Survey

Year	Publisher	Title	Framework
Year	Pub	Title	Framework
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Frameworks

Year	Name	Training	Inference	Serving	Comments
2023	EnergonAI	✗	✔	✗
2022	Alpa	✔	✔	✔	Compilation based mixed parallelism
2021	Megatron-DeepSpeed	✔	✗	✗	Add MoE model training, Curriculum Learning, 3D Parallelism from DeepSpeed to Megatron
2021	TeraPipe	✔	✗	✗
2021	ColossalAI	✔	✔	✔
2021	FasterTransformer	✗	✔	✗
2020	DeepSpeed	✔	✔	✗	General Support of Transformers and MoE with 3d-parallelism
2019	Megatron-LM	✔	✗	✗
2019	PipeDream	✔	✗	✗
2019	TorchGipe	✔	✗	✗	The torchgipe has been merged to PyTorch in 2020.
2019	PipeDream	✔	✗	✗