cs.DC · 2026-07-09 · No. 48

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing, 2026-07-09.

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01 — The papers

3 entries
  1. 01

    GIFT: Geometry-Informed Low-precision Gradient Communication for LLM Pretraining

    Jieying Wang, Shuyuan Fan, Mingkai Zheng, Zhao Zhang

    cs.DC · cs.LG

    Gradient communication is a primary scaling bottleneck in large language model (LLM) pretraining. Communicating gradients in low-precision formats, such as FP8 and NVFP4, can significantly reduce the communication volume. Existing methods quantize gradients via linear or nonlinear mappings in Euclidean space, often degrading model performance because highly anisotropic gradients incur direction-dependent distortion. We present GIFT, a...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.07494 · PDF

  2. 02

    Voltron: Enabling Elastic Multi-Device Execution of LLM Inference for Empowered Edge Intelligence

    Chanwoo Cho, Wooseok Kim, Yonglak Son, Young Seo Lee, Young Geun Kim

    cs.DC

    Large language models (LLMs) are widely used in intelligent services due to their remarkable capability in generative tasks. Typically, LLM-based services process the inference requests of the users in a centralized data center. Unfortunately, such centralized execution has limitations for end-users, such as increased response latency with communication overhead and privacy leakage risk. To alleviate the aforementioned limitations, there have...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.07046 · PDF

  3. 03

    Seekable OCI: Lazy-Loading Container Images via Range-Request Indexing

    James Thompson, Wayne Mesard, Jesse Butler, Sri Saran Balaji Rajakumar, Henry Wang

    cs.DC · cs.OS

    Container image pulling accounts for the majority of pod startup time in Kubernetes environments. Standard pull downloads the entire image before the container can start, even when the application accesses only a fraction of the image content at startup. We present SOCI (Seekable OCI), a lazy-loading architecture that enables containers to start without downloading the full image. SOCI builds an external index over standard OCI images,...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.06868 · PDF

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