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Communication Efficient LLM Pre-training with SparseLoCo
Amir Sarfi, Benjamin Th\'erien, Joel Lidin, Eugene Belilovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15706 https://

Communication Efficient LLM Pre-training with SparseLoCo
Communication-efficient distributed training algorithms have received considerable interest recently due to their benefits for training Large Language Models (LLMs) in bandwidth-constrained settings, such as across data centers and over the internet. Despite reducing communication frequency, these methods still typically require communicating a full copy of the model's gradients-resulting in a communication bottleneck even for cross-datacenter links. Furthermore, they can slightly degrade perfo…

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PCCL: Photonic circuit-switched collective communication for distributed ML
Abhishek Vijaya Kumar, Arjun Devraj, Rachee Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15450 https://

PCCL: Photonic circuit-switched collective communication for distributed ML
Modern distributed ML suffers from a fundamental gap between the theoretical and realized performance of collective communication algorithms due to congestion and hop-count induced dilation in practical GPU clusters. We present PCCL, a Photonic Collective Communication Library that reconfigures the network topology to match the communication patterns of collective algorithms, thereby eliminating congestion and dilation by creating direct, contention-free circuits between communicating GPUs. Unl…

Trump Ally Pushing Conspiracy Case Says Grand Jury Review Coming (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/trump-ally-pushing-conspiracy-case-says-grand-jury-review-coming
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Implicit Communication in Linear Quadratic Gaussian Control Systems
Gongpu Chen, Deniz Gunduz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16146 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1…

Implicit Communication in Linear Quadratic Gaussian Control Systems
This paper studies implicit communication in linear quadratic Gaussian control systems. We show that the control system itself can serve as an implicit communication channel, enabling the controller to transmit messages through its inputs to a receiver that observes the system state. This communication is considered implicit because (i) no explicit communication channels are needed; and (ii) information is transmitted while simultaneously fulfilling the controller's primary objective--maintaini…

Jointly Computation- and Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning
Xiaoxing Ren, Nicola Bastianello, Karl H. Johansson, Thomas Parisini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15509 https…

Jointly Computation- and Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning
We address distributed learning problems over undirected networks. Specifically, we focus on designing a novel ADMM-based algorithm that is jointly computation- and communication-efficient. Our design guarantees computational efficiency by allowing agents to use stochastic gradients during local training. Moreover, communication efficiency is achieved as follows: i) the agents perform multiple training epochs between communication rounds, and ii) compressed transmissions are used. We prove exac…

White House to announce World Cup draw is coming to the Kennedy Center (Garrett Haake/NBC News)
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http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p72#a250822p72