Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Snir, Marc
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Snir, Marc
Committee Member(s)
Gropp, William
Hwu, Wen-mei
Van Essen, Brian
Schwing, Alexander
Department of Study
Computer Science
Discipline
Computer Science
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
High-performance computing
deep learning
convolutional neural network
parallel computing
machine learning
Abstract
Accelerating and scaling the training of deep neural networks (DNNs) is critical to keep up with growing datasets, reduce training times, and enable training on memory-constrained problems where parallelism is necessary. In this thesis, I present a set of techniques that can leverage large high-performance computing systems for fast training of DNNs. I first introduce a suite of algorithms to exploit additional parallelism in convolutional layers when training, expanding beyond the standard sample-wise data-parallel approach to include spatial parallelism and channel and filter parallelism. Next, I present optimizations to communication frameworks to reduce communication overheads at large scales. Finally, I discuss communication quantization, which can directly reduce communication volumes. In concert, these methods allow rapid training and enable training on problems that were previously infeasible.
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