Compression-Induced Communication-Efficient Large Model Training and Inferencing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00960v1
• Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:51:40 GMT
• Title: Compression-Induced Communication-Efficient Large Model Training and Inferencing
• Authors: Sudip K. Seal, Maksudul Alam, Jorge Ramirez, Sajal Dash, Hao Lu,
• Abstract summary: Energy efficiency of training and inferencing with large neural network models is a critical challenge.<n>This paper introduces an alternative strategy, called phantom parallelism, to minimize the net energy consumption.<n>Experiments are shown to deliver 50% reduction in the energy consumed to train FFNs using the proposed phantom parallel approach.
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• Abstract: Energy efficiency of training and inferencing with large neural network models is a critical challenge facing the future of sustainable large-scale machine learning workloads. This paper introduces an alternative strategy, called phantom parallelism, to minimize the net energy consumption of traditional tensor (model) parallelism, the most energy-inefficient component of large neural network training. The approach is presented in the context of feed-forward network architectures as a preliminary, but comprehensive, proof-of-principle study of the proposed methodology. We derive new forward and backward propagation operators for phantom parallelism, implement them as custom autograd operations within an end-to-end phantom parallel training pipeline and compare its parallel performance and energy-efficiency against those of conventional tensor parallel training pipelines. Formal analyses that predict lower bandwidth and FLOP counts are presented with supporting empirical results on up to 256 GPUs that corroborate these gains. Experiments are shown to deliver ~50% reduction in the energy consumed to train FFNs using the proposed phantom parallel approach when compared with conventional tensor parallel methods. Additionally, the proposed approach is shown to train smaller phantom models to the same model loss on smaller GPU counts as larger tensor parallel models on larger GPU counts offering the possibility for even greater energy savings.

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