Beyond A Single AI Cluster: A Survey of Decentralized LLM Training

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Autori principali: Dong, Haotian, Jiang, Jingyan, Lu, Rongwei, Luo, Jiajun, Song, Jiajun, Li, Bowen, Shen, Ying, Wang, Zhi
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author Dong, Haotian
Jiang, Jingyan
Lu, Rongwei
Luo, Jiajun
Song, Jiajun
Li, Bowen
Shen, Ying
Wang, Zhi
author_facet Dong, Haotian
Jiang, Jingyan
Lu, Rongwei
Luo, Jiajun
Song, Jiajun
Li, Bowen
Shen, Ying
Wang, Zhi
contents The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized AI development, yet the resource demands beyond a single cluster or even datacenter, limiting accessibility to well-resourced organizations. Decentralized training has emerged as a promising paradigm to leverage dispersed resources across clusters, datacenters and regions, offering the potential to democratize LLM development for broader communities. As the first comprehensive exploration of this emerging field, we present decentralized LLM training as a resource-driven paradigm and categorize existing efforts into community-driven and organizational approaches. We further clarify this through: (1) a comparison with related paradigms, (2) a characterization of decentralized resources, and (3) a taxonomy of recent advancements. We also provide up-to-date case studies and outline future directions to advance research in decentralized LLM training.
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spellingShingle Beyond A Single AI Cluster: A Survey of Decentralized LLM Training
Dong, Haotian
Jiang, Jingyan
Lu, Rongwei
Luo, Jiajun
Song, Jiajun
Li, Bowen
Shen, Ying
Wang, Zhi
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized AI development, yet the resource demands beyond a single cluster or even datacenter, limiting accessibility to well-resourced organizations. Decentralized training has emerged as a promising paradigm to leverage dispersed resources across clusters, datacenters and regions, offering the potential to democratize LLM development for broader communities. As the first comprehensive exploration of this emerging field, we present decentralized LLM training as a resource-driven paradigm and categorize existing efforts into community-driven and organizational approaches. We further clarify this through: (1) a comparison with related paradigms, (2) a characterization of decentralized resources, and (3) a taxonomy of recent advancements. We also provide up-to-date case studies and outline future directions to advance research in decentralized LLM training.
title Beyond A Single AI Cluster: A Survey of Decentralized LLM Training
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11023