no code implementations • 12 Nov 2019 • Ammar Ahmad Awan, Arpan Jain, Quentin Anthony, Hari Subramoni, Dhabaleswar K. Panda
Four major problems we focus on are: 1) defining a notion of a distributed model across processes, 2) implementing forward/back-propagation across process boundaries that requires explicit communication, 3) obtaining parallel speedup on an inherently sequential task, and 4) achieving scalability without losing out on a model's accuracy.
