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Bogdan Nicolae

2 accepted papers

2026

SPARe: Stacked Parallelism with Adaptive Reordering for Fault-Tolerant LLM Pretraining Systems with 100k+ GPUs

ICML 2026poster

In large-scale LLM pretraining systems with $100\mathrm{k}+$ GPUs, failures become the norm rather than the exception, and restart costs can dominate wall-clock training time. However, existing fault-tolerance mechanisms are largely unprepared for this restart-dominant regime. To address this challe…

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2025

CoLA: Compute-Efficient Pre-Training of LLMs via Low-Rank Activation

EMNLP 2025

The full-size MLPs and the projection layers in attention introduce tremendous model sizes of large language models (LLMs), consuming extensive computational resources in pre-training. We empirically observe that the activations of pre-trained LLMs exhibit low-rank property. Motivated by such observ