5 accepted papers
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models expand capacity via sparse expert activation, but routing logits can misalign with expert structure (unstable routing, underutilization) and load imbalance can create stragglers. Auxiliary load-balancing losses reduce disparity but often weaken specialization and down
With AI advancement and increasing circuit complexity, efficient chip design through Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is critical. Fast and accurate congestion prediction in chip layout and routing can significantly enhance automated design performance. Existing congestion modeling methods are lim…
In recent years, there has been increasing attention on the capabilities of large-scale models, particularly in handling complex tasks that small-scale models are unable to perform. Notably, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated ``intelligent'' abilities such as complex reasoning and abstra…
Computation graphs are Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) where the nodes correspond to mathematical operations and are used widely as abstractions in optimizations of neural networks. The device placement problem aims to identify optimal allocations of those nodes to a set of (potentially heterogeneous…
Backpropagation (BP) has been a successful optimization technique for deep learning models. However, its limitations, such as backward- and update-locking, and its biological implausibility, hinder the concurrent updating of layers and do not mimic the local learning processes observed in the human…