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Crossbow

2 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Alexandros Koliousis et al. in CROSSBOW: Scaling Deep Learning with Small Batch Sizes on Multi-GPU Servers

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Crossbow is a single-server multi-GPU system for training deep learning models that enables users to freely choose their preferred batch size—however small—while scaling to multiple GPUs. Crossbow uses many parallel model replicas and avoids reduced statistical efficiency through a new synchronous training method. SMA, a synchronous variant of model averaging, is used in which replicas independently explore the solution space with gradient descent, but adjust their search synchronously based on the trajectory of a globally-consistent average model.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

4 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

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Deep Learning1
Fairness1
GPU1
Scheduling1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Crossbow: 2019 to 2021, peak 1 1 0 2019: 1 paper 2019 2020: 0 papers 2020 2021: 1 paper 2021
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Categories archive 2025-07-28

Asynchronous Data ParallelData Parallel MethodsDistributed Methods

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