Characterization of Large Language Model Development in Datacenters

Explore an in-depth characterization study of Large Language Model (LLM) development in datacenters through this 17-minute conference talk from NSDI '24. Delve into the challenges and opportunities of efficiently utilizing large-scale cluster resources for LLM development, including hardware failures, parallelization strategies, and resource utilization. Examine the differences between LLMs and traditional task-specific Deep Learning workloads, and discover potential optimizations for LLM-tailored systems. Learn about innovative approaches such as fault-tolerant pretraining and decoupled scheduling for evaluation, designed to enhance fault tolerance and achieve timely performance feedback in LLM development environments.

NSDI '24 - Characterization of Large Language Model Development in the Datacenter