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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining

As of 10 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 32 of 32 outbound references and 9 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.15706.

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This paper cites 16 Preprint Table 12: Final validation loss for the 178M model while varying the number of workers (R∈ {8,16,32}) and the communication interval (H∈ {15,50,100}).Bestis bold.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining 16 Preprint Table 12: Final validation loss for the 178M model while varying the number of workers (R∈ {8,16,32}) and the communication interval (H∈ {15,50,100}).Bestis bold

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This paper cites Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models

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This paper cites INTELLECT-1 Technical Report.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining INTELLECT-1 Technical Report

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This paper cites Noise Is Not the Main Factor Behind the Gap Between SGD and Adam on Transformers, but Sign Descent Might Be.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Noise Is Not the Main Factor Behind the Gap Between SGD and Adam on Transformers, but Sign Descent Might Be

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Shigang Li and Torsten Hoefler.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Shigang Li and Torsten Hoefler

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This paper cites Federated optimization in heterogeneous networks.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Federated optimization in heterogeneous networks

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This paper cites Incentivizing Permissionless Distributed Learning of LLMs.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Incentivizing Permissionless Distributed Learning of LLMs

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This paper cites Don't Use Large Mini-Batches, Use Local SGD.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Don't Use Large Mini-Batches, Use Local SGD

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This paper cites Trade-offs of Local SGD at Scale: An Empirical Study.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Trade-offs of Local SGD at Scale: An Empirical Study

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This paper cites Adaptive Federated Optimization.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Adaptive Federated Optimization

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This paper cites Fedpaq: A communication-efficient federated learning method with periodic averaging and quan- tization.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Fedpaq: A communication-efficient federated learning method with periodic averaging and quan- tization

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This paper cites Daniel Rothchild, Ashwinee Panda, Enayat Ullah, Nikita Ivkin, Ion Stoica, Vladimir Braverman, Joseph Gonzalez, and Raman Arora.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Daniel Rothchild, Ashwinee Panda, Enayat Ullah, Nikita Ivkin, Ion Stoica, Vladimir Braverman, Joseph Gonzalez, and Raman Arora

Reference 22

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This paper cites Frank Seide, Hao Fu, Jasha Droppo, Gang Li, and Dong Yu.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Frank Seide, Hao Fu, Jasha Droppo, Gang Li, and Dong Yu

Reference 23

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This paper cites Local SGD Converges Fast and Communicates Little.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Local SGD Converges Fast and Communicates Little

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This paper cites The Error-Feedback Framework: Better Rates for SGD with Delayed Gradients and Compressed Communication.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining The Error-Feedback Framework: Better Rates for SGD with Delayed Gradients and Compressed Communication

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This paper cites MuLoCo: Muon is a practical inner optimizer for DiLoCo.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining MuLoCo: Muon is a practical inner optimizer for DiLoCo

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This paper cites Powersgd: Practical low-rank gra- dient compression for distributed optimization.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Powersgd: Practical low-rank gra- dient compression for distributed optimization

Reference 29

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining SlowMo: Improving Communication-Efficient Distributed SGD with Slow Momentum

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining 12 Preprint Prateek Yadav, Derek Tam, Leshem Choshen, Colin Raffel, and Mohit Bansal

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining TIES-Merging: Resolving Interference When Merging Models

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Understanding Top-k Sparsification in Distributed Deep Learning.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Understanding Top-k Sparsification in Distributed Deep Learning

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Ilyas Fatkhullin, Alexander Tyurin, and Peter Richt´arik

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This paper cites Optimizing the Communication-Accuracy Trade-off in Federated Learning with Rate-Distortion Theory.

Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Optimizing the Communication-Accuracy Trade-off in Federated Learning with Rate-Distortion Theory

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Error Feedback Fixes SignSGD and other Gradient Compression Schemes

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Federated Optimization: Distributed Machine Learning for On-Device Intelligence

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Decoupled momentum optimization.arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.19870,

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining INTELLECT-1 Technical Report

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining WASH: Train your Ensemble with Communication-Efficient Weight Shuffling, then Average

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining DiLoCo: Distributed Low-Communication Training of Language Models

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining Debraj Basu, Deepesh Data, Can Karakus, and Suhas Diggavi

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MuLoCo: Muon is a practical inner optimizer for DiLoCo cites this paper.

MuLoCo: Muon is a practical inner optimizer for DiLoCo Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining

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Understanding and Exploiting Weight Update Sparsity for Communication-Efficient Distributed RL cites this paper.

Understanding and Exploiting Weight Update Sparsity for Communication-Efficient Distributed RL Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining

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LoRDO: Distributed Low-Rank Optimization with Infrequent Communication cites this paper.

LoRDO: Distributed Low-Rank Optimization with Infrequent Communication Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining

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ResBM: Residual Bottleneck Models for Low-Bandwidth Pipeline Parallelism cites this paper.

ResBM: Residual Bottleneck Models for Low-Bandwidth Pipeline Parallelism Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining

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ROSE: Rollout On Serving GPUs via Cooperative Elasticity for Agentic RL cites this paper.

ROSE: Rollout On Serving GPUs via Cooperative Elasticity for Agentic RL Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining

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ROSE: Rollout On Serving GPUs via Cooperative Elasticity for Agentic RL cites this paper.

ROSE: Rollout On Serving GPUs via Cooperative Elasticity for Agentic RL Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining

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Learned Subspace Compression for Communication-Efficient Pipeline Parallelism cites this paper.

Learned Subspace Compression for Communication-Efficient Pipeline Parallelism Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining

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Unifying Local Communications and Local Updates for LLM Pretraining cites this paper.

Unifying Local Communications and Local Updates for LLM Pretraining Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining

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FoMoE: Breaking the Full-Replica Barrier with a Federation of MoEs cites this paper.

FoMoE: Breaking the Full-Replica Barrier with a Federation of MoEs Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining

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