Title
Adaptive cache pre-forwarding policy for distributed deep learning
Abstract
With the rapid growth of deep learning algorithms, several high-accuracy models have been developed and applied to many real-world domains. Deep learning is parallel and suitable for distributed computing, which can significantly improve the system throughput. However, there is a bottleneck for cross-machine training, that is, network latency. Nodes frequently need to wait for synchronization, and the content of each synchronization may range from several megabytes to hundred megabytes. Thus, network communication takes considerable time in the training process, which reduces system performance. Therefore, many computing architectures have been proposed. This paper proposes a type of distributed computing system for deep learning. Our design aims to reduce synchronization times and network blocking times by using a new cache mechanism, called cache pre-forwarding. The design concept of cache pre-forwarding aims to exploit reinforcement learning to train a pre-forwarding policy to increase the cache hit rate. Because of the features of reinforcement learning, our policy is adaptive and applicable to different computing environments. Finally, we experimentally demonstrate that our system is feasible.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.compeleceng.2020.106558
Computers & Electrical Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Deep learning,Distributed computing,Cache, Reinforcement learning
Bottleneck,Synchronization,Computer science,Cache,Megabyte,Computer network,Exploit,Artificial intelligence,Throughput,Deep learning,Reinforcement learning
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
82
0045-7906
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sheng-Tzong Cheng129344.23
Chih-Wei Hsu211.37
Gwo-Jiun Horng39923.82
Che-Hsuan Lin400.34