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New CutBCE method optimizes recommender system training, reducing memory use and speeding up computation

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Researchers have developed CutBCE, a novel method for optimizing Binary Cross-Entropy (BCE) loss in large-vocabulary recommender systems. This approach addresses memory limitations and Out-Of-Memory errors that arise when training models on massive item catalogs. CutBCE utilizes hardware acceleration through JAX and Pallas, implementing an exact fused reformulation and a custom Vector-Jacobian Product with on-chip computation to avoid storing large tensors in High Bandwidth Memory. Benchmarks on TPU v5e/v6e and an 8-chip TPU slice for SASRec with 876k items demonstrated significant reductions in peak memory usage and substantial training speedups, while maintaining comparable accuracy. AI

IMPACT Enables training of large-vocabulary recommender systems by overcoming memory constraints and improving computational efficiency.

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New CutBCE method optimizes recommender system training, reducing memory use and speeding up computation

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Mohamed Hammad ·

    Cut Binary Cross Entropy: Efficient Large-Vocabulary Loss and Gradient Kernels for Sequential Recommendation

    Industrial sequential recommender systems operate over massive item catalogs (e.g., 10^5--10^7 items). Multi-label recommendation models are trained with Binary Cross-Entropy (BCE) loss over the full vocabulary, but standard BCE materializes a dense [B, N, V] logits tensor in Hig…

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