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ShellElastic offers scalable elastic pretraining for foundation models

Researchers have developed ShellElastic, a novel approach to training foundation models that efficiently supports diverse inference budgets. This method trains nested sub-networks within a single supernet, overcoming challenges like variable workloads, limited hyperparameter transfer, and ensuring all sub-networks are updated simultaneously. ShellElastic organizes hidden dimensions into a dense core and successive shells, allowing for a fixed computation graph and cost-effective training. The system also introduces \(\\mu\)E, an extension of maximal update parameterization, which guarantees all sub-networks are maximally updated and maintains optimal hyperparameters across different model sizes. AI

IMPACT Enables more efficient training of foundation models across various inference budgets, potentially reducing computational costs and development time.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing a novel method for training foundation models.

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ShellElastic offers scalable elastic pretraining for foundation models

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Can Jin, Yan Kang, Yifan Gong, Chongjian Ge, Mingze Xu, Yuanjun Xiong, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Hongwu Peng ·

    ShellElastic: Scalable Elastic Pretraining with Simultaneous Maximal Updates and Hyperparameter Transfer

    arXiv:2610.15124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models need to support diverse inference budgets, yet training a separate model for each budget duplicates pretraining effort. Elastic models train several nested sub-networks inside one weight-shared supernet, but exis…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    ShellElastic: Scalable Elastic Pretraining with Simultaneous Maximal Updates and Hyperparameter Transfer

    Foundation models need to support diverse inference budgets, yet training a separate model for each budget duplicates pretraining effort. Elastic models train several nested sub-networks inside one weight-shared supernet, but existing recipes face three obstacles: variable per-st…