PULSE exploits BF16-invisible sparsity in weight updates to enable over 100x lower communication in distributed RL post-training via compute-visible sparsification.
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Understanding and Exploiting Weight Update Sparsity for Communication-Efficient Distributed RL
PULSE exploits BF16-invisible sparsity in weight updates to enable over 100x lower communication in distributed RL post-training via compute-visible sparsification.