CGAD is a staleness-aware Adam variant for DiLoCo that gates gradients with cosine and exponential decay, proves a convergence bound independent of maximum delay, and demonstrates stable pretraining of 25M to 7B parameter Llama-style models across controlled delays.
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Discrete-event simulation finds optimal 10-100 km separation between AI clusters where hollow-core fiber provides 25% higher compute-communication overlap in geo-distributed data-parallel training.
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Cosine-Gated Adam-Decay: Drop-In Staleness-Aware Outer Optimization for Decoupled DiLoCo
CGAD is a staleness-aware Adam variant for DiLoCo that gates gradients with cosine and exponential decay, proves a convergence bound independent of maximum delay, and demonstrates stable pretraining of 25M to 7B parameter Llama-style models across controlled delays.
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Modeling the Impact of Fiber Latency on Compute-Communication Overlap in Geo-Distributed Multi-Datacenter AI Training
Discrete-event simulation finds optimal 10-100 km separation between AI clusters where hollow-core fiber provides 25% higher compute-communication overlap in geo-distributed data-parallel training.