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Reducing the GPU Memory Bottleneck with Lossless Compression for ML -- Extended

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Pith's one-line read Invariant Bit Packing removes constant bits from ML tensors to cut PCIe transfer times without losing accuracy.

desk verdict IBP gives a practical lossless route to cut PCIe tensor transfers in ML workloads, but the speedups need concrete compression ratios and overhead breakdowns to confirm net gains. read the letter →

arxiv 2605.30728 v1 pith:F5BAVY75 submitted 2026-05-29 cs.LG cs.DC

Aditya K Kamath , Arvind Krishnamurthy , Marco Canini , Simon Peter This is my paper · ORCID
classification cs.LGcs.DC
keywords losslesscompressionGPUmemorybottleneckmachinelearningtensorPCIetransfersGNNLLMinference
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The reading

The paper proposes using lossless compression to overcome GPU memory limits that force slow PCIe data transfers during ML training and inference. It presents Invariant Bit Packing as a way to find and discard bits that stay the same across groups of tensors, then decompresses them efficiently on the GPU. This avoids the accuracy problems of lossy methods and integrates directly into frameworks for GNNs, DLRM, and LLMs. Sympathetic readers would value it for delivering speedups like 74 percent faster GNN training while keeping all data exact.

What carries the argument

Invariant Bit Packing (IBP), which finds invariant bits across tensor groups and uses warp-parallel GPU decompression to minimize transfer overhead.

What would settle it

Running IBP on a dataset of random or highly variable tensors and measuring if the net time savings become negative or zero would disprove the practical benefit.

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Core claim

IBP identifies and eliminates invariant bits across groups of tensors, improving throughput through GPU-optimized decompression that leverages warp parallelism, low-overhead bit operations, and asynchronous PCIe transfers. We provide easy-to-use APIs, showcasing them by adding IBP support to GNN training, as well as DLRM and LLM inference frameworks. IBP achieves, on average, 74% faster GNN training, 180% faster DLRM embedding lookup, and 24% faster LLM inference.

Load-bearing premise

ML tensors contain enough invariant bits across groups to yield meaningful compression ratios while decompression overhead remains low enough not to offset the transfer savings.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • 74% faster GNN training on average
  • 180% faster DLRM embedding lookup
  • 24% faster LLM inference
  • Integration into existing ML frameworks via simple APIs without changing model accuracy

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  • Similar bit-invariance patterns might appear in other high-throughput data pipelines beyond ML, such as scientific simulations.
  • Reducing transfer volume could lower power consumption on systems where PCIe links dominate energy use.
  • The approach might combine with existing memory management techniques to support even larger models.
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Summary. The paper proposes Invariant Bit Packing (IBP), a lossless compression algorithm that identifies and eliminates invariant bits across groups of ML tensors to reduce PCIe transfer bottlenecks when datasets exceed GPU memory. It integrates IBP into GNN training, DLRM, and LLM inference frameworks via GPU-optimized decompression leveraging warp parallelism and asynchronous transfers, and reports average speedups of 74% for GNN training, 180% for DLRM embedding lookup, and 24% for LLM inference.

Significance. If the empirical results hold after providing the necessary supporting measurements, this could be a significant contribution to memory-constrained ML systems by offering a deployable lossless alternative that avoids the accuracy and complexity issues of lossy compression. The provision of easy-to-use APIs and concrete framework integrations is a clear strength.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Evaluation): The central performance claims (74% GNN, 180% DLRM, 24% LLM) rest on IBP producing compression ratios whose PCIe savings exceed decompression overhead, yet no measured compression ratios, per-tensor-group invariant-bit statistics, or latency breakdown (decompression time vs. transfer savings) are supplied, so the core assumption cannot be verified for the reported workloads.
  2. [§4] §4 (Evaluation): No baselines, run-to-run variance, or workload descriptions are provided for the speedups, which are load-bearing for assessing whether the results generalize or are driven by atypical tensors.
minor comments (1)
  1. [§3] The description of warp-level bit operations in the decompression kernel could include a small code snippet or pseudocode for clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. The comments correctly identify gaps in the supporting measurements and experimental details needed to substantiate the reported speedups. We address each point below and will revise the manuscript accordingly.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Evaluation): The central performance claims (74% GNN, 180% DLRM, 24% LLM) rest on IBP producing compression ratios whose PCIe savings exceed decompression overhead, yet no measured compression ratios, per-tensor-group invariant-bit statistics, or latency breakdown (decompression time vs. transfer savings) are supplied, so the core assumption cannot be verified for the reported workloads.

    Authors: We agree that the core assumption requires explicit verification. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated subsection (or table) in §4 reporting: average compression ratios per workload, per-tensor-group invariant-bit counts (mean and distribution), and a latency breakdown separating decompression time from PCIe transfer savings. These data will confirm that net PCIe savings exceed overhead for the evaluated cases. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Evaluation): No baselines, run-to-run variance, or workload descriptions are provided for the speedups, which are load-bearing for assessing whether the results generalize or are driven by atypical tensors.

    Authors: We acknowledge the omission. The revised §4 will include: (i) uncompressed PCIe transfer baselines, (ii) standard deviations from multiple runs (minimum 5), and (iii) expanded workload descriptions covering dataset sizes, model dimensions, tensor shapes, and hardware configuration. This will allow readers to evaluate generalizability. revision: yes

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No circularity; claims are empirical measurements of a compression algorithm

full rationale

The paper presents IBP as a new lossless compression method that packs invariant bits across tensor groups and evaluates it via runtime measurements on GNN training, DLRM lookup, and LLM inference. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-citations used as load-bearing uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes smuggled via prior work appear in the provided text. All headline speedups (74% GNN, 180% DLRM, 24% LLM) are reported as direct experimental outcomes rather than derived quantities that reduce to the input data by construction. The work is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

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Machine learning (ML) training and inference often process data sets far exceeding GPU memory capacity, forcing them to rely on PCIe for on-demand tensor transfers, causing critical transfer bottlenecks. Lossy compression has been proposed to relieve bottlenecks but introduces workload-dependent accuracy loss, making it complex or even prohibitive to use in existing ML deployments. We explore lossless compression as an alternative that avoids this deployment complexity. We identify where lossless compression can be integrated into ML pipelines while minimizing interference with GPU execution. Based on our findings, we introduce Invariant Bit Packing (IBP), a novel lossless compression algorithm designed to minimize data transfer time for ML. IBP identifies and eliminates invariant bits across groups of tensors, improving throughput through GPU-optimized decompression that leverages warp parallelism, low-overhead bit operations, and asynchronous PCIe transfers. We provide easy-to-use APIs, showcasing them by adding IBP support to GNN training, as well as DLRM and LLM inference frameworks. IBP achieves, on average, 74% faster GNN training, 180% faster DLRM embedding lookup, and 24% faster LLM inference.

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Figure 1. Conventional bit packing (left) and invariant bit [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Invariant bit packing example (𝑇 = 4, 𝑁 = 5). open-source library. We provide a PyTorch extension [99] for Python and CUDA support through a header-only library. The Python functions are all called by the CPU, while the CUDA backend provides lower-level functions that can be called from either the CPU or the GPU. We now look at how we concretely implement IBP, re￾ferring to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Pseudocode for IBP tensor compression. memory accesses. Hence, we can divide the bits saved by 8 to get the bytes saved. If we find no bytes are saved, we keep the tensor in uncompressed form, without participation bits, returning the original size (e.g., the second-to-last tensor in the figure). In this way, the compressed dataset cannot exceed the size of the uncompressed dataset. In § 5, we shall see how we ident… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: CPU-to-GPU copy throughput across methods. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Integrating IBP into ML applications. segments. For example, Step 1 of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_6.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Average GNN training epoch speedup [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_8.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Decompression throughput versus space savings. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_7.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: LLM inference latency with FlexGen weight of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_11.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Normalized DLRM embedding lookup throughput [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_10.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Normalized LLM inference latency with InfiniGen [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Space saved with different chunk sizes and invari [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_13.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Clustered compression net space savings. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_15.png]

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