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arxiv: 2605.18710 · v1 · pith:MBWEQDKAnew · submitted 2026-05-18 · 💻 cs.DC

Mosaic: Towards Efficient Training of Multimodal Models with Spatial Resource Multiplexing

Yanbo Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Chen Chen , Chunyu Xue , Yu Feng , Anbang Wu , Quan Chen , Yin Chen
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keywords multimodal modelstraining efficiencyGPU resource sharingspatial multiplexingperformance modelingheuristic allocationdistributed training
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Multimodal models train faster when multiple modules share each GPU under controlled resource shares.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper sets out to show that giving an entire GPU to one module at a time leaves most of the hardware idle because individual modules rarely saturate all resources. It proposes instead to run several modules together on the same GPU while assigning each a fixed share of compute and memory, which raises overall utilization and shortens total training time. Apollo realizes the idea through an execution engine that enforces arbitrary quotas, a performance model that predicts runtimes for different quota combinations, and heuristics that select good sharing plans without exhaustive search. Testbed results show speedups reaching 1.31 times on standard multimodal architectures. A reader cares because multimodal models keep growing in size and complexity, so any gain in hardware efficiency directly affects what can be trained in practice.

Core claim

Apollo deploys multimodal models with temporal-spatial multiplexing so that multiple modules colocate on a GPU under explicit resource quotas. A flexible execution engine supports arbitrary quotas, a performance model estimates execution time for each allocation, and heuristics use the model to produce high-quality deployment plans, yielding measured speedups up to 1.31x.

What carries the argument

The performance model that estimates module execution time under different resource allocation plans and feeds those estimates to heuristics that choose deployment plans.

If this is right

  • Wall-clock training time for popular multimodal models drops on a fixed number of GPUs.
  • Average GPU utilization rises because colocated modules fill idle capacity that a single module leaves unused.
  • Deployment plans can be generated quickly without testing every possible quota combination.
  • Resource shares can be tuned separately for each module type to balance heterogeneous workloads.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same quota-based sharing could apply to inference serving where batch sizes and latency targets differ from training.
  • Fewer total GPUs might suffice for a given training workload, reducing both monetary cost and energy consumption.
  • Pairing the static performance model with runtime measurements could enable dynamic quota adjustments as training progresses.

Load-bearing premise

The performance model accurately predicts how execution time changes when resource shares are varied.

What would settle it

Running Apollo on a new multimodal model and finding that its chosen allocation plan produces no speedup or a slowdown compared with the standard one-module-per-GPU baseline.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.18710 by Anbang Wu, Chen Chen, Chunyu Xue, Qizhen Weng, Quan Chen, Yanbo Wang, Yin Chen, Yu Feng, Yuxuan Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: MMs comprise diverse dependent modules. 26, 83]. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Edge-grade MMs with high modal complexity. Model Module Layers Dim. TFLOPs CI Qwen3-VL (8.1B) Qwen3LLM 36 4096 22.27 145.2 Vision 27 4096 2.58 82.4 Text 1 4096 0.15 2.1 Unified-IO 2 (3.8B) UIO-2 LLM 48 3072 16.70 110.5 Vision 11 768 1.48 24.6 Audio 11 768 1.06 21.8 Text 1 3072 0.10 4.5 ImageBind (1.2B) Vision 24 1024 4.17 35.2 Audio 12 768 2.09 22.8 Text 12 768 1.04 20.5 OFASys (6.3B) OFASys LLM 36 1280 4.… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Behaviors of different MM deployment schemes when training the CLIP model on four GPUs. V, T, and A denote vision-encoder, text-encoder and alignment modules. of typical MMs, including their Compute Intensity (CI). Ta￾ble 1 suggests that the per-module compute intensity can vary by over an order of magnitude across different modules, exhibiting strong cross-module heterogeneity. For example, for the Qwen3-… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Green Context is lightweight in both memory and time overhead. for each module with the desired SM quota. Nonetheless, creating or destroying such GC-stream would incur non￾negligible overheads in the critical path (e.g., for reclaiming the stream objects as well as the associated GC states). Our later testbed evaluations (Fig. 11b) show that, when training the Imagebind model on 8 × H100, it takes up to 6… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: MM modules’ scaling curves are smooth with respect to DP Degree and SM Ratio. collocated onto the same GPU. These challenges render ex￾isting solutions inadequate and here we respectively address them. Towards comprehensive modeling with symmetry-based solution pruning and smoothness-based grid sampling. To overcome the first challenge, Mosaic builds a scaling surface through symmetry-based pruning and smo… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Memory bandwidth contention does degrade per￾formance, and simple linear modeling is insufficient. We train two modules (text-encoder and audio-encoder) from the OFASys model on an H100 GPU. GPU set G to minimize stage latency. The resulting iteration time is 𝑇iteration (S, G) = Í 𝑆𝑖 ∈S 𝑇stage (𝑆𝑖 , G). This decision has two coupled levels. The upper level de￾cides which independent modules should be group… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: depicts the average per-iteration time of each MM under different deployment methods. It confirms that Mosaic consistently achieves the best training efficiency, with 1.07×– 1.31× speedup over Spindle (the second best), 1.10×–1.42× over DistMM, and 1.17×–1.48× over Megatron-LM. Such su￾periority aligns with our previous analysis in Sec. 2.2. More￾over, we also notice that the performance benefit of Mosaic … view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: GPU utilization when training different MMs. Mosaic does achieve the highest GPU utilization for all the models: on average, the GPU utilization under Mosaic is 47.0%, yet under Spindle, DistMM, and Megatron-LM, they are respectively 38.3%, 31.0%, and 26.8%. In particular, for the highly-heterogeneous OFASys model, the most underuti￾lized GPU under Spindle, which hosts the IMU module, has a utilization of… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Mosaic’s interference-aware performance model outperforms the other baseline methods in both prediction error and end-to-end performance. 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Number of Modules 10 −2 10 −1 10 0 10 1 10 2 10 3 Search Time (s) Timeout (> Module 6) Brute-force GAHC GAHC+caching Mosaic mapping-solver (a) Search time ablation study. 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Number of Modules 90 92 94 96 98 100 Optimal Ra… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Mosaic’s search algorithm finds near-optimal solution with high time efficiency. the interference-unaware performance model. Fig. 12b re￾veals that the performance model in Eq. 8 achieves a training speedup of 11%–24%. Moreover, that speedup level increases when the OFASys model comprises more modules, because with more modules, the cross-module performance interfer￾ence is more salient. In summary, our i… view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: b reports the resulting search time and median opti￾mality ratio compared to the optimal plan found by exhaus￾tive enumeration. Coarse granularities substantially reduce search overhead but compromise the solution quality: at 30% and 20%, the search finishes in 5.32 s and 8.46 s, while 8 16 32 Number of GPUs 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 Normalized Throughput Mosaic Spindle DistMM Megatron (a) Throughput under differen… view at source ↗
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With the wide adoption of Multimodal Models (MMs) in real-world scenarios, it is significant to efficiently train emerging MMs that exhibit increasingly complex module architectures. For MM deployment, existing works allocate a GPU to only one MM module in a temporal-multiplexing manner; this compromises training efficiency because a single module often fails to achieve high GPU utilization. To improve GPU utilization and enable efficient MM training, we propose deploying MMs in a temporal-spatial multiplexing manner, allowing multiple MM modules to colocate on a GPU with well-controlled resource quotas. In this paper, we propose Apollo, an efficient MM training system that applies temporal-spatial multiplexing. We first develop a flexible and lightweight execution engine that supports MM training with arbitrary resource quotas, and then build a comprehensive and accurate performance model to estimate module execution time under different allocation plans. With the performance model, we further adopt effective heuristics to derive high-quality MM deployment plans efficiently. Testbed experiments confirm that Apollo effectively improves the training efficiency of popular MMs, with a training speedup of up to 1.31x.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes Apollo, a training system for multimodal models (MMs) that shifts from temporal multiplexing (one module per GPU) to temporal-spatial multiplexing, allowing multiple modules to colocate on a GPU under controlled resource quotas. It introduces a flexible execution engine supporting arbitrary quotas, a performance model to predict module execution time for different allocation plans, heuristics that use the model to select deployment plans, and testbed results claiming up to 1.31x training speedup on popular MMs.

Significance. If the performance model is shown to be accurate for unseen colocation scenarios and the speedups are reproducible with proper controls, the work could meaningfully improve GPU utilization for training complex, module-heavy multimodal models. The practical systems contribution of a lightweight engine plus heuristic planning is relevant to the distributed systems and ML systems communities.

major comments (2)
  1. [Performance Model] Performance model (as described after the execution engine): the manuscript states the model is 'comprehensive and accurate' yet supplies no information on whether it is analytical or learned, which features or counters it uses, the fitting or training procedure, or measured prediction error (e.g., MAPE) on colocation workloads not seen during development. Because the heuristics directly consume the model's estimates to choose plans, systematic mis-prediction for novel allocations can produce deployments whose real runtime exceeds the temporal-multiplexing baseline, directly undermining the central 1.31x speedup claim.
  2. [Evaluation] Experimental results (abstract and evaluation section): the reported speedups lack any description of the exact baselines, the set of MMs and workloads chosen, whether error bars or multiple runs are reported, or how post-hoc tuning of quotas or heuristics was prevented. Without these controls the empirical support for the efficiency claim remains weak.
minor comments (2)
  1. Clarify whether the system name 'Apollo' and the paper title 'Mosaic' refer to the same artifact or whether one is a prior name.
  2. [Evaluation] Add a short table or paragraph listing the specific multimodal models, dataset sizes, and GPU types used in the testbed.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. The comments highlight important areas for improving clarity around the performance model and evaluation details. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate the requested information.

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  1. Referee: [Performance Model] Performance model (as described after the execution engine): the manuscript states the model is 'comprehensive and accurate' yet supplies no information on whether it is analytical or learned, which features or counters it uses, the fitting or training procedure, or measured prediction error (e.g., MAPE) on colocation workloads not seen during development. Because the heuristics directly consume the model's estimates to choose plans, systematic mis-prediction for novel allocations can produce deployments whose real runtime exceeds the temporal-multiplexing baseline, directly undermining the central 1.31x speedup claim.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript does not currently supply the requested details on the performance model. In the revised version, we will add a new subsection that specifies the model's construction (analytical or learned), the exact features and hardware counters employed, the profiling and fitting procedure, and quantitative accuracy results including MAPE measured on colocation scenarios held out from model development. This addition will allow readers to evaluate the model's suitability for guiding the heuristics and will directly address concerns about potential mis-prediction affecting the reported speedups. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Evaluation] Experimental results (abstract and evaluation section): the reported speedups lack any description of the exact baselines, the set of MMs and workloads chosen, whether error bars or multiple runs are reported, or how post-hoc tuning of quotas or heuristics was prevented. Without these controls the empirical support for the efficiency claim remains weak.

    Authors: We concur that the evaluation section requires additional methodological details to strengthen reproducibility and support for the efficiency claims. In the revision, we will expand the evaluation to explicitly define the baselines (including the temporal-multiplexing configuration), enumerate the specific multimodal models and workloads used, report results across multiple independent runs with error bars, and describe the experimental protocol employed to prevent post-hoc tuning of quotas or heuristics. These changes will provide the necessary controls and transparency. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; claims rest on empirical testbed validation

full rationale

The paper outlines a systems proposal: a flexible execution engine for arbitrary GPU quotas, a performance model estimating module execution times under allocation plans, heuristics to select deployment plans, and testbed experiments measuring up to 1.31x speedup on popular multimodal models. No equations, analytical derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citations are described in the abstract or provided text that would reduce any result to its inputs by construction. The speedup claim is grounded in direct measurements rather than model-based predictions that could be tautological, rendering the derivation chain self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The approach implicitly assumes that resource quotas can be enforced without significant interference and that execution times are predictable from allocation plans.

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