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Towards Demystifying Serverless Machine Learning Training

Summary: Systematic study of ML training on FaaS vs IaaS; LambdaML enables fair benchmarking and optimization/synchronization options. Key result: serverless helps only for low-communication, fast-converging models; overall FaaS is faster but not cheaper than IaaS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
6265
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2021
Pagerank
8.1206618e-05
Overall Rank
2,791 | 80.59%
DOI
10.1145/3448016.3459240

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8,126 SDPipe: A Semi-Decentralized Framework for Heterogeneity-aware Pipeline-parallel Training 2023 VLDB 4.5796615e-05
8,982 Optimizing Inference Serving on Serverless Platforms 2022 VLDB 4.4166105e-05
9,806 The Image Calculator: 10x Faster Image-AI Inference by Replacing JPEG with Self-designing Storage Format 2024 SIGMOD 4.2805224e-05
10,662 ArrayMorph: Optimizing Hyperslab Queries on the Cloud for Machine Learning Pipelines 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,866 Nitro: Boosting Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Serverless Computing 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,889 Off-the-shelf Data Analytics on Serverless 2024 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
11,389 CDI-E: An Elastic Cloud Service for Data Engineering 2022 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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411 PyTorch Distributed: Experiences on Accelerating Data Parallel Training 2020 VLDB 0.00023906921
497 Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really? 2008 SIGMOD 0.00021716559
543 MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System 2013 CIDR 0.00020526854
924 Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 2019 CIDR 0.00015272958
1,326 Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Functions 2020 SIGMOD 0.00012576952
1,402 Hybrid Parallelization Strategies for Large-Scale Machine Learning in SystemML 2014 VLDB 0.00012180605
1,942 Heterogeneity-aware Distributed Parameter Servers 2017 SIGMOD 0.00010012691
1,967 Compressed Linear Algebra for Large-Scale Machine Learning 2016 VLDB 9.9131712e-05
2,424 Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data Using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure 2020 SIGMOD 8.8380822e-05
2,440 FlexPS: Flexible Parallelism Control in Parameter Server Architecture 2018 VLDB 8.8119143e-05
2,642 Vertica-ML: Distributed Machine Learning in Vertica Database 2020 SIGMOD 8.3851878e-05
3,099 DB4ML – An In-Memory Database Kernel with Machine Learning Support 2020 SIGMOD 7.5642871e-05
3,808 SketchML: Accelerating Distributed Machine Learning with Data Sketches 2018 SIGMOD 6.7455428e-05
4,033 In-RDBMS Hardware Acceleration of Advanced Analytics 2018 VLDB 6.5113267e-05
4,975 An Experimental Evaluation of Large Scale GBDT Systems 2019 VLDB 5.79026e-05
6,404 ColumnML: Column-Store Machine Learning with On-The-Fly Data Transformation 2019 VLDB 5.0786954e-05
6,471 Dynamic Parameter Allocation in Parameter Servers 2020 VLDB 5.0511668e-05
6,811 In-database Distributed Machine Learning: Demonstration using Teradata SQL Engine 2019 VLDB 4.9200998e-05
6,986 A Cost-based Optimizer for Gradient Descent Optimization 2017 SIGMOD 4.8727048e-05
9,469 DimBoost: Boosting Gradient Boosting Decision Tree to Higher Dimensions 2018 SIGMOD 4.3342363e-05
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