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Accelerating Recommendation System Training by Leveraging Popular Choices

Summary: FAE exploits extreme popularity skew in embedding accesses, placing hot entries in scarce GPU memory and accelerating their updates. A hot-embedding-aware layout cuts CPU–GPU transfers, delivering 2.3× speedup over CPU-only and 1.52× over hybrid training without accuracy loss. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h1a8804cd7f356c48
Venue
VLDB
Year
2022
Pagerank
8.1423493e-05
Overall Rank
2,682 | 81.97%
DOI
10.14778/3485450.3485462

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BibTeX Citation

@article{adnan_vldb22,
        title = {{Accelerating Recommendation System Training by Leveraging Popular Choices}},
        author = {Adnan, Muhammad and Maboud, Yassaman Ebrahimzadeh and Mahajan, Divya and Nair, Prashant J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {1},
        pages = {127--140},
        doi = {10.14778/3485450.3485462},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3485450.3485462},
        year = {2022}
}

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7,098 Efficient Fault Tolerance for Recommendation Model Training via Erasure Coding 2023 VLDB 5.601767e-05
9,070 Scheduling Data Processing Pipelines for Incremental Training on MLP-based Recommendation Models 2025 SIGMOD 5.2283159e-05
9,117 Modyn: Data-Centric Machine Learning Pipeline Orchestration 2025 SIGMOD 5.2263399e-05
9,339 FEC: Efficient Deep Recommendation Model Training with Flexible Embedding Communication 2023 SIGMOD 5.1910676e-05
9,656 BladeDISC: Optimizing Dynamic Shape Machine Learning Workloads via Compiler Approach 2023 SIGMOD 5.1453267e-05
10,043 The Image Calculator: 10x Faster Image-AI Inference by Replacing JPEG with Self-designing Storage Format 2024 SIGMOD 5.0921006e-05
10,939 BiLink: Bidirectional Meta-paths for Link Discovery in Billion-Scale Heterogeneous Graphs 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,178 CARINA: An Efficient CXL-Oriented Embedding Serving System for Recommendation Models 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,250 GPEmu: A GPU Emulator for Faster and Cheaper Prototyping and Evaluation of Deep Learning System Research 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,331 Lighter-X: An Efficient and Plug-and-play Strategy for Graph-based Recommendation through Decoupled Propagation 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
823 MRShare: Sharing Across Multiple Queries in MapReduce 2010 VLDB 0.00013648332
1,475 Analyzing and Mitigating Data Stalls in DNN Training 2021 VLDB 0.00010556672
1,541 HippogriffDB: Balancing I/O and GPU Bandwidth in Big Data Analytics 2016 VLDB 0.00010313459
3,737 In-RDBMS Hardware Acceleration of Advanced Analytics 2018 VLDB 7.0628666e-05
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