Dynamic Parameter Allocation in Parameter Servers
Summary: Introduces dynamic parameter allocation to parameter servers, enabling parameter-access locality (PAL) for distributed ML. Lapse implements this design efficiently, achieving near-linear scaling and orders-of-magnitude speedups over existing systems. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Alexander Renz-Wieland (Technical University of Berlin)
- 2. Rainer Gemulla (University of Mannheim)
- 3. Steffen Zeuch (German National Research Center for Information Technology; Technical University of Berlin)
- 4. Volker Markl (German National Research Center for Information Technology; Technical University of Berlin)
BibTeX Citation
@article{renzwieland_vldb20,
title = {{Dynamic Parameter Allocation in Parameter Servers}},
author = {Renz-Wieland, Alexander and Gemulla, Rainer and Zeuch, Steffen and Markl, Volker},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '20},
volume = {13},
number = {11},
pages = {1877--1890},
doi = {10.14778/3407790.3407796},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3407790.3407796},
year = {2020}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,242 | Towards Demystifying Serverless Machine Learning Training | 2021 | SIGMOD | 7.4967268e-05 |
| 4,097 | Distributed Deep Learning on Data Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches | 2021 | VLDB | 6.8064316e-05 |
| 4,949 | HET-GMP: A Graph-based System Approach to Scaling Large Embedding Model Training | 2022 | SIGMOD | 6.3405861e-05 |
| 5,436 | Parallel Training of Knowledge Graph Embedding Models: A Comparison of Techniques | 2022 | VLDB | 6.1295776e-05 |
| 5,635 | NuPS: A Parameter Server for Machine Learning with Non-Uniform Parameter Access | 2022 | SIGMOD | 6.0549984e-05 |
| 8,495 | Just Move It! Dynamic Parameter Allocation in Action | 2021 | VLDB | 5.3292461e-05 |
| 10,048 | The Image Calculator: 10x Faster Image-AI Inference by Replacing JPEG with Self-designing Storage Format | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.0896901e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00055938421 |
| 464 | An Architecture for Parallel Topic Models | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00017783871 |
| 2,186 | Heterogeneity-aware Distributed Parameter Servers | 2017 | SIGMOD | 8.8916253e-05 |
| 2,667 | NOMAD: Non-locking, stOchastic Multi-machine algorithm for Asynchronous and Decentralized matrix completion | 2014 | VLDB | 8.151622e-05 |
| 2,726 | FlexPS: Flexible Parallelism Control in Parameter Server Architecture | 2018 | VLDB | 8.0870349e-05 |
| 3,863 | Husky: Towards a More Efficient and Expressive Distributed Computing Framework | 2016 | VLDB | 6.961908e-05 |
| 5,437 | PS2: Parameter Server on Spark | 2019 | SIGMOD | 6.1279659e-05 |
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