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)
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Authors
- 1. Jiawei Jiang (ETH Zurich)
- 2. Shaoduo Gan (ETH Zurich)
- 3. Yue Liu (ETH Zurich)
- 4. Fanlin Wang (ETH Zurich)
- 5. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)
- 6. Ana Klimovic (ETH Zurich)
- 7. Ankit Singla (ETH Zurich)
- 8. Wentao Wu (Microsoft)
- 9. Ce Zhang (ETH Zurich)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{jiang_sigmod21,
title = {{Towards Demystifying Serverless Machine Learning Training}},
author = {Jiang, Jiawei and Gan, Shaoduo and Liu, Yue and Wang, Fanlin and Alonso, Gustavo and Klimovic, Ana and Singla, Ankit and Wu, Wentao and Zhang, Ce},
series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3448016.3459240},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3459240},
year = {2021}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,244 | Serverless Data Science - Are We There Yet? A Case Study of Model Serving | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.5762915e-05 |
| 8,251 | SDP_PIPE: A Semi-Decentralized Framework for Heterogeneity-aware Pipeline-parallel Training | 2023 | VLDB | 5.3687311e-05 |
| 9,162 | Optimizing Inference Serving on Serverless Platforms | 2022 | VLDB | 5.2153488e-05 |
| 10,043 | The Image Calculator: 10x Faster Image-AI Inference by Replacing JPEG with Self-designing Storage Format | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.0921006e-05 |
| 10,451 | FaaSBoard: Efficient Graph Processing with a Disaggregated Architecture on Serverless Services | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 11,306 | ArrayMorph: Optimizing Hyperslab Queries on the Cloud for Machine Learning Pipelines | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 11,441 | Nitro: Boosting Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Serverless Computing | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 11,460 | Off-the-shelf Data Analytics on Serverless | 2024 | CIDR | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 11,895 | CDI-E: An Elastic Cloud Service for Data Engineering | 2022 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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