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ParaRNN: Large-Scale Nonlinear RNNs, Trainable in Parallel

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are naturally suited to efficient inference, requiring far less memory and compute than attention-based architectures, but the sequential nature of their computation has historically made it impractical to scale up RNNs to billions of parameters. A new advancement from Apple researchers makes RNN training dramatically more efficient — enabling large-scale training for the first time and widening the set of architecture choices available to practitioners in designing LLMs, particularly for resource-constrained deployment.
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ParaRNN: Unlocking Parallel Training of Nonlinear RNNs for Large Language Models

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) laid the foundation for sequence modeling, but their intrinsic sequential nature restricts parallel computation, creating a fundamental barrier to scaling. This has led to the dominance of parallelizable architectures like Transformers and, more recently, State Space Models (SSMs). While SSMs achieve efficient parallelization through structured linear…

January 17, 2026

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September 2, 2022

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Parallel Track Transformers: Enabling Fast GPU Inference with Reduced Synchronization

Efficient large-scale inference of transformer-based large language models (LLMs) remains a fundamental systems challenge, frequently requiring multi-GPU parallelism to meet stringent latency and throughput targets. Conventional tensor parallelism decomposes matrix operations across devices but introduces substantial inter-GPU synchronization, leading to communication bottlenecks and degraded scalability. We propose the Parallel Track…

February 11, 2026

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