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PACI Eliminates Pipeline Bubbles Without Weight Stashing or Extra Parameter Copies

June 4, 2026

PACI uses local gradient accumulation as a version-control mechanism to bound forward/backward weight drift in asynchronous pipeline parallelism, removing pipeline bubbles without weight stashing, prediction, correction, or global synchronization. This avoids the memory overhead and complexity of prior bubble-free asynchronous approaches.

HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU

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builderWorth watching if you run pipeline-parallel training at scale — eliminating bubbles without extra parameter copies could meaningfully improve throughput and memory efficiency.

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researcherThe gradient accumulation as version control framing is a novel mechanism worth examining for large-scale distributed training research.

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