Breaking Chains with Trees: Model-Parallel Deep Learning with $\mathcal{O}(\log N)$ Time Complexity

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arXiv:2606.21497v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern deep neural networks are trained using error backpropagation, which requires sequential forward and backward computations across network layers. As these networks become deeper, this introduces limitations, since layer-wise updates are strictly interdependent and cannot proceed in parallel. These constraints restrict training procedures to data-parallel schemes, thereby prohibiting model-parallel training. We propose TreeProp, an architecture-agnostic variational learning framework that organizes network layers into a tree-structured hierarchy. During training, TreeProp replaces sequential forward computations and backward gradient propagation with hierarchical computations. This allows intermediate representations and learning signals to be constructed in time complexity of $\mathcal{O}(\log N)$ for a network of $N$ layers. To the best of our knowledge, TreeProp is the first learning algorithm for deep neural networks with logarithmic parallel time complexity for both forward computation and backward gradient propagation during training. Furthermore, we show that multiple valid paths through the hierarchy exist, such that TreeProp implicitly learns subnetworks with different effective depths, but without additional training effort. We evaluate TreeProp on vision classification and autoregressive language modeling, matching the performance of conventional end-to-end training for a variety of tasks and outperforming previous contrastive training approaches. We further demonstrate the applicability of TreeProp …

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