**PipeMare** is an asynchronous (bubble-free) pipeline parallel method for training large neural networks. It involves two main techniques: learning rate rescheduling and discrepancy correction.

In this work, we pursue a unified paradigm for multimodal pretraining to break the scaffolds of complex task/modality-specific customization. We propose OFA, a Task-Agnostic and Modality-Agnostic framework that supports Task Comprehensiveness. OFA unifies a diverse set of cross-modal and unimodal tasks, including image generation, visual grounding, image captioning, image classification, language modeling, etc., in a simple sequence-to-sequence learning framework. OFA follows the instruction-based learning in both pretraining and finetuning stages, requiring no extra task-specific layers for downstream tasks. In comparison with the recent state-of-the-art vision & language models that rely on extremely large cross-modal datasets, OFA is pretrained on only 20M publicly available image-text pairs. Despite its simplicity and relatively small-scale training data, OFA achieves new SOTAs in a series of cross-modal tasks while attaining highly competitive performances on uni-modal tasks. Our further analysis indicates that OFA can also effectively transfer to unseen tasks and unseen domains. Our code and models are publicly available at https://github.com/OFA-Sys/OFA.

OFA: Unifying Architectures, Tasks, and Modalities Through a Simple Sequence-to-Sequence Learning Framework

PipeMare

PipeMare: Asynchronous Pipeline Parallel DNN Training

**DROID-SLAM** is a deep learning based SLAM system. It consists of recurrent iterative updates of camera pose and pixelwise depth through a Dense Bundle Adjustment layer. This layer leverages geometric constraints, improves accuracy and robustness, and enables a monocular system to handle stereo or RGB-D input without retraining. It builds a dense 3D map of the environment while simultaneously localizing the camera within the map.

Source	PipeMare: Asynchronous Pipeline Parallel DNN Training
Year	2000
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