Microsoft

Rethinking Machine Learning Collective Communication as a Multi Commodity Flow problem

Cloud operators utilize collective communication optimizers to enhance the efficiency of the single-tenant, centrally managed training clusters they manage. However, current optimizers struggle to ...
Wall Street Journal

The Curriculum Flowchart That Has Texas Professors Up in Arms

A controversy is swirling at a Texas university. The trigger? A flowchart. On Dec. 1, the new chancellor of the Texas Tech University system sent professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval ...
IEEE

Transfer Learning Based Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm for Dynamic Workflow Scheduling in the Cloud

Abstract: Managing scientific applications in the Cloud poses many challenges in terms of workflow scheduling, especially in handling multi-objective workflow scheduling under quality of service (QoS) ...
IEEE

Scheduling Bi-Objective Lot-Streaming Hybrid Flow Shops with Consistent Sublots via an Enhanced Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

Abstract: This work addresses bi-objective hybrid flow shop scheduling problems considering consistent sublots (Bi-HFSP_CS). The objectives are to minimize the makespan and total energy consumption.