ATTUNE: Agentic Throughput Tuning for LLM Training

Abstract:Training recipes are tuned by hand for one model, cluster and workload, and every new model, accelerator, framework version or dataset means tuning again. Automated tuners search a fixed space of knobs and check only that a job runs, yet a configuration can run to completion while it silently changes training. ATTUNE is a single coding agent that tunes any working recipe for the workload and stack at hand, unattended, within a GPU-hour budget the user sets. It diagnoses each run and changes one lever at a time, guided by a catalog of lessons from past campaigns, and ships a recipe only if it passes a correctness gate: a configuration check against objective-changing settings and known stack defects, and a convergence check of its loss curve against the baseline's. On four held-out models at 64-128 GPUs, ATTUNE raises mean throughput over the strongest public recipe run on our stack by 6.7% on Llama-3.1-405B (best campaign 11.9%) and 33.9% on GLM-4.5 (54.7%), whose public recipe was written for H100. It keeps Mixtral-8x22B's recipe, where nothing it finds clears the noise band. Under a common GPU-hour budget it beats OptiCo, Bayesian optimization and random search on GLM-4.5 and MiniMax-M2; on GLM-4.5 its mean gain is more than four times the best alternative's at less than half the GPU-hours, and on both models its tuning pays for itself within a day of training. The gate rejects no legitimate run and catches 16 of 24 faulty runs, missing only ones that barely move the 20-step loss. Ablations tie its best campaigns to one of its search rules: retrying an out-of-memory layout with recomputation. We release ATTUNE's code and TrainingThroughputBench, a leaderboard of the fastest known recipes for MoE models up to 744B parameters on up to 256 GPUs, each with its throughput, cost per million tokens and a passed correctness check, at this https URL.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

C.4; I.2.6; I.2.8

arXiv:2610.17528 [cs.DC]

(or arXiv:2610.17528v1 [cs.DC] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.17528 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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