UniOrch: A Unified Mixed Framework for High-Efficiency LLM Training on Heterogeneous AI Chips

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Authors: Jingyi Wang, Jia Wang, Jun Gao, Yan Peng Cao, Yang Zhai, H. Wang, Wanxin Song, Dezhi Kong, Liu Liu, Wei Li, Zhaofeng He
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Abstract

Efficient coordination of heterogeneous AI chips (GPU/NPU/DCU) in data centers is crucial for Large Language Model (LLM) training, but this process is hindered by architectural mismatches, protocol fragmentation, and network partitioning. Existing solutions fail to achieve unified resource management across different chips, resulting in severe resource fragmentation and reduced allreduce efficiency. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes the unified coordination framework UniOrch, which not only integrates three core functionalities, including hardware abstraction, software standardization, and communication coordination, but also enables the training and inference of large models across heterogeneous AI chips. UniOrch's hardware-agnostic bare-metal cloud eliminates virtualization overhead through Border Gateway Protocol Ethernet Virtual Private Network (BGP EVPN) overlay networks and gateway-based chip integration; its PyTorch-based adaptation layer masks hardware differences and reduces migration costs; the Transformer Collective Communication Library (TCCL) unifies NCCL, HCCL, and OpenMPIprotocols to support seamless hybrid parallel training. Furthermore, the framework ' score scheduling mechanism is the Heterogeneous Hybrid Estimation Model (HHEM), which employs a two stage cost model combining static analysis with dynamic runtime feedback to dynamically allocate computing power based on Transformer task loads, ensuring cross-chip task synchronization, resource pooling, and dynamic allocation. Deployment verification in real-world production environments (e.g., China Construction Bank) shows that UniOrch achieves significant improvements: resource utilization of heterogeneous AI infrastructure is increased by 35%, cross-chip latency is reduced by 42%, accuracy loss in heterogeneous environments is

Fields of Study & Subjects

Network Packet Processing and Optimization Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques Advanced Neural Network Applications

Publication details

Journal / source
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Volume
37
Issue
6
Pages
1219–1234
Publication date
27 February 2026