What is it about?
In distributed LLM training, model parallelization is inherently error-prone. TrainVerify provides formal correctness guarantees for parallelization by verifying that the parallelized models are algebraically equivalent to the semantics of their corresponding single-device model definitions.
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Why is it important?
TrainVerify eliminates silent, hard-to-diagnose parallelization bugs that degrade model quality. It verifies parallelization equivalence symbolically—using symbolic tensors and operators free from the numerical noise that hinders differential testing—and compares graph-level representations between original and parallelized models. Its stage decomposition and shape-reduction techniques enable scalable verification for the world’s largest models across thousands of GPUs.
Perspectives
We hope this article conveys that the correctness and reliability of ML training are both important and achievable. TrainVerify takes the first step towards introducing formal correctness for parallelization, and we hope it will inspire broader efforts to bring similar rigor to the entire ML infrastructure stack.
Yunchi Lu
University of Michigan
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This page is a summary of: TrainVerify: Equivalence-Based Verification for Distributed LLM Training, October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3731569.3764850.
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