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We develop and analyze new scheduling algorithms for solving sparse triangular linear systems (SpTRSV) in parallel. Our approach produces highly efficient synchronous schedules for the forward- and backward-substitution algorithm. Compared…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Toni Böhnlein , Pál András Papp , Raphael S. Steiner , Christos K. Matzoros , A. N. Yzelman

In machine learning, asynchronous parallel stochastic gradient descent (APSGD) is broadly used to speed up the training process through multi-workers. Meanwhile, the time delay of stale gradients in asynchronous algorithms is generally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Lifu Wang , Bo Shen , Ning Zhao

We analyze asynchronous-type algorithms for distributed SGD in the heterogeneous setting, where each worker has its own computation and communication speeds, as well as data distribution. In these algorithms, workers compute possibly stale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Rustem Islamov , Mher Safaryan , Dan Alistarh

Asynchronous distributed algorithms are a popular way to reduce synchronization costs in large-scale optimization, and in particular for neural network training. However, for nonsmooth and nonconvex objectives, few convergence guarantees…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Malcolm Egan , Bapi Chatterjee , Dan Alistarh

In this paper, we consider the convergence of a very general asynchronous-parallel algorithm called ARock, that takes many well-known asynchronous algorithms as special cases (gradient descent, proximal gradient, Douglas Rachford, ADMM,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Robert Hannah , Wotao Yin

This paper considers smooth convex optimization problems with many functional constraints. To solve this general class of problems we propose a new stochastic perturbed augmented Lagrangian method, called SGDPA, where a perturbation is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Nitesh Kumar Singh , Ion Necoara

We consider the distributed learning problem with data dispersed across multiple workers under the orchestration of a central server. Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has been widely explored in such a setting to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiaolu Wang , Yuchang Sun , Hoi-To Wai , Jun Zhang

Asynchronous algorithms have attracted much attention recently due to the crucial demands on solving large-scale optimization problems. However, the accelerated versions of asynchronous algorithms are rarely studied. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Cong Fang , Yameng Huang , Zhouchen Lin

We present Asynchronous Stochastic Parallel Pose Graph Optimization (ASAPP), the first asynchronous algorithm for distributed pose graph optimization (PGO) in multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping. By enabling robots to optimize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Yulun Tian , Alec Koppel , Amrit Singh Bedi , Jonathan P. How

Heavy-tailed stochastic gradient noise, commonly observed in transformer models, can destabilize the optimization process. Recent works mainly focus on developing and understanding approaches to address heavy-tailed noise in the centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Junfei Sun , Dixi Yao , Xuchen Gong , Tahseen Rabbani , Manzil Zaheer , Tian Li

We show that asymptotically, completely asynchronous stochastic gradient procedures achieve optimal (even to constant factors) convergence rates for the solution of convex optimization problems under nearly the same conditions required for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-05 John C. Duchi , Sorathan Chaturapruek , Christopher Ré

Asynchronous stochastic gradient descent (ASGD) is a standard way to exploit heterogeneous compute resources in distributed learning: instead of forcing fast workers to wait for slow ones, the server updates the model whenever a gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ammar Mahran , Artavazd Maranjyan , Peter Richtárik

Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) ensures strong guarantees with regards to convergence in measure for sampling log-concave posterior distributions by adding noise to stochastic gradient iterates. Given the size of many practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Bapi Chatterjee , Dan Alistarh

Most machine learning and deep neural network algorithms rely on certain iterative algorithms to optimise their utility/cost functions, e.g. Stochastic Gradient Descent. In distributed learning, the networked nodes have to work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Liang Wang , Ben Catterall , Richard Mortier

Stochastic variance-reduced algorithms such as Stochastic Average Gradient (SAG) and SAGA, and their deterministic counterparts like the Incremental Aggregated Gradient (IAG) method, have been extensively studied in large-scale machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Feng Zhu , Robert W. Heath , Aritra Mitra

Several classic problems in graph processing and computational geometry are solved via incremental algorithms, which split computation into a series of small tasks acting on shared state, which gets updated progressively. While the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Dan Alistarh , Nikita Koval , Giorgi Nadiradze

Asynchronous parallel optimization algorithms for solving large-scale machine learning problems have drawn significant attention from academia to industry recently. This paper proposes a novel algorithm, decoupled asynchronous proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Yitan Li , Linli Xu , Xiaowei Zhong , Qing Ling

The continuous nonlinear resource allocation problem (CONRAP) has broad applications in economics, engineering, production and inventory management, and often serves as a subproblem in complex programming. Without relying on monotonicity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Kaixiang Hu , Caixia Kou , Jianhua Yuan

With the recent proliferation of large-scale learning problems,there have been a lot of interest on distributed machine learning algorithms, particularly those that are based on stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Ruiliang Zhang , Shuai Zheng , James T. Kwok

One of the most widely used methods for solving large-scale stochastic optimization problems is distributed asynchronous stochastic gradient descent (DASGD), a family of algorithms that result from parallelizing stochastic gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Zhengyuan Zhou , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Nicholas Bambos , Peter W. Glynn , Yinyu Ye