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Decentralized learning offers privacy and communication efficiency when data are naturally distributed among agents communicating over an underlying graph. Motivated by overparameterized learning settings, in which models are trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hossein Taheri , Christos Thrampoulidis

We consider a recently proposed \emph{supervised distributed computing} paradigm \cite{augustine2025supervised} that extends and refines the standard master-worker paradigm for parallel computations. In this paradigm, there is a supervisor,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 John Augustine , Henning Hillebrandt , Manish Kumar , Christian Scheideler , Julian Werthmann

We study the decentralized caching scheme in a two-layer network, which includes a sever, multiple helpers, and multiple users. Basically, the proposed caching scheme consists of two phases, i.e, placement phase and delivery phase. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Lin Zhang , Zhao Wang , Ming Xiao , Gang Wu , Ying-Chaang Liang , Shaoqian Li

Coded caching is a promising technique to create coded multicast opportunities for cache-aided networks. By splitting each file into $F$ equal packets (i.e., the subpacketization level $F$) and letting each user cache a set of packets, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Minquan Cheng , Yifei Huang , Youlong Wu , Jinyan Wang

Optimizing data transfers is critical for improving job performance in data-parallel frameworks. In the hybrid data center with both wired and wireless links, reconfigurable wireless links can provide additional bandwidth to speed up job…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Binquan Guo , Zhou Zhang , Ye Yan , Hongyan Li

How can we optimally trade extra computing power to reduce the communication load in distributed computing? We answer this question by characterizing a fundamental tradeoff between computation and communication in distributed computing,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Qian Yu , A. Salman Avestimehr

Efficient compression of correlated data is essential to minimize communication overload in multi-sensor networks. In such networks, each sensor independently compresses the data and transmits them to a central node due to limited…

Distributed scientific workflows increasingly span heterogeneous compute clusters, edge resources, and geo-distributed data repositories. In these environments, a centralized orchestrator is an architectural bottleneck -- introducing a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Komal Thareja , Krishnan Raghavan , Anirban Mandal , Ewa Deelman

We study optimization algorithms for the finite sum problems frequently arising in machine learning applications. First, we propose novel variants of stochastic gradient descent with a variance reduction property that enables linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Jakub Konečný

In this paper we study the data exchange problem where a set of users is interested in gaining access to a common file, but where each has only partial knowledge about it as side-information. Assuming that the file is broken into packets,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Nebojsa Milosavljevic , Sameer Pawar , Salim El Rouayheb , Michael Gastpar , Kannan Ramchandran

In this paper, we study unconstrained distributed optimization strongly convex problems, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology over digital channels that have limited capacity (and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

The emerging machine learning paradigm of decentralized federated learning (DFL) has the promise of greatly boosting the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) by directly learning across distributed agents without centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yudi Huang , Tingyang Sun , Ting He

Deep learning draws heavily on the latest progress in semantic communications. The present paper aims to examine the security aspect of this cutting-edge technique from a novel shuffling perspective. Our goal is to improve upon the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Fupei Chen , Liyao Xiang , Haoxiang Sun , Hei Victor Cheng , Kaiming Shen

The rapid advancement of embedded multicore and many-core systems has revolutionized computing, enabling the development of high-performance, energy-efficient solutions for a wide range of applications. As models scale up in size, data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ruhai Lin , Rui-Jie Zhu , Jason K. Eshraghian

Communication is a key bottleneck in distributed training. Recently, an \emph{error-compensated} compression technology was particularly designed for the \emph{centralized} learning and receives huge successes, by showing significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Hanlin Tang , Xiangru Lian , Shuang Qiu , Lei Yuan , Ce Zhang , Tong Zhang , Ji Liu

Decentralized Federated learning is a distributed edge intelligence framework by exchanging parameter updates instead of training data among participators, in order to retrain or fine-tune deep learning models for mobile intelligent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yong Zeng , Siyuan Liu , Zhiwei Xu , Jie Tian

Consensus-based distributed optimization methods have recently been advocated as alternatives to parameter server and ring all-reduce paradigms for large scale training of machine learning models. In this case, each worker maintains a local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Giovanni Neglia , Chuan Xu , Don Towsley , Gianmarco Calbi

Top-tier parallel computing clusters continue to accumulate more and more computational power with more and better CPUs and Networks. This allows, especially for environmental simulations, computations with larger domain sizes and better…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Christoph Ertl , Ralf-Peter Mundani , Ernst Rank

Scaling models has led to significant advancements in deep learning, but training these models in decentralized settings remains challenging due to communication bottlenecks. While existing compression techniques are effective in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sameera Ramasinghe , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Gil Avraham , Yan Zuo , Alexander Long

Nowadays, large and complex deep learning (DL) models are increasingly trained in a distributed manner across multiple worker machines, in which extensive communications between workers pose serious scaling problems. In this article, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Shaohuai Shi , Zhenheng Tang , Xiaowen Chu , Chengjian Liu , Wei Wang , Bo Li