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We consider a multi-agent network where each node has a stochastic (local) cost function that depends on the decision variable of that node and a random variable, and further the decision variables of neighboring nodes are pairwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Navjot Singh , Xuanyu Cao , Suhas Diggavi , Tamer Basar

In this work, we introduce an asynchronous decentralized accelerated stochastic gradient descent type of method for decentralized stochastic optimization, considering communication and synchronization are the major bottlenecks. We establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Guanghui Lan , Yi Zhou

We consider distributed optimization under communication constraints for training deep learning models. We propose a new algorithm, whose parameter updates rely on two forces: a regular gradient step, and a corrective direction dictated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Yunfei Teng , Wenbo Gao , Francois Chalus , Anna Choromanska , Donald Goldfarb , Adrian Weller

Decentralized solutions to finite-sum minimization are of significant importance in many signal processing, control, and machine learning applications. In such settings, the data is distributed over a network of arbitrarily-connected nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Ran Xin , Soummya Kar , Usman A. Khan

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has become one of the most popular optimization methods for training machine learning models on massive datasets. However, SGD suffers from two main drawbacks: (i) The noisy gradient updates have high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Soham De , Tom Goldstein

Asynchronous stochastic gradient methods are central to scalable distributed optimization, particularly when devices differ in computational capabilities. Such settings arise naturally in federated learning, where training takes place on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Artavazd Maranjyan , Peter Richtárik

Massive amounts of data have led to the training of large-scale machine learning models on a single worker inefficient. Distributed machine learning methods such as Parallel-SGD have received significant interest as a solution to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 S Vineeth

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

The growth of large language models (LLMs) increases challenges of accelerating distributed training across multiple GPUs in different data centers. Moreover, concerns about data privacy and data exhaustion have heightened interest in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zhenheng Tang , Zichen Tang , Junlin Huang , Xinglin Pan , Rudan Yan , Yuxin Wang , Amelie Chi Zhou , Shaohuai Shi , Xiaowen Chu , Bo Li

Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has attracted considerable recent attention due to its potential for scaling computational resources, reducing training time, and helping protect user privacy in machine learning. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Siyuan Yu , Wei Chen , H. Vincent Poor

Following AI scaling trends, frontier models continue to grow in size and continue to be trained on larger datasets. Training these models requires huge investments in exascale computational resources, which has in turn driven developtment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Hiroki Naganuma , Xinzhi Zhang , Man-Chung Yue , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Philipp A. Witte , Russell J. Hewett , Yin Tat Lee

Synchronous stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is the most common method used for distributed training of deep learning models. In this algorithm, each worker shares its local gradients with others and updates the parameters using the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Negar Foroutan Eghlidi , Martin Jaggi

In decentralized optimization environments, each agent $i$ in a network of $n$ nodes has its own private function $f_i$, and nodes communicate with their neighbors to cooperatively minimize the aggregate objective $\sum_{i=1}^n f_i$. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Marina Costantini , Nikolaos Liakopoulos , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

The performance of fully synchronized distributed systems has faced a bottleneck due to the big data trend, under which asynchronous distributed systems are becoming a major popularity due to their powerful scalability. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-01 Jayanth Regatti , Gaurav Tendolkar , Yi Zhou , Abhishek Gupta , Yingbin Liang

In this paper, we focus on an asynchronous distributed optimization problem. In our problem, each node is endowed with a convex local cost function, and is able to communicate with its neighbors over a directed communication network.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

Methods for distributed optimization have received significant attention in recent years owing to their wide applicability in various domains. A distributed optimization method typically consists of two key components: communication and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Ermin Wei

Efficient and robust algorithms for decentralized estimation in networks are essential to many distributed systems. Whereas distributed estimation of sample mean statistics has been the subject of a good deal of attention, computation of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Igor Colin , Aurélien Bellet , Joseph Salmon , Stéphan Clémençon

Due to its efficiency and ease to implement, stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has been widely used in machine learning. In particular, SGD is one of the most popular optimization methods for distributed learning. Recently, quantized SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Shen-Yi Zhao , Hao Gao , Wu-Jun Li

In this paper, we consider decentralized optimization problems where agents have individual cost functions to minimize subject to subspace constraints that require the minimizers across the network to lie in low-dimensional subspaces. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Roula Nassif , Stefan Vlaski , Marco Carpentiero , Vincenzo Matta , Marc Antonini , Ali H. Sayed

In this paper, we consider nonconvex minimax optimization, which is gaining prominence in many modern machine learning applications such as GANs. Large-scale edge-based collection of training data in these applications calls for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Pranay Sharma , Rohan Panda , Gauri Joshi , Pramod K. Varshney