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Gradient-based distributed learning in Parameter Server (PS) computing architectures is subject to random delays due to straggling worker nodes, as well as to possible communication bottlenecks between PS and workers. Solutions have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone

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

Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) approach has been widely used in large-scale deep learning, and the gradient collective method is vital to ensure the training scalability of the distributed deep learning system. Collective…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Keshi Ge , Yongquan Fu , Zhiquan Lai , Xiaoge Deng , Dongsheng Li

Training time on large datasets for deep neural networks is the principal workflow bottleneck in a number of important applications of deep learning, such as object classification and detection in automatic driver assistance systems (ADAS).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Peter H. Jin , Qiaochu Yuan , Forrest Iandola , Kurt Keutzer

Communication is a major bottleneck in distributed learning, especially in large-scale settings and in federated learning environments with slow links. Three standard ways to reduce this cost are communication compression, local training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yassine Maziane , Ammar Mahran , Artavazd Maranjyan , Peter Richtárik

With the increase in the amount of data and the expansion of model scale, distributed parallel training becomes an important and successful technique to address the optimization challenges. Nevertheless, although distributed stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Shuheng Shen , Linli Xu , Jingchang Liu , Xianfeng Liang , Yifei Cheng

As a crucial scheme to accelerate the deep neural network (DNN) training, distributed stochastic gradient descent (DSGD) is widely adopted in many real-world applications. In most distributed deep learning (DL) frameworks, DSGD is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xiang Yang

Decentralized optimization has emerged as a critical paradigm for distributed learning, enabling scalable training while preserving data privacy through peer-to-peer collaboration. However, existing methods often suffer from communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yijie Zhou , Shi Pu

Distributed training algorithms of deep neural networks show impressive convergence speedup properties on very large problems. However, they inherently suffer from communication related slowdowns and communication topology becomes a crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Tomer Avidor , Nadav Tal Israel

Huge scale machine learning problems are nowadays tackled by distributed optimization algorithms, i.e. algorithms that leverage the compute power of many devices for training. The communication overhead is a key bottleneck that hinders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Sebastian U. Stich , Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Martin Jaggi

The increasing size of deep learning models has made distributed training across multiple devices essential. However, current methods such as distributed data-parallel training suffer from large communication and synchronization overheads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Cabrel Teguemne Fokam , Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer , Lukas König , David Kappel , Anand Subramoney

In distributed training of deep neural networks, people usually run Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) or its variants on each machine and communicate with other machines periodically. However, SGD might converge slowly in training some deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Mingrui Liu , Zhenxun Zhuang , Yunwei Lei , Chunyang Liao

We consider the setting where a master wants to run a distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm on $n$ workers, each having a subset of the data. Distributed SGD may suffer from the effect of stragglers, i.e., slow or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Serge Kas Hanna , Rawad Bitar , Parimal Parag , Venkat Dasari , Salim El Rouayheb

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

Modern deep neural networks often require distributed training with many workers due to their large size. As the number of workers increases, communication overheads become the main bottleneck in data-parallel minibatch stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-07 Tim Tsz-Kit Lau , Weijian Li , Chenwei Xu , Han Liu , Mladen Kolar

Distributed training is an effective way to accelerate the training process of large-scale deep learning models. However, the parameter exchange and synchronization of distributed stochastic gradient descent introduce a large amount of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-16 LingFei Dai , Boyu Diao , Chao Li , Yongjun Xu

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is one of the most widely used optimization methods for solving various machine learning problems. SGD solves an optimization problem by iteratively sampling a few data points from the input data, computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Aditya Devarakonda , James Demmel

Stochastic distributed optimization methods that solve an optimization problem over a multi-agent network have played an important role in a variety of large-scale signal processing and machine leaning applications. Among the existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Songyang Ge , Tsung-Hui Chang

Parallel implementations of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) have received significant research attention, thanks to excellent scalability properties of this algorithm, and to its efficiency in the context of training deep neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Dan Alistarh , Demjan Grubic , Jerry Li , Ryota Tomioka , Milan Vojnovic

This paper presents a new class of gradient methods for distributed machine learning that adaptively skip the gradient calculations to learn with reduced communication and computation. Simple rules are designed to detect slowly-varying…

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