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Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a widely used tool for machine learning in distributed settings, where a machine learning model is trained over distributed data sources through an interactive process of local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zonghao Huang , Rui Hu , Yuanxiong Guo , Eric Chan-Tin , Yanmin Gong

We address nonconvex learning problems over undirected networks. In particular, we focus on the challenge of designing an algorithm that is both communication-efficient and that guarantees the privacy of the agents' data. The first goal is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Xiaoxing Ren , Yuwen Ma , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Thomas Parisini , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

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

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent with Gradient Clipping (DPSGD-GC) is a powerful tool for training deep learning models using sensitive data, providing both a solid theoretical privacy guarantee and high efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Xinwei Zhang , Zhiqi Bu , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Mingyi Hong

In the arena of privacy-preserving machine learning, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) has outstripped the objective perturbation mechanism in popularity and interest. Though unrivaled in versatility, DP-SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Rachel Redberg , Antti Koskela , Yu-Xiang Wang

Developing machine learning methods that are privacy preserving is today a central topic of research, with huge practical impacts. Among the numerous ways to address privacy-preserving learning, we here take the perspective of computing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Alain Rakotomamonjy , Liva Ralaivola

Wider coverage and a better solution to a latency reduction in 5G necessitate its combination with multi-access edge computing (MEC) technology. Decentralized deep learning (DDL) such as federated learning and swarm learning as a promising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yuwei Sun , Hideya Ochiai , Hiroshi Esaki

We consider a decentralized learning setting in which data is distributed over nodes in a graph. The goal is to learn a global model on the distributed data without involving any central entity that needs to be trusted. While gossip-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Ghadir Ayache , Salim El Rouayheb

Significant success has been realized recently on applying machine learning to real-world applications. There have also been corresponding concerns on the privacy of training data, which relates to data security and confidentiality issues.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-27 Bai Li , Changyou Chen , Hao Liu , Lawrence Carin

Federated learning (FL) is a technique that trains machine learning models from decentralized data sources. We study FL under local notions of privacy constraints, which provides strong protection against sensitive data disclosures via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yan Feng , Tao Xiong , Ruofan Wu , LingJuan Lv , Leilei Shi

Stochastic optimization is a pivotal enabler in modern machine learning, producing effective models for various tasks. However, several existing works have shown that model parameters and gradient information are susceptible to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Zhanhong Jiang , Md Zahid Hasan , Nastaran Saadati , Aditya Balu , Chao Liu , Soumik Sarkar

In the domain of deep learning, the challenge of protecting sensitive data while maintaining model utility is significant. Traditional Differential Privacy (DP) techniques such as Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Tao Huang , Qingyu Huang , Xin Shi , Jiayang Meng , Guolong Zheng , Xu Yang , Xun Yi

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

A very large number of communications are typically required to solve distributed learning tasks, and this critically limits scalability and convergence speed in wireless communications applications. In this paper, we devise a Gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yicheng Chen , Rick S. Blum , Martin Takac , Brian M. Sadler

The interplay between optimization and privacy has become a central theme in privacy-preserving machine learning. Noisy stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has emerged as a cornerstone algorithm, particularly in large-scale settings. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shurong Lin , Eric D. Kolaczyk , Adam Smith , Elliot Paquette

Federated Learning (FL), an emerging paradigm for fast intelligent acquisition at the network edge, enables joint training of a machine learning model over distributed data sets and computing resources with limited disclosure of local data.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Hong Xing , Osvaldo Simeone , Suzhi Bi

Distributed learning, particularly variants of distributed stochastic gradient descent (DSGD), are widely employed to speed up training by leveraging computational resources of several workers. However, in practise, communication delay…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Kerem Ozfatura , Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz

Learning often involves sensitive data and as such, privacy preserving extensions to Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and other machine learning algorithms have been developed using the definitions of Differential Privacy (DP). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Friedrich Dörmann , Osvald Frisk , Lars Nørvang Andersen , Christian Fischer Pedersen

To reduce the long training time of large deep neural network (DNN) models, distributed synchronous stochastic gradient descent (S-SGD) is commonly used on a cluster of workers. However, the speedup brought by multiple workers is limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Shaohuai Shi , Zhenheng Tang , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

Edge computing allows artificial intelligence and machine learning models to be deployed on edge devices, where they can learn from local data and collaborate to form a global model. Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Chris Xing Tian , Yibing Liu , Haoliang Li , Ray C. C. Cheung , Shiqi Wang