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Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a fundamental optimization algorithm widely used in modern machine learning. In this paper, we propose Factor-Augmented SGD (FSGD), a new optimization method that leverages latent factor representations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Shubo Li , Yuefeng Han , Xiufan Yu

Communication overhead has become one of the major bottlenecks in the distributed training of deep neural networks. To alleviate the concern, various gradient compression methods have been proposed, and sign-based algorithms are of surging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Richeng Jin , Xiaofan He , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang , Tony Quek , Huaiyu Dai

Smart meter measurements, though critical for accurate demand forecasting, face several drawbacks including consumers' privacy, data breach issues, to name a few. Recent literature has explored Federated Learning (FL) as a promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Muhammad Akbar Husnoo , Adnan Anwar , Nasser Hosseinzadeh , Shama Naz Islam , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Robin Doss

We consider large scale distributed optimization over a set of edge devices connected to a central server, where the limited communication bandwidth between the server and edge devices imposes a significant bottleneck for the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Yujie Tang , Vikram Ramanathan , Junshan Zhang , Na Li

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning mechanism where local devices collaboratively train a shared global model under the orchestration of a central server, while keeping all private data decentralized. In the system, model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Zichen Ma , Zihan Lu , Yu Lu , Wenye Li , Jinfeng Yi , Shuguang Cui

We study federated machine learning at the wireless network edge, where limited power wireless devices, each with its own dataset, build a joint model with the help of a remote parameter server (PS). We consider a bandwidth-limited fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

We propose a novel algorithm for distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with compressed gradient communication in the parameter-server framework. Our gradient compression technique, named flattened one-bit stochastic gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Alexander Stollenwerk , Laurent Jacques

Federated learning (FL) faces challenges in ensuring both privacy and communication efficiency, particularly in resource-constrained environments such as Internet of Things (IoT) and edge networks. While sign-based methods, such as sign…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hyeong-Gun Joo , Songnam Hong , Seunghwan Lee , Dong-Joon Shin

We propose a Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)-type algorithm for Personalized Federated Learning which can be particularly attractive for mobile energy-limited regimes due to its low per-client computational cost. The model to be trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Sotirios Nikoloutsopoulos , Iordanis Koutsopoulos , Michalis K. Titsias

Federated Learning (FL) makes a large amount of edge computing devices (e.g., mobile phones) jointly learn a global model without data sharing. In FL, data are generated in a decentralized manner with high heterogeneity. This paper studies…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-20 Xiang Li , Jiadong Liang , Xiangyu Chang , Zhihua Zhang

This paper presents a holistic approach to gradient leakage resilient distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). First, we analyze two types of strategies for privacy-enhanced federated learning: (i) gradient pruning with random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu , Jingya Zhou , Ka-Ho Chow , Yanzhao Wu

We introduce FedSGM, a unified framework for federated constrained optimization that addresses four major challenges in federated learning (FL): functional constraints, communication bottlenecks, local updates, and partial client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Antesh Upadhyay , Sang Bin Moon , Abolfazl Hashemi

Recently, there is a growing interest in the study of median-based algorithms for distributed non-convex optimization. Two prominent such algorithms include signSGD with majority vote, an effective approach for communication reduction via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Xiangyi Chen , Tiancong Chen , Haoran Sun , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Mingyi Hong

The integration of Federated Learning (FL) and Self-supervised Learning (SSL) offers a unique and synergetic combination to exploit the audio data for general-purpose audio understanding, without compromising user data privacy. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman , Kin Wai Lau , Yuyang Xie , Lan Ma , Jiajun Shen

In contrast to training traditional machine learning (ML) models in data centers, federated learning (FL) trains ML models over local datasets contained on resource-constrained heterogeneous edge devices. Existing FL algorithms aim to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 El Houcine Bergou , Konstantin Burlachenko , Aritra Dutta , Peter Richtárik

Communication overhead is a major bottleneck hampering the scalability of distributed machine learning systems. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in using gradient compression to improve the communication efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Shuai Zheng , Ziyue Huang , James T. Kwok

As the size and complexity of models and datasets grow, so does the need for communication-efficient variants of stochastic gradient descent that can be deployed to perform parallel model training. One popular communication-compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Ali Ramezani-Kebrya , Fartash Faghri , Ilya Markov , Vitalii Aksenov , Dan Alistarh , Daniel M. Roy

As the size and complexity of models and datasets grow, so does the need for communication-efficient variants of stochastic gradient descent that can be deployed to perform parallel model training. One popular communication-compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Ali Ramezani-Kebrya , Fartash Faghri , Ilya Markov , Vitalii Aksenov , Dan Alistarh , Daniel M. Roy

We propose LQ-SGD (Low-Rank Quantized Stochastic Gradient Descent), an efficient communication gradient compression algorithm designed for distributed training. LQ-SGD further develops on the basis of PowerSGD by incorporating the low-rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hongyang Li , Lincen Bai , Caesar Wu , Mohammed Chadli , Said Mammar , Pascal Bouvry

With the rapid increase of big data, distributed Machine Learning (ML) has been widely applied in training large-scale models. Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is arguably the workhorse algorithm of ML. Distributed ML models trained by SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Keyu Yang , Lu Chen , Zhihao Zeng , Yunjun Gao