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Federated learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing raw data with each other. However, it suffers the leakage of private information from uploading models. In addition, as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Chuan Ma , Ming Ding , Feng Shu , Haitao Zhao , Wen Chen , Hongbo Zhu

The performance and efficiency of distributed training of Deep Neural Networks highly depend on the performance of gradient averaging among all participating nodes, which is bounded by the communication between nodes. There are two major…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Linnan Wang , Wei Wu , Junyu Zhang , Hang Liu , George Bosilca , Maurice Herlihy , Rodrigo Fonseca

Distributed training is the de facto standard to scale up the training of deep learning models with multiple GPUs. Its performance bottleneck lies in communications for gradient synchronization. Although high tensor sparsity is widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhuang Wang , Zhaozhuo Xu , Jingyi Xi , Yuke Wang , Anshumali Shrivastava , T. S. Eugene Ng

Intensive communication and synchronization cost for gradients and parameters is the well-known bottleneck of distributed deep learning training. Based on the observations that Synchronous SGD (SSGD) obtains good convergence accuracy while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Yemao Xu , Dezun Dong , Yawei Zhao , Weixia Xu , Xiangke Liao

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

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

In this paper, we design a novel distributed learning algorithm using stochastic compressed communications. In detail, we pursue a modular approach, merging ADMM and a gradient-based approach, benefiting from the robustness of the former…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Bastianello

Distributed learning techniques such as federated learning have enabled multiple workers to train machine learning models together to reduce the overall training time. However, current distributed training algorithms (centralized or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Zhenheng Tang , Shaohuai Shi , Xiaowen Chu

Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is essential for scaling the machine learning algorithms to a large number of computing nodes. However, the infrastructures variability such as high communication delay or random node slowdown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jianyu Wang , Hao Liang , Gauri Joshi

A standard approach in large scale machine learning is distributed stochastic gradient training, which requires the computation of aggregated stochastic gradients over multiple nodes on a network. Communication is a major bottleneck in such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Hanlin Tang , Xiangru Lian , Chen Yu , Tong Zhang , Ji Liu

To address the communication bottleneck challenge in distributed learning, our work introduces a novel two-stage quantization strategy designed to enhance the communication efficiency of distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Guangfeng Yan , Tan Li , Yuanzhang Xiao , Congduan Li , Linqi Song

Gradient compression is a recent and increasingly popular technique for reducing the communication cost in distributed training of large-scale machine learning models. In this work we focus on developing efficient distributed methods that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Xun Qian , Peter Richtárik , Tong Zhang

Communication is one of the key bottlenecks in the distributed training of large-scale machine learning models, and lossy compression of exchanged information, such as stochastic gradients or models, is one of the most effective instruments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Egor Shulgin , Peter Richtárik

We consider a distributed learning problem in which the computation is carried out on a system consisting of a master node and multiple worker nodes. In such systems, the existence of slow-running machines called stragglers will cause a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Shunsuke Horii , Takahiro Yoshida , Manabu Kobayashi , Toshiyasu Matsushima

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

Modern machine learning tasks often involve massive datasets and models, necessitating distributed optimization algorithms with reduced communication overhead. Communication compression, where clients transmit compressed updates to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Yuan Gao , Anton Rodomanov , Jeremy Rack , Sebastian U. Stich

In this paper, we study communication-efficient distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with data sets of users distributed over a certain area and communicating through wireless channels. Since the time for one iteration in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jinho Choi

With huge amounts of training data, deep learning has made great breakthroughs in many artificial intelligence (AI) applications. However, such large-scale data sets present computational challenges, requiring training to be distributed on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Shaohuai Shi , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu , Bo Li

We make distributed stochastic gradient descent faster by exchanging sparse updates instead of dense updates. Gradient updates are positively skewed as most updates are near zero, so we map the 99% smallest updates (by absolute value) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Alham Fikri Aji , Kenneth Heafield

Distributed training of massive machine learning models, in particular deep neural networks, via Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is becoming commonplace. Several families of communication-reduction methods, such as quantization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Dan Alistarh , Torsten Hoefler , Mikael Johansson , Sarit Khirirat , Nikola Konstantinov , Cédric Renggli