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In decentralized optimization, $m$ agents form a network and only communicate with their neighbors, which gives advantages in data ownership, privacy, and scalability. At the same time, decentralized stochastic gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Haishan Ye , Xiangyu Chang

Distributed learning systems have enabled training large-scale models over large amount of data in significantly shorter time. In this paper, we focus on decentralized distributed deep learning systems and aim to achieve differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Hsin-Pai Cheng , Patrick Yu , Haojing Hu , Feng Yan , Shiyu Li , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Consider a network of $N$ decentralized computing agents collaboratively solving a nonconvex stochastic composite problem. In this work, we propose a single-loop algorithm, called DEEPSTORM, that achieves optimal sample complexity for this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Gabriel Mancino-Ball , Shengnan Miao , Yangyang Xu , Jie Chen

Decentralized and federated learning algorithms face data heterogeneity as one of the biggest challenges, especially when users want to learn a specific task. Even when personalized headers are used concatenated to a shared network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Matin Mortaheb , Sennur Ulukus

Decentralized training is often regarded as inferior to centralized training because the consensus errors between workers are thought to undermine convergence and generalization, even with homogeneous data distributions. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zesen Wang , Mikael Johansson

Bilevel optimization has gained significant attention in recent years due to its broad applications in machine learning. This paper focuses on bilevel optimization in decentralized networks and proposes a novel single-loop algorithm for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Youran Dong , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang , Chao Yin

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

Decentralized optimization is effective to save communication in large-scale machine learning. Although numerous algorithms have been proposed with theoretical guarantees and empirical successes, the performance limits in decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Kun Yuan , Xinmeng Huang , Yiming Chen , Xiaohan Zhang , Yingya Zhang , Pan Pan

We consider the task of minimizing the sum of convex functions stored in a decentralized manner across the nodes of a communication network. This problem is relatively well-studied in the scenario when the objective functions are smooth, or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Dmitry Kovalev , Ekaterina Borodich , Alexander Gasnikov , Dmitrii Feoktistov

Scaling models has led to significant advancements in deep learning, but training these models in decentralized settings remains challenging due to communication bottlenecks. While existing compression techniques are effective in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sameera Ramasinghe , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Gil Avraham , Yan Zuo , Alexander Long

Decentralized training of deep learning models is a key element for enabling data privacy and on-device learning over networks, as well as for efficient scaling to large compute clusters. As current approaches suffer from limited bandwidth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Anastasia Koloskova , Tao Lin , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Decentralized distributed learning is the key to enabling large-scale machine learning (training) on edge devices utilizing private user-generated local data, without relying on the cloud. However, the practical realization of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Sai Aparna Aketi , Sangamesh Kodge , Kaushik Roy

Recent developments and emerging use cases, such as smart Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge AI, have sparked considerable interest in the training of neural networks over fully decentralized (serverless) networks. One of the major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Eunjeong Jeong , Marios Kountouris

Modern mobile devices have access to a wealth of data suitable for learning models, which in turn can greatly improve the user experience on the device. For example, language models can improve speech recognition and text entry, and image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 H. Brendan McMahan , Eider Moore , Daniel Ramage , Seth Hampson , Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Decentralized training of deep learning models enables on-device learning over networks, as well as efficient scaling to large compute clusters. Experiments in earlier works reveal that, even in a data-center setup, decentralized training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Lingjing Kong , Tao Lin , Anastasia Koloskova , Martin Jaggi , Sebastian U. Stich

Decentralized optimization is emerging as a viable alternative for scalable distributed machine learning, but also introduces new challenges in terms of synchronization costs. To this end, several communication-reduction techniques, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Giorgi Nadiradze , Amirmojtaba Sabour , Peter Davies , Shigang Li , Dan Alistarh

Two widely considered decentralized learning algorithms are Gossip and random walk-based learning. Gossip algorithms (both synchronous and asynchronous versions) suffer from high communication cost, while random-walk based learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Peyman Gholami , Hulya Seferoglu

Decentralized learning provides a scalable alternative to parameter-server-based training, yet its performance is often hindered by limited peer-to-peer communication. In this paper, we study how communication should be scheduled over time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tongtian Zhu , Tianyu Zhang , Mingze Wang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Can Wang

Decentralized algorithm is a form of computation that achieves a global goal through local dynamics that relies on low-cost communication between directly-connected agents. On large-scale optimization tasks involving distributed datasets,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Bicheng Ying , Kun Yuan , Hanbin Hu , Yiming Chen , Wotao Yin

Decentralized SGD is an emerging training method for deep learning known for its much less (thus faster) communication per iteration, which relaxes the averaging step in parallel SGD to inexact averaging. The less exact the averaging is,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Bicheng Ying , Kun Yuan , Yiming Chen , Hanbin Hu , Pan Pan , Wotao Yin