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Many modern large-scale machine learning problems benefit from decentralized and stochastic optimization. Recent works have shown that utilizing both decentralized computing and local stochastic gradient estimates can outperform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Haoran Sun , Songtao Lu , Mingyi Hong

Solving structured systems of linear equations in a non-centralized fashion is an important step in many distributed optimization and control algorithms. Fast convergence is required in manifold applications. Known decentralized algorithms,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Alexander Engelmann , Timm Faulwasser

We consider the decentralized stochastic asynchronous optimization setup, where many workers asynchronously calculate stochastic gradients and asynchronously communicate with each other using edges in a multigraph. For both homogeneous and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Alexander Tyurin , Peter Richtárik

Decentralized learning enables edge users to collaboratively train models by exchanging information via device-to-device communication, yet prior works have been limited to wireless networks with fixed topologies and reliable workers. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Eunjeong Jeong , Matteo Zecchin , Marios Kountouris

This paper proposes a communication strategy for decentralized learning on wireless systems. Our discussion is based on the decentralized parallel stochastic gradient descent (D-PSGD), which is one of the state-of-the-art algorithms for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Koya Sato , Yasuyuki Satoh , Daisuke Sugimura

Decentralized learning algorithms empower interconnected devices to share data and computational resources to collaboratively train a machine learning model without the aid of a central coordinator. In the case of heterogeneous data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Matteo Zecchin , Marios Kountouris , David Gesbert

Recent works on the parallel complexity of Boosting have established strong lower bounds on the tradeoff between the number of training rounds $p$ and the total parallel work per round $t$. These works have also presented highly non-trivial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Arthur da Cunha , Mikael Møller Høgsgaard , Kasper Green Larsen

Communication is a key bottleneck in distributed training. Recently, an \emph{error-compensated} compression technology was particularly designed for the \emph{centralized} learning and receives huge successes, by showing significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Hanlin Tang , Xiangru Lian , Shuang Qiu , Lei Yuan , Ce Zhang , Tong Zhang , Ji Liu

The goal of decentralized optimization over a network is to optimize a global objective formed by a sum of local (possibly nonsmooth) convex functions using only local computation and communication. It arises in various application domains,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 John Duchi , Alekh Agarwal , Martin Wainwright

In this paper, we investigate decentralized non-convex optimization with orthogonal constraints. Conventional algorithms for this setting require either manifold retractions or other types of projection to ensure feasibility, both of which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Youbang Sun , Shixiang Chen , Alfredo Garcia , Shahin Shahrampour

Decentralized federated learning, inherited from decentralized learning, enables the edge devices to collaborate on model training in a peer-to-peer manner without the assistance of a server. However, existing decentralized learning…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Hao Ye , Le Liang , Geoffrey Li

Decentralized nonconvex optimization has received increasing attention in recent years in machine learning due to its advantages in system robustness, data privacy, and implementation simplicity. However, three fundamental challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Xin Zhang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu , Elizabeth S. Bentley

Distributed learning has become an integral tool for scaling up machine learning and addressing the growing need for data privacy. Although more robust to the network topology, decentralized learning schemes have not gained the same level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Junya Chen , Sijia Wang , Lawrence Carin , Chenyang Tao

This article introduces a generalized framework for Decentralized Learning formulated as a Multi-Objective Optimization problem, in which both distributed agents and a central coordinator contribute independent, potentially conflicting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Roberto Morales , Umberto Biccari

In decentralized optimization, several nodes connected by a network collaboratively minimize some objective function. For minimization of Lipschitz functions lower bounds are known along with optimal algorithms. We study a specific class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Savelii Chezhegov , Alexander Rogozin , Alexander Gasnikov

In the last few years, distributed machine learning has been usually executed over heterogeneous networks such as a local area network within a multi-tenant cluster or a wide area network connecting data centers and edge clusters. In these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Pan Zhou , Qian Lin , Dumitrel Loghin , Beng Chin Ooi , Yuncheng Wu , Hongfang Yu

Asynchronous distributed algorithms are a popular way to reduce synchronization costs in large-scale optimization, and in particular for neural network training. However, for nonsmooth and nonconvex objectives, few convergence guarantees…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Malcolm Egan , Bapi Chatterjee , Dan Alistarh

Modern deep learning models, growing larger and more complex, have demonstrated exceptional generalization and accuracy due to training on huge datasets. This trend is expected to continue. However, the increasing size of these models poses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Anirudh Rajiv Menon , Unnikrishnan Menon , Kailash Ahirwar

Decentralized learning has emerged as an alternative method to the popular parameter-server framework which suffers from high communication burden, single-point failure and scalability issues due to the need of a central server. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Guojun Xiong , Gang Yan , Shiqiang Wang , Jian Li

This paper proposes a fast decentralized algorithm for solving a consensus optimization problem defined in a directed networked multi-agent system, where the local objective functions have the smooth+nonsmooth composite form, and are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Jinshan Zeng , Tao He , Mingwen Wang