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The training of large models demands substantial computational resources, typically available only in data centers with high-bandwidth interconnects. However, reducing the reliance on high-bandwidth interconnects between nodes enables the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sasho Nedelkoski , Alexander Acker , Odej Kao , Soeren Becker , Dominik Scheinert

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

In decentralized optimization, nodes of a communication network each possess a local objective function, and communicate using gossip-based methods in order to minimize the average of these per-node functions. While synchronous algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Mathieu Even , Hadrien Hendrikx , Laurent Massoulie

Federated learning (FL) has been facilitating privacy-preserving deep learning in many walks of life such as medical image classification, network intrusion detection, and so forth. Whereas it necessitates a central parameter server for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yuwei Sun , Hideya Ochiai

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative approach for enabling distributed machine learning while preserving user privacy, yet it faces challenges like communication inefficiencies and reliance on centralized infrastructures,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Sai Puppala , Ismail Hossain , Md Jahangir Alam , Sajedul Talukder , Zahidur Talukder , Syed Bahauddin

Decentralized Multi-agent Learning (DML) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. However, inherent heterogeneity in agents' resources (computation, communication, and task size) may lead to substantial variations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Seyed Mahmoud Sajjadi Mohammadabadi , Lei Yang , Feng Yan , Junshan Zhang

Federated learning is a novel decentralized learning architecture. During the training process, the client and server must continuously upload and receive model parameters, which consumes a lot of network transmission resources. Some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yan-Ann Chen , Guan-Lin Chen

Data transfer in opportunistic Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) must rely on unscheduled sporadic meetings between nodes. The main challenge in these networks is to develop a mechanism based on which nodes can learn to make nearly optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Shohreh Shaghaghian , Mark Coates

Distributed optimization finds applications in large-scale machine learning, data processing and classification over multi-agent networks. In real-world scenarios, the communication network of agents may encounter latency that may affect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Narahari Kasagatta Ramesh , Alireza Aghasi

Federated learning effectively addresses issues such as data privacy by collaborating across participating devices to train global models. However, factors such as network topology and device computing power can affect its training or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yizhuo Cai , Bo Lei , Qianying Zhao , Jing Peng , Min Wei , Yushun Zhang , Xing Zhang

To reduce uploading bandwidth and address privacy concerns, deep learning at the network edge has been an emerging topic. Typically, edge devices collaboratively train a shared model using real-time generated data through the Parameter…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Shangming Cai , Dongsheng Wang , Haixia Wang , Yongqiang Lyu , Guangquan Xu , Xi Zheng , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

With the increasing demand for large-scale training of machine learning models, consensus-based distributed optimization methods have recently been advocated as alternatives to the popular parameter server framework. In this paradigm, each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Guojun Xiong , Gang Yan , Rahul Singh , Jian Li

In distributed optimization and machine learning, multiple nodes coordinate to solve large problems. To do this, the nodes need to compress important algorithm information to bits so that it can be communicated over a digital channel. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Sindri Magnússon , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Na Li

Training task in classical machine learning models, such as deep neural networks, is generally implemented at a remote cloud center for centralized learning, which is typically time-consuming and resource-hungry. It also incurs serious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jinke Ren , Guanding Yu , Guangyao Ding

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

Recent trends in high-performance computing and deep learning have led to the proliferation of studies on large-scale deep neural network training. However, the frequent communication requirements among computation nodes drastically slows…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Shuo Ouyang , Dezun Dong , Yemao Xu , Liquan Xiao

Federated Learning is a new learning scheme for collaborative training a shared prediction model while keeping data locally on participating devices. In this paper, we study a new model of multiple federated learning services at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Minh N. H. Nguyen , Nguyen H. Tran , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Hardware compute power has been growing at an unprecedented rate in recent years. The utilization of such advancements plays a key role in producing better results in less time -- both in academia and industry. However, merging the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Vineeth S

Distributed optimization is an important direction of research in modern optimization theory. Its applications include large scale machine learning, distributed signal processing and many others. The paper studies decentralized min-max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Nhat Trung Nguyen , Alexander Rogozin , Dmitry Metelev , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider the problem of distributed learning, where a network of agents collectively aim to agree on a hypothesis that best explains a set of distributed observations of conditionally independent random processes. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , César A. Uribe