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Training large neural networks is time consuming. To speed up the process, distributed training is often used. One of the largest bottlenecks in distributed training is communicating gradients across different nodes. Different gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 William Zou , Hans De Sterck , Jun Liu

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

Communication bottlenecks and the presence of stragglers pose significant challenges in distributed learning (DL). To deal with these challenges, recent advances leverage unbiased compression functions and gradient coding. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chengxi Li , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Large-scale machine learning models are often trained by parallel stochastic gradient descent algorithms. However, the communication cost of gradient aggregation and model synchronization between the master and worker nodes becomes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Xiaorui Liu , Yao Li , Jiliang Tang , Ming Yan

Communication efficiency is of importance for wireless federated learning systems. In this paper, we propose a communication-efficient strategy for federated learning over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multiple access channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yo-Seb Jeon , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Namyoon Lee

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

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

Distributed optimization is pivotal for large-scale signal processing and machine learning, yet communication overhead remains a major bottleneck. Low-rank gradient compression, in which the transmitted gradients are approximated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chuyan Chen , Yutong He , Pengrui Li , Weichen Jia , Kun Yuan

With the increasing scale of machine learning tasks, it has become essential to reduce the communication between computing nodes. Early work on gradient compression focused on the bottleneck between CPUs and GPUs, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Sarit Khirirat , Sindri Magnússon , Arda Aytekin , Mikael Johansson

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

Large-scale deep neural networks (DNN) exhibit excellent performance for various tasks. As DNNs and datasets grow, distributed training becomes extremely time-consuming and demands larger clusters. A main bottleneck is the resulting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yisu Wang , Ruilong Wu , Xinjiao Li , Dirk Kutscher

The conventional machine learning (ML) and deep learning approaches need to share customers' sensitive information with an external credit bureau to generate a prediction model that opens the door to privacy leakage. This leakage risk makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Tao Liu , Zhi Wang , Hui He , Wei Shi , Liangliang Lin , Wei Shi , Ran An , Chenhao Li

We study optimization algorithms for the finite sum problems frequently arising in machine learning applications. First, we propose novel variants of stochastic gradient descent with a variance reduction property that enables linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Jakub Konečný

Modern large-scale machine learning applications require stochastic optimization algorithms to be implemented on distributed compute systems. A key bottleneck of such systems is the communication overhead for exchanging information across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Samuel Horváth , Peter Richtárik

A very large number of communications are typically required to solve distributed learning tasks, and this critically limits scalability and convergence speed in wireless communications applications. In this paper, we devise a Gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yicheng Chen , Rick S. Blum , Martin Takac , Brian M. Sadler

Federated learning (FL) enables the training of a model leveraging decentralized data in client sites while preserving privacy by not collecting data. However, one of the significant challenges of FL is limited computation and low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Riyasat Ohib , Bishal Thapaliya , Pratyush Gaggenapalli , Jingyu Liu , Vince Calhoun , Sergey Plis

Lossy gradient compression, with either unbiased or biased compressors, has become a key tool to avoid the communication bottleneck in centrally coordinated distributed training of machine learning models. We analyze the performance of two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Sebastian U. Stich

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

Communication overhead is a critical challenge in federated learning, particularly in bandwidth-constrained networks. Although many methods have been proposed to reduce communication overhead, most focus solely on compressing individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Shenlong Zheng , Zhen Zhang , Yuhui Deng , Geyong Min , Lin Cui

We propose and analyze a new type of stochastic first order method: gradient descent with compressed iterates (GDCI). GDCI in each iteration first compresses the current iterate using a lossy randomized compression technique, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Ahmed Khaled , Peter Richtárik