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We consider decentralized machine learning over a network where the training data is distributed across $n$ agents, each of which can compute stochastic model updates on their local data. The agent's common goal is to find a model that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Anastasia Koloskova , Tao Lin , Sebastian U. Stich

In this paper, we study the problem of reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems where communication among agents is limited. We develop a decentralized actor-critic learning framework in which each agent performs several local updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiaoxing Ren , Nicola Bastianello , Thomas Parisini , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

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

This paper addresses the problem of efficiently classifying high-dimensional data over decentralized networks. Penalized support vector machines (SVMs) are widely used for high-dimensional classification tasks. However, the double…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-11 Canyi Chen , Nan Qiao , Liping Zhu

Deep edge intelligence aims to deploy deep learning models that demand computationally expensive training in the edge network with limited computational power. Moreover, many deep edge intelligence applications require handling distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Ilkay Sikdokur , İnci M. Baytaş , Arda Yurdakul

In domains such as health care and finance, shortage of labeled data and computational resources is a critical issue while developing machine learning algorithms. To address the issue of labeled data scarcity in training and deployment of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Otkrist Gupta , Ramesh Raskar

Decision making algorithms are used in a multitude of different applications. Conventional approaches for designing decision algorithms employ principled and simplified modelling, based on which one can determine decisions via tractable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-23 Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar , Stephen P. Boyd

Wider coverage and a better solution to a latency reduction in 5G necessitate its combination with multi-access edge computing (MEC) technology. Decentralized deep learning (DDL) such as federated learning and swarm learning as a promising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yuwei Sun , Hideya Ochiai , Hiroshi Esaki

We propose decentralized primal-dual methods for cooperative multi-agent consensus optimization problems over both static and time-varying communication networks, where only local communications are allowed. The objective is to minimize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Necdet Serhat Aybat

In decentralized optimization, nodes cooperate to minimize an overall objective function that is the sum (or average) of per-node private objective functions. Algorithms interleave local computations with communication among all or a subset…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , Michael G. Rabbat

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning approach which enables model training without data sharing. In this paper, we propose a new federated learning algorithm, Federated Averaging with Client-level Momentum (FedCM), to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jing Xu , Sen Wang , Liwei Wang , Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

Current approaches to multi-agent cooperation rely heavily on centralized mechanisms or explicit communication protocols to ensure convergence. This paper studies the problem of distributed multi-agent learning without resorting to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Caroline Wang , Ishan Durugkar , Elad Liebman , Peter Stone

Hyperparameter selection is critical for stable and efficient convergence of heterogeneous federated learning, where clients differ in computational capabilities, and data distributions are non-IID. Tuning hyperparameters is a manual and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Aayushya Agarwal , Larry Pileggi , Gauri Joshi

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

Federated learning is a new learning paradigm for extracting knowledge from distributed data. Due to its favorable properties in preserving privacy and saving communication costs, it has been extensively studied and widely applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Hongchang Gao , My T. Thai , Jie Wu

Machine learning algorithms are undoubtedly one of the most popular algorithms in recent years, and neural networks have demonstrated unprecedented precision. In daily life, different communities may have different user characteristics,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yang ChaoQun

Distributed stochastic optimization algorithms can simultaneously process large-scale datasets, significantly accelerating model training. However, their effectiveness is often hindered by the sparsity of distributed networks and data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yuchen Hu , Xi Chen , Weidong Liu , Xiaojun Mao

This work focuses on the decentralized deep learning optimization framework. We propose Adjacent Leader Decentralized Gradient Descent (AL-DSGD), for improving final model performance, accelerating convergence, and reducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Haoze He , Jing Wang , Anna Choromanska

The emergence of the Internet-of-Things and cyber-physical systems necessitates the coordination of access to limited communication resources in an autonomous and distributed fashion. Herein, the optimal design of a wireless sensing system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Xu Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Wei Cui , Urbashi Mitra

In this paper the problem of driving the state of a network of identical agents, modeled by boundary-controlled heat equations, towards a common steady-state profile is addressed. Decentralized consensus protocols are proposed to address…

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