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Synchronous stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is the most common method used for distributed training of deep learning models. In this algorithm, each worker shares its local gradients with others and updates the parameters using the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Negar Foroutan Eghlidi , Martin Jaggi

Federated learning enables collaborative machine learning while preserving data privacy, but high communication and computation costs, exacerbated by statistical and device heterogeneity, limit its practicality in mobile edge computing.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Jinghong Tan , Zhichen Zhang , Kun Guo , Tsung-Hui Chang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Communication is one of the key bottlenecks in the distributed training of large-scale machine learning models, and lossy compression of exchanged information, such as stochastic gradients or models, is one of the most effective instruments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Egor Shulgin , Peter Richtárik

The prevalent communication efficient federated learning (FL) frameworks usually take advantages of model gradient compression or model distillation. However, the unbalanced local data distributions (either in quantity or quality) of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Beibei Li , Zerui Shao , Ao Liu , Peiran Wang

Distributed model training suffers from communication bottlenecks due to frequent model updates transmitted across compute nodes. To alleviate these bottlenecks, practitioners use gradient compression techniques like sparsification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Saurabh Agarwal , Hongyi Wang , Kangwook Lee , Shivaram Venkataraman , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

The exponential growth in model sizes has significantly increased the communication burden in Federated Learning (FL). Existing methods to alleviate this burden by transmitting compressed gradients often face high compression errors, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yuhao Zhou , Yuxin Tian , Mingjia Shi , Yuanxi Li , Yanan Sun , Qing Ye , Jiancheng Lv

Overparameterized models have proven to be powerful tools for solving various machine learning tasks. However, overparameterization often leads to a substantial increase in computational and memory costs, which in turn requires extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Soo Min Kwon , Zekai Zhang , Dogyoon Song , Laura Balzano , Qing Qu

The recent many-fold increase in the size of deep neural networks makes efficient distributed training challenging. Many proposals exploit the compressibility of the gradients and propose lossy compression techniques to speed up the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Ahmed Elzanaty , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Marco Canini

Federated Learning allows multiple parties to jointly train a deep learning model on their combined data, without any of the participants having to reveal their local data to a centralized server. This form of privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Felix Sattler , Simon Wiedemann , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising technique for the collaborative training of deep neural networks across multiple devices while preserving data privacy. Despite its potential benefits, FL is hindered by excessive communication costs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Vasileios Tsouvalas , Aaqib Saeed , Tanir Ozcelebi , Nirvana Meratnia

Currently, progressively larger deep neural networks are trained on ever growing data corpora. As this trend is only going to increase in the future, distributed training schemes are becoming increasingly relevant. A major issue in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Felix Sattler , Simon Wiedemann , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

In recent years, distributed optimization is proven to be an effective approach to accelerate training of large scale machine learning models such as deep neural networks. With the increasing computation power of GPUs, the bottleneck of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xiangyi Chen , Xiaoyun Li , Ping Li

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

Federated learning can enable remote workers to collaboratively train a shared machine learning model while allowing training data to be kept locally. In the use case of wireless mobile devices, the communication overhead is a critical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Kai Yue , Richeng Jin , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

One of the major bottlenecks for efficient deployment of neural network based recommendation systems is the memory footprint of their embedding tables. Although many neural network based recommendation systems could benefit from the faster…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Lutfi Eren Erdogan , Vijay Anand Raghava Kanakagiri , Kurt Keutzer , Zhen Dong

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

Model compression is important in federated learning (FL) with large models to reduce communication cost. Prior works have been focusing on sparsification based compression that could desparately affect the global model accuracy. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Shengyuan Hu , Jack Goetz , Kshitiz Malik , Hongyuan Zhan , Zhe Liu , Yue Liu

Large-scale distributed training is increasingly becoming communication bound. Many gradient compression algorithms have been proposed to reduce the communication overhead and improve scalability. However, it has been observed that in some…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Zhuang Wang , Xinyu Wu , T. S. Eugene Ng

Gradient-based optimization methods implemented on distributed computing architectures are increasingly used to tackle large-scale machine learning applications. A key bottleneck in such distributed systems is the high communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiaoge Deng , Dongsheng Li , Tao Sun , Xicheng Lu

Massive amounts of data have led to the training of large-scale machine learning models on a single worker inefficient. Distributed machine learning methods such as Parallel-SGD have received significant interest as a solution to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 S Vineeth