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Distributed training is an effective way to accelerate the training process of large-scale deep learning models. However, the parameter exchange and synchronization of distributed stochastic gradient descent introduce a large amount of…
This paper presents a novel approach to enhance communication efficiency in federated learning through clipped uniform quantization. By leveraging optimal clipping thresholds and client-specific adaptive quantization schemes, the proposed…
We demonstrate the possibility of what we call sparse learning: accelerated training of deep neural networks that maintain sparse weights throughout training while achieving dense performance levels. We accomplish this by developing sparse…
This work introduces a novel approach to pruning deep learning models by using distilled data. Unlike conventional strategies which primarily focus on architectural or algorithmic optimization, our method reconsiders the role of data in…
Communication overhead is a key challenge in distributed deep learning, especially on slower Ethernet interconnects, and given current hardware trends, communication is likely to become a major bottleneck. While gradient compression…
Overparameterized neural networks generalize well but are expensive to train. Ideally, one would like to reduce their computational cost while retaining their generalization benefits. Sparse model training is a simple and promising approach…
Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy by keeping raw data local. However, FL suffers from significant communication overhead due to the frequent exchange of…
As deep neural networks (DNNs) grow in complexity and size, the resultant increase in communication overhead during distributed training has become a significant bottleneck, challenging the scalability of distributed training systems.…
Federated Learning (FL) has recently received a lot of attention for large-scale privacy-preserving machine learning. However, high communication overheads due to frequent gradient transmissions decelerate FL. To mitigate the communication…
Communication costs within Federated learning hinder the system scalability for reaching more data from more clients. The proposed FL adopts a hub-and-spoke network topology. All clients communicate through the central server. Hence,…
In distributed optimization, a large number of machines alternate between local computations and communication with a coordinating server. Communication, which can be slow and costly, is the main bottleneck in this setting. To reduce this…
Collaborative learning across heterogeneous model architectures presents significant challenges in ensuring interoperability and preserving privacy. We propose a communication-efficient distributed learning framework that supports model…
Large language models have demonstrated capabilities in text generation, while their increasing parameter scales present challenges in computational and memory efficiency. Post-training sparsity (PTS), which reduces model cost by removing…
It has been reported that the communication cost for synchronizing gradients can be a bottleneck, which limits the scalability of distributed deep learning. Using low-precision gradients is a promising technique for reducing the bandwidth…
The compression of deep neural networks (DNNs) to reduce inference cost becomes increasingly important to meet realistic deployment requirements of various applications. There have been a significant amount of work regarding network…
We introduce a pruning algorithm that provably sparsifies the parameters of a trained model in a way that approximately preserves the model's predictive accuracy. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input points to construct a data-informed…
We consider machine learning applications that train a model by leveraging data distributed over a trusted network, where communication constraints can create a performance bottleneck. A number of recent approaches propose to overcome this…
As large language models (LLMs) improve their capabilities in handling complex tasks, the issues of computational cost and efficiency due to long prompts are becoming increasingly prominent. To accelerate model inference and reduce costs,…
The recent advances in machine learning and deep neural networks have made them attractive candidates for wireless communications functions such as channel estimation, decoding, and downlink channel state information (CSI) compression.…
Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with gradient compression has become a popular communication-efficient solution for accelerating distributed learning. One commonly used method for gradient compression is Top-K sparsification,…