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We propose a novel training recipe for federated learning with heterogeneous networks where each device can have different architectures. We introduce training with a side objective to the devices of higher complexities to jointly train…

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We propose a generic algorithmic building block to accelerate training of machine learning models on heterogeneous compute systems. Our scheme allows to efficiently employ compute accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs for the training of…

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