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Modern mobile devices have access to a wealth of data suitable for learning models, which in turn can greatly improve the user experience on the device. For example, language models can improve speech recognition and text entry, and image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 H. Brendan McMahan , Eider Moore , Daniel Ramage , Seth Hampson , Blaise Agüera y Arcas

In distributed optimization, the practical problem-solving performance is essentially sensitive to algorithm selection, parameter setting, problem type and data pattern. Thus, it is often laborious to acquire a highly efficient method for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Daokuan Zhu , Tianqi Xu , Jie Lu

Distributed state estimation (DSE) is considered as a more robust and reliable alternative for centralized state estimation (CSE) in power system. Especially, taking into account the future power grid, so called smart grid in which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Sajjad Asefi , Elena Gryazina , Helder Leite

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is an emerging paradigm to enable edge devices collaboratively training a learning model using a device-to-device (D2D) communication manner without the coordination of a parameter server (PS).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang , Geoffrey Ye Li

We study non-convex distributed optimization problems where a set of agents collaboratively solve a separable optimization problem that is distributed over a time-varying network. The existing methods to solve these problems rely on (at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Hadi Reisizadeh , Behrouz Touri , Soheil Mohajer

Discriminatory channel estimation (DCE) is a recently developed strategy to enlarge the performance difference between a legitimate receiver (LR) and an unauthorized receiver (UR) in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless system.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Junjie Yang , Shengli Xie , Xiangyun Zhou , Rong Yu , Yan Zhang

This paper introduces a representative-based approach for distributed learning that transforms multiple raw data points into a virtual representation. Unlike traditional distributed learning methods such as Federated Learning, which do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Mengchen Fan , Baocheng Geng , Keren Li , Xueqian Wang , Pramod K. Varshney

Many real-world problems require reasoning across multiple scales, demanding models which operate not on single data points, but on entire distributions. We introduce generative distribution embeddings (GDE), a framework that lifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Nic Fishman , Gokul Gowri , Peng Yin , Jonathan Gootenberg , Omar Abudayyeh

We consider the problem of estimating the mean of a symmetric log-concave distribution under the constraint that only a single bit per sample from this distribution is available to the estimator. We study the mean squared error as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Alon Kipnis , John C. Duchi

We study distributed composite optimization over networks: agents minimize a sum of smooth (strongly) convex functions, the agents' sum-utility, plus a nonsmooth (extended-valued) convex one. We propose a general unified algorithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Jinming Xu , Ye Tian , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari

We study the problem of distributed and rate-adaptive feature compression for linear regression. A set of distributed sensors collect disjoint features of regressor data. A fusion center is assumed to contain a pretrained linear regression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Aditya Deshmukh , Venugopal V. Veeravalli , Gunjan Verma

The diversity and quantity of data warehouses, gathering data from distributed devices such as mobile devices, can enhance the success and robustness of machine learning algorithms. Federated learning enables distributed participants to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Shuo Wang , Surya Nepal , Kristen Moore , Marthie Grobler , Carsten Rudolph , Alsharif Abuadbba

Federated Learning (FL) allows distributed model training without sharing raw data, but suffers when client participation is partial. In practice, the distribution of available users (\emph{availability distribution} $q$) rarely aligns with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Herlock , Rahimi , Dionysis Kalogerias

We introduce a methodology for designing and training deep neural networks (DNN) that we call "Deep Regression Ensembles" (DRE). It bridges the gap between DNN and two-layer neural networks trained with random feature regression. Each layer…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-11 Antoine Didisheim , Bryan Kelly , Semyon Malamud

We study the problem of multi-compression and reconstructing a stochastic signal observed by several independent sensors (or compressors) that transmit compressed information to a fusion center. { The key aspect of this problem is to find…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Pablo Soto-Quiros , Anatoli Torokhti , Stanley J. Miklavcic

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

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a popular algorithm for distributed learning, where a network of nodes collaboratively solve a regularized empirical risk minimization by iterative local computation associated with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zonghao Huang , Yanmin Gong

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed method for edge-level machine learning, particularly for privacysensitive applications such as those in military and medical domains, where client data cannot be shared or transferred to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Lucas Grativol Ribeiro , Mathieu Leonardon , Guillaume Muller , Virginie Fresse , Matthieu Arzel

In practice, training using federated learning can be orders of magnitude slower than standard centralized training. This severely limits the amount of experimentation and tuning that can be done, making it challenging to obtain good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jonathan Scott , Áine Cahill

In distributed statistical learning, $N$ samples are split across $m$ machines and a learner wishes to use minimal communication to learn as well as if the examples were on a single machine. This model has received substantial interest in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Jayadev Acharya , Christopher De Sa , Dylan J. Foster , Karthik Sridharan