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Communication cost is one major bottleneck for the scalability for distributed learning. One approach to reduce the communication cost is to compress the gradient during communication. However, directly compressing the gradient decelerates…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Hanlin Tang , Yao Li , Ji Liu , Ming Yan

Recently, researchers proposed various low-precision gradient compression, for efficient communication in large-scale distributed optimization. Based on these work, we try to reduce the communication complexity from a new direction. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Jianqiao Wangni , Ke Li , Jianbo Shi , Jitendra Malik

Communication compression is an essential strategy for alleviating communication overhead by reducing the volume of information exchanged between computing nodes in large-scale distributed stochastic optimization. Although numerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yutong He , Xinmeng Huang , Yiming Chen , Wotao Yin , Kun Yuan

We investigate distributed online convex optimization with compressed communication, where $n$ learners connected by a network collaboratively minimize a sequence of global loss functions using only local information and compressed data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sifan Yang , Wenhao Yang , Wei Jiang , Lijun Zhang

First-order methods with momentum such as Nesterov's fast gradient method are very useful for convex optimization problems, but can exhibit undesirable oscillations yielding slow convergence rates for some applications. An adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Donghwan Kim , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Communication overhead is well known to be a key bottleneck in large scale distributed learning, and a particularly successful class of methods which help to overcome this bottleneck is based on the idea of communication compression. Some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Xun Qian , Hanze Dong , Tong Zhang , Peter Richtárik

This paper studies distributed stochastic nonconvex optimization problems with compressed communication and differential privacy, in which each agent aims to minimize the sum of all agents' cost functions by using local compressed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Antai Xie , Xiaoqiang Ren , Xinlei Yi , Tao Yang , Xiaofan Wang

We study the decentralized consensus and stochastic optimization problems with compressed communications over static directed graphs. We propose an iterative gradient-based algorithm that compresses messages according to a desired…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Mohammad Taha Toghani , César A. Uribe

Gradient aggregation has long been identified as a major bottleneck in today's large-scale distributed machine learning training systems. One promising solution to mitigate such bottlenecks is gradient compression, directly reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Wenchen Han , Shay Vargaftik , Michael Mitzenmacher , Brad Karp , Ran Ben Basat

We study distributed optimization algorithms for minimizing the average of convex functions. The applications include empirical risk minimization problems in statistical machine learning where the datasets are large and have to be stored on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Jason D. Lee , Qihang Lin , Tengyu Ma , Tianbao Yang

Modern realities and trends in learning require more and more generalization ability of models, which leads to an increase in both models and training sample size. It is already difficult to solve such tasks in a single device mode. This is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Dmitry Bylinkin , Kirill Degtyarev , Aleksandr Beznosikov

In this paper, we study the optimal convergence rate for distributed convex optimization problems in networks. We model the communication restrictions imposed by the network as a set of affine constraints and provide optimal complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-16 César A. Uribe , Soomin Lee , Alexander Gasnikov , Angelia Nedić

Inspired by a recent breakthrough of Mishchenko et al (2022), who for the first time showed that local gradient steps can lead to provable communication acceleration, we propose an alternative algorithm which obtains the same communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Dmitry Kovalev , Peter Richtárik

In this paper, we study the distributed nonconvex optimization problem, which aims to minimize the average value of the local nonconvex cost functions using local information exchange. To reduce the communication overhead, we introduce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Lei Xu , Xinlei Yi , Guanghui Wen , Yang Shi , Karl H. Johansson , Tao Yang

Federated learning is a promising framework to mitigate data privacy and computation concerns. However, the communication cost between the server and clients has become the major bottleneck for successful deployment. Despite notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yang He , Hui-Po Wang , Maximilian Zenk , Mario Fritz

Due to the communication bottleneck in distributed and federated learning applications, algorithms using communication compression have attracted significant attention and are widely used in practice. Moreover, the huge number, high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Haoyu Zhao , Konstantin Burlachenko , Zhize Li , Peter Richtárik

This paper proposes a novel federated algorithm that leverages momentum-based variance reduction with adaptive learning to address non-convex settings across heterogeneous data. We intend to minimize communication and computation overhead,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dipanwita Thakur , Antonella Guzzo , Giancarlo Fortino , Sajal K. Das

Distributed training enables large-scale deep learning, but suffers from high communication overhead, especially as models and datasets grow. Gradient compression, particularly quantization, is a promising approach to mitigate this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Jihao Xin , Marco Canini , Peter Richtárik , Samuel Horváth

We investigate fast and communication-efficient algorithms for the classic problem of minimizing a sum of strongly convex and smooth functions that are distributed among $n$ different nodes, which can communicate using a limited number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Foivos Alimisis , Peter Davies , Dan Alistarh

There is growing interest in large-scale machine learning and optimization over decentralized networks, e.g. in the context of multi-agent learning and federated learning. Due to the imminent need to alleviate the communication burden, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-02 Boyue Li , Shicong Cen , Yuxin Chen , Yuejie Chi