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Federated learning (FL) faces two primary challenges: the risk of privacy leakage due to parameter sharing and communication inefficiencies. To address these challenges, we propose DPSFL, a federated learning method that utilizes…

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Federated learning (FL) is a popular distributed machine learning (ML) paradigm, but is often limited by significant communication costs and edge device computation capabilities. Federated Split Learning (FSL) preserves the parallel model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Yujia Mu , Cong Shen

In recent years, the landscape of federated learning has witnessed significant advancements, particularly in decentralized methodologies. This research paper presents a comprehensive comparison of Centralized Hierarchical Federated Learning…

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This paper develops a communication-efficient algorithm to solve the stochastic optimization problem defined over a distributed network, aiming at reducing the burdensome communication in applications such as distributed machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-06 Weiyu Li , Tianyi Chen , Liping Li , Zhaoxian Wu , Qing Ling

We study the consensus decentralized optimization problem where the objective function is the average of $n$ agents private non-convex cost functions; moreover, the agents can only communicate to their neighbors on a given network topology.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Kun Yuan

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

We propose near-optimal overlay networks based on $d$-regular expander graphs to accelerate decentralized federated learning (DFL) and improve its generalization. In DFL a massive number of clients are connected by an overlay network, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Yifan Hua , Kevin Miller , Andrea L. Bertozzi , Chen Qian , Bao Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a new distributed machine learning framework that can achieve reliably collaborative training without collecting users' private data. However, due to FL's frequent communication and average aggregation strategy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Qing Wang , Jing Jin , Xiaofeng Liu , Huixuan Zong , Yunfeng Shao , Yinchuan Li

Decentralized and asynchronous communications are two popular techniques to speedup communication complexity of distributed machine learning, by respectively removing the dependency over a central orchestrator and the need for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Mathieu Even , Anastasia Koloskova , Laurent Massoulié

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is a collaborative machine learning framework for training a model across participants without a central server or raw data exchange. DFL faces challenges due to statistical heterogeneity, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Gabriel Thompson , Kai Yue , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Communication overhead is the key challenge for distributed training. Gradient compression is a widely used approach to reduce communication traffic. When combining with parallel communication mechanism method like pipeline, gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Enda Yu , Dezun Dong , Yemao Xu , Shuo Ouyang , Xiangke Liao

In federated learning (FL), a number of devices train their local models and upload the corresponding parameters or gradients to the base station (BS) to update the global model while protecting their data privacy. However, due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Zhigang Yan , Dong Li , Zhichao Zhang , Jiguang He

Efficiently running federated learning (FL) on resource-constrained devices is challenging since they are required to train computationally intensive deep neural networks (DNN) independently. DNN partitioning-based FL (DPFL) has been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Di Wu , Rehmat Ullah , Philip Rodgers , Peter Kilpatrick , Ivor Spence , Blesson Varghese

Decentralized optimization has become vital for leveraging distributed data without central control, enhancing scalability and privacy. However, practical deployments face fundamental challenges due to heterogeneous computation speeds and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yijie Zhou , Shi Pu

Recent developments on large-scale distributed machine learning applications, e.g., deep neural networks, benefit enormously from the advances in distributed non-convex optimization techniques, e.g., distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Hao Yu , Rong Jin , Sen Yang

We propose a novel algorithm for distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with compressed gradient communication in the parameter-server framework. Our gradient compression technique, named flattened one-bit stochastic gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Alexander Stollenwerk , Laurent Jacques

Communication compression techniques are of growing interests for solving the decentralized optimization problem under limited communication, where the global objective is to minimize the average of local cost functions over a multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Yiwei Liao , Zhuorui Li , Kun Huang , Shi Pu

Public safety tasks rely on the collaborative functioning of multiple edge devices (MEDs) and base stations (BSs) in different regions, consuming significant communication energy and computational resources to execute critical operations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Baosheng Li , Weifeng Gao , Zehui Xiong , Jin Xie , Binquan Guo , Miao Du

With more regulations tackling users' privacy-sensitive data protection in recent years, access to such data has become increasingly restricted and controversial. To exploit the wealth of data generated and located at distributed entities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Nader Bouacida , Jiahui Hou , Hui Zang , Xin Liu

Recent research highlights frequent model communication as a significant bottleneck to the efficiency of decentralized machine learning (ML), especially for large-scale and over-parameterized neural networks (NNs). To address this, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Andrew Campbell , Hang Liu , Leah Woldemariam , Anna Scaglione