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Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is the most popular algorithm for training deep neural networks (DNNs). As larger networks and datasets cause longer training times, training on distributed systems is common and distributed SGD variants,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Kwangmin Yu , Thomas Flynn , Shinjae Yoo , Nicholas D'Imperio

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are widely used to improve recommendation accuracy and performance by effectively learning the representations of user and item nodes. However, two major challenges remain: (1) the lack of further…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Tao Huang , Yihong Chen , Wei Fan , Wei Zhou , Junhao Wen

Full batch training of Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) models is not feasible on a single GPU for large graphs containing tens of millions of vertices or more. Recent work has shown that, for the graphs used in the machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Muhammed Fatih Balın , Kaan Sancak , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

Stochastic gradient updates are widely used for their efficiency and scalability, but their effective step sizes can depend strongly on feature scaling and local model sensitivity. Gauss-Newton methods address such scale effects through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mikalai Korbit , Mario Zanon

As graphs grow larger, full-batch GNN training becomes hard for single GPU memory. Therefore, to enhance the scalability of GNN training, some studies have proposed sampling-based mini-batch training and distributed graph learning. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Zhengjia Xu , Dingyang Lyu , Jinghui Zhang

First-order methods such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) are currently the standard algorithm for training deep neural networks. Second-order methods, despite their better convergence rate, are rarely used in practice due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Tianle Cai , Ruiqi Gao , Jikai Hou , Siyu Chen , Dong Wang , Di He , Zhihua Zhang , Liwei Wang

Implicit graph neural networks have gained popularity in recent years as they capture long-range dependencies while improving predictive performance in static graphs. Despite the tussle between performance degradation due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Yongjian Zhong , Hieu Vu , Tianbao Yang , Bijaya Adhikari

Implicit deep learning has received increasing attention recently due to the fact that it generalizes the recursive prediction rules of many commonly used neural network architectures. Its prediction rule is provided implicitly based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Tianxiang Gao , Hailiang Liu , Jia Liu , Hridesh Rajan , Hongyang Gao

In this paper, we aim at improving the computational efficiency of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) for learning on point clouds. The basic graph convolution that is typically composed of a $K$-nearest neighbor (KNN) search and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yawei Li , He Chen , Zhaopeng Cui , Radu Timofte , Marc Pollefeys , Gregory Chirikjian , Luc Van Gool

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become powerful tools for learning from graph-structured data, finding applications across diverse domains. However, as graph sizes and connectivity increase, standard GNN training methods face significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Eshed Gal , Moshe Eliasof , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ivan I. Kyrchei , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

Existing graph contrastive learning methods rely on augmentation techniques based on random perturbations (e.g., randomly adding or dropping edges and nodes). Nevertheless, altering certain edges or nodes can unexpectedly change the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Huidong Liang , Xingjian Du , Bilei Zhu , Zejun Ma , Ke Chen , Junbin Gao

The optimization algorithms are crucial in training physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), as unsuitable methods may lead to poor solutions. Compared to the common gradient descent (GD) algorithm, implicit gradient descent (IGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xianliang Xu , Ting Du , Wang Kong , Bin Shan , Ye Li , Zhongyi Huang

Despite the recent success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), training GNNs on large graphs remains challenging. The limited resource capacities of the existing servers, the dependency between nodes in a graph, and the privacy concern due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Morteza Ramezani , Weilin Cong , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Mahmut T. Kandemir , Anand Sivasubramaniam

The quality of graph-structured data is fundamental to the success of modern graph analysis techniques such as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, real-world graph data is often suboptimal, suffering from issues such as noise and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shen Han , Zhiyao Zhou , Jiawei Chen , Sheng Zhou , Canghong Jin , Hai Lin , Da Zhong Li , Bingde Hu , Can Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness on graph-based tasks. However, their predictive confidence is often miscalibrated, typically exhibiting under-confidence, which harms the reliability of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jincheng Huang , Jie Xu , Xiaoshuang Shi , Ping Hu , Lei Feng , Xiaofeng Zhu

Recommendation models utilizing Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance, as they can integrate both the node information and the topological structure of the user-item interaction graph. However, these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xin Zhou , Donghui Lin , Yong Liu , Chunyan Miao

SGD is the widely adopted method to train CNN. Conceptually it approximates the population with a randomly sampled batch; then it evenly trains batches by conducting a gradient update on every batch in an epoch. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Linnan Wang , Yi Yang , Martin Renqiang Min , Srimat Chakradhar

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art graph learning model. However, it can be notoriously challenging to inference GCNs over large graph datasets, limiting their application to large real-world graphs and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Haoran You , Tong Geng , Yongan Zhang , Ang Li , Yingyan Celine Lin

The emerging Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has now been widely used in many domains, and it is challenging to improve the efficiencies of applications by accelerating the GCN trainings. For the sparsity nature and exploding scales of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shaoxian Xu , Zhiyuan Shao , Ci Yang , Xiaofei Liao , Hai Jin

The speed of deep neural networks training has become a big bottleneck of deep learning research and development. For example, training GoogleNet by ImageNet dataset on one Nvidia K20 GPU needs 21 days. To speed up the training process, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Yang You , Aydin Buluc , James Demmel