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In the paradigm of decentralized learning, a group of agents collaborates to learn a global model using distributed datasets without a central server. However, due to the heterogeneity of the local data across the different agents, learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lina Wang , Yunsheng Yuan , Chunxiao Wang , Feng Li

Collaborative learning (CL) enables multiple participants to jointly train machine learning (ML) models on decentralized data sources without raw data sharing. While the primary goal of CL is to maximize the expected accuracy gain for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Nurbek Tastan , Samuel Horvath , Karthik Nandakumar

Distributed data-parallel algorithms aim to accelerate the training of deep neural networks by parallelizing the computation of large mini-batch gradient updates across multiple nodes. Approaches that synchronize nodes using exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Mahmoud Assran , Nicolas Loizou , Nicolas Ballas , Michael Rabbat

We address the issue of speeding up the training of convolutional neural networks by studying a distributed method adapted to stochastic gradient descent. Our parallel optimization setup uses several threads, each applying individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Michael Blot , David Picard , Matthieu Cord

In distributed machine learning, where agents collaboratively learn from diverse private data sets, there is a fundamental tension between consensus and optimality. In this paper, we build on recent algorithmic progresses in distributed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-31 Zhanhong Jiang , Aditya Balu , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

As deep learning models are usually massive and complex, distributed learning is essential for increasing training efficiency. Moreover, in many real-world application scenarios like healthcare, distributed learning can also keep the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Jie Xu , Wei Zhang , Fei Wang

Decentralized learning (DL) is an emerging technique that allows nodes on the web to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing raw data. Dealing with stragglers, i.e., nodes with slower compute or communication than…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Sayan Biswas , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Alexis Marouani , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma , Martijn de Vos

We consider a decentralized learning setting in which data is distributed over nodes in a graph. The goal is to learn a global model on the distributed data without involving any central entity that needs to be trusted. While gossip-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Ghadir Ayache , Salim El Rouayheb

When Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) generate sequences through iterative refinement, the rich internal computation over masked positions is discarded, forcing every subsequent refinement step to recompute the valuable internal information…

Distributed multi-task learning (DMTL) effectively improves model generalization performance through the collaborative training of multiple related models. However, in large-scale learning scenarios, communication bottlenecks severely limit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Minquan Cheng , Yongkang Wang , Lingyu Zhang , Youlong Wu

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a global model whose performance is boosted by private data owned by distributed clients, without compromising data privacy. Yet the wide applicability of FL is hindered by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xinyuan Zhao , Hanlin Gu , Lixin Fan , Yuxing Han , Qiang Yang

In the last few years, distributed machine learning has been usually executed over heterogeneous networks such as a local area network within a multi-tenant cluster or a wide area network connecting data centers and edge clusters. In these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Pan Zhou , Qian Lin , Dumitrel Loghin , Beng Chin Ooi , Yuncheng Wu , Hongfang Yu

With the rapid growth in the volume of data sets, models, and devices in the domain of deep learning, there is increasing attention on large-scale distributed deep learning. In contrast to traditional distributed deep learning, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Feng Liang , Zhen Zhang , Haifeng Lu , Victor C. M. Leung , Yanyi Guo , Xiping Hu

This paper develops algorithms for decentralized machine learning over a network, where data are distributed, computation is localized, and communication is restricted between neighbors. A line of recent research in this area focuses on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Yanli Liu , Yuejiao Sun , Wotao Yin

Federated learning, where algorithms are trained across multiple decentralized devices without sharing local data, is increasingly popular in distributed machine learning practice. Typically, a graph structure $G$ exists behind local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-20 Huiyuan Wang , Xuyang Zhao , Wei Lin

Federated Learning is a popular approach for distributed learning due to its security and computational benefits. With the advent of powerful devices in the network edge, Gossip Learning further decentralizes Federated Learning by removing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Tom Goethals , Merlijn Sebrechts , Stijn De Schrijver , Filip De Turck , Bruno Volckaert

We consider a decentralized stochastic learning problem where data points are distributed among computing nodes communicating over a directed graph. As the model size gets large, decentralized learning faces a major bottleneck that is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hossein Taheri , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Ramtin Pedarsani

This work presents a new approach to decentralized training-SeedFlood-designed to scale for large models across complex network topologies and achieve global consensus with minimal communication overhead. Traditional gossip-based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jihun Kim , Namhoon Lee

In distributed training of deep neural networks, parallel mini-batch SGD is widely used to speed up the training process by using multiple workers. It uses multiple workers to sample local stochastic gradient in parallel, aggregates all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Hao Yu , Sen Yang , Shenghuo Zhu

We present a distributed algorithm that enables a group of robots to collaboratively optimize the parameters of a deep neural network model while communicating over a mesh network. Each robot only has access to its own data and maintains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Javier Yu , Joseph A. Vincent , Mac Schwager