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Decentralized training is often regarded as inferior to centralized training because the consensus errors between workers are thought to undermine convergence and generalization, even with homogeneous data distributions. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zesen Wang , Mikael Johansson

This paper aims to provide a new perspective on the interplay between decentralization -- a prevalent character of multi-agent systems -- and centralization, i.e., the task of imposing central control to meet system-level goals. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Yiping Liu , Jiamou Liu , Bakhadyr Khoussaino , Miao Qiao , Bo Yan

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

Data privacy is an important concern in learning, when datasets contain sensitive information about individuals. This paper considers consensus-based distributed optimization under data privacy constraints. Consensus-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

We present stochastic consensus and convergence of the discrete consensus-based optimization (CBO) algorithm with random batch interactions and heterogeneous external noises. Despite the wide applications and successful performance in many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Dongnam Ko , Seung-Yeal Ha , Shi Jin , Doheon Kim

Decentralized online convex optimization (D-OCO), where multiple agents within a network collaboratively learn optimal decisions in real-time, arises naturally in applications such as federated learning, sensor networks, and multi-agent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-14 Hao Qiu , Mengxiao Zhang , Juliette Achddou

Decentralized and federated learning algorithms face data heterogeneity as one of the biggest challenges, especially when users want to learn a specific task. Even when personalized headers are used concatenated to a shared network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Matin Mortaheb , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the problem of decentralized optimization over time-varying directed networks. The network nodes can access only their local objectives, and aim to collaboratively minimize a global function by exchanging messages with their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-03 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

We investigate the generalisation performance of Distributed Gradient Descent with Implicit Regularisation and Random Features in the homogenous setting where a network of agents are given data sampled independently from the same unknown…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-02 Dominic Richards , Patrick Rebeschini , Lorenzo Rosasco

Decentralized optimization is widely used in large scale and privacy preserving machine learning and various distributed control and sensing systems. It is assumed that every agent in the network possesses a local objective function, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Savelii Chezhegov , Anton Novitskii , Alexander Rogozin , Sergei Parsegov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

Distributed deep learning is an effective way to reduce the training time of deep learning for large datasets as well as complex models. However, the limited scalability caused by network overheads makes it difficult to synchronize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Sangho Yeo , Minho Bae , Minjoong Jeong , Oh-kyoung Kwon , Sangyoon Oh

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a large number of clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model without sharing their own training data. One central server is not enough, due to…

Decentralized learning enhances privacy, scalability, and fault tolerance by distributing data and computation across nodes. A popular approach is Federated learning, which relies on a central aggregator, yet faces challenges such as server…

In decentralized optimization over networks, synchronizing the updates of all nodes incurs significant communication overhead. For this reason, much of the recent literature has focused on the analysis and design of asynchronous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Marina Costantini , Nikolaos Liakopoulos , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

In the last decade, data-driven algorithms outperformed traditional optimization-based algorithms in many research areas, such as computer vision, natural language processing, etc. However, extensive data usages bring a new challenge or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Shih-Chun Lin , Chia-Hung Lin

With the growing availability of smart devices and cloud services, personal speech assistance systems are increasingly used on a daily basis. Most devices redirect the voice recordings to a central server, which uses them for upgrading the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Wentao Yu , Jan Freiwald , Sören Tewes , Fabien Huennemeyer , Dorothea Kolossa

In instances of online kernel learning where little prior information is available and centralized learning is unfeasible, past research has shown that distributed and online multi-kernel learning provides sub-linear regret as long as every…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Tomas Ortega , Hamid Jafarkhani

Recent trends in high-performance computing and deep learning have led to the proliferation of studies on large-scale deep neural network training. However, the frequent communication requirements among computation nodes drastically slows…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Shuo Ouyang , Dezun Dong , Yemao Xu , Liquan Xiao

Federated learning is an emerging technique used to prevent the leakage of private information. Unlike centralized learning that needs to collect data from users and store them collectively on a cloud server, federated learning makes it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hangyu Zhu , Yaochu Jin

Broadcasting and gossiping are fundamental communication tasks in networks. In broadcasting,one node of a network has a message that must be learned by all other nodes. In gossiping, every node has a (possibly different) message, and all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Kokouvi Hounkanli , Andrzej Pelc