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Network-distributed optimization has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its ever-increasing applications. However, the classic decentralized gradient descent (DGD) algorithm is communication-inefficient for large-scale…

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The communication bottleneck has been a critical problem in large-scale distributed deep learning. In this work, we study distributed SGD with random block-wise sparsification as the gradient compressor, which is ring-allreduce compatible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 An Xu , Heng Huang

Training large neural networks requires distributing learning across multiple workers, where the cost of communicating gradients can be a significant bottleneck. signSGD alleviates this problem by transmitting just the sign of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Jeremy Bernstein , Yu-Xiang Wang , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anima Anandkumar

In this paper, we consider solving the distributed optimization problem over a multi-agent network under the communication restricted setting. We study a compressed decentralized stochastic gradient method, termed ``compressed exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Kun Huang , Shi Pu

We consider a many-to-one wireless architecture for federated learning at the network edge, where multiple edge devices collaboratively train a model using local data. The unreliable nature of wireless connectivity, together with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Junshan Zhang , Na Li , Mehmet Dedeoglu

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

Distributed stochastic gradient descent is an important subroutine in distributed learning. A setting of particular interest is when the clients are mobile devices, where two important concerns are communication efficiency and the privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-29 Naman Agarwal , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Felix Yu , Sanjiv Kumar , H. Brendan Mcmahan

The state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms rely on distributed training systems to tackle the increasing sizes of models and training data sets. Minibatch stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm requires workers to halt forward/back…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Qinggang Zhou , Yawen Zhang , Pengcheng Li , Xiaoyong Liu , Jun Yang , Runsheng Wang , Ru Huang

A standard approach in large scale machine learning is distributed stochastic gradient training, which requires the computation of aggregated stochastic gradients over multiple nodes on a network. Communication is a major bottleneck in such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Hanlin Tang , Xiangru Lian , Chen Yu , Tong Zhang , Ji Liu

Parallel implementations of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) have received significant research attention, thanks to excellent scalability properties of this algorithm, and to its efficiency in the context of training deep neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Dan Alistarh , Demjan Grubic , Jerry Li , Ryota Tomioka , Milan Vojnovic

Distributed training is an effective way to accelerate the training process of large-scale deep learning models. However, the parameter exchange and synchronization of distributed stochastic gradient descent introduce a large amount of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-16 LingFei Dai , Boyu Diao , Chao Li , Yongjun Xu

In distributed training of deep neural networks, people usually run Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) or its variants on each machine and communicate with other machines periodically. However, SGD might converge slowly in training some deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Mingrui Liu , Zhenxun Zhuang , Yunwei Lei , Chunyang Liao

Communication overhead is a major bottleneck hampering the scalability of distributed machine learning systems. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in using gradient compression to improve the communication efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Shuai Zheng , Ziyue Huang , James T. Kwok

The scalability of Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is today limited by communication bottlenecks. We propose a novel SGD variant: Communication-efficient SGD with Error Reset, or CSER. The key idea in CSER is first a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Cong Xie , Shuai Zheng , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Indranil Gupta , Mu Li , Haibin Lin

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

This paper investigates the problems large-scale distributed composite convex optimization, with motivations from a broad range of applications, including multi-agent systems, federated learning, smart grids, wireless sensor networks,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Maoran Wang , Xingju Cai , Yongxin Chen

With the rapid increase of big data, distributed Machine Learning (ML) has been widely applied in training large-scale models. Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is arguably the workhorse algorithm of ML. Distributed ML models trained by SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Keyu Yang , Lu Chen , Zhihao Zeng , Yunjun Gao

In this paper, we study communication-efficient distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with data sets of users distributed over a certain area and communicating through wireless channels. Since the time for one iteration in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jinho Choi

Distributed synchronous stochastic gradient descent (S-SGD) has been widely used in training large-scale deep neural networks (DNNs), but it typically requires very high communication bandwidth between computational workers (e.g., GPUs) to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Shaohuai Shi , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Zhenheng Tang , Yuxin Wang , Xiang Huang , Xiaowen Chu

Due to the explosion in the size of the training datasets, distributed learning has received growing interest in recent years. One of the major bottlenecks is the large communication cost between the central server and the local workers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Yujia Wang , Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen