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Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with gradient compression has become a popular communication-efficient solution for accelerating distributed learning. One commonly used method for gradient compression is Top-K sparsification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mengzhe Ruan , Guangfeng Yan , Yuanzhang Xiao , Linqi Song , Weitao Xu

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular as a platform for distributed training of deep neural networks. Synchronous stochastic gradient descent (SSGD) suffers from substantial slowdowns due to stragglers if the environment is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Saar Barkai , Ido Hakimi , Assaf Schuster

Gradient descent algorithms are widely used in machine learning. In order to deal with huge volume of data, we consider the implementation of gradient descent algorithms in a distributed computing setting where multiple workers compute the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Haozhao Wang , Song Guo , Bin Tang , Ruixuan Li , Chengjie Li

Large-scale distributed learning aims at minimizing a loss function $L$ that depends on a training dataset with respect to a $d$-length parameter vector. The distributed cluster typically consists of a parameter server (PS) and multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sifat Munim , Aditya Ramamoorthy

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 data mining is an emerging research topic to effectively and efficiently address hard data mining tasks using big data, which are partitioned and computed on different worker nodes, instead of one centralized server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Wenhan Xian , Feihu Huang , Heng Huang

We consider large scale distributed optimization over a set of edge devices connected to a central server, where the limited communication bandwidth between the server and edge devices imposes a significant bottleneck for the optimization…

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With the recent proliferation of large-scale learning problems,there have been a lot of interest on distributed machine learning algorithms, particularly those that are based on stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants. However,…

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Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) when run in a synchronous manner, suffers from delays in waiting for the slowest learners (stragglers). Asynchronous methods can alleviate stragglers, but cause gradient staleness that can…

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Deep learning at scale is dominated by communication time. Distributing samples across nodes usually yields the best performance, but poses scaling challenges due to global information dissemination and load imbalance across uneven sample…

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Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is one of the most widely used optimization methods for solving various machine learning problems. SGD solves an optimization problem by iteratively sampling a few data points from the input data, computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Aditya Devarakonda , James Demmel

Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has attracted considerable recent attention due to its potential for scaling computational resources, reducing training time, and helping protect user privacy in machine learning. However, the…

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Synchronous local stochastic gradient descent (local SGD) suffers from some workers being idle and random delays due to slow and straggling workers, as it waits for the workers to complete the same amount of local updates. In this paper, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Feng Zhu , Jingjing Zhang , Xin Wang

We consider distributed gradient descent in the presence of stragglers. Recent work on \em gradient coding \em and \em approximate gradient coding \em have shown how to add redundancy in distributed gradient descent to guarantee convergence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Rawad Bitar , Mary Wootters , Salim El Rouayheb

In distributed computing, slower nodes (stragglers) usually become a bottleneck. Gradient Coding (GC), introduced by Tandon et al., is an efficient technique that uses principles of error-correcting codes to distribute gradient computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 M. Nikhil Krishnan , MohammadReza Ebrahimi , Ashish Khisti

In recent years, distributed optimization is proven to be an effective approach to accelerate training of large scale machine learning models such as deep neural networks. With the increasing computation power of GPUs, the bottleneck of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xiangyi Chen , Xiaoyun Li , Ping Li

We study scheduling of computation tasks across n workers in a large scale distributed learning problem with the help of a master. Computation and communication delays are assumed to be random, and redundant computations are assigned to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

In the context of stochastic gradient descent(SGD) and adaptive moment estimation (Adam),researchers have recently proposed optimization techniques that transition from Adam to SGD with the goal of improving both convergence and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Jiaxuan Wang , Jenna Wiens

Federated Learning (FL) in mobile environments faces significant communication bottlenecks. Gradient compression has proven as an effective solution to this issue, offering substantial benefits in environments with limited bandwidth and…

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